Worst lawn decoration EVER

11 years ago

I came across this and just sat and stared at it for at least 30 seconds. I know there are hideous things in stores all over he wold just begging to be brought into our homes to destroy any semblance of style we might actually have. But I swear, this one takes it to a new level.

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palimpsest
11 years ago
I think they are cute. :cl
teacats
11 years ago
heeeeyyyy ....

....zombie meerkats ....

....even better ..... glowing zombie meerkats .....
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User
11 years ago
LMAO! Oh those are hilarious!
chispa
11 years ago
You can recreate Meerkat Manor right in your own front and back yard. Cool! ;-)

They are a bit creepy!
dedtired
11 years ago
Beats the flock of five pink flamingos the lady on the corner of my street has. Don't ever let her see them or she will have them all over the lawn. Her place looks like an explosion in the Walmart garden department.

Meerkats make me think of that book The Life of Pi.
Susan
11 years ago
oh they would be awesome in a dressage arena!
i can just see my horse getting a gander at that and leaping beautifully into the air.
i think i'm going to have to get some, teehee.
Susan
11 years ago
actually could you post the contact info? these are gonna make great christmas gifts!
cooperbailey
11 years ago
hmmm drive by glowing meerkat attack for practical jokers! love me some glow in the dark meerkats!
jakabedy
Original Author
11 years ago
Re contact info, I'll have to dig through my office trash in the morning. This was an ad in the Sunday paper coupon inserts. I guess since Thomas Kincade is gone, something had to fill the void. meerkats it is!!
Olychick
11 years ago
Wait a minute! Thomas Kincaid is GONE??? What the...??? You drop a bomb like that in the Meerkat Zombie thread?
lindac
11 years ago
you read it here.......sniff......
I think the meerkats would go with my solar powered glowing disco balls.....

Here is a link that might be useful: obit
My3dogs ME zone 5A
11 years ago
They're heeerrrreee! At the link below

Here is a link that might be useful: Solar Meerkats Set of 4
dedtired
11 years ago
"Mounted on poles with a built-in spring so they swing and sway in the breeze!" This is getting better all the time.

I'd want some of the solar tropical birds to go in the trees, too.
LuAnn_in_PA
11 years ago
"I guess since Thomas Kincade is gone, something had to fill the void. meerkats it is!!"

Probably true !!
lynninnewmexico
11 years ago
That ad calls them "glowing meerkat sculptures".
OMG, I can't imagine anyone considering those "sculptures" (LOL)!
I think Teacat's description of them is much more accurate, "glowing zombie meerkats".
Lynn
andee_gw
11 years ago
OMG. They look like they are being electrocuted! Right in your yard.
SunnyCottage
11 years ago
Oh, my. I'm sure it says something negative about me that I actually kinda love them.

I was given a set of 3 solar lights on stakes in the shape of a butterfly, dragonfly, and hummingbird. They changed color. And I realized last night that someone just helped themselves to them over the past couple of days. Yep - just took 'em right out of my yard. I'm trying to tell myself that a child playing in the park across the street one evening saw them and just had to have them. Not that it makes it ok by any means, but I'd much rather think it was some bratty kid that took them rather than an adult - particularly a neighbor - who decided to steal them right out of my flowerbed. >:-(
judithn
11 years ago
OMG! Speechless. Almost as good as the Sky Mall catalog.

Did anyone notice they're on sale? Reduced from $29.99 to $19.99. Could it be that Zombie Meerkats are not the bestseller they were expected to be?

If you wait a little longer, the price might drop further. On the other hand, who doesn't want one NOW?
greenthumbfish
11 years ago
ick! But...

Got your (collective) attention ;-) Me too!

Coincidence? I am the Art Director & Marketing Coordinator for a small lighting manufacturer :-) Ha!

I would never consider "muskrats" or "ferrets", as lawn decs, but then, I really don't "lawn decorate" with "bunnies", or "deer"' or any other living type creature - I don't seem to have a problem with Santa and that, or leprechauns at Saint Patrick's Day, or skeletons and pumpkins at Halloween, though :-)

Hmmm... thinking, ha!
deegw
11 years ago
Good Lord! Those things crack me up. I would have loved to have been in the meeting where they came up with the idea. Maybe it was at a bar. :)
cyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
11 years ago
Do you think they would scare the squirrels away from the bird feeders? They would certainly scare me. Might have to try it, after all, they ARE on sale. heehee.
pudgeder
11 years ago
this thread is hilarious!
terezosa / terriks
11 years ago
OMG! Speechless. Almost as good as the Sky Mall catalog.

