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01/22/2026 at 22:46 • 0 commentsA protracted search yielded no new drinking cups as good as what we had 25 years ago. They're all prone to falling over because they're tapered on the bottom. Lions had a tapered cup from 1995-2000 & it always fell over. They're also not as big as what we used to have. Lions got to thinking the stability could be overcome by epoxying a base to the cup. Then, what a lot of animals are doing is selling a wrapper for an existing chinese cup.
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Only an idiot would burn $50 on that. It's pretty low effort, just a low fidelity engine base stuck to a common steel cup. The next step up would be a V3 wrapper for a tapered cup.
A completely PLA cup would be quite difficult. It leaks. It degrades. It's more expensive than a common chinese cup lining a wrapper.
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The current 50 cent Targ cup is smaller than the $1 cup 25 years ago. The next step would be super expensive thermoses/tumblers.
lion mclionhead

