And it's been said many times before the costs to obtain straight up prop replica licenses are astronomical and get passed on the consumer if it even officially gets past that stage. Wand was able to keep costs down by saying they are functioning electronics accessories that happen to resemble props. Their products HAVE to have a useful function.I have said this many times before that WAND should release the tricorder as a non-functional prop, and then, if and when, they can come back
and release the fully functional at twice the price! As it sits, it looks really fantastic, and I am working on an old MARCO tricorder, and working to make it more like the WAND tricorder, with no video, just sound effects and lights. Even going to try and make the discs as they appear on the WAND page, with different colored labels! VERY neat!