Bob Prior makes sci-fi models from cereal boxes. You might think I'm about to embark on a rant about the strange childlike obsessions of men, or the just aim an arrow of scorn right at the heart of the easy target provided by the picture of Prior, below.
But I'm not. Everybody has a nerdy side (I once got caught with bits of solder on the covers of my Hi-Fi magazine collection), and Bob's is quite splendid. He has made fifty models so far, ranging from the bridge of the USS Enterprise to Kirk and Picard via, if we're not mistaken, a few Thunderbirds along the way. The point is, it's easy to laugh at a man who folds and sticks Rice Krispies boxes into spaceships, especially whilst dressed in a too-tight replica uniform, but at least Bob is actually creating something.
And so what if he has press-ganged his kids to help? It's certainly a lot better than the cold saturday afternoons my brother and I were forced to spend with our dad on the railway stations of rainy England, writing down numbers in our notebooks, missing the A-Team and being schooled in the lonely and arcane pursuit known as trainspotting.
Star Trek set built from Rice Krispies [Metro]
