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Plush Chewbacca: Three-Toed Sloth Meets Wookiee

Conner Flynn — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:00:29 +0000

We’ve seen our share of Star Wars characters in plush form, back pack form and every other form, but this may be the cutest form I’ve seen yet – a plush and furry Chewbacca.

He has nice long arms and legs and looks like he might actually be climbing through some trees with his Wookiee family on Kashyyyk. Now, I’m not saying that Chewie is lazy (I don’t want him pulling my arm out of it’s socket, after all), but this one also looks a lot like a sloth. I guess that’s what makes him so adorable.

Sadly, you can’t buy this one right now. Hopefully, maker Denn Rodriguez will create more of this guy for her Etsy shop. He sure does look soft and cuddly. If all Wookies looked like this, no being in the Star Wars universe would be scared of them.

[via Super Punch]

Zombie Attack Barbie Prepares Girls for The Walking Dead

Conner Flynn — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:15:45 +0000

After decades of scarring girls by giving them an impossible ideal of beauty, body issues and eating disorders, it’s nice to see that Barbie will now be doing something productive – preparing them for the eventual zombie apocalypse.

New from Mattel (not really) comes Zombie Attack Barbie. She has her pink war outfit that comes in both military and slut-casual, a pink camo helmet, a bazooka with 2 rounds, some grenades, a cricket bat and even a Samurai sword.

Zombie Ken is also available – though he’s not looking too hot. Board up that Malibu beach house, run some undead over with Barbie’s Convertible and whatever you do, don’t get bit by these undead flesh addicts. Which shouldn’t be all that hard really, since Barbie doesn’t have a brain. She should be safe just picking Zombies off left and right as they pass on her in search of brainier victims.

[via Secretarcticbase]

Robot Matroyshka: Matrobotshka?

Technabob — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:00:41 +0000

There’s something that’s always fascinated me about matroyshka, those Russian nesting dolls. I think it’s that they sort of remind me of Inception – in doll form. You know, a doll within a doll within a doll. Now you can get some really special geeky matroyshka, in the form of robots.

Open up the biggest robot, and you’ll find a smaller one inside, and another, and another. They come in a set of six nesting robot dolls, and would be a great addition to any cubicle toy collection. I don’t know why, but they all sort of remind me of Bender. Maybe they’re his cousins. After all, they do all have shiny metal asses (made out of ABS plastic).

They’re available over on Amazon for just $10 (USD) a set.

That’s One Disturbing Baby Chewbacca Doll

Conner Flynn — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:00:06 +0000

Wookiees generally look cuddly, even though they are tough and strong. Babies also usually look cuddly. So, why do I find this Baby Chewbacca doll so disturbing?

I mean, I guess that’s what a baby Wookiee might look like, but with all of that white hair, this could also be Chewbacca’s shriveled up old grandpa. Maybe a hybrid Ewok/Wookiee (Ewookie? Wokwook?) created in an Imperial lab somewhere in order to finally pay those furry bastards back for Endor. Whatever the hell it is, it scares me. You can find it on eBay for $200(USD) if you want to adopt this guy for some reason. Heike Kolpin created this sculpture of baby Chewbacca and check out the image below for more horrifying Star Wars babies.

That’s baby Han, baby Luke and baby Leia. Yes, they look… slightly off. They certainly put some extra creepy in these dolls.

[via Geyser of Awesome via Nerd Approved]

The Clone Factory: Make Your Own Mini-Me

Range — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:17:36 +0000

I have trouble understanding why anyone would want a fake 3D clone of themselves, but hey, who really understands the Japanese? One shop in Tokyo, Japan, has decided to offer realistic replicas of people to discerning customers. Perfect when you want to start the bejeezus out of someone.

The Clone Factory takes your 3D image, translates it into code, and then produces this spooky doll head for you. It’s then attached onto one of a variety of dolls.

The process is pretty straightforward, thanks to a 3D image scanner and a 3D printer, but its results are strange and eerie.

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In the end, you’ll end up paying about $1,800 (USD) for your ‘clone’. Apparently, these dolls are most frequently used for (creepy) weddings. Hopefully, all of these clones won’t start working together and start their own Clone Wars (heh!).

I wonder if these dolls will ever become popular in the U.S.

[DannyChoo via DVice]

Big Daddy Doll, Straight From the Bioshock 2 Trailer

Alisha K. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:17:37 +0000

BioShock 2 doesn’t even exist yet and already the artisans of the world are hard at work on the sequel to 2K’s alternate-history title. A doll fashioned to look like one of the game’s Big Daddy characters was shown in the sequel’s beautiful (and creepy) trailer, and now that same doll has been recreated in loving detail.

