Tomy Enterprise Refit via retail?
tl;dr: apparently, the tomy refit enterprise is officially available outside of US and UK in european markets through select sellers.
i found several websites that state an availability of this model later this year:
https://www.moviestore.nl/de/star-trek-the-motion-picture-diecast-replica-1-350.html
the ever changing availability time of the model on these sites seem to correlate with the distributor HEO which was mentioned to me by one german seller where i placed a preorder: https://www.heo.com/de/en/product/TOMY47656CS
the dutch seller wrote me that
Tomy did sell these through retail, last week I got the first batch of Enterprises which are all sold on pre-order.
But around July I will receive the second batch so it’s not a hoax.
if you search for "TOMY47656CS" and EAN "036881476566", you can find more shops.
anybody know what's going on here? is this real? i thought tomy would not sell this thing via retail?
edit: i just called HEO germany. HEO is an "international distributor of licensed products". they told me on the phone that they are instructed by tomy to not sell it for example in the UK market. so apparently, tomy treats this item differently in non-US and non-UK markets which got the crowdfunding campaign. they also confirmed that they had the first batch last week shipped to some shops and that a second one is coming in july which corroborates the dutch seller's statement above.
edit 2: sorry, if this all is already known.
u/slvrpltd — 1 month ago