Slashdot had this ages ago; I seem to recall that they actually had no plans to actually manufacture it and it can hardly be called "upcoming".

Hmm. $17,500.00 for an animatronic macaw. You could probably get ten real macaws for that price, I guess, but how would you get them to be quiet? :)

well, at least he admits it to himself.

I wonder how one gets started with sand as a medium. I guess there are also colored sand providers and such out there...

ouch, ow, oh, pain, ow, oh... *wince* poor girl...

Beautiful. I hope that the refrigeration equipment keeping them at -80°C never fails, though...

Lego should pay him a few grand for the rights to the plans, and put together a set. :)

I'm just wondering what kind of a place would have facilities like this. Is it American?

I love it.

Should the reference to the "current crop of spin-meisters" be construed as propaganda? You spin-meister you :D

PETA is cute. It sounds like a good idea, too, when they pitch it too you. Too bad they kill animals.

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

Who'da thunk? Well, if you said 'awesome eruption' I wouldn't think of Mentos and soda... probably more along the lines of vinegar and baking sode. But once you say 'mentos + soda' like that... I don't know, awesome eruption is easily within the realm of imagined possibilities.

Our dog Muffin had a similar wheelie-set while she was recovering from back surgery after falling down the stairs vigorously.

You can't keep a good dachshund down.

crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrunch