After months of hype, Fanhome has finally brought the first model in the revived Official Starships Collection home to Star Trek fans — more than two years after the collapse of Eaglemoss Collectibles back in 2022.
We showed you the company’s debut starships on display at New York Comic Con last month, and previewed the first 20 entries in the two-year plan in mid-October — but now, early subscribers to the Fanhome program are starting to see the USS Titan-A from Star Trek: Picard warp into their local star systems.
Before we continue, let’s get this out of the way: Fanhome acquired much of the Eaglemoss production apparatus when they took over the Star Trek model ship license, and aside from some packaging design differences, the style and presentation of their new ships are largely similar to the “old” Official Starships Collection releases.
This means you’ll see their ships arrive with the same black oval bases and clear plastic display stands, a similarly-sized information magazine will come in each box, and so forth — however there will not be digital versions of the accompanying magazines available through the new subscription program.
Beyond that, the starships are expected to fall into the 8″-9″ size, similar to those in the Star Trek Universe and Kelvin Timeline films collections from Eaglemoss — which means that at least for the foreseeable future, Fanhome will not be producing ships in old-subscription-sized 5″-6″ scale.
They have started to discuss potentially reproducing some of Eaglemoss’ “medium” and “XL” sized ships — if the company obtained the original molds from production — but according to their social media customer service posts, these would simply be additional runs of those already-released starships without modification.
Now let’s talk about the Titan! Originally designed by Bill Krause, the 8.5″ Constitution III-class USS Titan (NCC-80102-A) is one of the most accurately-rendered replicas in the Official Starships Collection lineup, thanks to the CBS Studios team providing the on-screen digital model for this release.
As with the previous ship models, the Titan is made mostly of injection-molded plastic, with some die-cast metal in the saucer section to add weight and strength. The warp nacelles contain transparent orange and blue plastic sections, allowing light to add a touch of ‘glow’ to the ship’s engines — though the impulse engines at the rear of the saucer are solid orange plastic.
The various grey and black coloring on the model’s hull is rendered quite crisply, with bold clear livery text adorning both sides of the saucer section, as well under the shuttlebay at the rear of the secondary hull. The grey is also punctuated by spots of red, yellow, orange, and white for various hull markings, each also applied with sharp edges and clean lines.
Some fine detail is a bit out of place, though; the ever-present window misalignment issue is one of the other legacy Eaglemoss manufacturing issues that has carried over to the Titan. Thankfully, it’s not as pronounced as some more egregious examples — but looking closely, the baby-blue window paint isn’t inset properly to the molded hull.
(This is probably only going to be fixed by hand-painting these tiny spaces, something unlikely to occur.)
That teeny-tiny nitpick aside, the Titan is a fine debut piece for Fanhome’s venture into the Star Trek model space — and fans of the ship should have no hesitation in adding the Titan to their small-sized fleet when the opportunity arises.
If you’re holding out for the larger-sized USS Enterprise-G model — the renamed Titan seen at the end of Star Trek: Picard — that will be coming along in May 2025, according to Fanhome’s planned release schedule.
Those of you in the US and UK who have already subscribed to the Fanhome program should be seeing your Titan any day now — set to be followed by Picard Season 2’s USS Stargazer sometime in December.
If you haven’t yet subscribed, well, things are working a little differently from the Eaglemoss days. As of this writing, new signups for Fanhome’s subscription program are currently closed while the company works to fulfill the demand of current subscribers, and today the company confirmed that NEW signups will not be open to the public again until March 2025.
Fanhome previously advertised that these starships will go up for individual purchase on their website about a month after subscribers receive their deliveries — so with the delay on additional subscription opportunities, it is possible that the standalone purchase plan may be impacted as well.
(We have no specific information either way, but we’ve reached out to Fanhome to learn more.)
We’ll be back on the Official Starships Collection beat when the Stargazer (seen above) arrives next month — and until then, you can sign up to be notified when Fanhome reopens subscriber options at their US website or UK website today.
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