Who wants Action Figures!?

[Colonel Sandor]

I'd love this.

[Deleted]

yeh the tracer ones awesome, they will certainly be making more merch

[ChaosWolf]

I still say a Bastion figure than can transform into Siege and Tank configurations would be awesome as hell...

[Mormolyce]

http://gear.blizzard.com/index.php/d...er-statue.html

Already happened (just Tracer for now though).

If only it wasn't $150 plus shipping to my podunk country...

Even if they don't officially make figures, I imagine that once the game comes out, there'll be someone who somehow will figure a way to take the ingame models and adapt them into 3D-printable things.

Hmm, I wonder what kind of figurines are already available on 3d printers... might actually tempt me to buy one.

[ChaosWolf]

If only it wasn't $150 plus shipping to my podunk country...



Hmm, I wonder what kind of figurines are already available on 3d printers... might actually tempt me to buy one.

One of my guildmates is attempting to 3D-print a mechanostrider. It's tricky, because some of the details that work fine with the in-game model are not so workable with real materials, due to issues involving part thickness, structural fragility, and balance/weight-distribution. Careful disassembly and reshaping of the model to be compatible with the printer's software and real-life physics is taking forever.

[Deleted]

No thanks. Just a waste of money.

[Mormolyce]

One of my guildmates is attempting to 3D-print a mechanostrider. It's tricky, because some of the details that work fine with the in-game model are not so workable with real materials, due to issues involving part thickness, structural fragility, and balance/weight-distribution. Careful disassembly and reshaping of the model to be compatible with the printer's software and real-life physics is taking forever.

That's awesome!

But yeah, those things are walking on toothpicks! I guess you'd have to really work at a lot of areas to make it realistic but still keep that iconic look.

Is it a regular style strider or the suped-up Swift Strider model?

[ChaosWolf]

That's awesome!

But yeah, those things are walking on toothpicks! I guess you'd have to really work at a lot of areas to make it realistic but still keep that iconic look.

Is it a regular style strider or the suped-up Swift Strider model?

The swift one. It's the fins and wings that are so tricky, because the in-game model for those parts is practically 2-dimensional, which simply just isn't feasible for his printing methods. That's the hangup, not centering the weight on the slender legs.

[Mormolyce]

The swift one. It's the fins and wings that are so tricky, because the in-game model for those parts is practically 2-dimensional, which simply just isn't feasible for his printing methods. That's the hangup, not centering the weight on the slender legs.

Oh really? I would've thought the legs would be the biggest problem. Can't he just plump up the wings?

[DeadmanWalking]

I think they should expand on the trailer and make a movie.