Last year it was the “Han Solo, and He’s been Frozen in Carbonite” ornament for $70. You got the immortal dialogue, and you saw Hane disappear into the hole, then come back up, carbonit-dipped.
This year it’s the “Shut down all the Garbage Mashers on the Detention Level!” The walls really close in:
Those things are ridiculous. The worst was the star trek one that did a twelve minute version of Mirror mirror with ornaments and dialog from the episode. Who would want that more than once?
All I want it a Puppy Love ornament, and this year is a stupid poodle. Oh well.
I use to buy my son the new Hallmark hockey ornament every year. The hardest one to get was Wayne Gretzky. But I found it! I’ve now given them all to his kids. They both play hockey.
When I was living in Montana, my church was doing some major renovations, and had a big capital campaign for it. One of the parishioners was the owner of the local Hallmark store, and part of his contribution was to sell a custom ornament, with the proceeds going to the church. It’s actually a pretty nice ornament: Stamped out of sheet metal, but then sort of folded into the three-dimensional shape of the church. I was impressed that they had the capability to design and make a small-run custom job like that.
OK, I had to look for a YouTube video of that Han Solo ornament is pretty cool and I’ll bet the new one is too. Not for me, though, as I don’t put up a Christmas tree but I’m sure there are thousands who would want this.
The carbonite one is extremely cool. The trash masher one isn’t. The “action” is too boring.
Damn, those things are almost as big as our tree.
Well, okay, but they’re heavy enough that there’s no way they could go on the tree. Which means they’re not a Christmas Tree Ornament, but a ChristmasTree-Adjacent Action Figure Diorama Display.