Sorry, can't resist. The sphere part looks like the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki....
Superman's spaceship from Krypton to Earth as seen in 1978's "Superman: The Movie". How original.
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Such a sad waste of a 75 ft tree!
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Such a sad waste of resources time & money!
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Hallelujah! Finally we have the wedge of light we have been waiting for!
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As if it weren't tacky enough.
See tree in the Met instead.
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I need to write a screenplay where a group of ragtag, but charismatic, thieves plot to steal the star from the top of that tree. Get the right actors and we could make millions.
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Can we get rid of the tree? Just keep the star. Wasteful consumer capitalism at its worst to cut down a beautiful tree from the country, lug it into the city, decorate it, put it on display for a month and then watch it die. After this beautiful living thing is shriveled, brown, and good and dead, we remove it and take its carcass back to the forest to decompose (at least I hope we do something compost-wise with the carcass). The tree is a symbol - but a bad symbol, of our society's waste, destruction, and shallow materialism. We're swimming in plastic already - make a plastic tree and put a star on that. . .
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@rjw45
Trees of this size are getting near the end of their lifespans. They are not taken from forests, but rather from open areas as lawns. This allows the tree to grow evenly in all directions. Homeowners are often glad to have the trees removed for fear they might fall over.
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@rjw45
It probably saves 1000s of trees since many New Yorkers consider it "their" tree and don't get one at home.
Besides there are millions and millions of trees in the world and we can plant millions more.
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I can't wait to see it lit. A symbol of hope, indeed.
And you and I know what most of us will be hoping for.
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I love the tree. My husband, a Greek immigrant, has been decorating it with his fellow Roc Center electricians for 28 years. It is a symbol of the good in the world regardless of what you believe. I was never much on Christmas having come from a difficult southern childhood but one day I realized the love I'd longed for as a child was staring me in the face in that tree and that Greek man I met in a New Orleans maritime Greek bar almost thirty years ago. Ironically, he wasn't much on Christmas either having fled his own island home for America. But that tree and NYC gave us a home and two children that healed us and helped become what everyone needs and something we two immigrants weren't when we first came here--a family.
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@Lucinda Thank you for sharing that! Wonderful!!
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Maybe I missed it, but how is this heavy creation securely supported?
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@cheryl, If you look at earlier pictures, the stars are on separate poles hugging the length of the trunk of the tree.
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@cheryl Good question and would be interesting to know!
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