This life-size replica of the official Aperture Science Handheld Portal gun comes from Japanese replica manufacturer Neca. The official price in Japan is ¥16,000 and you can pre-order it right now for shipment this April. If you convert the price to US dollars, your very own replica of the Portal gun would cost you just a bit more than $200 – plus shipping and any extra costs for importing it.

Being a replica, it won’t open a portal for you to hop through, but it will change colors between blue or orange depending on the portal you want to pretend to open.

I don’t know if they will ship one of these to the US, so you might want to start being extra nice to any friends you have that might live in Japan, or get in touch with White Rabbit Express to see if they can order one for you. I want one of these really bad, any of you Japanese folks want to volunteer to ship me one?

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At $110(USD) it might also be a good gift for your grandparents, who likely have trouble with the way modern phones look anyway. It’s pricey, but you are really paying for that old time style. Find it at Museum Replicas.

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Using a screenshot from Halo: Combat Evolved, Thorsson made a 3D model in TurboCAD. He then used the model to make molds made out of MDF. The replica itself is made of styrene plastic. He then added nylon webbing for the hinges, a latch made of foam PVC and neodymium magnets and finally a vinyl sticker for the icon and voila. A Halo lunchbox! I mean a first aid kit!

Clearly Thorsson is the Master Chief of craftsmen, but if you think you’re up to the task, ride a Warthog to his blog for the full build instructions. The rest of us grunts will have to be content with the pictures on Thorsson’s Flickr page.

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This road-worthy Batmobile replica was built with a 3.5 Liter GM350 Crate engine and comes complete with a rocket exhaust flamethrower. It makes you wonder how that passed the DMV inspection. It also has roll-top dashboard doors, a flashing red beacon, a Bat Phone, an automatic Batbeam antenna grid and a glowing Detect-a-Scope radar screen, whatever those are.

The Batmobile’s 280hp engine will take you from 0-to-60 in 5 seconds, and to a top speed of 90mph (better hope the criminals can’t outrun you.) Oh yeah, and it gets 9 miles per gallon, so you’ll be heading to the Bat Gas Station frequently. You can get yours directly from Firebox for the low price of £120,000 (~$188,000 USD). Enough said!

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And to help take those sentiments further – and in the literal sense – there’s the 3DPF Masks by REAL-f. These are custom-made and extremely realistic masks that could pass off as an authentic replica to your face. 3DPF stands for 3 Dimension Photo Forms, and they’re available as a mask or as a full bust of your head.

These masks are made by taking photos of your face from various angles and molding a three-dimensional copy from vinyl chloride resin. The method is so detailed, that even blood vessels and iris details are copied accurately onto the mask.

These masks or busts don’t come cheap either. The first mask will cost you a whopping $3,920 (USD), with each additional one priced at $780. Going for a bust will set you back $5,875, with each additional one priced at $1,960.

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Iomedes says that it was hard to take good pictures of his star destroyer, but the video sure lets you admire it in all its glory.

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All told, it weighs 180 pounds and it’s a 1:465-scale replica for those of you counting.

While I don’t like the prequel trilogy all that much – except some of the bits with Darth Maul and Anakin’s fall in Episode III – this 8-foot monster still looks amazing.

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Engrish aside, I love how Brando describes this product: “built-in flash memory lets you store your data on the go.” Yes. Because that’s the notable thing about this particular product, not that it looks like something else entirely.

Ask your mole to use someone else’s credit card and purchase the USB lipstick flash drive from Brando. It’s available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB models, priced at $16 (USD), $18 and $25 respectively. But you already knew that didn’t you.

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It was introduced in the early 1980s, which actually makes it several years older than I am. And while this Roland TR-808 Flash Drive can’t really help you lay down some beats, it sure looks a lot like the real thing.

Since it’s a USB drive, you can expect it to be really small in size, but that doesn’t make it lacking in detail whatsoever, no sirree.

Skeptical? Then check out the photo below of a real Roland TR-808 and compare it to the photos of the flash drive above and get ready to be pleasantly impressed:

Now, do you agree?

The Roland TR-808 Flash Drive is available from Alkota Beats and is priced at $39.99 (USD). It’s a bit pricier than other 8GB flash drives, but hey, none of those actually look like the Roland TR-808 so that sort of makes it worth it, right? Right.

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Yep, the US had airships back in the 1920s and 30s. The Macon served in the US Navy before going done in a storm in 1935. Jack’s model has a structure that mimics its 785 foot-long bigger brother. He used balsa wood sticks and Mylar for the skin of the airship, then filled it with helium, just like the original. His replica is RC-controlled and he hopes to donate it to the Moffett Field museum, where the original was docked. Jack is a retired computer engineer and saw the Macon regularly on his way to work.

It’s not just because of Fringe that I like airships – ever since James Bond’s A View to a Kill and the Indiana Jones movies, you wonder why airships haven’t become popular again. Maybe because they travel slower than some people expect. I, for one, hope that we’ll have mainstream airship transportation soon again.

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It was created from a cast from the ring that was used in the movie. That’s pretty geek chic. The Green Lantern ring will cost you $39.99 (USD) and you can get it from BigBadToyStore.

This Thor hammer looks a lot better than this one we featured earlier this year. Keep in mind the hammer still isn’t made out metal (Thank God. Could you imagine the shipping costs?), it’s just made out of polymer. You can get it from 80stees for $75.

