Convention season is right around the corner, and for the fifth year in a row our friends at Factory Entertainment will be bringing out some new Star Trek offerings to kick off San Diego Comic Con next month!
Available for preorder today (even if you can’t make it out to San Diego!), the company has unveiled two new Trek items for the event, starting with a prop replica from one of the less-well-remembered episodes of the Original Series: “Catspaw.”
“Catspaw” aired as the classic series’ Season 2 premiere in October 1967, with a spooky theme timed right for Halloween — and in a memorable moment from the episode’s third act, Sylvia magically creates a miniature Enterprise and dangles it from a chain over an open flame to torment Captain Kirk and his crew.
After refusing to cooperate, Captain Kirk watches as the miniature Enterprise is encased in an “impenetrable force field” represented by a clear plastic block. While that original prop may live today in the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum archives, Factory Entertainment has developed a brand new replica for fans to bring home this summer.
Retailing for $100 USD each and available for preorder now, this limited-edition 1:1-scale “Catspaw” prop replica contains a machined-aluminum miniature Enterprise model inside a block of clear acrylic, all of which hangs from a metal chain matched as closely as possible to the surviving prop.
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In addition, the company is also rolling out another one of their popular Star Trek bottle openers Following their Original Series Type I phaser opener, Factory Entertainment his week debuted their Star Trek: The Next Generation ‘cricket’ phaser bottle opener as the second exclusive for the 2024 convention season.
Available for preorder at $22 USD, the bottle opener is made from solid die-cast metal and is perfect for popping open a bottle of your local craft synthale.
While both convention-exclusive releases can be preordered at their website today (with shipping expected in August), those of you heading to San Diego Comic Con and the Las Vegas STLV Star Trek convention at the end of July can visit the Factory Entertainment booth where they’ll be on sale directly to event attendees.
You can also enter to win one of these collectibles directly from Factory Entertainment using the entry forms below.
Star Trek | The Original Series Catspaw Enterprise Prop Replica
Star Trek | The Next Generation Cricket Phaser Bottle
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