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Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Tas — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:59:17 -0000

Curses!!! I missed the boat on this one. Darn living in the antipodes...

If anybody has one excess to needs, I'd be delighted to make them an offer!

Love the site BTW - very nice dear Chap!

Yours in a white wine sauce,
Tas
http://pauljamesog.blogspot...

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Jess Q. — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:30:55 -0000

My boyfriend and I picked up two of those (one is currently in our bedroom, the other in our office/library), and the limited edition print (signed by the creator!). All are very impressive and awesome.

For the person having trouble mailing the raygun... Even if it was real, I doubt a gun that tiny could do any real damage. :P Stupid customs. :)

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

DRHILL — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:04:43 -0000

And yes, it's Bloody heavy!

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

DRHILL — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:03:51 -0000

I got my Goliathon gun today, I love it!
Look out for the 3 cardboard boxes, two layers of plastic and some extra twist tyes (around the gun, to support during transport).

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Sara — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:35:30 -0000

Lucky, lucky girl. Those dastardly gentlemen you work with won't dare impinge on your virtue now....

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

bendy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:23:05 -0000

Orin - Not surprising, hopefully they'll be used to it by the time my F.M.O.M. INDUSTRIES Wave Disrupter is shipped.......

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Orin — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:37:02 -0000

Bendy - I'm in the same boat, though it isn't just the Mini that is stuck in Aussie customs, but my Goliathon as well!

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Doktor A. — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:48:35 -0000

Arkonbey

They are die-cast metal.
Even though they would fit in a matchbox, they weight a lot. ...

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Datamancer — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:06:27 -0000

Congrats on your new toy!

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Bendy — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:27:48 -0000

I was one of the lucky winners of one of the aforementioned rayguns in the Miniature Manmelter Aquirement Opportunity competition. For the past two days the gun has been languishing in Australian customs as they try to determine whether it actually emits rays or not. Have even faxed them the description and photo from the Weta website and hopefully that will convince them to release it without having to unpack and test the thing.

I want my raygun!

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Arkonbey — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:01:48 -0000

fantastic. many, many envious geeks reading that post...

it's be cool if they filled it with lead to give it the heft of a steel raygun.

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Doktor A. — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:32:16 -0000

I too managed to snag one through the very generous help of an American con attendee.
They are most splendid in the flesh are they not. Very weightly little buggers.

I was considering mounting mine is a wall case with
"In event of invasion by Moonmen - Break glass" above the window, and a tiny hammer.

I await the release of the large versions with glee.

Did you also get a copy of the splendid "cutaway" diagram print/poster..?

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Mary Robinette Kowal — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:41:46 -0000

I trust that you explain to your co-workers that of course it doesn't work because it's only a model of a real raygun.

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

Eric — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:04:17 -0000

That gun looks fake.
check out this one:
http://www.rmcybernetics.co...

Not really victorian looking, but I'm sure it could be.
However, it really shoots.

Re: Miniature Ray-Gun Aquired

clank-o-tron — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:34:00 -0000

The woman at the postal counter was particularly confused by this, I should mention. I had to repeatedly reassure her that it was a non-working-model-slash-replica of a fictional weapon and did not contain any moving parts, batteries, active power systems or even moving parts. She was apprehensive to put 'model raygun' on the customs form - one can only conclude that the US government must be using the very same postal system to mail actual rayguns.