Souvenir Lightning Globe
A good variation on a souvenir New York City (or whatever city) Snow Globe would be a souvenir New York City Lightning Globe. It would be the usual miniature skyline inside a glass ball, except instead of shaking it to make fake snow float around, you would touch the globe and lightning would shoot at whatever part of the globe your hand was touching.
Basically, it’s one of those lightning domes in science museums with a tiny city inside of it. Rather than enjoy a quaint little snowfall, the city in the globe would appear to be facing the end of times.
Upon hearing about this Lightning Globe, Esme Rilke suggested there could be seasonal Snow Globes. A Fall Globe would have tiny leaf flakes floating around, and a bare tree in there somewhere. The Spring Globe would be a more complicated affair, a globe with an extra layer of glass inside the main globe.
This inner layer would have holes and water in it, so that when you tilt the globe, water drips through the holes, simulating an April shower on the miniature city.
And the Summer Globe would also function as a tanning light.
Also cool would be snow globes from other planets, like Venus and Mars. Venus could have lightning and lava and and Mars could have water.
4 years ago