I need a big fake snake

[BroccoliSpears]

You really would not believe how difficult it is to find a big fake snake.

It has to be realistic and it has to be sleeping ie not poised to bite or rearing up with its hood flared.

I don't mind spending about a tenner.

Can I find one? Can I heck.

Toys R Us?

I am dying to ask why, but I'm not sure I want to know the answer

Arf.

Well... you know that scene in Dusk til Dawn with the lap dancer and the big.... no. Not really. It's a Christmas present for someone. Honest!

Haven't found anything in Toys R Us online. Will call in this weekend though.

Don't we all...

plush or rubber?

Rubber.

have you a zoo locally, with a gift shop?

Thank you both, Chippy and Sleepy.

I have tried our local Tropical World place, and have looked at all that ebay has to offer. That python would be great if he weren't lunging, and the gift shop didn't have anything suitable.

here???

I like the bottoms ones!

I'm quite taken with the African Boomslang...

But no! Must be rubber. And in UK

See? Not as easy as you'd think.

Maybe I'll just get him a real one .

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scroll down for rubber snake extra jumbo though it has it's mouth open (maybe you could tape it shut!) and it's £14.00 and there's no information about it's size

i'll keep looking

another but with mouth open again

it's hard!

Can i ask why its has to be a big reuubery one with its mouth closed??

seriously - why??

rubbery - jeez whats up with me today??

Because...

(This is a bit long, but you did ask)

We went to stay with someone in the summer and their big new thing was that they had just had a huge conservatory built, which we spent a lot of time in. The conservatory backs on to a... well, almost like a cliff face (which sounds worse than it is) so the view through a portion of the conservatory is straight onto the craggy vertical rocks. They were wondering whether to uplight the rocks, or to grow something pretty up them, and DP suggested that they uplight them and then have a very subtle but realistic snake (or maybe even a lizard) somewhere, concevably sunbathing or sleeping so that people wouldn't immediately notice it but if they did they would hilariously jump out of their skin and shriek that there was a bloody gurt snake on the wall.

So... I want to send them the snake for Christmas. It's not the best joke in the world, I know, but it would be cool if I could find one.

lizard??

this maybe

NOW we're talking! Both of those are fab!