What should I make out of this?

[Froggy the Great]

This is one of the toys that my boys broke lately - looks like it's ripe for making into something. This can be another child's toy (which they will fight over), costume prop, mini scenery, vehicle, weapon, whatever. No genre restrictions, though I've been making VSF lately.

What should I make this into? The flanges are about 1cm apart.

[Bobble]

My first thought would be some kind of laser/plasma cannon?
Put a mount on the round end and paint it up brass with a green glow between the flanges,maybe

[Steve F]

A spar torpedo?

[Henrix]

It's clearly a ray gun - or a gernsbackian retro-50's sci-fi radio/tv tower.

(Though in the latter case it should be snipped just where the handle ends and the shin part placed on top of the round end.

[Steve F]

Or turn it into a tower or post (narrow pole at the bottom) with a round radio-picture screen at the top from which Emperor Ming can make pronouncements to his people.  The "honeycomb" shape in the middle is a set of multi-directional loudspeakers.

[Doomsdave]

It is certainly a ray-gun of unusual provenance, but quite similar to the type employed by the Confederate states against the Chinese-Martian Alliance forces in the first Aether War.

[SirAlban]

I think is dragonlfy ornithopter

[Tacgnol]

Alien lighthouse for a naval warfare game set on other planets that probably doesn't exist?

[Papa Spanky]

Cut the round end off and glue it to the thin rod on the other end. Mount it honycomb side down and now its a lighted (the tip looks like a light) antenna with a microwave transmitter. (the round glued thing)

[Froggy the Great]

I think the winner is a dragonfly automaton for any number of my VSF armies.

[Bergil]

Currently making star trekky starships out of things like that... if it helps at all