Editing Tricorder (section)

==Toys and replicas==
The first mass-produced tricorder replica was featured in AMT's ''Star Trek'' Exploration Set in 1974, followed shortly thereafter by a palm-sized version in Remco's 1975 ''Star Trek'' Utility Belt which was sized and marketed to young children in hopes of taking advantage of ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'' that was on TV at that time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://trekpropzone.com/tricorderhistory.htm |title=The Trek Prop Zone Tricorder History |publisher=Trekpropzone.com |access-date=2016-02-15}}</ref>

The first life-sized tricorder was produced by [[Mego Corporation]] in 1976 and was actually a cassette tape player made to look like a tricorder.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.superunderdoggie.com/mego-warehouse-tricorders.html |title=Mego Warehouse Tricorders - Superunderdoggie.comVintage Toys and Nostalgia |publisher=Superunderdoggie.com |access-date=2016-02-15}}</ref> In the 1990s, ''Star Trek'' replicas were mass-produced by Playmates, Playing Mantis, and Master Replicas, making commercially produced replicas affordable to the average fan for the first time.  In the 2000s, Art Asylum and later Diamond Select produced prop replicas of the original tricorder.