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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    05:41 AM

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    The Millennium Falcon balloon, but only secured with a rotating pivot fore and aft for real barrel role action!

    Just think of all the little Death Star balloons you could sell.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    05:01 AM

    In reply to Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner
    You forgot pigs.
    -Kle.
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    Image of astrogirl astrogirl
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    If you really want to sci-fi it up, how about a giant Tripod lumbering down the street? A firetruck of firemen setting fire to copies of Twilight. An Area 51 "weather balloon". A flashmob of zombies fresh from an outbreak of the Rage virus. Darth Vader's Helmet balloon. An army of cylons marching along. Alien Vs Predator - they could stage a mock battle in various locations as the parade progresses.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    05:38 AM

    @astrogirl: Or the "Tripod" from the first War of the Worlds.
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    Edited by Hamslicer at 11/25/09 5:38 AM Hamslicer was starred Hamslicer was unstarred
    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Or they should just invite the entirety of the east coast 501st Legion to the parade, along with the balloon...
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/24/09

    In reply to Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner
    I need help with this. There is an old, John W Campbell era short story where a race of intelligent crustaceans try to invade earth. They attempt to infiltrate basically by canning themselves so they end up getting eaten as delicious lobsters and the humans win (typical for the era). Campbell may have even written it. Can anybody remember the title?
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    11/24/09

    In reply to Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner
    If the Kandy Man doesn't turn out to be the approaching darkness threatening the entire universe in the Tennant finale, I'm going to be incredibly disappointed.
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    Image of Jesse Astle Jesse Astle
    11/24/09

    @Lassus: The Kandy Man freaked me out when I was a kid. Heck, it freaks me out now!
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Jesse Astle was starred Jesse Astle was unstarred
    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Suggestion for the SG:U float - RDA can make sporadic, brief appearance along the parade route. Staying for only a few minutes to get off a few wisecracks before once again disappearing.
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    Edited by RandomFrequentFlierDent at 11/24/09 6:13 PM RandomFrequentFlierDent was starred RandomFrequentFlierDent was unstarred
    Image of AltMargaret AltMargaret
    11/24/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Joe Malozzi walks behind, telling the crowd that the float gets better the farther down the street it gets. "Hang in there!"
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    Why not reenact this?
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Gall Bladder Free Julius Seizure - Gall Bladder Free
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    How about a freak electrical storm zaps LIFE into the balloons?

    What am I saying, at best the Superman balloon would dry-hump Rockefeller Center and a world-weary New-Yorker would look up and say "More of the same." before ducking into the subway.
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    How about a a Twilight balloon? It could be Edward. With his shirt off. And he should sparkle!! Ohh, shiny.... (put down the gun, I'm kidding!)
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/24/09

    In reply to How To Make Macy's Thanksgiving Parade More Scifi-Friendly
    What? No giant Summer Glau balloon?
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    11/24/09

    @Bill-Lee: You can't inflate a stick.

    (I kid, I kid!)
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    Image of Wheema Wheema
    11/24/09

    @Bill-Lee: only way she'll ever match up to the overinflated opinion people have of her
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    Bill-Lee promoted this comment Edited by Wheema at 11/24/09 5:12 PM Wheema was starred Wheema was unstarred
    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/24/09

    @Darklighter: Careful, slick. She can kill you with her brain.
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    11/24/09

    @Smeagol92055: Oh no she can't she's just..ack..cough...help..me...
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    Image of closeencounter closeencounter
    11/24/09

    @Wheema: BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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    Image of closeencounter closeencounter
    11/24/09

    @closeencounter: I wish to de-promote this comment about Summer.
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    Chip Skylark of Space promoted this comment closeencounter was starred closeencounter was unstarred
    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/24/09

    In reply to Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner
    I do note one substantial omission: Audrey from The Little Shop of Horrors. As far as i can tell she was also the only one of these that was part of a musical and as such should be revered with the cult status she holds.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/24/09

    In reply to Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner
    jabba the hut was funny
    the stuff is my favorite food that eats you.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    11/24/09

    In reply to Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner
    Nice Tick reference, but surely Man Eating Cow should be up there as well.

    Also, I suppose you could technically include the Skrulls that were tricked into assuming the shape of cows and then sent to a slaughterhouse in 'Skrull Kill Crew.'

    While they didn't directly eat humans themselves, their biomorphic Skrull DNA has the same effect on human brain tissue as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, effectively eating holes in the noggins of any poor schmuck who inadvertantly consumed their meat as hamburgers.
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    Image of queensowntalia queensowntalia
    11/24/09

    In reply to Tasty Foods That Would Rather Eat You for Dinner
    Note to self: eating random, unidentified things off the ground may be hazardous to my health. Welp, there goes my favorite weekend hobby...
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