This is pure love of toys, an inspiration and pure creativity. I stopped making dioramas for my Neca Aliens some years ago, but now im really tempted to go back
Love all the videos, but these diorama videos have been some of my favorites. I've probably seen all your videos, too. No joke. Keep these types of vids coming in the future, even if you only do them now and then. Thanks
This is a fun project. I totally appreciate it as a Star Trek fan. I feel like Trek action figures aren't given enough love lately, particularly with playsets, so your custom built playset is fantastic!
I made that bridge a dozen times out of poster board and various and sundry items when I was in my teens. Every time I made a new one, it was a little bit better than the time before.
The silver tape is such a small addition, and absolutely perfect. I love the entire build, the LEDs, etc. but that silver tape was something I probably wouldn't have thought of, even though I own a roll of it, thanks to you (I fixed my vintage Ram Man's bracers with it. Thank you for that!). I tend to stay more in the Masters of the Universe side of things, but you always inspire me, no matter what line you're working on.
This is an awesome build, Dave! You really did those old MEGO figures proud! And you know, unless it's meant to be a replica, modellers are free to exercise some imagination with things like this, as Federation starship bridges were modular by design, and could be swapped out either wholly or in part... I really love this - It really is so very cool. 🖖😃
Love this so much. I've made the original series bridge in it's entirety in 2 different scales out of styrene in the past (once for the DST 7" figs, and one for the 90s Playmates figures), and it was neat to see you problem solve and design in the same manner. Your finished product is a great distillation of the Motion Picture aesthetic, and it looks amazing.
Excellent video as always. I was recently hospitalised and am finally home again. I'm off my feet for a few months and have started rewatching all of your channel. Still great second time around. Very calm and theraputic thank you 😊
@toypolloi thanks! Ive come to have a new found appreciation for the assembly line workers at the toy factories who had to put together all of those spaceships with every tiny bit of the inner workings perfectly lined up and every spring sprung to perfection. I wonder if they still have that muscle memory 40 years later lol. I really like your idea of standardising the the display backdrop as a generic step then adapting the background to theme the franchise. They would look ace all lined up in a row! Yes please do Indy next :-D
Great job, blends with the figures well. Unfortunately a lot of those original playsets for various lines were quite thin and fragile Ie. 70s Halloween mask plastic heh. Funny you made the diorama so clean and pristine that now I think the figures could use a bit of paint touchup.😉
Another great diorama by Dave! Well done mate. Looks fantastic. I really like how you add the extra touches such as the LED lights and custom stickers.
I really like this Star Trek diorama! It might be my favourite out of the three you've made recently. I think I like the simplicity of the design - simple but very effective! It really makes the figures come alive, and the figures make the diorama come alive, too! These diorama / backdrops of yours are brilliant for displaying figure collections! Those figures look like they would benefit from some trademark Toy Polloi TLC, though! Maybe a future video?
Hahaha, just came from the Indiana diorama, I missed this one😁 Looks really good, really came to life with the paint and stickers, the lights finish it. Great backdrop for the figs, makes them look much better too.
Love your diorama vids. That's my jam. I will say, though, that in addition to cleanliness vs. grime, the OTHER thing that distinguishes the Star Trek universe from the Star Wars universe is that Star Trek actually cares about safety and has handrails! 😅 So those might still be worth adding in future.
That is very true. I only leave them off as I want to see the figures most of all. I did have plans to come back to this as there is one other feature I would really love to add.
Thank you for sharing your build on this Star Trek diorama! Very interesting and inspiring. 👏 Your recent mini-series on small, shelf friendly dioramas have been some of my favourite TH-cam posts I have ever watched. Off the back of your Jabba's palace and Black Hole dioramas, I have started making a small diorama for some resin Silent Running drones I also painted up. Thanks once again 👌
Dave, the figures you have are the core figures Mego made for this line. The aliens Mego made for this line are super rare to get. By the way, just want to say,, you are getting more and more clever as time goes by, my friend! You are really impressive!
Yeah, I have a few duplicates of the bridge crew. Never seen any of the Aliens at a price I would be happy to pay, so far! There is always time, and luck.
I love it! The gray against the beige just makes this a vibrant, cheerful playset diorama that looks like the sort of thing marketed to kids in the late '70s-early '80s! It's the perfect amount of detail for display, and it looks so good, Dave! I hope you'll someday consider doing a hangar diorama for Buck Rogers! I feel like BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY from Mego is another line that doesn't receive the kind of love that it should. The toys are fabulous! I'd love to see what you could do with that! Regardless, I hope you will continue creating things like this for display! You're good at it, and it's so very inspiring! You've given me a few ideas to try on my own, and that's the kind of thing that I love about your channel. You keep the joy of these vintage toys alive in me! Thanks, buddy!
