Star Trek Mego and Dida Scans

[pmwasson]

I have a dumb question. I ordered the free display and got a receipt, but don't know where the file is. What do I do?

[Capt_Kirk]

Great! thank you!

[Megotastrophe]

See I was looking for a reason to buy a wide format laser printer...

[MegoRobyn]

Thanks so much for trying it out. Looking forward to seeing how that works for you.

[generic]

Awesome! Thanks, Robyn!

[sprytel]

I just placed my order. Seems like a bargain to me! Thanks for offering these.

[LonnieFisher]

I ordered the free one. If I can figure out what to do with that, I'll definitely get the Trek set!

[Mego Magyar]

Cool.

I'm good, I have a printer that can go up to 13x19

[TrekStar]

Those backdrops are great, fantastic idea and thanks for sharing.

[MegoRobyn]

Well, I don't know how feasible it will really be. The images are all sized for Dida's so they really need to be printed on 11x17 at a copy shop for best results. Print them color laser and cut them out cleanly. You can print them in sections on your home printer and tape them together if you want to try that.

I think I'm pricing them fairly to compensate for time and talent. Feedback welcome.

I'll put up other sets soon.

[pmwasson]

I haven't made them available because I'm lazy and a little bit mean. What can I say?

But let's try this. I am setting up a digital downloads store for old Dida Displays backdrops. Let me know what you think.

http://secretfanbase.com/didadisplays

I put up the Trek and Stately sets for sale and one 3 panel cityscape backdrop which is free for a limited time if you want to test drive them.

Wow, that is very cool! Thanks Robyn!

[MegoRobyn]

I haven't made them available because I'm lazy and a little bit mean. What can I say?

But let's try this. I am setting up a digital downloads store for old Dida Displays backdrops. Let me know what you think.

http://secretfanbase.com/didadisplays

I put up the Trek and Stately sets for sale and one 3 panel cityscape backdrop which is free for a limited time if you want to test drive them.

[Megotastrophe]

All legal arguments aside, the people who run the workhouse here think it would be theft if it isn't the creator of the artwork and that pretty much settles it. I think you are going to have to create your own. I suggest watching the cartoons of Trek and doing screencaps ...two or three screencaps of each area should get you a scene you can stitch together and clean up and make your own backdrops. This is the process I'm doing now and it is work but doable work.

[hedrap]

I didn't realize that some of the Dida displays were, themselves, created using copyrighted material belonging to other entities.
Well, I stand behind my earlier statements on creators ownership rights...those statements just may not apply as well to some of the Dida displays in particular.

I don't disagree with what you and Pali said. I just wanted to point out doing screen-accurate replicas of something quite distinctive requires royalties.

I'm going by memory, but if Dida TOS artwork is a 1:1 attempt at the TOS bridge, then yeah. If it's an extension of the Mego playset design, then it would be fair game as that's a stylized interpretation of the TOS bridge. IOW, The Mego playset expands on something only recognizable to a specified audience whereas the TOS bridge is recognizable to the general population.

Since Mego didn't protect it's ip, it can't claim the design. You see that with Super7 and their Kenner homages. If Hasbro had TM'd the Star Wars card/box design, Super7's work couldn't happen. But they didn't think it was remarkable enough to do that.

[Iron Mego]

I couldn't see them either.