Review: Star Trek Assault Phaser and Tricorder Video
Trekmovie.com has posted an indepth review of Master Replicas’, Star Trek Starfleet Assault phaser:
Master Replicas was the first company to do serious, functional licensed prop replicas from the Star Trek franchise, and their classic original series phaser remains the standard for this type of product—an amazing, all metal reproduction of the original series prop with something like 11 different sound and light settings and all kinds of functionality. All of that was based on research on the actual prop (it did several things which for one reason or another were never demonstrated fully on the show) as well as three years’ worth of episodes that showed it doing all kinds of different things.
To date the Starfleet “Assault Phaser” designed for Star Trek V has appeared Star Trek V and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and maybe a Voyager and Deep Space Nine episode or two. Nevertheless it’s one of the most popular and cool-looking incarnations of the phaser and Master Replicas announcement of an Assault Phaser at Comic Con a couple of years ago caused excitement among prop collectors.
MR has delivered the goods with this, their third phaser replica (after the classic version and a Next Generation style “Cobra” phaser). Like the original prop, it’s huge—the chunkiest phaser we’ve yet seen in the series. Unlike MR’s classic phaser, the Assault Phaser is made of a mix of materials. The lower end of the removable clip, the upper front and rear protective cowl, the silver barrel and rear heat sink, the setting dial and side mounted cowl and clip releases are metal; the main body and hand grip are made of a hard, durable plastic—the equivalent of high-tech composite materials. Consequently the gun has a nice weight to it but it’s not as unwieldy as an all-metal take on the prop probably would have been. Click here to read the entire review, which includes some interesting deatils about the functionality of MR replica and view some cool images of the actual replica, itself.
Trekmovie.com has also posted a video of the Assault phaser and Science Tricorder in action. Click here to view the video.
Star Trek Starfleet Assault Phaser LE
Star Trek Mark IX Science Tricorder LE
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