Here’s a Green Hornet gas gun replica. Hopefully it’s made better than the movie was, and won’t accidentally fire gas pellets at you instead of your intended victim. It sells for $149.95 at Hollywood Collectibles.

Perhaps the best movie prop replica of this bunch is Hellboy’s Big Baby. This beast weighs close to 50 lbs. and comes complete with six removable shells. This Big Baby will set you back $499.99, and that’s on special – it used to cost $749.99 (!).You can get it at the BigBadToyStore.

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Ryan’s 38-inch tall prop turret replica is actually based on the turret from the original game, and as such, he has designated it as a “version 1.0″ or “classic” turret. Either way, it’s pretty damned awesome. While it doesn’t fire killer lasers, it shoots off some more gentle optical ones, and has motion-activated audio that can detect when someone enters the room. It actually has 17 audio tracks to choose from and randomly picks one when a test subject enters the room. It can also play the Portal theme as a bonus.

It took Ryan and his wife Dena months to put together this turret, and all their hard work really shows. They built it from styrofoam, Apoxie Sculpt, Bondo, wood, custom molded components, as well as a custom electronics circuit and various other parts. And lots of white paint.

My favorite detail has to be the Aperture Laboratories laser eyeball. It’s simply a masterpiece. Check out the complete build gallery, including 99 photos at Ryan’s Portal turret Flickr album.

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To make matters worse, there are 400 of these blasted end-bringers, each chip individually numbered. Members of the Resistance, make sure to snag all of them up and destroy them before the robots get their hands on one. You can pre-order them from Hollywood Collectibles for $169 (USD). That’s a small price to pay for our continued existence. Although if you multiply that by 400, it’s almost not worth it.

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This replica comes with a green LED light and spring-loaded extending action. There is a button that activates the sound effects and LED lights. While this sonic screwdriver won’t let you do what the real one does, it looks like the real fake thing.

The 11th Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver Prop Replica is available over at Amazon for $24 (USD). Money well spent? Let us know. I have to admit that I wanted lightsaber replicas for a long time, but ultimately was disappointed in the ones that were available without spending  tons of money.

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This isn’t a small scale model, nope, it’s a full 1:1 scale replica, so it’s going to scare someone – at least the person sitting opposite you at your desk. The details are quite intricate, and it has acrylic teeth as well as a chrome finish. The finishing touch involves eyes that light up red and some blue LED lights hidden in the neck area to give that creepy machine glow.

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This replica also plays the official T2 theme song through its speakers. All this doesn’t come cheap. The Terminator 2 Judgment Day T-800 1:1 Scale Endoskull Replica sells for $600 at Entertainment Earth.

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It’s hard to imagine how much work went into it, but you can already guess that it’s was a whole lot of hours. It takes a dedicated fan to do something like this. You can check out detailed construction pics here.

All in all, this is a helmet that I’d like to have at home. It would be perfect to use next Halloween or while I play one of the many extensions that will keep me playing Fallout 3 for months to come.

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The Game Boat is a replica of the dinghy that appears in one of the games in Kinect Adventures, the starter bundle of games for the Kinect, akin to Wii Sports. Here’s what Atomic Accessories has to say about their product: “Game Boat is de facto the first accessory for the peripheral which doesn’t need any.” So they already knew that…and yet…never mind. And before anyone asks, yes, the Game Boat is a boat, so you can use it for boating purposes. That’s realism, Kinect-style. So if you have access to a bunch of lion and tiger cubs,  go ahead and package them as Game Cubs, ideal for Kinectimals.

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What self-respecting businessman would use this as an actual briefcase? Unless you’re in the business of selling geeky replicas, I don’t see how one can seriously lug this around and retain dignity at the same time. But as I said, it does make for a unique accessory for cosplaying. Imagine just wearing a swanky suit or tux to the next Comic Con, and when someone asks you who you’re supposed to be, show ‘em the suitcase. Stuff this jacket inside for added laughs.

Unfortunately, you’ll have to have the funds of Tony Stark to consider buying this replica just for the occasional convention; Entertainment Earth is selling ‘em for $460 (USD) each. It’s limited to just 1,000 units, but it’s still too expensive if you ask me.

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These weapon replicas were created by Ryan Palser. He initially created the AER-9 laser rifle from the game. His second one was just finished, and he chose to do the A3-21 plasma rifle.

My only question is this: when will Ryan make the laser gatling gun? That’s the one gun that I used all of the time in the game, while I was wearing Power Armor – which I’d also like Ryan to make a replica of.

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Morning Rush has more details:

You can tell that the kid with the cap has just had his brains obliterated by exposure to the awesome droid. “That’s just. I don’t know. It’s amazing. To me.” A tip of the hat to you Mr. Bussiere.

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This replica, dubbed the PS-Pod, for Pankaj Shah, the current owner, was commissioned by Chopper City USA and uses an all metal bodywork. Inside the custom frame, you’ll find the drive train from an Aprilia Mana 850. In order to make this version street-legal, the seating position has been altered to one similar to a chopper bike.

It probably cost a bunch of money to make and stands out like a sore thumb, but if you love the Batpod, this is the only way to go, unless you decide to DIY your own – or you’re lucky enough to win one in a raffle.

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