# This Years Overpriced Hallmark Ornament
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-overpriced-hallmark-ornament/1004333
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 16, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-overpriced-hallmark-ornament/1004333 "2024-07-16T17:02:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-overpriced-hallmark-ornament/1004333/1 "2024-07-16T17:02:24Z")
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:
> **[Star Wars: A New Hope™ "Shut Down the Garbage Mashers!" Ornament With Light,...](https://www.hallmark.com/ornaments/keepsake-ornaments/star-wars-a-new-hope-shut-down-the-garbage-mashers-ornament-with-light-sound-and-motion-6999QXI7441.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2PCXwISshwMV3UhHAR1rcAP3EAQYASABEgLA6fD_BwE&ef_id=EAIaIQobChMI2PCXwISshwMV3UhHAR1rcAP3EAQYASABEgLA6fD_BwE%3AG%3As&s_kwcid=AL%215392%213%21%21%21%21x%21%21%2121113970468%21&mc=t_s_hr_Google%2BAdwords_PLA%2B-%2BRoAS%2B-%2BPop%2BCulture%2BSmart%2BShopping%2B-%2BG%2B-%2BOCE_Smart%2BShopping%2BPop%2BCulture_&gad_source=1)**
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> Delight a "Star Wars" fan with this "Shut Down the Garbage Mashers!" Hallmark Keepsake Christmas ornament. Connect to the Keepsake Power Cord (sold separately) for light, motion and sound from the scene.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-overpriced-hallmark-ornament/1004333/2 "2024-07-16T20:15:30Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-overpriced-hallmark-ornament/1004333/3 "2024-07-17T15:40:29Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-overpriced-hallmark-ornament/1004333/4 "2024-07-17T21:38:30Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-overpriced-hallmark-ornament/1004333/5 "2024-07-17T21:59:35Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> 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.
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.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-overpriced-hallmark-ornament/1004333/6 "2024-07-18T16:32:30Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> 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.
The carbonite one is extremely cool. The trash masher one isn’t. The “action” is too boring.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrRUAJJD7QE)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnQclXXQ0Uc)
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-overpriced-hallmark-ornament/1004333/7 "2024-07-18T23:52:47Z")
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.