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Autographed Star Trek Phasers, Communicators to Go On Sale Next Week
Posted by Charlie White at 8:25 AM on November 14, 2007
A serious Star Trek fan and collector died recently, and an anonymous tipster sent us pictures of the Star Trek memorabilia he left behind. Here's a heads up to dedicated Trekkies everywhere: These items will be appearing on eBay next week, so check out the gallery on the next page; maybe there's something you'd care to bid on.
There are prop replica phasers, communicators and a pinball machine in the lot, all in pristine condition, and some are autographed by William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Patrick Stewart. There's no information about pricing, but these precious artifacts probably won't be cheap.
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thecharlie
Posted 4:39 PM 13/11/07
That phaser looks just like my nose hair trimmer...er..I mean, it looks like a nose hair trimmer that I saw once..because you know, I don't own one or anything.
thecharlie
Parapraxis
Posted 5:57 PM 13/11/07
replace "nose hair trimmer" with "pleasure device" and you'll have my comment.
Parapraxis
EBone
Posted 5:28 PM 13/11/07
I'm sure the phaser is much cooler on closer examination, but the one I bought from ArtAsylum.com for $20 is just about as cool.
EBone
photophile
Posted 7:11 PM 13/11/07
A cellphone that looks like a communicator would be killer.
photophile
ninjagin
Posted 7:07 PM 13/11/07
They look pretty hefty and well-constructed.
Wonder how much they go for -without- the signatures.
ninjagin
Robert Isbell
Posted 10:49 PM 13/11/07
well, someone will cram a motorola flip phone into a communicator shell and make it work, just you wait and see.
Robert Isbell
middy
Posted 9:49 AM 14/11/07
@photophile: Yeah, they'd sell a metric assload of them, too. I wonder why it hasn't been done.
middy
King of the Wild Frontier
Posted 12:08 PM 14/11/07
I think that the main reason why no one's made a commercial communicator cell phone (I've seen some homebrew versions) is that, the more functional you make it--say, by replacing that moire-type circular speaker thing with a decent screen, or including more hard controls--the less it looks like the prop.
King of the Wild Frontier
superhalo
Posted 11:58 AM 14/11/07
I WANT that TNG phaser
superhalo
x23
Posted 1:21 PM 14/11/07
actually i guess... a beep beeeeep for a call... THEN the standard chirp when you actually open it.
x23
x23
Posted 1:19 PM 14/11/07
@Robert Isbell: i've been waiting a good... 10+ years for that. ever since i got my LED-screened StarTAC in 1996 it seemed like a no-brainer that *surely* someone would do it.
apparently not.
even better idea... (to deal with aforementioned lack-of-functionality issues) is a Bluetooth device. makes a chirp when your real phone gets a call... and has a mic and speaker. like a big giant so-nerdy-it's-awesome Bluetooth headset.
x23