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I love the fact that the popularity of Star Wars actually helped Dinky sell more Eagles and UFO interceptors despite the fact that both those shows were long out of production.

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[Earth 2 Chris]

I'm digging that blue and white Klingon Battle Cruiser! So much more attractive than that usual light green!

Chris

[Mikey]

I've always had a love-hated thing going with the Dinky Enterprise …. Love the fact that they made it … but hate that it's so inaccurate …. Even as a kid I would have been happy to give up the firing torpedoes mechanism to get a proper looking saucer … The short warp engines is the biggest crime -- it would look so much better with proper length nacelles... Finally the color, unless you had a black and white TV the Enterprise NEVER looked white … Robin's egg blue- yes … Light and dark gray- yes … Even "cement" (combo of gray, blue and green) would have looked more accurate …

I had the blue Thunderbird 2 with yellow landing gear like above, but mine was a more light blue --- Like Mego Captain America suit blue.

Sold my Eagle on ebay a few years ago … Went to Alaska .. that was weird

[J.B.]

I've always had a love-hated thing going with the Dinky Enterprise …. Love the fact that they made it … but hate that it's so inaccurate …. Even as a kid I would have been happy to give up the firing torpedoes mechanism to get a proper looking saucer … The short warp engines is the biggest crime -- it would look so much better with proper length nacelles... Finally the color, unless you had a black and white TV the Enterprise NEVER looked white … Robin's egg blue- yes … Light and dark gray- yes … Even "cement" (combo of gray, blue and green) would have looked more accurate …

To me, the Enterprise is the Mego 8" Cap of the Dinky line; so wrong, that it's right.

[palitoy]

the be fair the Enterprise makes for a weird toy, it can't sit and if it had longer nacelles it would fall over anyway.

[Mikey]

the be fair the Enterprise makes for a weird toy, it can't sit and if it had longer nacelles it would fall over anyway.

When displaying I used to open the lower shuttlecraft doors -- they work perfect as a stand …

[Bruce Banner]

When displaying I used to open the lower shuttlecraft doors -- they work perfect as a stand …

Yeah, that's always what I did, too.

[Wee67]

Did they also make an Eagle that held canisters (maybe orange) on the belly? I have a memory of my brother having one.

[J.B.]

Did they also make an Eagle that held canisters (maybe orange) on the belly? I have a memory of my brother having one.

Yes. With Magnetic Winch.

[Wee67]

Thanks. I wasn't into the show, but I remember being a little jealous of my brother's toys from it. Well, the ships anyway.

[Mikey]

As a side note … A lot of collectors mix both standard and freighter Eagles to make one proper color Eagle.

They put the standard Eagle pod on the Freighter frame

[J.B.]

This thread has got me worked up for that Enterprise. I'm smitten, damnit. Just made a bloke in Dunstable an offer on ebay for a minty one with the solid box and Galileo. Wish me luck.