I'll see your bottle rocket and raise you...

[andygates]

SpaceX have finished putting together their Falcon 9 heavy lifter rocket.  Pics of the biggest new-year rocket here.  Falcon 9 and the booster-wrapped Falcon 9 Heavy are the rockets that are contracted to resupply the ISS (under NASA's COTS programme), so here's hoping the demo launch in a few months goes OK.