I love perusing the SkyMall catalog, and am disappointed when I don't find it in my seat pocket on the plane. I need it to distract me from the plane taking off, which is my least favorite part of flying.
oldbat2be
11 years ago
Now we go all out at Halloween and I was going to order a couple of sets of these but then clicked the link and had to rethink.....the lower halves are a tad unsettling.....
lazy_gardens
11 years ago
My SO has ordered them!

For a co-worker from South Africa, where meerkats are native. They are going to install them in the shrubbery at work as a surprise for him.
bronwynsmom
11 years ago
Does the awfulness never stop! Those are a riot.

When our next door neighbor turned sixty some years ago, we prepared a little lawn surprise for him. He cared rather excessively about the tastefulness of our neighborhood, and how he appeared therein, so how could we not? And he and his wife were in the habit of an early morning walk every day...

So we rented two dozen pink lawn flamingoes from the party place. Then we went to the fast sign place and had a four foot by twenty-five foot banner made, in proper South Beach turquoise and pink letters, that said "Happy Birthday, You Old Bird."

Then we went out at 5:30 in the morning (after warning his wife the night before not to call the cops if she heard rustling about in her front yard) and set the whole business up across the downward slope of their lawn so nobody could miss it.

I wish we all still lived there...with these things, I'd be so ready for his 70th...
pudgeder
11 years ago
There's always these to go along with:
shelayne
11 years ago
Good Lord! Those things crack me up. I would have loved to have been in the meeting where they came up with the idea.

I'm thinking a bong and Cheetos were involved in the process. ;)

"Duuuuude. I've got an idea. Instead of little fireflies or bugs, we can do -like-glowing UFO meerkats on sticks."

"Dude, you are a genius. We're gonna be -like-gazillionaires."
cyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
11 years ago
Shelayne, you are too funny! I love that and would not be surprised if it turned out to be true! Still giggling.
shelayne
11 years ago

Wait. Is that little guy sitting on something or wearing a loincloth?
User
11 years ago
Shelayne, you're right-I'm gasping with laughter.

However, let's get serious. I loved Flower and Rocket and their wonderful stories. Does this do them justice? No, but it's all that we have now that they're gone.
busybee3
11 years ago
they would have me singing 'hakuna matata' everyday!!! lol
beekeeperswife
11 years ago
Have I mentioned that the builder is building his home on the lot next to mine? I think he's planning a little surprise for my dh when we go to settlement (A life size plastic glowing Nativity scene-we've had discussions about "extreme" holiday decorating). I think we know what he is getting on his settlement date.

:)
krycek1984
11 years ago
I kinda want one of these things.
daki
11 years ago
Well, after I showed this post to DH last week, he insisted on ordering them, lol. He plans all year for his company's white elephant gift exchange, and has a ...reputation for really odd gifts. Well, they arrived today, and I must say they look a little better than I expected (I did not expect much). Right now I'm trying to charge them under a light so I can take a picture...
EG3d
11 years ago
Are the they made in China? Very tacky.
jakabedy
Original Author
11 years ago
Daki -

We need pictures!!!
Alice Johannen
11 years ago
Wouldn't I love to "surprise" my dog with these and capture it on my camcorder. I am certain I could win a lot of money on America's Funniest Home Videos with that one! Actually, maybe they would make good coyote deterrents. I hear coyotes don't like zombie prey.
daki
11 years ago
Well, I set them up real quick this morning for a photo, and used one set of the stakes The meerkats seem to be caulked to the springs so I don't know how long they would actually last but are made out of relatively heavy plastic/resin, and not the thin airbrushed plastic I expected. The lights seem to be in the belly area, and I did not have them under a lamp long enough last night to glow for more than a second
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jakabedy
Original Author
11 years ago
To paraphrase from an episode of Seinfeld:

"They're hideous, yet I can't look away!" I have to say I didn't expect them to be so . . . truncated. They'll definitely be best used in deep vegetation.
bronwynsmom
11 years ago
They look anxious...sad...imprisoned...trapped in some ghastly existential zoo!
daki
11 years ago
bronwynsmom, LOL especially the little guy in front. He is very worried. I think the Skymall skeletan gnomes beat out these Meerkats though on the weirdness factor.

Here is a link that might be useful: skel-e-gnomes

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