I don’t usually rave about little stuffed toy animals, but I had to post this up because it’s cute and a little bit geeky all at the same time.
I love meerkats (I’ve even adopted one at London Zoo for the year), so this pair dressed up in Star Trek outfits just had to be shared.
Creator NiftyKnits writes:
Kirk is of course wearing gold, the original command colour. Spock is in Science blue. They wear Federation emblems proudly on their chests and have their ranking stripes on their sleeves. Spock (unusually for a meerkat) has those classic slanting eyebrows.
As with my non-trekkie meerkats, hind legs and tails are wired with pipe cleaners to allow them to self stand.
They’re unbelievably inexpensive, too, with the first one being £2 (about $3) and then others ordered at the same time just £1 (about 70 cents). I’d charge more, but there you go. They can even be knitted to request, including other key characters.
The Enterprise isn’t included, though.
The word is Trekker, Not Trekkie. I don’t care what the movie is called, We Are TREKERS
I think you may have confused the shipping charge with the price of the meerkats! They are actually £20 ($30) each – still a bargain in my opinion though.
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