The Wand Company TOS Tricorder is coming!
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JiminSTLouis
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Starbase101
Sr Member
Perhaps the discs will have $1, $5, and $10 markings, and removable for convenient access at a poker table. 
It will be interesting to see how individual discs get removed, so a person isn't spending as much time picking up scattered discs on the floor when fumbling for the "How To Approach Girls" disc.
More seriously though, it would be cool if each disc contained "data" similar to a CD or SD-card causing different content to be displayed on the screen.
It will be interesting to see how individual discs get removed, so a person isn't spending as much time picking up scattered discs on the floor when fumbling for the "How To Approach Girls" disc.
More seriously though, it would be cool if each disc contained "data" similar to a CD or SD-card causing different content to be displayed on the screen.
enterprise0216
Sr Member
I would like to see them incorporate your idea Starbase101 whats a Tricorder without data. In addition to that perhaps small processor of some sort in order to play videos on the display. Just thinking big more goodies in the Tricorder may raise the price quite a bit, but hell i want one...L!Perhaps the discs will have $1, $5, and $10 markings, and removable for convenient access at a poker table.
It will be interesting to see how individual discs get removed, so a person isn't spending as much time picking up scattered discs on the floor when fumbling for the "How To Approach Girls" disc.
More seriously though, it would be cool if each disc contained "data" similar to a CD or SD-card causing different content to be displayed on the screen.
If only some disks are removeable will there be a visable seam on some and not others? I'd rather none of them come out or all of them, to be consistent, or a seam is between the ones that do not is designed in.
JiminSTLouis
Sr Member
All they say about the disks in this update is:
“Designing a working rack of removable "data discs" that would fit within the original geometry that Wah Chang conceptualised. We will discuss this aspect of the design in more detail in a future post”.
The caption under the disk picture:
“Data disc ejector mechanism incorporates data disc detection switches”
I bet each detection switch triggers a specific function no matter which disk you install.
“Designing a working rack of removable "data discs" that would fit within the original geometry that Wah Chang conceptualised. We will discuss this aspect of the design in more detail in a future post”.
The caption under the disk picture:
“Data disc ejector mechanism incorporates data disc detection switches”
I bet each detection switch triggers a specific function no matter which disk you install.
Starbase101
Sr Member
Because they're making a replica and not a prop. The prop was hand-shaped from wood and vac-formed. A real Starfleet-issued tricorder would be properly machined and symmetric. That is what they're making - an idealized version. I just hope there isn't a production screwup like what happened to the phaser handle.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
Idealized for me please.
trekker670
Well-Known Member
I'm a bit out of the loop. What was the production screw up with the phaser handle?
Starbase101
Sr Member
Dimensions weren't followed per the CAD design and the handles ended up being too small.
the handle was undersized. Here is the wand handle next to a replacement SD studios version. The phaser looks and feels much better with the SD.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
I have small hands, so I was fine with it.
Starbase101
Sr Member
Yeah, and when I was a kid the AMT model kit "Space Exploration Set" was perfect at ~30% smaller than full-size, but the Wand phaser is intended to be a 1:1 scale replica so a smaller handle size ruins the "accuracy". I'm surprised that Wand hasn't tried to address this by offering supplemental handle kits for sale to people not wanting to "settle" with a production error. They could even offer variants in different colors. Such pre-finished handle replacements would be more convenient than trying to track down an after-market unfinished product.
JiminSTLouis
Sr Member
In Addition to what Starbase101 said, the prop is 55 years old and has been disassembled and put back together and is no longer the same shape it was when first fabricated. During inspection they noted where the panels have pulled away from the aluminum sides and they could see how it used to be. There’s no way they could (or should) reproduce their replica in the condition the original is in now.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
If I was buying a model of Enterprise from “The search for Spock”, I would want it in the shape it was in at the beginning of movie and not the end.
Starbase101
Sr Member
It had no shape anymore at the end!
But yes, I too agree with Wand's decision of making it "real (fictional) world" rather than studio prop.
Like Starbase101, I'm hoping the discs create produce different functions/results. I'm also hoping there is the capacity (related to OR different from the discs) to update/create new screen images/videos/etc as well. In fact, I'm hoping they build in functionality for the community to create and share such new content themselves - from sounds to videos and images, etc. This would seem the ideal base for such an open ended product.
I am SINCERELY *stoked* for this Tricorder. I've been looking to complete the 'trilogy' and this will do it PERFECTLY!
I am SINCERELY *stoked* for this Tricorder. I've been looking to complete the 'trilogy' and this will do it PERFECTLY!
Starbase101
Sr Member
Wouldn't that be cool if you could pair the tricorder to a cellphone, like the Communicator, and then be able to access online content. Or wait, maybe that would be a PADD. It would be "fascinating" if the discs were like SD cards where you could connect to a computer with USB and add content such as videos, photos, shopping lists, etc and then access through the tricorder's screen. They could even offer blank discs for sale so you could have a "library" of content discs without sacrificing any Wand content. (Assuming the discs will be functional and not merely decorative.)
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