Packaging
I've just taken custody of YET ANOTHER new Dalek (look, it was even more of a bargain than the last one, OK?)

Unfortunately, the manufacturer seems to think that half the fun is getting the fucker out of the box, and liberally seals the box with sellotape. Off I trot to get a knife to slice through the tape. Fine.

Taking shiny new toy out of the box, I find that it is actually contained in another box-within-a-box (sort of). And is attached to the box-within-a-box with several loops of plastic binding, twisted around to keep the Dalek in place and thus preventing damage in transit. OK, I'll just untwist the bindings then...

No, that doesn't seem to work, so stomp back into the kitchen for some scissors. After a few minutes of hacking away, I manage to cut the bindings and free the Dalek from its bonds. Except that the top half of it is encased in plastic, which is bound by more sticky tape. Out with the knife again... slice, slice, and it's free!

Except that the eye piece isn't actually attached to the rest of the body and needs to be slotted into place... simple enough you might think. No. Absolutely cunting well not. Not this bastard. Click the right hand side into the slot and the rest will follow, say the instructions.

No it bastard well doesn't. Well, not for at least half an hour of pushing and sweating and grunting and swearing and worrying that I'm manipulating it way too hard and it might come away in my hand...

Bloody packaging.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 3 May 2008, 23:03, 7 replies)

12" of studded plastic toy
*doubles over with mirthy giggles*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 3 May 2008, 23:08, closed)

Also....
getting the fucker out of the box
shiny new toy
plastic binding
hacking away
top half
sticky
eye piece
slotted into place
into the slot and the rest will follow

The entire last paragraph is deliberate, unadulterated smut. Hooray!
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 3 May 2008, 23:14, closed)

stupid twit
you have to use the sonic screwdriver to rattle that last piece into place. Manhandling it like that could kill it just as if you'd rammed a phillips screwdriver in the back of a sontaran's neck.

Will we ever see your complete selection online???

please?
(Lurkaloid awarded wanking black belt on, Sat 3 May 2008, 23:55, closed)

Lurkaloid...
Maybe. Just maybe. You'll have to wait a bit though...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sun 4 May 2008, 1:15, closed)

Post some pics of your collection
I want to see your bloody Daleks.
( girlinthehole, Sun 4 May 2008, 8:42, closed)

Know what you mean
Sone goat-felcher gave osok jnr (at 4) a Transformer (ages 5-7,645) that I can't fucking work out. The look of contempt on a half-pint's face...

And I bought a Robo-Quad on the grounds of being bored and it's still in it's prison.

The wires'll defeat a Leatherman and then the baby will find them, eat them, and be rushed to Casualty with one lodged across her windpipe....

I think your penultimate para was designed for the sweary one to snigger at BTW.

(Tourette's, think happies, ignore the tabs, and concentrate on Booze and ignoring Daleks. Cyber-hugs and all that) (You Southern Puff)
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sun 4 May 2008, 22:10, closed)

@ osok
I'm a northern puff.
Thank you for the kind words.
Good vibes right back atcha x
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Mon 5 May 2008, 13:37, closed)