Great diorama, Dave! Coming from the tabletop wargames side of things, I have come across something that might help add something of a centerpiece to this diorama and that is a main screen setup. If you want to add a simple but very effective means of having the main screen on the bridge where you see characters talk to someone on another ship and so on (e.g. putting up a TH-cam clip or a gif etc. That looks the part essentially), I'd suggest using an old phone that's still in working order on a stand of some sort that you can paint and modify as needed with plasticard/styrene sheets to make a similar wall structure around it and voilà! At least when I saw it done it worked amazingly well, and i think the star trek bridge is a perfect fit for something like that. Keep up the quality work as always, cheers!
Nice one Dave. FYI back in the 80s we used cut and spray mounted tin foil for light bleed blocking on sci fi models. much cheaper than wasting styrene :)
An easy Battlestar Galactica Imperious Leader throne room, surrounded by Cylons. Trekkin' is my thing Dave, throughly enjoyed this one. Build on Brother....😎
I like these figures. I do wish Mego had done peg holes in the feet though! Perhaps you can come up with a peg less stand, for a future project Dave? 😂
Bought my Maximillian and Vincent in 1981 while visiting my grandparents in Sheffield. Still have them (on my desk just inches from me now) and have their original stands too. I don't remember the lettering on Vincent (must have rubbed off).
For this diorama more than any of the others I feel like it would be good to have additional modular dioramas that could work together. Like if you could make one with the captains chair and conn/ops console, which could either work as its own diorama or be put in front of this one to add even more to the play set.
Only tangentially related, but I'd love to see some videos revolving around the Playmates Star Trek line! I've seen really getting into it recently since it's so cheap and easy to collect.
I have a few of those. There were a lot of sets and vehicles made for them unlike these guys. Not sure what I could do to make them better? Or fix them as I never seem to find them broken.
Wow! Great build Dave!! Not a collection I have but as you said earlier in the video, the basic template could be copied for other toy lines May try my luck at that one day
Awesome, as usual Dave. Just to make it look a little more "Trek", you could finish off by adding a couple of small stickers to the doors maybe one with the numerals 01 and another on the other door reading "Deck 1, main bridge". Trek shows would often have this as a way of showing which number turbolift was being used and which deck of the ship you were on. To really give a kick, you could also print out a starship dedication plaque sticker and mount it in the door alcove. Just some suggestions.
I did think about stickers on the doors. But in ST:TMP there aren't any on the bridge, just a plain door. So I left it blank. But they wouldn't look out of place for sure.
As huge a Star Trek fan as I am, I'm ashamed to say I don't have enough of the old MEGO Motion Picture figures to make this a worthwhile project for me. Which is a shame, because it turned out beautifully! You always make me want to get styrene and plastic weld, despite my inability to cut things remotely straight or evenly...
Very nice indeed, I am working on a Vintage style Star Wars Cantina based on the orange Vac formed one, it is expensive to buy, maybe you can do your own version, with your skills you would knock it out of the park.
Fun Fact... the original Enterprise and the TMP refit have an odd quirk about the bridge. All of the blueprints show that the entire bridge is rotated about 30 degrees, so that the turbolift doors are not seen directly behind the captain's chair.
Im kinda bummed playmates cancelled their new trek figure line I was really hoping they would do bridges and start with the ships they didn't do in the 90s ie enterprise refit/A and actual excelcior!... whatever happened with that they were supposed to be continuing with the ships and props?
Star Trekkin' across the universe On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk Star Trekkin' across the universe Boldly going forward cuz we can't find "REVERSE"
I'm LOVING these diorama videos!
These dioramas are great. Please do more…
Toy Polloi when making this diorama. To boldly go where no man has gone before!
Hi Dave just watched your Star Trek diorama it is very good I think your diorama are easy to make. Looking forward to the next one 👌👍
Ralph
Out of all the designs for the Enterprise over the years, the Refit is my absolute favourite.
This is pure love of toys, an inspiration and pure creativity. I stopped making dioramas for my Neca Aliens some years ago, but now im really tempted to go back
It's just fun to make something unique. And you can really make something nice with very little effort.
That’s such a cool diorama Dave - thanks for showcasing your skill again! 😀
Love all the videos, but these diorama videos have been some of my favorites. I've probably seen all your videos, too. No joke. Keep these types of vids coming in the future, even if you only do them now and then. Thanks
Wow, thanks! I have plans for another project I am just about to start.
