Trek Toys - Die Cast Corgi, Dinky and Ertl Enterprise and Klingon movie ships from 1979 to 1989

[@MartinBrook-n5g]

Great video like to see smaller scale ships

[@justgoboto]

I remember the Corgi double set well. The Narcells on my Enterprise got bent out of shape, but the hardy Klingon ship lasted for years.

[@terrywest111]

Thanks for posting this! I loved the Ertl ships. I had only the 1701. I remember I could have gotten more of them the day I got my 1701. But my dad said I could only get one. (Not that they were that freaking expensive at the time!) So of course, I chose the Enterprise. I thought I'd come back and get some more later at the store. But when I came back to that store they were all gone! And I never saw them again. Not even the Star Trek V ones. Never saw them anywhere.

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

Was this in the States, or...? I could imagine them appearing and disappearing pretty rapidly, quite a small line at the end of the day and maybe not one kids would really have gone in for so much...

[@terrywest111]

@@ExcelsiorsDomain Yeah, this was in the States. I lived in San Diego, and I remember I got mine from like a Longs drug store. But I tell you I never saw the Ertl toys anywhere else after. I wanted to get the BoP and the Excelsior. I was looking for them every time we went out around that period of time. I imagined that other kids wanted 'em just as much and they sold out. Now a few years later when Star Trek V came out, I heard that they were selling some. I had heard from friends that it was the "A". So of course, I wanted one to go with my 1701. I hoped that perhaps they would rerelease the BoP and the Excelsior to go along with 'em, but of course it was a long shot considering that the Excelsior wasn't really featured in the movie. Of course, I never found one. I figured fans were chomping at the bit for ANY Star Trek toys, as there weren't many.

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

@@terrywest111 Heh, well the irony is here in the UK for reasons not apparent to me I got the Ertls from a local toy shop but there are very few of the Playmates that came later in this country - you got all of those! I think the fundamental difference is that Star Wars got fighters that could fit action figures, whereas Trek was all about the capital ships...

[@IntergalacticDustBunny]

2:33 Star Trek The Motion Picture actually made more than any of the other original 6 films (a lot more) It made almost double what ST:II did. However, ST: II was roughly 1/4th of the budget of The Motion Picture.

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

That's very interesting, so in terms of rate of return quite a different scenario then. Interesting actually when you consider that that first film might be one of the earliest examples of a science fiction IP transitioning from TV to the big screen after quite a gap. Then you think about how long it took for Star Wars to do the inverse...

[@ken.f.c.1977]

Ah well , no love for the Grissom....again 😢

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

Do you know, I don't even know if any of the Eaglemoss Oberths were the Grissom... they tended to use the Pegasus?

[@robertbeard8207]

Hated the small nacelles on the UK Corgi Enterprise. At least the US version got the proper proportions. Only ever saw that at a UK comic mart back in the mid 80s.