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Santa and Reindeer Flying Drone: Ho-Ho-Hovercraft

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Clearly unafraid to utilize the latest in flying technology, Santa is experimenting with delivering presents this year via a drone disguised as his sleigh and reindeer. Available from Firebox, the Flying Santa Drone is a radio-controlled drone featuring the likeness of Santa and four of his reindeer. I can already see myself flying it straight into the Christmas tree and breaking fragile ornaments.

The drone itself has an onboard rechargeable battery, and after installing three AAA batteries in the remote controller, you’re ready to ho-ho-hover to your heart’s content! At least until the drone’s battery is drained and you have to wait to recharge it. That’s when it’s time to take a snack break or play with the box it came in.

So – have you been good this year? Good enough to make Santa’s nice list? Because according to an elf friend of mine on the inside at Santa’s workshop, I have not been. I didn’t even make the naughty list; I made the sub-naughty list. I didn’t even know there was such a thing! I assume Santa is just going to come down my chimney to beat me up.

‘Beam Me Up, Santa’ Ugly Star Trek Christmas Sweater: Live Long and Presents

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Just when you thought the perfect Star Trek ugly Christmas sweater already existed (see: this ‘Trek The Halls’ ugly Christmas sweater), Numskull Designs returns with an even gaudier one in the form of this ‘Beam Me Up, Santa’ sweater. I think we can all agree that pun is a stretch, even for a tacky ugly Christmas sweater. The title of this article too.

The officially licensed Star Trek sweater is 100% knitted and available from Just Geek for $36 in sizes 3XS to 4XL. It was inspired by Star Trek: The Original Series, featuring the likenesses of Captain Kirk and Spock on the front, as well as the Enterprise, Santa and his reindeer, as well as some snowflakes, planets, and meteors. I… don’t remember watching that particular episode.

Sure, the sweater doesn’t make a lot of sense and is basically a garish mashup of Star Trek and Christmas themes, but I already ordered four with rush shipping, hoping they get here in time for my family to wear for our annual Christmas card photo.

Hot Dog Flavored Candy Canes: Pass the Mustard

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Self-proclaimed (and accurate) ‘maker of weird’ Archie McPhee is introducing these Hot Dog Candy Canes just in time for the Christmas season. The red-and-white canes come in six-packs for $6.50 and “taste like sweet, meaty hot dogs.” Unfortunately, the flavor does not include condiments, so you’ll need to lick a ketchup-flavored candy cane immediately afterward for the full hot dog eating experience.

Personally, I feel like hot dogs are hands down the perfect food provided you don’t care about nutrition or your own personal health. Besides that though, absolutely delicious. I’ve even been known to eat cold wieners right out of the package first thing in the morning. My wife says it’s gross, but I say it’s all part of a perfectly-unbalanced breakfast.

Like the previously posted ketchup flavored candy canes, I like how these look just like traditional peppermint canes, so my nieces and nephews won’t know the difference until it’s too late and they’re retching and I’m laughing and my brother and sister are upset with me. Ah, the holidays, am I right?

[via BoingBoing]

Plush COVID Christmas Ornaments are a Real Product That Exists

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Because nothing says Christmas 2021 like COVID, GIANTmicrobes is selling this four-pack of plush microbial COVID inspired Christmas Ornaments for $25. However, I think it goes without saying, I doubt COVID is actually on anybody’s Christmas list this year.

The four-pack includes COVID-19 with fuzzy Santa hat, an antibody in forest greens and candy cane, a white blood cell dressed as a snowman with top hat and carrot nose, and a COVID-19 vaccine with snowflakes and Christmas lights embroidery. That’s just really weird, especially for anybody who doesn’t have a microbe or disease-themed Christmas tree, which is everybody.

I only hope Santa doesn’t plan on dishing out COVID for people on his naughty list this year. That would be wrong. Even more wrong than the year he gave me tetanus. Big deal, so I set up a couple of booby traps, I was a child! Fine, it was last year. I just wanted a Playstation 5 so bad!