This is a fun project. I totally appreciate it as a Star Trek fan. I feel like Trek action figures aren't given enough love lately, particularly with playsets, so your custom built playset is fantastic!
I like the way you did them custom stickers for the consoles in keeping with the motion picture design.
Thanks 👍
I made that bridge a dozen times out of poster board and various and sundry items when I was in my teens. Every time I made a new one, it was a little bit better than the time before.
The silver tape is such a small addition, and absolutely perfect. I love the entire build, the LEDs, etc. but that silver tape was something I probably wouldn't have thought of, even though I own a roll of it, thanks to you (I fixed my vintage Ram Man's bracers with it. Thank you for that!). I tend to stay more in the Masters of the Universe side of things, but you always inspire me, no matter what line you're working on.
Thanks. It added a lot to the final build. It's not quite star trek, but it gives the right vibe so I just went with it.
This is an awesome build, Dave! You really did those old MEGO figures proud!
And you know, unless it's meant to be a replica, modellers are free to exercise some imagination with things like this, as Federation starship bridges were modular by design, and could be swapped out either wholly or in part... I really love this - It really is so very cool. 🖖😃
Thanks a bunch!
Love this so much. I've made the original series bridge in it's entirety in 2 different scales out of styrene in the past (once for the DST 7" figs, and one for the 90s Playmates figures), and it was neat to see you problem solve and design in the same manner. Your finished product is a great distillation of the Motion Picture aesthetic, and it looks amazing.
Excellent video as always. I was recently hospitalised and am finally home again. I'm off my feet for a few months and have started rewatching all of your channel. Still great second time around. Very calm and theraputic thank you 😊
Sorry to hear that. Hope these keep you amused. Cheers
@toypolloi thanks! Ive come to have a new found appreciation for the assembly line workers at the toy factories who had to put together all of those spaceships with every tiny bit of the inner workings perfectly lined up and every spring sprung to perfection. I wonder if they still have that muscle memory 40 years later lol.
I really like your idea of standardising the the display backdrop as a generic step then adapting the background to theme the franchise. They would look ace all lined up in a row! Yes please do Indy next :-D
Has a lot of depth. Very cool.
WOW!! YOU'RE VERY TALENTED! WE L0VE YOUR CHANNEL 😊
Great job, loving the music too!
Thanks
I think I like the building with polystyrene videos the best, but please keep giving us a good mix.
Thanks. There will always be a mix of projects shown here. But there is another diorama project in the works 😍
Great job, blends with the figures well. Unfortunately a lot of those original playsets for various lines were quite thin and fragile Ie. 70s Halloween mask plastic heh. Funny you made the diorama so clean and pristine that now I think the figures could use a bit of paint touchup.😉
Cool, thanks!
Love the diorama videos! Keep them coming.
That is very impressive and done with so little material. Thanks Dave.
Glad you liked it!
A great job and a pleasure to watch 😊
Thanks
Amazing craftsmanship. Well done.
Thank you.
@@toypolloi wow, I love this ! Do you have the plans and or stickers available? I would def build this myself ?
Thanks. The stickers are on toypolloi.com
I will share my rough plans on my Patreon page soon. Cheers
Dave you are an absolute genius. These little dioramas you've been making look phenomenal.
Thanks
Well great finish. Looks the part with all the work you have done.Awesome job.
Thank you! Cheers!
I have to admit at first I was a little skeptical but you proved me wrong, Dave. I never should have doubted you, my friend. AMAZING WORK!!! Cheers!!
Incredible work, looks like an official Playset. Really like the way the stickers you made really make this dip pop! great work!!!
Thanks 👍
Loving these diorama ideas, brill watches and outcomes! 😁
Thank you! Cheers!
Your unique talents make your videos exceptionally wonderful from beginning to end! I can hardly wait for your next video! 🍻🇺🇲
Thank you very much!
Great outcome, was nice seeing your chats in real time.
Take care😊
Glad you enjoyed it
Another great diorama by Dave! Well done mate. Looks fantastic. I really like how you add the extra touches such as the LED lights and custom stickers.
Amazing work!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Fantastic Dave!!!. Keep the dio vids coming Sir!!!
Thanks! Will do!
I really like this Star Trek diorama! It might be my favourite out of the three you've made recently. I think I like the simplicity of the design - simple but very effective! It really makes the figures come alive, and the figures make the diorama come alive, too! These diorama / backdrops of yours are brilliant for displaying figure collections!
