Picard’s Well-known Tea Cup Is Coming Again, Years After It Was Discontinued

Whereas we’ve often questioned Jean-Luc Picard’s tastes in each food and drink, regardless of how you are feeling about Earl Gray you’ll be able to’t deny that he and the Starfleet of the 2360s had great taste in mug design. Style so nice, the truth is, nearly a decade after the real-world mug TNG used to spotlight Picard’s favourite previous time was discontinued, it’s making its approach again on sale.

As we speak Grasp Replicas confirmed that it’s releasing a brand new “Picard Cup” replicating the design utilized in TNG, Voyager, and Star Trek: Picard, collaborating with the unique homeware firm that supplied the mugs for TNG artwork division to make use of throughout manufacturing, Bodum. One in every of a number of drink receptacles Picard imbibes with all through the present, this specific mug—designed as a part of Bodum’s BISTRO system in 1974 by Carsten Jørgensen—had been on sale because of each its iconic, easy retro-future design and its fandom affiliation with Star Trek till 2016, when it was sadly lastly discontinued… till now, that’s.

Bodum and Grasp Replicas’ revival of the design will launch in a restricted run of packs of 4 mugs, faithfully replicating the glass and plastic design—the one distinction being that this time it’ll function the logos of Star Trek, Bodum, and Grasp Replicas etched on the underside of the cups’ bases. Nonetheless, that’s most likely a small worth to pay in case you simply need to faux your iPad is an precise PADD and daintily sip on one thing whereas studying it such as you’re the captain of the Enterprise. It doesn’t even must be Earl Gray! God, it most likely shouldn’t be. Go with Janeway’s choices over that, truthfully.

The precise worth to pay nonetheless, is the price of the set of 4 mugs: they’re available for pre-order now for $55, forward of a launch in February 2025.

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