Latest from the Deck Building Game

Since I last mentioned Bandai's Star Trek Deck Building Game, the TOS edition has been released, and this month a TOS themed gaming mat is due to join the collection. It will look like this:

Bandai have also recently announced the game will soon be officially distributed in Europe, and indeed it has now appeared for pre-order on Forbidden Planet. They are expecting all three card sets in February, though don't currently offer any of the mats.

Completist players who haven't been able to attend events where various promo cards have been distributed, or didn't manage to get them through pre-order bonuses, will be pleased to know many of the cards offered so far are now available to purchase through the BoardGameGeek Store:

• Picard and Q cards, originally pre-order bonus with the TNG: Premier Edition.
• Picard, Thomas Riker, and Temporal Vortex, originally available to retailers to promote the release of TNG: Next Phase Edition.
• Holodeck and Western Worf and Data, originally available at the GenCon tournament.
• Tribbles cards, originally released a pre-order promo for the TOS: Premier Edition.

Latest teases from the Star Trek Deck Building Game

Bandai have announced that pre-orders of their forthcoming TOS edition of their Star Trek Deck Building Game will come with five bonus cards; featuring illustrations of TOS characters, and some tribbles. As far as I can tell the pre-orders aren't up yet for this edition, which is out in a couple of months, but here are those bonus cards:

On the game's Facebook page they have also posted this teaser image, suggesting something tribblesome on the way in November:

Latest from Bandai's Deck Building Game

Bandai have released a new poster advertising their forthcoming TOS edition of their Star Trek Deck Building Game:

Meanwhile they have also created a Facebook event for the launch of TOS edition, which indicates it will be released on the 26th of October. Before then you might also be able to get your hands on some new Star Trek Deck Building Game cards if you attend GenCon 2012, where there will be three new western themed TNG cards available:

A novel, a box, and a case.

A few newslets:

The Simon and Schuster website has been updated with a listing for a new TOS novel, coming in January 2013: The Red Ensign, by David R. George III. No other details yet.

Bandai have released the box art for their forthcoming TOS instalment of their Star Trek deck building game:

And Amazon UK have posted a new higher resolution image of the TNG season one bluray set (although it is marked TBC):

TOS edition of Bandai's deck building game on the way

Bandai have announced the third set in their Star Trek deck building game will be a TOS edition. No more details than a picture for now:

Your life, as it has been, is over.

Is the rather ominous message given to us by the Borg on Bandai's second gaming mat for their Star Trek Deck Building Game. It is apparently "amazing", "beautiful", and will "enhance the experience even more" - If that has wooed you, it should be available from January:

Second TNG deck building game coming from Bandai in January

Bandai have announced details of their next Star Trek card game, Star Trek: The Next Generation - Next Phase Edition, which can be played on its own or combined with their first set, the Premier Edition.

Here's how they describe this second set, which is out in January:

You are the Captain of a small Starship with a standard crew and basic weaponry. Will you use your crew’s experience to improve your ships systems or to recruit more experienced crewmen to your ship? Will you form diplomatic relationships or conquer civilizations in battle? Build your deck and explore the Star Trek universe!

Play these different scenarios or create your own!

[Free For All] Exploration – Explore the universe, interact with alien races, complete missions and experience the mysteries of space. Gain knowledge and power to become a legendary Captain!

[Teams] Reunification – Team-up and determine if you are in favor of peace or war in the Alpha Quadrant! What will be the future of the Federation?

[Co-op] Borg Invasion II – “I am the Borg.” This time the Borg Queen has arrived to assimilate planet Earth! Work with your fellow players to defeat the Borg and the Queen.

Bandai have also announced a game mat to play the TNG game on, featuring the Enterprise-D. That's out at the end of the month:

Bandai's TNG deck building game

Bandai have recently been showing off cards from their forthcoming TNG deck building game (out next month) on their blog. And now Amazon has posted the packaging for the set:

These two cards will come exclusively with pre-ordered copies of the game:

And you can see many more examples of cards on Bandai's website for the game, including reading the rule book in preparation for play.

TNG card game details

After the recent announcement Bandai would producing card games based on TOS and TNG the first details of the TNG set have been announced on StarTrek.com. With three-hundred cards and other accessories the game will be out later this year, at just shy of forty dollars. Here are a couple of sample cards:

 

You can see a few more on StarTrek.com.

Toys, collectables and apparel update

CBS have recently announced several new licenses and products, these include:

A second set of Star Trek Mr Potato Heads, coming in November from PPW Toys. As announced on StarTrek.com this time we'll get potato versions of Spock and Uhura:

A new Star Trek Monopoly from USAopoly, this time themed on the Klingons; this edition will be bilingual (presumably Federation standard as well as Klingon), with various Klingon worlds to conquer, outposts to establish and honor to chanced (as chance becomes "honor" and community chest will be "combat"). StarTrek.com promises several other elements will be decided by fan choice, starting with a facebook vote on which box design to use:

 

USAopoly did a great job on their last Star Trek edition, which I reviewed some time ago.

StarTrek.com also announced details of a phaser prop replica coming from QMx. Based directly on the digital files used to create the prop for the new movie this edition features metal plating.

Other new lines announced by CBS include: A range of busts from all eras of Trek coming from Titan Merchandise. Deck building games based on TOS and TNG from Bandai. A variety of Star Trek inspired T-shirts and tops from Mighty Fine. And TNG 25th anniversary Pez Candy sets, due next year.