Klingon Bird of Prey, in a box.

Just a few week from release, Diamond Select Toys have revealed the packaging for their latest model starship, the Klingon Bird of Prey. She'll look like this:

And here is the final model, out of the box too:

For those of you wondering where the landing gear seen on earlier prototypes of the model has got to, the latest DST Q and A has the answer:

The Trek 3 – HMS in other words, version will have the landing gear, the other version will not. I do not think that has changed since we started developing the item but they have been in work so long I can see where some confusion might come up.

They also made a similar comment on the planned USS Excelsior varient of the forthcoming USS Enterprise-B ship:

YES we are working on the Excelsior (as we have said) and YES it will have all new sculpted parts but YES it will include some of the parts from the B. Frankly, that is the only remotely possible way for us to afford doing both the B and Excelsior. I hope everyone will be happy with both ships when it’s all said and done.

DST also recently posted a shipping date list, which gives us an update on when to expect all the latest Star Trek stuff coming from DST. These are the dates they expect to send them out to retailers, so they should appear some time after:

• December 5th: Mirror universe Kirk and Spock retro figures
• December 12th: Klingon Bird of Prey
• December 26th: USS Enterprise-B
• January 23rd: Klingon disruptor
• February 27th: Minimates USS Enterprise

Also listed are a load of reissues of their TOS Trek tech, in just about every variation and combination imaginable!:

• December 12th: Medical tricorder
• December 12th: Gold communicator
• December 12th: Gold handle phaser
• December 12th: Gold handle phaser and gold communicator 2 pack
• December 12th: White handle phase
• December 12th: White handle phaser and medical tricorder 2 pack
• January 23rd: Black handle phaser
• January 23rd: Black handle phaser, tricorder, and communicator 3 pack
• January 23rd: Black handle phaser and communicator 2 pack
• January 23rd: Communicator
• January 23rd: Communicator and science tricorder 2 pack
• January 23rd: Science tricorder
• February 6th: Communicator and geological tricorder 2 pack
• February 6th: Geological tricorder
• February 6th: Phaser and geological tricorder 2 pack

Notably absent from these lists are the dates for the reissues of all the DST starships, and the new Star Trek Select action figures, which were expected early next year. I guess we'll be waiting until after February for those now.