How cute! I could almost forget that he probably wants to kill me and just give him a big ol’ squeeze. The best thing? This adorable doll doesn’t include the sense of horror and foreboding I get with the trailer.

Haven’t seen the referenced trailer for BioShock 2? Climb out from under that rock and give it a watch.

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[via deviantART]

Audiomatryoshka Speakers Don’T Wobble, Won’T Fall Down

Technabob — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:05:41 +0000

The word Matryoshka isn’t exactly a part of the English vernacular, but once you realize that it’s really just the Russian name for those little nesting dolls your grandmother has sitting on her mantle, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

This concept for a set of speakers the designer calls “Audiomatryoshka” is definitely bold, if not a little over-the-top for most decorating styles. From where I’m sitting, the magenta-colored “dolls” could also pass for psychedelic pink penguins or maybe some electric purple bowling pins – perfect for a trippy dream sequence out of The Big Lebowski.

Russian designer Alex Mamontoff created these speakers as his way of modernizing the classic art form and making it more relevant to today’s audience. But the fact that you can’t open them up and put one inside the other sort of defeats the purpose, IMHO.

The artist has no plans at this point to manufacture these speakers at this point, but Mamontoff has actually made a working model of the speakers using a rapid prototyping system. In the mean time, if you want some penguin-shaped speakers, you might have to settle for these.

[via Behance]

Robotroyshka Dolls Will Conquer You With Cuteness

Karen M. — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:30:58 +0000

These robotroyshka dolls are one tricky mashup: they combine Russian nesting dolls, crochet, and robots into one deliciously adorable blend.

I spotted these on the crafster forums. The ever-clever RhymeswOrange crocheted them by hand, and each one has a different felty face! My favorite has got to be this guy with Pacman hands who’s working the snazzy sunglasses.

I gotta say, if our robot overlords are as cute as these robotroyshka dolls, I think I can handle it.

Star Wars Characters Get Plush, Deformed

Technabob — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:45:02 +0000

There’s no reason that the pillows on your couch have to be square, round or rectangular. Why shouldn’t they reflect your Star Wars addiction like anything else?

These plush versions of classic characters from the Star Wars universe are just too cool. From the squishy R2-D2 to the scruffy Chewbacca and blobby-headed Boba Fett, you need these in your house.

At about 7-inches tall each, I guess they’re not quite big enough to serve as pillows, but they’re great as an accent on your sofa, bed or just lying around your room.

Even one Yoda gets.

The whole collection is available over on Entertainment Earth for about $13 a piece.

Art Lebedev’S Data Dolls Store Nothing but Themselves

Technabob — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:35:39 +0000

If you’re unfamiliar with the Russian craft of Matryoshka, they’re those little stacking wooden dolls that fit inside one-another, gradually getting smaller and smaller. Designer Art Lebedev has taken these traditional dolls and put a geeky spin on them, adding data storage measurements to each one.

So the big mama is a Petabyte, inside her is a Terabyte, followed by daughter Gigabyte – and so forth – all the way down to a teensy little baby Bit.

The set of 7 dolls is handcrafted by artisans from Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod and comes inside an intricate Birch wood container, and can be found over on Charles & Marie for $220.

Star Wars Amigurumi: the Jedi Get Stuffed

Technabob — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:00:50 +0000

Who says that Star Wars has to be all about manly things like lightsabers, Death Stars and Darth Vader? Why can’t it be about butterflies, puppies and playing with dolls?

Crafter Sammi Resendes of Geek Central Station sure thinks that the classic sci-fi epic can be just as sweet as a roomful of cuddly kittens rolled in confectioners sugar. These handmade Amigurumi residents of the Star Wars universe are so cute they make me want to puke (it’s almost like that time a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain).

The collection of pint-sized crocheted figures include Admiral Ackbar, Leia, Chewbacca, Han Solo and Yoda, all created in stuffed form. They’re accompanied by tiny little weapons and other accessories made out of Sculpey clay.

Up next in her Star Wars series, she plans on making cute and cuddly versions of Boba Fett, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and R2D2. You can check out more pictures over on Flickr.

If you’d like to get your hands on some of her Amigurumi geekery for yourself, be sure to stop Sammi’s Etsy shop.

[Star Wars Blog via Craftzine]

Just Plain Weird: the USB Memory Stick Doll

Technabob — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:01:51 +0000

As much as Japan provides us with some amazing inventions and top-notch consumer electronics, they’re also responsible for some of the most oddball, eccentric stuff out there.

In case you were worried about misplacing your memory stick, or embarrassed by its unsightly looks, you can now hide your USB memory stick in the bowels of this keychain doll from Elecom. The doll “eats” the memory stick, then it’s stored away in its gut for later use. And in case that wasn’t weird enough, you’ll need to stick you finger down the dolls throat to retrieve your memory stick.

[via Impress Watch]