Pardon Our Dust.

[Needles]

So you make athe pod that, when it hits the ground, it gets "destroyed," creates a big cloud of dust around it, spawns a garbage item shaped in the form of the front of pod, and spawns an elite in the dustcloud.

(Though it will look like crap for people without particles turned on.)

That's a good idea.
But what if the pot just hit the ground, got "destroyed", would have a cloud of dust around, then an angry elite would just jump out of the cloud at you.