Trek Toys - Dinky 1976 TOS Enterprise and 1977 Klingon Battlecruiser plus Corgi TOS Enterprise Unbox

[@JimWood28]

Yes I had these from new. Wish I still had them!

[@CosmicToys]

Great little video Andy. That Corgi Enterprise is gorgeous!!!

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

It's got a certain something hasn't it? Olde worlde charme?

[@benjaminwalton4808]

Great vid Excelsior

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MartinBrook-n5g]

Good video Andy takes me back my mate had both of the dinky Star Trek ships

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

Thanks Martin, question is does he STILL have them!

[@MartinBrook-n5g]

@ I’m pretty sure unfortunately he hasn’t I don’t think he has any of the toys we all had as kids .. a shame I know 😔

[@monojr3927]

Hi Andy, I think Dinky released these of the back of the reruns on bbc2 at the time .

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

You know, that had crossed my mind internally because I think it was around the time I was first seeing Star Trek on BBC2 - I just hadn't checked. If I remember rightly it was only when Trek hit syndication that it got a sort of second wind leading to the movies being made, so this could have been part of that perhaps...

[@steveday6671]

FYI I saw a Gerry Anderson podcast video interviewing a designer from Corgi recently and he said there will be a movie refit Enterprise for that set scheduled for early 2025. And he said its the "dogs".

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

@steveday6671 Ah interesting. They've done a few in the past, not sure I've seen the refit amongst them.

[@andrewtaylor940]

These pre-date Star Wars by at least a year. Probably closer to 2. There were not a lot of toys when the show was on the air. It was a mid to low rated TV show. Nothing there to attract toymakers. At least not for new tooling. The only real exception was AMT Models who offered several kits. Those were our toys!. There were also a handful of seemingly random rack toys and repurpased old toys that had Spock's picture slapped on the box. STar Trek toys did not really pick up until 1974. The show had been sold into daily syndication in pretty much every US television market. And had found its audience with kids to an incredible degree. Mego toys picked up the license and started making the beloved 8" action figures repurposing their Action Jackson body. AMT's lineup exploded. Remco picked up the role play license and started making the Phaser, Communicator, Tricorder Utility Belt sets and the Spock Helmet. Somebody else put out the walky talkies. There were a tone of rack toys like a parachuting Kirk and Spock, and the reused gun that shot small plastic disks that they slapped a Star Trek sticker on. There was this huge Phaser shaped Light Gun that you could shoot at a Klingon Target with a bicycle reflector. Or if you had 2 you could duel. But you are correct. The only actual Toys of the SHips were the 2 Dinky toys. We would not see another until the Motion Picture when we got the bigger one and we got some small Hotwheels sized Die Cast carded toys of the refit The Klingon K'tinga, and I think the Vulcan shuttle. The Dinky Toys were probably about the highest end of them. At least in the States. They were imported Die Cast for us. I want to say I first saw them around 75-76. Not a lot of us got those. I remember this wonderful Hobby Shop near my house that had every Star Trek Toy and Model Kit imaginable. All of the Dinky and Corgi offerings too. Batman, Green Hornet, James Bond, Star Trek, SPace 1999, Thunderbirds, UFO, a bunch of stuff from Gerry Anderson that I would not learn what it was until decades later, like the Joe90 Jet Car. While Star Trek did benefit big time from Star Wars, the truth is it was Star Trek in that 1974-77 time period that really primed us for Star Wars. WE had just graduated from Dinosaurs and Godzilla movies and discovered SciFi and Space Opera. We wanted cool space ships and phaser battles. And into that burning desire Star Wars dropped like 100 gallons of aviation fuel. Edit; The lack of the D-7 is weird now that you mention it. I mean just between 1974-77 it sold enough AMT Model Kits of it that AMT had to do at least 4 or 5 production runs. My small circle of friends each had one molded in different colors. White, Dark Grey, light Grey, kind of a Dark Salmon color, and I think a greyish green are the ones I remember seeing back then. You never knew which you had until you opened the box. I know none of these were the 1960's kits as the shape of the box had changed for the 70's releases. Edit again because you got me thinking and curious. The designation D-7 was never officially given to the ship until a later season of DS9. D-7 came from a gag Shatner and Nimoy had played on Gene during one of the Klingon episodes. When Gene walked into the shooting set the two were having a "fake" raging argument about whether the Klingon Ship they had detected was a D-7 or a D-6? Apparently one had 4 doors the other only 2? It was almost a premonition of the fan arguments that would be waged for decades over completely unimportant and arbitrary minutiae. But they were just screwing with Gene. They never actually said D-7 during the episode. It was just a "Klingon Battlecruiser". Somewhere later the story of the "argument" got out and the designation stuck. (Nimoy apparently won. It was a D-7).

[@alphawoolf5981]

No, these toys and others (Space:1999) were out well before Star Wars, at least in America. Had the Enterprise which looked minorly different. Still have my Klingon Battlecruiser and Eagle Radioactive Container carrier.

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

@alphawoolf5981 They were very fast out of the gates with the Eagles, as Space: 1999 ran 75 to 77. Star Wars was 77 but they probably knew of it before then so went for Trek. Or as someone else noted it's just off the back of the BBC running Trek here in the UK and Star Wars just being timely in that sense...

[@portland-182]

Corgi also did a small D7, although it was tied in to the Motion Picture

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

@@portland-182 Indeed. It'll be along!

[@ken.f.c.1977]

Corgi Released enterprise tos and D and bird of Prey . I have the 3 of them on the light up stand . They are unpainted just Bare metal

[@ExcelsiorsDomain]

Ah yes I know the ones you mean, just never picked them up as I'd view them more as art pieces than toys if that makes sense? I know it's a thin dividing line!