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One Heck Of A Christmas Tree

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4.2 Million Dollar solid gold Christmas tree.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/...y-characters
Now thats a way to add some bling to the celebration.
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i bet someone a tungsten bar that it's gold plated :)
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I don't know. But if it were China I would take the same bet
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it's not even appealing
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It looks like a cross between a wedding cake and a truck-stop desert carousel. It will probably be melted and made into something else next month.

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Might be tungsten on the inside :D :D
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If you scraped all the plating off, I wonder how many light bulb filaments a pile of tungsten that big would make...
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.99999% of it is tungsten
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i wonder if it should say christmas tree ornament? that doesn't resemble a christmas tree to me in any way or shape but I could see an ornament being scaled up to a size like that.
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It is decorated with pure gold-plate silhouette cutouts of 50 popular Disney characters and draped with ribbons made of gold leaf.

And they did, of course, pay the Disney Company royalties for the use of their characters, right?
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