Not a lot of people know this, but @Soundsaboutleft and I started a secret club for men to beat the crap out of each other in a...mostly non-sexual way.
And I can tell you this. The Karate Kid is one of the best movies of the 80s. Hell. If you boiled it and The Goonies down, it'd be injectable nostalgia.
The thing you need to know is that Emmys aren't actually made of medal. At least not entirely.
They're actually a type of fairy that lives on the island of Catalina. They're captured and then encased (while still alive) in copper, nickel, silver, and gold.
Now we could have searched in the various woods, etc. looking for one OR we could go the smelter hidden on Catalina Island and steal one in a cage.
So that's what we did.
We even took the glass bottom boat to get there. Very cool.