Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/the-hal-9000-christmas-ornamen.html
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Ouch! $40 in Canuckistanian dollars on Amazon.ca. Will have to visit the local Hallmark store to see if they have one.
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Open the fireplace gate Hal.
I am afraid I can’t do that Santa.
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Beats Elf-on-a-Shelf. I ought to put HAL on my mantel and tell my children it’s watching them.
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Remember when Harlan Ellison went after them for making a Guardian of Forever ornament?
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/harlan_ellison_v_cbs_star
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Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JepKVUym9Fg
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Interesting ideas. But so expensive. The Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, the TIE fighter, are all $40. Not to mention a $100 Deathstar.
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I have a bunch of Hallmarks “Space” ornaments from the late 90’s.
They had a classic space series with John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, The LEM, and a sound and motion “Freedom 7”. Along with Jetson’s (Rose and Saucer), Star Wars, Trek ships, our tree looked like a SciFi convention.
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With manufacturers secreting in surveillance capabilities into their products, the warning to your kids may turn out to be true.
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If you want to get some good idea about some of the wonderful things hallmark offers for SciFi/Movies etc
here’s a direct link. (you can still use amazon to give boingboing a credit cut—I think boing gets credits if you purchase amazon stuff within X mins after viewing a boinglink)
https://www.hallmark.com/ornaments/all-ornaments/?prefn1=theme&srule=featured&prefv1=Sci-Fi&prefn0=theme&prefv0=Sci-Fi&navTo=Sci-Fi&navMenuSubTitle=By%20Theme&navMenuTitle=Ornaments&navLocation=Header&navMenu=Main%20Menu
Tho amazon has some discontinued ones still available.
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The slow Daisy does not match my memory of it very closely, but I didn’t try to compare.
They’ve just restored this sculpture right outside my office:
I don’t have a photo of the restoration, but it is deep black and shiny.
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Sacrifice one, cut the speaker wires and feed it into better system.
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No. Black, yes. But not shiny. Not shiny.
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Hm. Internet of Shit Happy Holiday decorations that allow your friends/family to send greeting pictures/video/audio clips.
I mean, what could go wrong?
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Did he? Why I am not surprised… I’ve had that for years, and it recently stopped working (3 or 4 christmases ago?).
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A tad off topic, but I will always love Hallmark for creating a ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ that is really close to the book. Omar Sharif plays a character never before seen and Ted Danson stars. His wife is, er, his wife in the pic. It is a bit obscure and hard to find, but worth the effort.
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I suppose it would be more accurate to say that, rather than Hallmark directly, Ellison sued Paramount for not giving him his cut. I expect it had reverberations when it came to future licensing agreements, though.
I seem to recall reading that a lot of these older ornaments can fetch reasonably high prices from collectors.
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