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Am I the only one slightly disturbed by the very strong implication that there WILL be a major redesign for the movie?
To anyone who has seen the teaser trailer, this should not be a surprise at all. All we have seen of the "revamped" Enterprise is below:

Based on the textured pattern on the saucer (known as 'aztecing'), the bridge module, hull lettering and the sensor underneath? We can deduce that the saucer of the ship is now more close in look to the refit, than what was seen in TOS. Likely, to make the refit that occured prior to The Motion Picture more believable.
The spinning Bussard ramscoops at the front of the nacelles are functionally TOS, but seem to blend into the nacelle more cleanly, with less ornament surrounding them. The dorsal "radiator fins" at the rear of each warp nacelle are definately more organic and "fluid" than the ones we saw in TOS, so the nacelles have been updated.
All we really need to see now is the secondary hull. Has the fantail and hangar door changed? Is the deflector dish of the metallic "satellite TV" TOS variety, or more of the glowing headlight effect seen in the films.. or a hybrid of both? I feel the reveal of the revamped Enterprise is the next biggest event forthcoming.
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Am I the only one slightly disturbed by the very strong implication that there WILL be a major redesign for the movie?
I mean, if they weren't going to create a new design for the ship, shouldn't the announced TOS-based toys here effectively double as the movie design?
Think about it.
Al
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Comic Con 2008 Reveals New U.S.S. Enterprise Design?
Note that these "new designs" have airscrews (propellers) embedded in their saucer section, and one has a dorsal fin (see photo enlargement below).
Now that is kitsch, JJ! ;-)
These models aren't replicas, they're semblance toys for play in the yard.

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False alarm. This is clearly a cheap toy company's attmept to cash-in on the hype of the new Star Trek film. You can tell how they literally tacked together bits and peices of the TOS and Refit variants of the ship, and then formed the thing into a ship that can actually "fly".
I highly doubt that Paramount would unveil the redesigned ship (a character in its own right) in the incarnation of a toy you would find at a CVS Pharmacy...
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These are radio-controlled glider toys, not exact replicas. God, any kind of Enterprise-related picture these days is the "new Enterprise design."
There are two different Enterprises here. Look at the "New" or "Old" style nacelle tips on the toys. What IS very interesting is that communicator! I read somewhere that the new communicators would be re-dressed iPhones.
Oh...
by Admiral Arex @ 08:22:38 on Jul 25
I Can See
by Jean-Luc @ 11:03:32 on Jul 24
It's one of those "glider" toys - it's all widened so it can fly... and it's the original ship.
This doesn't look like the parts we've seen in the teaser trailer. So I guess it's not likely to be the new Enterprise.
I wouldn't put too much weight in this. These are toys, not replica models. Just look at the variations among the toys themselves. If Polar Lights came out with a 1/350 2009 Enterprise kit, that'd be a different story. This could entirely be Tyco's imagination.
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by Capt. Frasier @ 09:24:05 on Jul 24
Way too bland and cheap looking.