Submitted 3 weeks ago by hopesdead@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
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This box and toy itself are showing its age. The view screen is hard to rotate, the battery compartment has erosion (but no batteries), the strap is very short. I wanted this all for the looks (cosplay), till the day I might be able to purchase The Wand Company’s Tricorder (probably never at this point; 😕).
Playmates role play toys were the best. The tng tricorder toy was my pride and joy as a kid. So good!
Very nice.
I have one of the TNG versions, and I am partway through refitting it work lights and electronics. I may even finish, someday.
Is it the TR-80 or the Medical (did Playmates even made a Medical version)? I have the regular one.
They did make a medical, in very limited numbers, but I’m using the TNG Science/Engineering tricorder.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
My parents bought this for me when it was new, as well as the phaser and communicator! The strap was the perfect length for me at that age…
I loved the little blueprint sheet that came with them.
hopesdead@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
This is why the strap was your length: age 4 and up.
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usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Looked it up - 1995. I’d have been all of eleven at the time.
Apart from the scale, I remember it as being pretty screen accurate. I think the first Starship Exeter fan film used these, with a little modification.