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I suppose that's better than cancelled. Regardless, I still won't be catching season 3 on Hulu but at least others will be able to watch.

Will they still release DVDs? If not, I guess theOrville's dead to me.

I watched it on Hulu already so this isn't much of a change for me. It has Archer and Venture Bros. so was already there.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Will they still release DVDs? If not, I guess theOrville's dead to me.

Not sure but good question. Since the switch to bluray and streaming in the industry, I've really gotten out of the practice of buying media since the days of DVD's primacy. I really don't know if any of the major streaming services (or specifically Hulu in this case) offer DVDs of their programs after their initial run.

They still sell DVDs? I haven't had a dedicated player for almost 5 years, don't own any consoles, and I don't even put DVD drives into my desktop PCs any more as they take up a load of space and I honestly can't remember the last time I used one.

I'm glad I never made the blu ray jump.

I've got season one on DVD, and I think I preordered Season Two from Amazon. There's also a soundtrack cd on Amazon.

Something to go with the upcoming Orville heroclix models...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/orville-starships-collectibles-line-revealed-at-comic-con-1224582

Amazing that its taken (and taking) so long to get models of the ships, will certainly pick up some up when they come out.

I'll buy some, but I wish they were more traditional scale models or micromachines rather than the Eaglemoss models. Oh well.

Hulu?! What the hell? Hopefully one of the 3 other streaming sites I’m already subscribed to in Canada will have it.

For anyone interested in buying any Orville miniatures, Studio Bergstrom sells some look-alikes. They sell a whole fleet. This may be your last chance to get them, so order now if interested.

Here are their Orville ships next to some other ship models, notably the Red Alert Space Combat ships and resin ships approximating a BFG grand cruiser and a Trek Attack Wing ship in size.

Thanks for the heads up Bob, what is the casting like? SB have been rather hit and miss in the past (their SW stuff was notably horrible) though from that photo they look good. Not sure if I can afford to get any with a trip overseas next week but may not have the chance again...

The Orville ships were really clean casts and fit together well. The little resin Trek-like ship has some warping that I'll have to fix with hot water, and the big resin ship has some rough places in recesses as well as tiny 3D print lines on it, although they might be too small to show through paint. I got all of these minis cleaned, washed and scrubbed, then glued in less than an hour excluding soak time. To paraphrase YouTube, they were super easy to assemble, barely an inconvenience to clean.


Edit: the big ship would require much more time for someone who wanted to file away the printing texture.


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The Orville battleship is cast in a resin like Dropzone Commander's, while the big Battlestar feels more like Spartan or Scibor's resin.

Wow.. you got the whole lineup? Impressive. I've been meaning to look into the ship background info for the Orville for some time. I saw Bergstrom's announcement on a trek group that he's having some serious personal financial issues so it indeed might be a last chance situation. I like the Woomera line of updated FASA ships by MacrossMartin as well.

I did not get the whole line. He created a couple of other types of light cruiser and destroyer, as well as having two sizes/scales for each design, as well as the shuttles. I could not get everything.

He has a lot of cool ships. If I had unlimited funds, and if they were resin rather than metal, I might have bought some of the SG1 ships, the Galaxy Quest ship, and a Gunstar.

Ja'loja!! Apparently this is out now. If I get a big discount, I can see myself head swapping some with TOS clix.

https://wizkids.com/heroclix/the-orville-heroclix-2-player-starter-set/?fbclid=IwAR2T7QkIlsNcbGJOKfIMHPl7c11ARe29T84Ee5hJIdwjbkNieG2ak0i2uns

Haha - look at the promo image from the back of the packet, then open up the shots of the actual models. Pure potato

And Claire is white for some reason...

Well that is a disapointment, was not expecting much from wizkids but not even gettting characters skin colour right is pretty piss poor.
Also they are not spaceships so triple failure.

Yeah I heard Orville clix and immediately thought of the ships.

Not the crew.

Well, who wouldn’t want to reenact that epic hand-to-hand battle the crew fought in episode number....uh....

While I agree that the skin color swap is a boneheaded mistake, are you guys really surprised that the actual models don't live up to the 3d render examples? They never do with Clix whether they're humanoid figs or ships.

Nah not really warboss, but at least with the ships they can be repainted to a reasonable standard and I am still really hoping for an Orville that does not cost organs to procure and is in a decent size for gaming.

Studio Bergstrom sells a couple different sizes of Orville miniature. The prices seem reasonable to me, too.

Indeed Bob and I liked the look of the ones you got and was going to go all in but shipping was too much and had a trip to OZ... (pics are up thread on this page for anyone interested). Have you gotten any paint on them yet?

Not yet. Hopefully I’ll get an opportunity to set up the paints some time in November.

Well I caught up with season 2 on DVD (you're not alone Bob!) and....

What show are they making?

Are they making a lame SNL paradoy of it? Then by all means continue with episodes about Bortus needing to pee.

Are they making a heartfelt Star Trek fan film? Then by all means continue with episodes about porn addition and intolerance.

Are they making their own thing? Then maybe actions should have consequences and crew members should not be able to commit high treason and face no repercussions.

So frustrating.

To me it's like finding a ST episode I missed the first time. Or a particularly good fan film on Youtube. But I can't take it seriously.

I’m down with it being a simultaneous parody and homage.

But the parody isn't funny!

Ha ha alien dude only pees once a year, that isn't even a joke its like a vaguely amusing idea, certainly not what lead the season with.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
But the parody isn't funny!

Ha ha alien dude only pees once a year, that isn't even a joke its like a vaguely amusing idea, certainly not what lead the season with.

I agree with you regarding *that* parody being unfunny (and nonsensical IMO) but some of the other alien jokes are both funnier and more interesting. It's an uneven show IMO and during both seasons I debated stopping watching at points. I didn't and was glad as there were some gems to balance out the stinkers.