May 18 2009It's On eBay: Your Own 'Show Used' Tribble
Want your very own Tribble from the original Star Trek series? Well you're in luck, thanks to a $5,000 eBay auction behind held by the son of Scotty (James Doohan).
This rare, large, walking Tribble is one of only 6 ever made and was used on the 1967 original Star Trek episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles" . Not only is this Tribble in great condition after 42 years, it actually works/walks. One of these Tribbles is on display at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle and is owned by Paul Allen.
Nice. Alternatively, vacuum the carpet and then glue your sweepings to a Styrofoam ball. BOOM, Tribbles on the cheap. Join me next week when I explain how to make a Klingon out of a cadaver and model railroad mountain.
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Reader Comments
1. dougf - May 18, 2009 5:42 PM
First!
2. Graf Zeppelin - May 18, 2009 5:43 PM
second!
3. Matty - May 18, 2009 5:44 PM
not gay!
4. I'm a Computer - May 18, 2009 5:44 PM
oh fo tribblez my nibblez
5. Quik - May 18, 2009 5:46 PM
That's funny, it's just bad shag carpet glued to one of those annoying little dogs that run around the little circle in the toy shop.
6. GLADIATOR - May 18, 2009 5:56 PM
Oh my GOD!!!! A Freaking real life tribble!
I would love to have one but my guess it will be a little out of my price range.
Looking at the photo, it looks like a teased fluff of housing insulation. Anybody else see the ressemblance?
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7. MacMaster - May 18, 2009 5:56 PM
WTF? Its just one of those walking animal mechanisms inside a fur ball.
I dunno about this, seems fishy. I am by no means an expert, but that does not look like 1960s tech.
Besides, I want one with genitals.
8. Aids - May 18, 2009 5:58 PM
Soo cute... i want a tribble now only a real one though.
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9. Pew³ - May 18, 2009 6:07 PM
Hell, for $4500 I will make you enough tribbles to recreate your own Star Trek scene. I will even make seven, that's right, seven walking tribbles.
And if you act now, cause we can't do this all day folks, I'll throw in free shipping to the continental United States!
10. Moose Knuckle - May 18, 2009 6:16 PM
Will it make the tribbles more exciting if you add lens flares or will that effect their authenticity?
11. policegirl01 - May 18, 2009 6:18 PM
I'd laugh if it the buyer found out the materials were toxic.
@ MacMaster: I have some old battery operated toys of my parents from the 1960s and it looks pretty much the same as the picture. In fact, cheap toy tech has not changed much in the last 40 or so years...so it will look fairly similar to what you see out now.
12. Tricky Ricky - May 18, 2009 6:20 PM
I can see it now..if Pew makes the walking tribbles...perhaps Billy Mays can be the pitchman..
13. Nick - May 18, 2009 6:22 PM
Well, now we know conclusively that Paul Allen is not dead. You're such a nutjob, Christian Bale.
14. Pew³ - May 18, 2009 6:37 PM
@12. I'm totally going to use Vince from ShamWow, that's why I said "we can't do this all day".
Some how I would have to throw in, "You're gonna love my nuts!"
If I used Billy Mays it would be more like "I WILL EVEN MAKE SEVEN, THAT'S RIGHT, SEVEN WALKING TRIBBLES!"
15. Better than thou - May 18, 2009 7:14 PM
Who freaking cares?? Now, if you want something interesting, check out this zombie story... www.1209virus.blogspot.com
16. Daisy - May 18, 2009 7:33 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max got the warden to let him and the other inmates re-tar the roof, and got a bucket of cold beers in exchange.
17. zorg: king of koalas - May 18, 2009 7:54 PM
Shenanigans. I shaved my balls and this pervert glued the hairs onto a Stomper chassis. Fools. That ain't no $5k worth of memorabilia.
18. Dekatsu - May 18, 2009 8:51 PM
Thats pretty sophistacted for a 1970s tv show. I suprised they just werent on a string.
19. a dog - May 18, 2009 9:51 PM
what a stupid show. the movie shouldn't be homage to this crap. its a new and better thing altogether. we're in the future you geeks. stuff is better. get over it.
20. Patrick Bateman - May 18, 2009 9:59 PM
"One of these Tribbles is on display at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle and is owned by Paul Allen."
Paul Allen is dead. I killed Paul Allen with an axe to the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen. Did you know I'm utterly insane? Now if you'll excuse me, I have to return some videotapes.
21. Greggo - May 18, 2009 11:47 PM
lol @ scotty's haunted 4-fingered wwII hand
22. Dr.Death - May 19, 2009 6:08 AM
the movie kicked ass
23. eat bean - May 19, 2009 6:18 AM
That is the DEVIL!
24. Jaded Icon - May 19, 2009 6:23 AM
Unless it rapidly reproduces everytime I turn around so that I am drowning in its dirty little offspring, I don't want it.
25. cool-slayer - May 19, 2009 6:35 AM
Isn't that just sort of a furby but without those creepy, blinking eyes?
26. Party Kid 3000 (aka Hannukah Montana) - May 19, 2009 8:05 AM
I'm in the coolest place to have internet connection, a f'ucking Greyhound bus. Yup, this b!tch is the bomb. I paid 16 bucks for this trip and I get a free charge for my battery and a free wi-fi connection. Lovely...
27. Timbo - May 19, 2009 8:11 AM
Mmmmmmm tribbles......
28. ihateeverything - May 19, 2009 8:25 AM
i just looked up the word cadaver, it means a corpse. GW is encouraging me to dig up a corpse and have sex with it.
29. catch22 - May 19, 2009 9:11 AM
my own "walking" tribble??!!!??!!
...awesomesauce
30. catch22 - May 19, 2009 9:12 AM
awwww.some jerk snaked it with a best offer
31. STOMPY - May 19, 2009 9:25 AM
stop having the boring tribbles, stop having the boring life
32. Captain - May 19, 2009 11:06 AM
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33. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 19, 2009 11:50 AM
all the fur of a palmeranian, w/o the satisfaction of kickability.
34. Rhialto - May 19, 2009 1:50 PM
After being a long time on a spaceship.People start to develop a fascination for hairy balls.Pure science folks.
35. Darth - May 19, 2009 1:53 PM
Are these Tribbles usable as toilet paper too? Looks very comfy to me.
36. whhiitt - May 19, 2009 5:47 PM
thats almost as good as a furby
37. Karen - May 20, 2009 9:19 AM
This is actually being offered at the Doohan website. Very cool. They always have some very cool Star Trek (and other stuff too) things there.
The best way to see their stuff is to go to
http://www.thetransporterroom.com