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Man spends 2 years building Dalek out of 480,000 matches
Doctor Who's deadliest villains The Daleks have finally met their match ... well ... matches anyway. And not thanks to any Time Lord, either, but rather at the hands of Brian Croucher, who spent the last two years building a full-sized extraterrestrial out of 480,000 matches which have been cut, shaped and sanded.
"I did a Dalek because my wife Hazel bet me to do it as a challenge," he told the London Telegraph. "The hardest bit was the little bubbles on the body because they have to be rounded. There are 56 of them and each one had to be built up and then sanded off."
Wish you could have one of your own without having to spend hours each day building it, which even Croucher admits is a "tedious business?" Then you may be in luck, because the 5' 3" extraterrestrial is taking up too much room in Croucher's sitting room.
"I want to sell it," he said. "I'm prepared to listen to offers and sell it to the highest bidder."
By @Saliza88 at 4:01 PM ON 09/25/09
This is Crazy! But really cool also... LOL
By DZA at 4:10 PM ON 09/25/09
Don't allow smokers around that thing:P
By wyrd_guy at 4:22 PM ON 09/25/09
This is cool.. I wish I had the drive to do something like that.
By Carolyn at 4:32 PM ON 09/25/09
He should contact the producers of The Big Bang Theory. I bet Sheldon and Leonard would love to have the Dalek for their living room.
By photoguy at 4:48 PM ON 09/25/09
Someone should chip in together to get the poor guy laid. Way too much time on his hands.
Really
By Cris at 9:18 PM ON 09/25/09
Suddenly I don't feel quite so geeky about the time I created the front of the TARDIS out of colored paper on my bedroom door when I was a kid ... OK, it was two weeks ago...
By Weirdstock at 1:23 PM ON 09/26/09
Where could I find more detailed and close-up pictures of it?
By Jonas72 at 2:55 PM ON 09/26/09
Weirdstock: Try Google. I did, and a quick search got me this video of it: http://www.chichester.co.uk/library/VIDEO-Dalek-made-entirely-of.5675830.jp
By chris at 4:58 PM ON 09/26/09
Smithsonian and Ripley's ought to be interested. I think it's cool, but since when did my opinion matter to people who take 480,000 matchsticks/toothpicks and turn them into a work of sci-fi art? Anyway, I wonder what his next project will be and and in what medium? I don't have the patience to do something like this nor the time it would take.
By FresnoTimeLord at 6:22 PM ON 09/26/09
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Fury161 at 9:23 PM ON 09/26/09
Man builds elaborate machine to scratch own belly button.
By XCalPro at 9:11 AM ON 09/28/09
I once built an X-Wing fighter out of popsicle sticks. It was only about 10 inch long but it looked good. Hey, it was a long, long time ago...
By Richard S. Drake at 11:00 AM ON 09/28/09
My new hero!
By Dr. A Neal Sachs at 5:41 PM ON 09/28/09
Does it have a hole in the back ? It looks like he made it to f#$k it. I know I would.
By Josiah at 2:32 PM ON 09/29/09
The Doctor has finally met his match.
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