Playmobil crosses the final frontier with enormous, metre-long Enterprise playset Playmobil is set to boldly go where no three-inch man has gone before with the release of a metre-long replica of the NCC-1701 USS Enterprise from the original Star Trek series. The enormous model of the Federation Constitution-class vessel will come with standard-scale figures representing the main original series characters …
> The huge set contains 136 pieces, including a stand in the shape of the Enterprise's emblem, a cradle to allow the model to be hung from a ceiling, various bridge furniture, phasers, tricorders, and communicators for the crew and even a few tribbles.
What no shuttle bay and shuttle? And no spare red-shirted landing-party crewmembers?
Having a mature poplar tree, she drops seeds in the tens of millions each summer. My job is picking them up. The seeds start life in racks of about two dozen then have a complex life-cycle and no two are the same. They all ultimately peak at the tribble phase, where they have transformed from little green pods to fluffy, slightly sticky, white balls.
This looks incredibly beautiful like snow in summer, but it strangles the grass on the lawn. One lawnmower is dead, another feeling the strain. Help, please? How to remove?
My point is, what inspired the tribbles episode? Could it have been a similar struggle?
Have you tried running a mower over the grass around your tree to pick the seeds up before they sprout? Or is that what broke your last mower? Does it come off the tree as fluff?
A little reading indicates your tree is indeed female and evidently on good terms with male trees nearby, so, perhaps a giant polythene tree condom would work - on your lady rather than the local toms - but fitting it on looks like quite a job, possibly involving drones. I'm not sure what other contraception may be available for trees.
At 7teven 4ect, we have a similar issue with trees that drop "little spikey balls" that can destroy a lawnmower as easily as a rhino can RiverDance a rabbit into pulp. Go buy yourself a lawn & leaf vacume unit. Suck up all the little bits before they get a chance to take hold. Empty the canister into a large plastic (lawn & leaf) bag & dispose of it in your green waste (plant material) recycle bin.
It's annoying, time consuming, & a right pain in the ass, but it also prevents having to buy a new mower every bloody season to replace the last one that got beaten to death by the little spikey balls.
*Hands you a pint*
Drink up, it'll hopefully numb your aching brain from the desire to just use a FlameThrower, explosives, or an orbital nuke. =-Jp
ShadowSystems,
Why thank you. But I wasn't asking about hot rhino on rhino action. Sweet, sweet rhino love does not appeal to me. But hot, hot rhino tapdancing - now that's another thing entirely...
I am aware that dancing is merely the vertical expression of a horizontal desire - but seeing rhino-porn is too likely to lead to mother-in-law jokes. And then I'll have to cancel myself - and it would all be just too sad.
"Fully functional (flying) drone of NCC1701"
IIRC, that's already been done....hang on a mo'...ah, youtube to the rescue...
Quadcopter version you can buy and Model aircraft version you can build.
...stop motion fan flicks. Quite how Kirk is going to shag anything that moves with "Made in China" on his crotch is left as an exercise for the reader.
Of course, it couldn't be any worse than the Kelvin reboots and at least you'll be able to see what's going on rather than looking like it was filmed in the 1970s during the rolling blackouts, which seems to be de-rigeur right now.
Norm from Adam Savages "Tested" is building a more intricate (and expensive) Star ship at the moment in one of those American get so many parts an issue build. He also has some damn beutiful figurines which he builds dioramas for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGd_7djUF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEyjFST9DR0
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