The Queen’s Christmas message will be available on Alexa for the first time

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You won’t have to go out of your way to catch Queen Elizabeth II’s annual Christmas Day message if you have an Echo (or a similar device) on hand. The Guardian reports that the Queen’s message will be available on smart speakers for the first time th...

Die Hard’s John McClane Gets Made into a Realistic Cake

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No stranger to making unbelievably realistic cakes, pastry artist Natalie Sideserf of Sideserf Cake Studio in Austin, Texas recently made a John McClane bust cake from Die Hard, one of everybody’s favorite Christmas movies. Welcome to the party, pal!

John’s neck is constructed of chocolate modeling clay with alternating layers of vanilla cake and green buttercream making up the inside of his head. That has a coat of buttercream icing covering it to prevent air from getting to the cake and causing it to dry out, and a thin sheet of modeling chocolate acts as his skin. The rest is just sculpting that modeling chocolate and adding his facial features, then painting it all to look just like John McClane from the movie. Simple as pie! Except cake.

What a stunning piece of cake artistry. I’m not sure how I feel about eating somebody’s face though. But I bet Hans Gruber would dive right into it! And by dive, I obviously mean fall from the top of Nakatomi Plaza right into it.

This rocking-horse inspired cookie cutter comes with a festive twist!

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I hope you’ll forgive me for this terrible pun, but OTOTO‘s products are truly ‘deer’ to me! The company, which has established a reputation for making some of the most heartwarming products, does a remarkable job of combining elements of playfulness along with a strong storytelling aspect to create products that are just clever! Take for instance the Sweet Deer – a rocking-horse-inspired cookie cutter. Designed to clearly get children to help with food-prep, the cutter comes in the shape of a reindeer on a rocking base. The rocking base comes with tapered edges that help it cut into dough, allowing kids to cut out cookies while playing with their forest friend! The Sweet Deer is 100% food safe and comes made from High-Quality Silicone. Aside from cutting cookies, it debosses a neat star in the center too, to give the cookie a nice festive touch!

Designer: Jenny Pokryvailo for OTOTO

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USS Enterprise Christmas Tree Topper: Beam Me Up, Santa!

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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Christmas? Star Trek, right? I mean, how could it not be? So what better way to celebrate the holidays than with this $150 Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Musical Tree Topper With Light (affiliate link) from Hallmark. Wait – did that say $150? I was ready to pay at least $250. They’re practically giving them away.

The topper remains constantly illuminated when plugged in. With the push of a button on the included Starfleet insignia remote control, the Enterprise plays the theme from Star Trek and performs an accompanying light show. The ship can also be wired to additional Captain James T. Kirk, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, and Lieutenant Nyota Uhura Star Trek ‘Storyteller’ ornaments (seen above, $35 apiece) to unlock additional performances. It’s a Christmas miracle!

I remember growing up how our Christmas tree topper was usually just the ceiling because my dad regularly overestimated the height of a tree that would fit in the living room. He’d also make sure to choose one with really low hanging branches, so it took fewer presents to fill the space under the tree. Consider that a free tip for all you parents out there.

[via Borninspace]

An 8-Foot Inflatable TV Yard Decoration That Plays Scenes from “A Christmas Story”

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While you might not shoot your eyes out, you could certainly melt your retinas sitting too close while watching scenes from A Christmas Story on this giant 8-foot inflatable television yard decoration. Fra-gee-lay — it must be Italian.

Available from Amazon or The Home Depot (affiliate links), the Christmas yard decoration uses “advanced, high-tech image mapping to play five scenes from A Christmas Story and four exciting transitions within the exact shape of the Airblown Inflatable TV.” It also includes the audio/video hookups so you can play your own movies on the television out of season. But please, try to keep things PG in the front yard.

So is this is the Christmas yard decoration that’s going to make my house the talk of the neighborhood this year? No, just like every year that’s going to be the rusted out 1972 Ford Condor II RV I park in the driveway just like Cousin Eddie’s in Christmas Vacation. Every January I swear to my neighbors that I’ve finally sold it, but every Thanksgiving weekend I have it towed back out of storage and parked at the end of the driveway. They say they hate it but I know they love it.

[via DudeIWantThat]