Inara’s Shuttle Ornament
February 3rd, 2008 Posted in Serenity Collectibles
Well, a long-awaited Companion to Dark Horse’s supurb Serenity ship ornament has finally arrived: Inara’s shuttle.
Like the Serenity ornament, it arrives packaged in a beautifully designed box and protected in fitted styrofoam. It comes with a stand just like the one on the Serenity ornament, which holds it up and allows it to “fly” realistically at various angles. There is a tiny gold screw in the top with a string to hang it from should you choose to use it as an ornament, but it can be easily removed for display on the stand.
The ship is cute and pretty nicely detailed, and of course a fun addition to the merchandise of the ‘verse. It’s not to scale with the Serenity ornament (if it were, it’d be about a half inch long!), so you may want to display it in a different location to avoid a certain oddness.
There are a few things that irritate me about this, though. The ship is a simpler craft than Serenity, so logically it’s going to have less detailing, and be less inherently impressive than Serenity. This leads to a certain crudeness of appearance when you compare the two.
What really confounds me is the fact that for a simpler and less detailed model, the price is higher! You’ll be expected to fork over $30.00 for Inara’s shuttle, and just $20.00 for the Serenity ornament. Not so much with the making sense, or value. The upcoming reaver ship, which looks no more impressive than the shuttle, is retailing at $40.00, with pre-orders at $32.00! Looks to me as though Dark Horse is looking to see just how much they can gouge the wallets of browncoats, and I’m not ecstatic….in fact I’m going to pass on the reaver ship.
So….you may want to pick this up. It’s a fun addition to your collection, and limited to an edition of 5,000 so it won’t be around forever. But unlike the Serenity ship ornament, this one isn’t making my “top picks” list. I’ll take photos and get them on here as soon as I can.
Rating: Worth The Cashy Money
Approximate Price: $27-30.00
Available From: www.tfaw.com