We’re back with more Toy Fair coverage from our excursion to New York City this past weekend, checking out a new series of Star Trek bags and totes from The Coop, a licensee who has been producing specialty Trek notebooks, bags, and other specialty items for the last few years.
The Coops’ licensing director John Frazier told us that he personally wanted a Trek bag large enough to hold a gaming laptop, so he prioritized a larger-dimension offering with this Next Generation “PADD” messenger bag — complete with Enterprise-D LCARS theming on both the glossy exterior panels to the interior pattern.
The PADD messenger bag measures 21″ x 15″ and retails for $41 on Amazon, large enough to comfortably hold a 15″ laptop with room to spare. It also has a matching ladies wallet and mens wallet in the LCARS theme if that’s your style.
There’s also this groovy, retro Uhura tote bag, with artwork first seen on a notebook released by The Coop last summer. This handled bag is a bit smaller, measuring in at 19″ x 15″, and is Original Series branded in 70’s-era browns and oranges.
The Uhura bag landed in December for $55, and also has a matching wallet in the same artwork.
Previewed at Toy Fair but not yet available for sale is a matching Spock-themed tote bag, due out in the coming weeks and measuring the same 19″ x 15″ dimensions. Like the other bags, it too has a pair of matching wallets in the retro blue-grey design.
Along with their new line of Trek bags, The Coop also had on display some of the notebook designs and pet products they’ve had in the market for the past several months.
Frazier told us that the company recently locked up the licenses for all of the prime timeline Star Trek shows and films — including the rarely-merchandised Animated Series — so we’re likely to see more of these stylized Trek products in the future.
Who else would feature Riker playing Anbo-jytsu on a notebook?