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jin saotome, action figure customizer extraordinaire

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I don’t know if he’s the action figure counterpart of console modder Ben Heck, but the customizer who goes by the moniker Jin Saotome does have an extremely long list of modified or custom made action figures. While most of them are Transformer mods/creations, I like his G.I. mods, where he mixes parts together to…

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November 5th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft hacks + mods just plain fun

optimized prime: customized revenge of the fallen optimus prime toy on ebay

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Just about the only thing good about the recent Transformers movie are the new versions of our beloved Autobots and Decepticons. Although I’m sure some of you will say that even the new designs suck. Also the movie changes POVs and angles every nanosecond so we hardly got to appreciate the designs anyway. Stupid cinematography. Aaaaaanyway.…

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October 1st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys design geek art + craft hacks + mods just plain fun

decepticon microcassettes: where’s soundwave?

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A robot that turns into a microcassette player seems like an awfully dumb idea – once it transforms it’s so small that even a 10-year old can smash it to bits – but Takara & Hasbro have pulled it off. The robot was originally called – drum roll please – Cassetteman; fortunately his name was…

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August 25th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys just plain fun retro

custom dead space figure makes horror fun again

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Real fans don’t buy action figures, whether or not they’re commercially available. Buying things is for wimps. No, the real fan breaks out the paint, dismembers currently-existing figures, and then the real fan makes their own action figures, like Chris Hooton did for the horror game Dead Space.

Dead Space borrows heavily from other material–most notably,…

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December 11th, 2008 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft video games