Now You Can Own a Cylon Raider

OK, it’s a really small one but still cool. NBC Universal has announced that Battlestar Galactica’s Cylon Raider Tactical Fighter is now available as a scale replica. Sweet! Me drool now – pretty… oh, did I think that or type it?

Anyway, you can pick these babies up online at SCI FI Channel Store for $949.95. Measuring 15 inches long by 9 inches wide, the Raider replicas are based on a computer-generated model and have been designed by Quantum Mechanix. It has a total display height of 7 inches.

They are assembled and painted at renown special effects center The FX Company and only 500 of these artisan replicas exist. Each contains a unique brass plaque signed by either BSG producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, director Michael Rymer or one of the cast members including Jamie Bamber (“Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama”), James Callis (“Gaius Baltar”), Tricia Helfer (“Number Six”), Michael Hogan (“Colonel Saul Tigh”), Edward James Olmos (“Admiral William Adama”), Grace Park (“Sharon ‘Athena’ Agathon”/ “Sharon ‘Boomer’ Valerii”) or Katee Sackhoff (“Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace”).

The ships feature custom electronics with light displays including the Cylon infamous scanning/sweeping red LED “eye” lights and flaring white engine lights. The Raider’s lighting system runs on a 12 volt transformer. The Raiders are available for order now. So say we all.

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