Those figures look like they would benefit from some trademark Toy Polloi TLC, though! Maybe a future video?
Thank you very much!
Fantastic work!
Thanks a lot!
Very cool 😎
Excellent. Well done sir!
Glad you liked it!
Very nice diorama!
Thank you! Cheers!
GREAT WORK!!!! I LOOOOVE IT!!
Thanks
Hahaha, just came from the Indiana diorama, I missed this one😁
Looks really good, really came to life with the paint and stickers, the lights finish it.
Great backdrop for the figs, makes them look much better too.
As always Dave fantastic mate
Many thanks!
I have said it before and I will say it again, I wish I had your know how and creativity. Absolute stirling build.
Thanks. You should give it a go. You learn by trying. Cheers
Awesome 😎👍
Thanks ✌️
Love your diorama vids. That's my jam. I will say, though, that in addition to cleanliness vs. grime, the OTHER thing that distinguishes the Star Trek universe from the Star Wars universe is that Star Trek actually cares about safety and has handrails! 😅 So those might still be worth adding in future.
That is very true. I only leave them off as I want to see the figures most of all. I did have plans to come back to this as there is one other feature I would really love to add.
Thank you for sharing your build on this Star Trek diorama! Very interesting and inspiring. 👏 Your recent mini-series on small, shelf friendly dioramas have been some of my favourite TH-cam posts I have ever watched.
Off the back of your Jabba's palace and Black Hole dioramas, I have started making a small diorama for some resin Silent Running drones I also painted up. Thanks once again 👌
That's great. Seems lots of people are enjoying these builds. More to come soon!
Cracking job looks great 👍🏻
Thanks 👍
Wow, this is amazing. Great job!
Thank you! Cheers!
Perfection!!
Thank you!
Love this diorama, I wish I had this when I had my figures, that feels like so long ago now...
I like how you used an emery board to draw the corner curves!
Thanks. Use what you have to hand, and it was the perfect curve for this.
Brilliant, Dave. It might be nice to make a companion piece for this - perhaps the transporter room?
Bang on target. Fabulous work.
Dave, the figures you have are the core figures Mego made for this line. The aliens Mego made for this line are super rare to get. By the way, just want to say,, you are getting more and more clever as time goes by, my friend! You are really impressive!
Yeah, I have a few duplicates of the bridge crew. Never seen any of the Aliens at a price I would be happy to pay, so far! There is always time, and luck.
Awesome job, love it. I'm lucky enough to have my figures displayed on the Mego bridge but would love to make a diorama for my Ertl figures.
Very cool!
Nice!
Thank you! Cheers!
Lookin’ great TP! Maybe you could next do a section of Enterprise’s engineering section for Scotty to go with this… 🖖
I love it! The gray against the beige just makes this a vibrant, cheerful playset diorama that looks like the sort of thing marketed to kids in the late '70s-early '80s! It's the perfect amount of detail for display, and it looks so good, Dave!
I hope you'll someday consider doing a hangar diorama for Buck Rogers! I feel like BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY from Mego is another line that doesn't receive the kind of love that it should. The toys are fabulous! I'd love to see what you could do with that! Regardless, I hope you will continue creating things like this for display! You're good at it, and it's so very inspiring! You've given me a few ideas to try on my own, and that's the kind of thing that I love about your channel. You keep the joy of these vintage toys alive in me! Thanks, buddy!
Heck yeah dude🤙
🤘
Great diorama, Dave! Coming from the tabletop wargames side of things, I have come across something that might help add something of a centerpiece to this diorama and that is a main screen setup.
If you want to add a simple but very effective means of having the main screen on the bridge where you see characters talk to someone on another ship and so on (e.g. putting up a TH-cam clip or a gif etc. That looks the part essentially), I'd suggest using an old phone that's still in working order on a stand of some sort that you can paint and modify as needed with plasticard/styrene sheets to make a similar wall structure around it and voilà! At least when I saw it done it worked amazingly well, and i think the star trek bridge is a perfect fit for something like that.
Keep up the quality work as always, cheers!
Nice one Dave. FYI back in the 80s we used cut and spray mounted tin foil for light bleed blocking on sci fi models. much cheaper than wasting styrene :)
Thanks for the info
An easy Battlestar Galactica Imperious Leader throne room, surrounded by Cylons. Trekkin' is my thing Dave, throughly enjoyed this one. Build on Brother....😎
Thanks
Using the same principles and LEDs you could make an awesome transporter room. Beam me up Scotty 👍
Great idea
As a kid, I used cardboard soda boxes and legos just to create the enterprises bridge. The dioramas are needed to make a display really work.
