• taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I know who Data and Spot are and what “Ode to Spot” is but I only have a very vague idea what a “Hallmark” is.

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      1 year ago

      20th century American corporation in the business of inventing holidays in order to sell commemorative trinkets.

  • Spot@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Those are all really neat this year. My dad used to have all the OG lighted ships from Hallmark. I always hoped I’d get them but they went to a boy cousin. Maybe this is where I now start my own collection.

  • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    I wish Hallmark would have a better balance between promoting and featuring new shows and dial back having yet another 1701 TOS or TAS era model.

    Given that Data’s connection to Spot was a significant plot/character point in Picard season three, I can get behind this one.

    The Bagey one is however the only truly fresh collector’s item that profiles a currently running show.

    However, they completely lost the window with our kids to get them interested in collecting. They would have loved a Discovery or more positive Lower Decks ornament a couple of years back. There was nothing.

    Now, they’ve moved on to other fandoms that actually had stuff to collect. They each still have their favourite Eaglemoss Voyager and 1701-D ship models prominently on display in their rooms, but other franchises have crowded out interest in Star Trek.

    As I have mentioned previously, Jon Van Citters and the CBS side really need to take a lesson from colleagues in the Paramount Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles team who have moved TMMT from niche collectibles back to main stream tie-ins that are worth 10 times the value of their new movie.

  • Kyle@lemmy.ca
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    If this was a different franchise I would see this as hyper commercial pandering and useless plastic junk.

    But every year my good friends and I have an ornament exchange party where we are supposed to bring an ornament that embodies ourselves in some way or another. This would be perfect, as obviously me being here I love star trek, animals and Data is one of my favorites. Alas on the website I don’t see a direct way to buy this in Canada.