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A new series of scale replica models of starships issued each fortnight made from hand-painted ABS and die-cast metal. A huge variety of ships continue to be produced with many never having been made before by any other manufacturer.
After an initial test run of five issues starting in the West Country in May 2012 the collection was re-started in August 2013. The delay was largely due to problems with, and closure of, the original production factory in China. The series was originally planned to run for 70 issues, one every two weeks. Several extensions to the length of the series were subsequently announced as follows: 2nd Aug 2014 (90 issues), 11th December 2015 (110 issues), 4th September 2016 (130 issues), 22nd September 2017 (150 issues), 25th December 2017 (160 issues), and finally on 3rd August 2019 (180 issues). At Destination Star Trek 2019 Ben Robinson announced that the regular collection will probably end at issue 180 and this was realised ten months later. Any further on-screen ships from the first five live action series that were made after this point were be produced as bonus issues.
The models are made of ABS (polymer) and Zamac (metal alloy) in varying ratios and are "hand painted". Each issue is accompanied by a 20-page magazine measuring 220 x 285 mm.
The regular smaller models are generally scaled to fit standard packaging measuring 168 x 127 x 51 mm. There are a few exceptions with several models packed in smaller boxes measuring 123 x 101 x 80 mm (Issues 10, 58, 94, 96, 109, 127, 146 & 180) and two larger boxes 176 x 176 x 80 mm (Bajoran Solar Sailor) and 164 x 138 x 86 mm (Xindi-Insectoid).
The regular collection is supplemented by a range of bonus, special editions, XL issues, dedication plaques, and reference books.
In January 2018 a brand new collection dedicated to the new "Star Trek: Discovery" TV series was released. This includes a range of larger ships, comparable in size to the Special issues from the STSS collection, along with four much bigger oversized specials. This is not part of the regular collection as it required a separate licence.
The Graphic Novel collection was first proposed at Destination Star Trek in Birmingham in October 2016 and was officially launced in January 2017. This was a fortnightly publication until issue 63 at which point it was released weekly and ran for 140 regular issues with 11 additional special issues.
In October 2018 the new Star Trek: The Official Busts Collection started which ran for a total of 12 issues.
In April 2021 the new Star Trek Universe Collection commenced which included ships from Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard. Several ships had prototypes made and hopefully these will be realised for retail when a new company takes over the line.
In December 2022 Ben Robinson indicated that a new company willl set up a website to retaill the ships that remained in storage when Eaglemoss went into administration. This may happen in January 2023.
On 12th January 2023 a new website was opened where collectors could register an interest in starting the Build the Enterprise-D from any stage.
Also in January 2023, Real-Merch.com started to retail Eaglemoss Star Trek stock. This website has flexible pricing with some models having their price increased or reduced seemigly at random.
Master Replicas opened a new retail website to sell the left over Eaglemoss models ships in March 2023.
I've added a page to download pdf versions of magazines for the main regular 180 collection, Special Issues and XL issues. I have also reduced the size of these files down to around 25% of their original size (1.5gb from 6.2gb) so they will take up far less space on your device (and my website!)
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