The Merchandise GuideEagle Models: Product Enterprise Eagles
Compiled by Martin Willey
The Merchandise Guide
This Eagle was announced in January 2020. It features a "battle damaged" Eagle and Hawk. The Hawk is also available separately in the original Martin Bower colour scheme (without orange stripes). In August 2020, the expected delivery date for both the episode set and individual Hawk was February 2021. It then slipped to May 2021, then end of June. It eventually started shipping in July.
Sixteen 12 originally produced a 23 inch Hawk in 2010. They proposed a Hawk on this scale (21cm/8.5 inch) in August 2017 (with two limited editions, 1000 with orange markings; 500 in white). These ware cancelled in October 2018.
The main "This Episode WarGames" box is 38cm x 40cm x 13cm, the same larger size as the Deluxe Hangar, Earthbound and Infernal Machine boxes. The front opens as a flap with photos. Only 2 of the photos in the inside flap, and 1 on the back, feature the Hawk.
The box uses the single word "Wargames", like the 1983 film starring Matthew Broderick, not "War Games" like the episode title.
"In original pre-production colour scheme". The Hawk was released without the yellow stripes, separately from the Eagle. The box is smaller than the standard boxes, 30cm x 20cm x 10cm.
The back of the box features 3 pre-filming photos of the Hawk (2 by the studio, 1 by Martin Bower), plus two design sketches (1 by Johnson, 1 by Bower). Again the box uses the name of the 1983 Matthew Broderick film, not the Space: 1999 episode. The text is a little misleading. It only talks about one filming model- there were actually three. More comprehensive information is available in the catacombs.
The "This Episode"/"Limited Edition" box and the "Hawk Warship"/"Special Edition" box side by side. Each is 1500 sets.
Previous sets had included a plastic "landing pad" platform, either red or grey. This set introduces stands. The black plastic base is 12cm diameter, with the series logo in reflective letters. There is a transparent plastic tube, 12cm for the white Hawk, or two tubes, 12cm and 20cm, for the Eagle and Hawk. In addition there are small plastic plugs which fit on the end of the stand and support the model. The models have four small pin holes on the underside for this plastic plug. The plug for the Eagle is longer to support the larger model; because only this transporter module has the pin holes, it is the only one of the Product Enterprise/Sixteen 12 sets that can be mounted.
The stands are simple and effective for display.
This is a standard Eagle Transporter as seen in other sets (for instance the Infernal Machine set), with the addition of the plug sockets on the base of the passenger module, and a number of starfish-like grey decals on the sides. This "battle damage" doesn't look like anything in the series (it does look a bit like the spawn of DC comics super-villain Starro the Conqueror, as seen in the 2021 film The Suicide Squad).
The Hawk is 21.5cm long. The paint scheme of the Hawk in the "This Episode" set is based on the largest of the three models (filming model details). It is a good representation of the two larger studio models, in both proportions and detailing. There are some minor inaccuracies, although the most noticeable difference with the actual studio models is the lack of weathering.
Left to right, modified Round 2 MPC Eagle, Round 2 Hawk, Sixteen 12 Hawk, modified Product Enterprise Eagle
The 2018 Round 2 Hawk (left, larger) alongside the 2021 Sixteen 12 Hawks .
See more about the studio model. This is the 16 inch studio model; the orange paint under the command module is different to the 31 inch model, although most details are very close. After filming the episode (but while still at the studio), the command module windows were painted black, as they were on the original pre-filming model. Some of the fine panel and line details are heavier on the Sixteen 12 models, while the studio models are more heavily weathered.
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