Icons in-house special effects team, the Fabrication & Design Group broke new ground in the collectible industry with its exquisite prototyping of Icons products and its supervising of the manufacture of each Icons limited edition.
Each Fab & Design artisan had an impressive list of film and television credits under his belt. As a division of Icons, the Fab & Design team has contributed props, set pieces and/or wardrobe to such popular science-fiction television shows as Star Trek : Voyager, Star Trek : Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 and Third Rock From The Sun.
"We're very proud of our Fabrication & Design shop" exclaimed James Latta. Most especially of the Star Trek : Deep Space Nine cross over episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". Icons F&D built replica Tricorders, Communicators and Phasers for the episode as well as set pieces for a replica bridge including a Captain's chair, the full-size helm control and bridge chairs.
Paramount Pictures was so impressed with the quality of the replicas it contracted Icons to replicate new Star Trek artifacts for the History of the Future Museum at the Star Trek Experience attraction Las Vegas Hilton.
Icons R&D molded and mastered over 30 Star Trek prop replicas for the Star Trek Experience. That's where most of the Master Replicas and Roddenberry props came from (yes, Icons too...). They were R&D, reverse-engineered and molded at Icons in 1996 by Icons staff, using Icons materials and equipment on Icons dime.
The Master Replicas Star Trek TOS Communicator, Phaser and Tricorder and TOS Klingon pistol and STTNG Phaser (by HMS) were all R&D and mastered at Icons expense (private funding) in 1996 and 1997. Same Icons blood running through these prop replicas. Why ?...Because HMS is owned by one of Icons co-founders, Mike Moore. This has been a closely guarded secret for many years. As V.P. of manufacturing and a co-founder, Mike was in charge of making every Icons product from 1996 until the end of 1997, when Doug Conway ousted him :-(
