Nice to see them honour the Gumby design. I really cannot make my mind up about it. I owned a Dearmond Jet Star II bass for a while. It was a '90s reissue in a pinky-purple sparkle finish. It sounded like a really weak Jazz bass and I never got it to sound right, even with modifications galore. The design could look sleek and stylish one minute and clumsy and stupid the next... it really depended on what angle you looked at it from.
Shame they didn't reintroduce the stand in the back, even if they kept the weird wiring scheme intact. A bit too much going on there with a complete 2nd bank of controls to contend with. Not my idea of fun, but better than the half-assed reissue that Dearmond came up with.
I got my bass cheap as the original knobs were missing (one was intact, but smashed) and the back plate was missing. If I had the bass today I would probably try and find authentic knobs and spend a bit of time making a good backplate. Back then I didn't have the money or the attention span to do either (I was studying for a Masters) so I bodged a cover for it out of a DVD case and called it a day.
I still have a piece of it in my collection (!). I stripped the pink paint and ultimately tried to refinish it using white floor paint. My plan was to goop the paint on thick enough that I could level and buff it to a gloss finish. Right? Idiot move. The piece I have is slathered in white paint, though the grain still shines through. There is some plugged holes and other bodges present. It is, approximately, the rear 'wing' from the bass side of the instrument and sits on a high shelf like a shark fin. I'm an idiot.