{"id":37676,"date":"2014-11-07T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=37676"},"modified":"2014-11-07T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:03:05","slug":"star-trek-merchmaker-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/11\/star-trek-merchmaker-debuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek MerchMAKER Debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37679\" alt=\"MerchMAKER110714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MerchMAKER110714.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek merchMAKER<\/em>, an online platform that allows UK fans to create their very own personalized merchandise, has released today.<\/p>\n<p>With the <em>Star Trek merchMAKER<\/em>, fans can &#8220;choose from an array of character images and quotes to create unique products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A five step process will allow fans to create their own personalized Trek merchandise. To begin, the fan chooses one of the following themes:<em> Starfleet,<\/em> <em>The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise<\/em>, or <em>Ships.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then the fan chooses an image from the collection selected. For example, in <em>The Original Series<\/em> category, there are three dozen images from which to choose, including <em>The Animated Series<\/em> images, images from Trek comics, and images from the televised series.<\/p>\n<p>For Step Three, the fan chooses a quote taken from the category.<em> The Original Series<\/em> category includes nineteen choices, and in most of them, the name of the fan is included. For example, one quote for someone named John would be &#8220;Fate Protects Fools, John and Ships Named Enterprise.&#8221; Another quote for Mary would be &#8220;Beam Me Up, Mary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Step Four, the product is chosen. There are t-shirts, hoodies, zoodies (zipper-up hoodies), children&#8217;s apparel, phone cases, iPad cases, mugs, and a portrait canvas.<\/p>\n<p>In Step Five, the final details for the item, including fan name, are chosen and then the item is ordered.<\/p>\n<p><em>MerchMAKER<\/em> is also running a sweepstakes, where three lucky winners will win a voucher to create their own merchandise. To enter (UK residents only), head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/startrek.merch-maker.co.uk\/competition\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek merchMAKER, an online platform that allows UK fans to create their very own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443],"tags":[8003],"class_list":["post-37676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","tag-merchmaker"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/merchandise\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Merchandise<\/a>","tag_info":"Merchandise","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37682,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37676\/revisions\/37682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}