Star Trek Starfleet Phaser
NEW STUFF FROM THE NEW STAR TREK MOVIE CHOCKING HAZARD – CONTAINS SMALL PARTS – NOT FOR CHILDREN UNDER 3
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars The NEW Star Trek Phaser! Wow!
Star Trek is back and even stronger in 2009. When it comes to toys – usually the best ones are in the hundreds of dollars and you hate to touch because of their price – however – Playmates is doing it right!
This PHASER has Detail, quality and Functionality. It is based on the new Star Trek film – and it is fun.
The PHASER is realistic looking with a silver casing. It has a light and sound effect of “activation or charging”. This gives the users the illusion of ‘control’.
The best part is the PHASE BARRELL. One side has lights and sounds for Dematerializing (RED) and another series of sounds and lights for the Stun (Blue)setting. It has a flip control too – to quickly go from one setting to the other.
Durability: I can see really younger kids might “over-flip” the PHASE BARRELL to hard. But if you use it as if it were real – no problem.
Educational Value; Not really – but it’s great for playing futuristic cowboys-and-indians! (If anyone remembers those!)
I’m sure the cast and crew of the new movie had fun with the real props, but Playmates allows us to have our own fun too!
And at their price – you can’t go wrong! Very well made.
“Phasers on Stun, Captian.”
4-21-09
1 Star Lame Designs
I didn’t expect them to flat out copy the original designs of the phaser, communicator & tricorder, but these things are a joke! The original designs were classic, these are just plain lame. Not an improvement on or even a tribute to those great original designs, these only bear a passing resemblance. I suppose they are built about as well as other Playmates ST toys, and they light up and make noise, but given the choice between this and an original style phaser, most people would take the original.
5 Stars phaser is a good prop toy
The phaser is a good prop toy if you are looking for props for the new movie playmates did a better job than in the past.
the electronic sounds a kinda cheezy though. but other than that it is a good toy for the money
3 Stars flashy and silly
I love Star Trek, from TOS up to the new movie- I’m a fan. The new phaser, however, is lacking the elegance of the original prop. It’s chromed out, and tacky… and the flip tip barrel is gimicky. Not a fault of the toy, as this is a fair reproduction of the movie’s prop, but I have aesthetic issues with the design overall.
The playmates version of the TOS model, uses the dials to turn the toy on, making the toy function as a “real” phaser would. The movie toy, instead activates via hidden switch, and then “powers up” via the dial. Why not make both functions one-in-the-same?
