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Star Trek Original Series Communicator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Diamond Comics
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $24.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1955
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 2.3 x 8 x 8.1
MPN: Oct074331
Model: Oct074331
UPC: 699788177037
EAN: 0699788177037
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Cycle through all 8 phrases! To play all the sayings from Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and Uhura, just press | | • | "Enterprise, this is Kirk." (Captain Kirk) | | • | "Spock here, Captain." (Spock) | | • | "Bridge here, Captain." | | • | "Transporter room ready to beam up." |
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Product Description
Two to beam up! Get ready for the ultimate Star Trek adventure with this Original Series Communicator! With sound effects and clips from the groundbreaking classic series, each of these limited collectibles features a pop-open design and deluxe window-box packaging. Don't be caught on your next away mission without one of these handy lifesavers! Requires two "AAA" batteries, included. Measures 8"L x 8"W x 3"H.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 I must have gotten the reject January 4, 2009
Gary H. OBrien
After reading all the great reviews, I took the plunge. The good news is that it is a nice product, and I'm glad to add it to my collection. The bad news is that the lid doesn't seat correctly as it is slightly warped. The edges of the lid are also not well put together. There was some cosmetic flaws - bad painting, scratches, etc. but nothing too serious for my purposes.
A good communicator for your little Star Trek fans December 18, 2008
Matt Patterson (Bend, Oregon)
I bought this for my eight-year-old son, who is quite the fan of the original Star Trek series. First off, you won't find a better original series communicator for the price. My son loves it - it looks cool and worked great right out of the box. Nice loud, clear sounds. Durability? Well...one slight issue is that the gold aluminum cover narrows down to two small strips at the hinges (true to the original design). This proved to be a problem when my son repeatedly flipped the thing open somewhat forcefully (as kids would do). The cover reaches its stopping point and the inertia of the whole cover would slightly bend the connecting strips. After a while, the bending causes the cover to not want to completely seat back down in the closed position. It's a simple matter to "re-bend" things so that it closes again, but I fear too much of this might eventually cause the strips to break. A lesson to my son about his "technique" and he can now open it without stressing the lid. Also, when you open the lid, a small protrusion on the hinge assembly pushes an internal wire to make a connection which activates everything. At one point our communicator stayed activated constantly - whether open or closed (basically, it wouldn't shut off). I opened everything up and found that whoever assembled it at the factory didn't quite position the internal wire correctly. A little tweaking with a small jewler's screwdriver fixed that problem, but I must detract a star for "durability." One other small complaint from my son was that the motor which drives the moire is fairly noisy, and the moire itself is hard to see unless you're in outside in daylight. But hey, it's around 35 bucks and it really does look great (nice lights, details, etc). I feel that it's worth the money, even with the few fixes which I find are becoming more and more typical of toys like these made overseas. Do I recommend this communicator toy? Yes I do.
Good enough to pass as a Replica September 2, 2008
Martin Paternoster
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great item, especially at the price.
There is a neat callback feature, where pressing the rightmost button then closing the lid will cause the Communicator to beep at you until you open it.
When it is opened, Spock is heard over the speaker asking if he should beanm down an armed party.
I carried this with the Phaser, in custome at Comic-Con (where I picked up the Communicator), at it worked great.
Well done AA/DST !!!!
About time someone got it Right! July 4, 2008
Richard Wells (Lexington KY, formerly near St.Louis USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Some time back I found the Art Asylum TOS (The Original Series) Phaser at a Toys-r-us store back home in St.Louis. It was nearly perfect.
When Diamond Select toys (formerly Art Asylum) announced their Communicator I had high hopes. There was speculation that it would be like the old Playmates version with a plastic metallized flip-grid and a non-functioning moire.
DST came through though and delivered something more akin to a prop replica than a toy.
Out of box you could comfortably display this as a prop and most people would never be able to tell.
This version only has a couple of MINOR differences from the exclusive version. One being the ACCURATE color of the flip-grid (on this one) and the other being an extra sound that can be unlocked on this one with a minor amount of effort.
I spent my money and have NO regrets.. when the DST Tricorder comes out later in the year, I'll be shelling out some cash to them again!
wish i had it when i was a kid! June 20, 2008
Sean E. Brehmer (ann arbor, mi)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
why didnt they stuff like this when i was a kid! this toy is simply AWESOME. weight feels good. sounds are true. and the MOIRE on the screen....SWEET! my only gripe is. the box says 'more the 20 sounds'
there are actually only 9 (unless im missing something)
but that is minor. this is a FIRST CLASS item! get one now if you are a kid or a kid at heart (like me)
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