Trek Tour

[deg3D]

Hey guys, get ready...

Trek Tour (http://trekmovie.com/2007/12/05/star-trek-the-tour-starts-january-18th/#more)

The Star Wars Tour is in town now and I am going this month, and now Trek! will be rollin' around soon too!

Heaven... I'm in heaven... :)

deg

[Alec Trevelyan]

You know, I'm not much for fan events, but I went to the Trek exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science some 15 years ago, and I think I might just have to go out for this too when it's in town :)

[bmckain]

Very cool, no where's near where I live but never know I might make a trip. Would be neat.

[Prologic9]

http://www.startrek.com/custom/include/community/tour/news/article/1.html

Pictured to the left is the Refit Enterprise, which they claim is the shooting model. They're either blatantly lying or someone's gone and given a beautiful model one of the worst paint jobs imaginable. Let's hope they're just lying.

[Duncan7]

very cool

[Duncan7]

I wonder how much of this stuff was purchased out of last year's auction...anyone know?

[David cgc]

http://www.startrek.com/custom/include/community/tour/news/article/1.html

Pictured to the left is the Refit Enterprise, which they claim is the shooting model. They're either blatantly lying or someone's gone and given a beautiful model one of the worst paint jobs imaginable. Let's hope they're just lying.

They may not be lying, but they're certainly wrong. The size looks right, but too many of the details are totally wrong (the windows, the phasers, the airlocks), and they're things that couldn't just be mispainted. Besides, I have to wonder who'd pay all that money for the thing at auction only to send it out on tour.

[Alec Trevelyan]

Very cool, no where's near where I live but never know I might make a trip. Would be neat.

Pshh, what's 14 hours round-trip in the car when they've got the Connie refit model? ;) ;) Now if only they had some set reconstructions from the A for you ;) ;)

[Zippy]

I'm going to have to try and get to that when it's in Vancouver. I missed it the last time it came through when I was 10. My Gran took me and my sister to Science world to see it but the event ended the day before.

[Alec Trevelyan]

Hopefully they've improved the "transporter" gimick a bit in the last 15 years...even at the time I remember thinking it was pretty lame :)

[Jonesy]

Wonder if it'll travel outside the US?

There was something similar to this a few years ago that I went to in Hyde Park in London. I think it was a travelling version of the "Star Trek" experience from Las Vegas.

Mmmmmm yeah, bring it to London. I'd go! :)

[trekkie1701D]

The Adventure (in Hyde Park) was the prototype for Star Trek: The Tour. They used The Adventure to gauge interest of a Star Trek exhibit. I cant wait until it gets here, less than 1 hr away from detroit!

[Kataar]

that's the only thing I don't like living where I live: nothing like this comes anywhere close to my state, let alone my city :( I need to get a great paying job so I can travel to these nifty places with nifty conventsion and such :)

~Jon

[Rigel]

http://www.startrek.com/custom/include/community/tour/news/article/1.html

Pictured to the left is the Refit Enterprise, which they claim is the shooting model. They're either blatantly lying or someone's gone and given a beautiful model one of the worst paint jobs imaginable. Let's hope they're just lying.

Actually, the caption reads "A shooting model", not "The shooting model".

Which means it could be a cheap knock together for some medium or long distance shots where the detail wasn't important.

[IceFire Studios]

Wow definately will have to check that one out

[deg3D]

Another article here (http://cityguides.msn.com/citylife/article.aspx?cp-documentid=6274961&GT1=10885) with "The Shatner" (as I call him) out front.

deg

[SiathLInux]

http://www.startrek.com/custom/include/community/tour/news/article/1.html

Pictured to the left is the Refit Enterprise, which they claim is the shooting model. They're either blatantly lying or someone's gone and given a beautiful model one of the worst paint jobs imaginable. Let's hope they're just lying.

Television/Movie camera's pickup details a lot differently than a photograph would, lighting, and other visual effects would be a factor on 'how this would look on film' -

I do wish I could get a better closeup of the image from that site though it looks TINY on my monitor...

[Madkoifish]

LOL that is not at all any shooting model. That is a model built for the tour. I think it is just a webmaster typo. (erm just relised the main site cycles the images. One I see is a undershot, other is with a guy in the photo and that looks like the vegas model size wise but it was much better painted than that and well better made. lol The url above by deg shows other angles of it, and it makes me ill. I am by no means a expert but spending the last 3 weeks staring at photos and refs makes many issues stand out on that model.

Vegas Connie
http://z.about.com/d/govegas/1/0/4/4/1/startrekexp.jpg

If memory serves both the filming models that were whole sold to private collectors. Those phaser balls are like 3X too large. Sensor platform is all wrong torp housing is too tall aspec wise, neck too tall, windows all sized wrong, missing a horde of saucer details, decals where there were none, etc etc etc lol

real ship/model
6030
eh cannot find the images I have of the smaller model. (I think it was a amt model kit btw)
I only see random listings for planned stops.

[David cgc]

Apparently, someone complained to StarTrek.com, because the label on that photo has been changed from "the studio model" to "a display model."

[WesChilton]

I went to this exhibit opening day here in Long Beach. It was a lot of fun! Not too crowded and enough to see that you've got a good 4 hours of a Trek OD.

That Refit "model" was a fiberglass display piece made for the Viacom store and several theme parks around the country. Its not very pretty and is at least 4 feet longer than the studio model.

However there were a LOT of original studio models around, such as the 4-foot 1701-D, the small and excellently made Excelsior model used in Voyager and the giant 1701-D saucer section used in the crash sequence from Generations.


I recommend the show if it comes to a town near you. Its worth the adminssion price.

BTW, the transporter effect is indeed cheesy, and there are some other cheesy bits too. But for me the rest of the experience made up for it.

[CAClark]

So many trekkie geeks in one place at the same time.... the possibilities are endless! :devil: