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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2020 10:45:58 GMT
 VAULT'S AMAZING HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY! FREE BAT!TERRIFY YOUR FRIENDS!  Your life affirming Vault
Cheering up the nation. Doing our bit.Attachments:
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Post by andydecker on Oct 31, 2020 12:17:56 GMT
Fabulous!
I had some terribly unfunny commentary about kids in mind, but on second thought I can remember glueing paper space ships from some novel merchandising together, long before Star Wars trivialized the genre further.
So why not bats?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 31, 2020 13:55:37 GMT
I followed the instructions, but all I achieved was a horribly scratched screen. I want my money back!
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Post by helrunar on Oct 31, 2020 14:32:52 GMT
How cool! Reminds me of when I was a kid and I'd make origami catamarans to float in my bath-tub (from instructions in a book by US television personality Shari Lewis--my parents either bought a copy, or we checked it out from the library--I was around five so the memory of the actual paper boats is much clearer than any of the circumstances). Lurvely photos and tales here: www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/halloween-weird-and-wonderful-traditions-samhain-scotland-3018086Yes, way up North instead of going over to a chum's house to carve a pumpkin, it was "let's get a bunch of decapitated sheep's heads and make our guiser gear for the Night o' Tricks!" The photos really are evocative and beautiful. H. |
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Post by andydecker on Oct 31, 2020 14:39:23 GMT
They look as if they would put you into a Wickerman without hesitating a moment :-)
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Post by Shrink Proof on Oct 31, 2020 16:41:09 GMT
I bought one of these a couple of years ago in The Hague, the Netherlands, but simply could not construct it. Worse, when I went back to the museum gift shop that sold it, demanding a refund, they sent me to the Finance Department, supposedly upstairs - obviously a ruse, as I never got there to claim my money back.
Take it from me, you can't trust the Escher Museum.
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Post by ripper on Oct 31, 2020 20:41:27 GMT
How cool! Reminds me of when I was a kid and I'd make origami catamarans to float in my bath-tub (from instructions in a book by US television personality Shari Lewis--my parents either bought a copy, or we checked it out from the library--I was around five so the memory of the actual paper boats is much clearer than any of the circumstances). Lurvely photos and tales here: www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/halloween-weird-and-wonderful-traditions-samhain-scotland-3018086Yes, way up North instead of going over to a chum's house to carve a pumpkin, it was "let's get a bunch of decapitated sheep's heads and make our guiser gear for the Night o' Tricks!" The photos really are evocative and beautiful. H. I remember Shari with Lamb Chop on UK TV in the 70s. She passed away in 2017 at age 91, which would have made her in her late 40s when I saw her, though I don't recall her looking that old. There was a filler programme on about 10 mins per episode in the early-mid 70s where a guy would make an origami model. He never spoke and maybe you only saw his hands...it may actually have been titled Origami. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 31, 2020 21:28:03 GMT
Nice bat, Dem, but technology has moved on. Canberra wasn't hard hit by the pandemic, but in the lockdown we went and bought a 3-D printer, and made a few things. But no bat as yet. Skull:  Cthulhu:  Troll carrying rock (after buying some white flux):  |
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Post by helrunar on Nov 1, 2020 0:11:01 GMT
That Cthulhu is awesome. A shudderingly leprous relic of the long palaeogean night before the dawn of human existence. Cacodaemoniacally cacchinating and gibbering by the light of the sinister Full Moon this Hallows Eve.
I know you claim you produced it on some device in your home (WHICH MUST BE THE COOLEST), but such a fairy tale is patently absurd.
cheers, H.
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Post by Dr Strange on Nov 1, 2020 1:03:17 GMT
Where I grew up in the far north of Scotland, the "night of tricks" was the night before Halloween - and was more for the adults than the kids. |
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Post by peedeel on Nov 1, 2020 7:02:59 GMT
Mine went together really well - but then the bugger bit me!  |
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Post by andydecker on Nov 1, 2020 14:28:23 GMT
The Cthulhu looks indeed awesome, James. I had no idea that you can do such things with a 3-D printer. I guess all those companies producing table top figures are not thrilled about the possibilty.
(Provided, you didn't find the idol on the beach or somewhere in the wild ;-) ).
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