I made something similar as a kid. Hours of fun.
Good 70s colour choices. Aluminium tape is quick and easy for light blocking...
I like those control panel/screen stickers; to me, they could almost pass for tiny screenshots from The Wrath of Khan. 😀
I like these figures. I do wish Mego had done peg holes in the feet though!
Perhaps you can come up with a peg less stand, for a future project Dave? 😂
Yeah, that is an issue. I'm surprised someone hasn't made stands for them already. I will have to check that.
Bought my Maximillian and Vincent in 1981 while visiting my grandparents in Sheffield. Still have them (on my desk just inches from me now) and have their original stands too. I don't remember the lettering on Vincent (must have rubbed off).
For this diorama more than any of the others I feel like it would be good to have additional modular dioramas that could work together. Like if you could make one with the captains chair and conn/ops console, which could either work as its own diorama or be put in front of this one to add even more to the play set.
Only tangentially related, but I'd love to see some videos revolving around the Playmates Star Trek line! I've seen really getting into it recently since it's so cheap and easy to collect.
I have a few of those. There were a lot of sets and vehicles made for them unlike these guys. Not sure what I could do to make them better? Or fix them as I never seem to find them broken.
Looks great, just need to touch of the figures a bit
Maybe. I like the play work look of them.
Wow! Great build Dave!! Not a collection I have but as you said earlier in the video, the basic template could be copied for other toy lines
May try my luck at that one day
Go for it!
Awesome, as usual Dave. Just to make it look a little more "Trek", you could finish off by adding a couple of small stickers to the doors maybe one with the numerals 01 and another on the other door reading "Deck 1, main bridge". Trek shows would often have this as a way of showing which number turbolift was being used and which deck of the ship you were on.
To really give a kick, you could also print out a starship dedication plaque sticker and mount it in the door alcove. Just some suggestions.
I did think about stickers on the doors. But in ST:TMP there aren't any on the bridge, just a plain door. So I left it blank. But they wouldn't look out of place for sure.
You can even make TWOK figures out of the ERTL line. I was able to take TMP McCoy and shape the neck onto the ERTL ST lll Scotty.
As huge a Star Trek fan as I am, I'm ashamed to say I don't have enough of the old MEGO Motion Picture figures to make this a worthwhile project for me. Which is a shame, because it turned out beautifully! You always make me want to get styrene and plastic weld, despite my inability to cut things remotely straight or evenly...
They are easy figures to collect I find. Often turning up in job lots. And I really like them.
Very nice indeed, I am working on a Vintage style Star Wars Cantina based on the orange Vac formed one, it is expensive to buy, maybe you can do your own version, with your skills you would knock it out of the park.
I have one of those to work on as well!
Ive got a funny feeling that those figures were once mine, as ai sold a job lot of them a little while back and they look familiar!
Unlikely. I have collected these from odd places over a few years. Cheers
That silver tape will block the light from the LEDs.
Can remember trying to build Captain Kirks chair from the back of a cereal box promoting the film
You might want a resistor in that LED circuit unless it’s built into the harness as they are rated 3- 5V and will last longer with that 9V battery
They are pre wired with resistors. That's why I buy them 😁
@ nice!
Fun Fact... the original Enterprise and the TMP refit have an odd quirk about the bridge. All of the blueprints show that the entire bridge is rotated about 30 degrees, so that the turbolift doors are not seen directly behind the captain's chair.
I weep for V’ger as I would for a brother
Looks really nice. I just wonder if you could've backlit the computer screens?
💪😎
Thats cool maybe need a chair for kirk
Hi Dave. Love your videos. I have a request.... an advice on making replacement body armour /harness for sungold galaxy warriors?
Noted!
@toypolloi thank you
Go bug your local sign shop. Can get whole 4x8 foot sheets of styrene for little money.
Surprised you didn’t try to go full boar and replicate the original bridge playset in styrene.
If I had the space I would love it. My display area is limited so I am keeping my builds small to fit. Cheers
Im kinda bummed playmates cancelled their new trek figure line I was really hoping they would do bridges and start with the ships they didn't do in the 90s ie enterprise refit/A and actual excelcior!... whatever happened with that they were supposed to be continuing with the ships and props?
I can't say I know much about that line. I don't think I even saw them in the shops 🤔
Star Trekkin' across the universe
On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk
Star Trekkin' across the universe
Boldly going forward cuz we can't find "REVERSE"
The Firm
@@mooseyman74 Yep. Indeed it is The Firm.