Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection (2024)

Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection is a magazine/display model collectible partwork publication and product line published by Fanhome. It is a successor to the line of the same name that was produced by Eaglemoss Collections under its Hero Collector imprint. While the Fanhome iteration carries the same name of its Eaglemoss predecessor, it has in issue selection as well as in scale and release format execution much more in common with Eaglemoss' follow-up Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection release. 
Each monthly issue includes a die-cast/plastic mixed-media model and a sixteen-page magazine, like the ones as included in the Universe collection (though in the prior, larger 227×155 mm format the "XL" edition namesake sub-collection magazines were ultimately executed in, resulting in a snug fit within Fanhome's box releases), providing both in-universe information and detailing from a real world POV the production design and development of the underlying starship.
In order to get the collection on the right track from the very start, Fanhome solicited the assistance of the to "Trekdom" well-known former Eaglemoss Project Manager Ben Robinson in the same function on a freelance basis. A veteran of all Eaglemoss' prior Star Trek collections, Robinson was by then actually already tenured at (new) Master Replicas, the company that was contracted to sell Eaglemoss' leftover stock, and who had vainly tried to get the license to continue the collection on their own, but which had in August 2023 gone to Fanhome instead. This Robinson did besides his new tenured position at Master Replicas and oversaw Fanhome's November 2024 launch of their Official Starships Collection iteration, which included personally hosting the October 2024 New York Comic Con (NYCC) first-time physical presentation of its first eight models to the general public – a function he had already performed many times over for his previous employer.
The Fanhome iteration of the collection was at its November 2024 launch available to US and UK customers only at first, but became also available in February 2025 to customers in continental EU with their subscription deliveries slated to commence in March.
== Standard Edition issues ==
Standard Edition models commonly measure about seven to nine inches (180 to 230 mm) long and are released monthly. In this, they correspond with the "medium/mid-sized" regular models as released in Eaglemoss' prior Discovery, Universe, and Lower Decks Official Starships Collections, also including the ones as released in the "Special Edition" sub-collection of the progenitor publication, additionally affirming its closer kinship to the Universe collection. 
In both the US and UK, the Standard Edition release run began on with issue 1, the , but late subscribers were given the option to skip that one and start their collection with issue 2, the . At the early October 2024 NYCC, 250 copies – signed by Liam Shaw actor Todd Stashwick – were already made available ahead of the collection's official launch; Fanhome also announced its twenty-issue lineup schedule for 2024-26 at the event. Every fourth issue - save for Issue 20 - of the series is a special larger-sized eleven-inch (280mm) "XL" edition starship, likewise in imitation of the above referenced prior progenitor collection.
2024 | 2025 | 2026	2024 | 2025 | 2026	2024 | 2025 | 2026	2024 | 2025 | 2026	2024 | 2025 | 2026	2024 | 2025 | 2026
Issue 	Cover 	Title/Contents 	Model 	Lng* 	Scale
 	 	 	 	 	
1 	 	Ship designer Bill Krause was not formally asked to contribute to this issue, though he did sent copies of his design documents to project manager Ben Robinson. As a result, he was scoffed by Fanhome by not being sent a copy of the issue. Robinson though, took it upon himself to correct this slight by sending Krause one after all. 
6/11/2024
*USS Titan NCC-80102-A Specification, p. 3
*USS Titan NCC-80102-A, pp. 4-7
*Designing the USS Titan NCC-80102-A, pp. 8-15	 	220mm 	1:2548
2 	 	
5/12/2024
* Specifications, p. 3
*USS Stargazer NCC-82893, pp. 4-7
*Designing the USS Stargazer, pp. 8-15	 	200mm 	1:2704
 	 	 	 	 	
3 	 	
3/1/2025
* Specifications, p. 3
*USS Farragut NCC-1647, pp. 4-7
*Designing the USS Frarragut, pp. 8-15	 	180mm 	1:1756
4 (XL1) 	 	
February 2025 	 	270mm 	1:3930
5 	 	
March 2025 	 	 	
6 	 	Shrike
April 2025 	 	 	
7 	 	
May 2025 	 	 	
8 (XL2) 	 	
June 2025 	 	 	
9 	 	
July 2025 	 	 	
10 	 	
August 2025 	 	 	
11 	 	
September 2025 	 	 	
12 (XL3) 	 	
October 2025 	 	 	
13 	 	
November 2025 	 	 	
14 	 	
December 2025 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
15 	 	
January 2026 	 	 	
16 (XL4) 	 	
February 2026 	 	 	
17 	 	
March 2026 	 	 	
18 	 	
April 2026 	 	 	
19 	 	
May 2026 	 	 	
20 	 	
June 2026 	 	 	
== Subscription Gifts ==
Along with that month's model, certain months also contain an additional gift for those subscribed to the collection.
No. 	Issue No.	Title	Item
0 	1 	8-Page Collector's GuideThis guide was also made available on the two official websites as a digital download. This option did not extend however, to the regular magazine issues of the collection, contrary to its progenitor release.
6/11/2024	
1 	3 	Magazine binder
Sleeve box replacementThough Fanhome had initially announced a Eaglemoss-style binder, they apparently changed their mind about this since then. What subscribers received instead was a hardboard sleeve box for storing the (loose) magazines individually. This box was not only able to hold the Fanhome magazines, but also those of the predecessor namesake's "Special", and "XL Edition" sub-collections – for which Eaglemoss had never produced binders to accommodate the then-deviant magazine format – besides Eaglemoss' even smaller sized magazines.
January 2025	
1 	3 	Magazine binder
Sleeve box replacementThough Fanhome had initially announced a Eaglemoss-style binder, they apparently changed their mind about this since then. What subscribers received instead was a hardboard sleeve box for storing the (loose) magazines individually. This box was not only able to hold the Fanhome magazines, but also those of the predecessor namesake's "Special", and "XL Edition" sub-collections – for which Eaglemoss had never produced binders to accommodate the then-deviant magazine format – besides Eaglemoss' even smaller sized magazines.
January 2025	
2aOriginally intended for the 3rd issue, it was delayed to the fourth due to production & manufacturing issues.	3 	10 Forward Avenue-themed raktajino mug
January 2025	
2b 	4 	turbolift Okudagram
February 2025	
3 	10 	dedication plaque
August 2025	
4 	20 	
June 2026	
==Background information==
When Fanhome acquired the former Eaglemoss license, they also took possession of the model production assets. On their official Facebook page it was stated that the company contemplated to reissue in their collection some of the models Eaglemoss had done previously. However, there were two caveats involved they stressed emphatically; only "mid-size/XL" editions were considered for reissue and none of the Discovery Official Starships Collection issues that had already completed the prototype stage, but were cancelled nonetheless due to Eaglemoss' bankruptcy. Ben Robinson additionally confirmed at the NYCC that, unlike with the Eaglmoss progenitor, no book derivatives were to be expected as that was not Fanhome's forte besides the reference book license having gone to Titan Books – divulging in effect, that he was engaged in discussions with that publisher for possible publication of additional Eaglemoss-type reference book titles. 
==Appendices==
===See also===
* Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection
* Star Trek starship miniatures
* Star Trek model kits
===Footnotes===
===External links===
====Official sites====
* - official US webshop
* - official UK webshop
* - official German webshop
* - official Austrian webshop
* - official Dutch webshop
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====Collector sites====
* - comprehensive Star Trek Starships Collection guide
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