Did they manage it?
*We were allowed to go up to 7 if required.
Unpacking my haul at home I was surely about to build the ultimate Dalek right?
Solid, stable, surely I was onto a winner?
Thanks to some cupcake cases, they were pretty stylish too.
I didnt come here to make friends.
I came here to build a Dalek.
These clowns were nothing to me and they were going down.)
What do they think this is, a thriftiness contest?
Initially, my task was to cover a plastic bucket in tin foil.
Id bought 5 metres of Turkey Foil.
There was going to be ample.
Now came the challenge of attaching 30 tin-foil half-fun-balls to an upside-down bucket.
On a previous occasion, she had purchased a set of 3 silver cake presentation boards at Poundland.
Surely those would form a better Dalek neck than my oval solution?
I readily agreed and handed over the foil trays in exchange.
I mean, dont let that sway you, but also, do.
(Slightly wonky) Dalek done.
This time, though, I had to be serious.
I was competing against two of Den of Geeks craftiest writers.
No Mercy Mellor and Tenacious Tauchert-Hutchins will be in it to win it.
Id not go quietly into the night.
I cant do arts and crafts at all though, so I might just lose noisily.
I had my head around the challenge.
Still, I got enough bits to get the job done and then fled.
You could hold a garden shed together with the amount of tape I used.
I hope thats not the next Poundland challenge.
It would need to be covered.
I had almost exactly the right amount for a fully round of the medium size pads.
The surface protector pads served a few other purposes, like the…ears?
Are they called ears?
Anyway, my Daleks ears are made of piled surface protector pads.
I wasnt even worried because its such good value.
I was almost done.
It was time for my final Poundland purchase to come into play.
You just sort of assume youll be able to cut through a Poundland shower hose.
You cant, though.
Not just using kitchen scissors.
I ended up have to essentially crush and tear the thing with pliers.
That accounted for the gun and plunger.
Again more tape held them in place.
The remains of the shower hose made up the ground level Dalek trim thing that they have.
So here is my improvised, Dannii Minogue themed Dalek that cost 5 to make.
I cut myself three times making it.
It is badly misshapen and it looks like it is laminated.
Still, it seems unfair not to offer some reward for the efforts our contestants have put in.
Its Den Of Geek, after all, and nobody leaves empty handed.
The prize in this case is repaying 7 to the petty cash tin.
But there are no losers here.
Er, the competition is not fierce (oh yes it is LM).
