The next model from Master Replicas is coming soon, and today the company revealed the first-look photos. The Stargate Atlantis Stargate will begin preorders this Friday, Friday, September 20.
The officially licensed piece has been crafted using a digital model from the show, which was provided to Master Replicas by MGM — including each and every pointalist glyph, designed to reflect star constellations in the Pegasus Galaxy.
The new release celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Stargate Atlantis, which premiered on SCI FI Channel in July 2004. The gate measures 9.25 inches (23.5 cm) in diameter, and comes with a display base with the show’s logo. Like the Milky Way gate model it is made of polystone resin.
In the Stargate universe the gates of the Pegasus Galaxy are newer and more advanced, built by the Ancients after they left the Milky Way and settled there several million years ago. Pegasus gates are a sort of “digital” equivalent to the older, “analogue” gates, and are found both on planets and in space throughout the galaxy.
Atlantis‘s production utilized multiple VFX houses during its run, and those vendors actually used different Stargate models throughout the show’s 100 episodes. Eagle-eyed fans will catch numerous shots of space gates with only eight chevrons (which we regard as an error), but fortunately Master Replicas is producing a beautiful, 9-chevron gate.
The Atlantis Stargate will be available to preorder at MasterReplicas.com starting September 20, at a cost of $54.99 USD / £44.99 GBP.
Meanwhile preorders are still open for the Milky Way Stargate model, which has suffered a slight delay. Shipping was originally slated for September but has been pushed back a few weeks, to October.
The gate itself looks great, but I wish they did something a little more unique with the stand, even if they had to charge a little more.
Make it a little bigger and add a clasp to put it around the neck :)P
For the SG-1 gate, the base used the SGC logo. Wouldn’t it have made more sense for this gate’s base to use the in-show pegasus logo rather than the actual show logo?
I now see that this has been brought up on Twitter, and MGM decreed it be this way for whatever reason.
Compared to the milkyway gate, this one looks thicker, you can actually see the middle ring (sandwich) between the front and back part. Which is great!
The preview pics for the milkyway gate don’t show it from the side. It looks way too thin compared to the prop. I hope they didn’t mess this one up (milky way), but I’m afraid they actually did. Also the chevrons on the backpart shouldn’t be red/blue.
Any sideview of the milky way gate (of the master replica)?
The best I’ve seen is this comparison that they actually just sent out in their newsletter this week. It does look like the Milky Way gate is thinner — check out not only the gate and the chevrons, but the slit in the base:
Thank you, Darren for providing the comparison. Yes, the slit gives it away, the milky way gate looks like garbage compared to the pegasus gate.
Man, I’m so disappointed. Wanted to have this since I was a child, but they couldn’t come up with a better model? Instead they seem to have put all the effort into the atlantis gate (I’m happy for those who are looking forward to getting it). But man this is so weak and weird, they should know better.
Is there any chance, that the final model is going to look different than on the preview pics?
No, they take the photos only after they have finalized the model for production.