We’ve all seen clever action figure photography floating around the internet at some point, but this series, titled 1:1 Toys, by Daniel Picard is some top tier God Mode level craziness.
Check out more in the embedded gallery below.
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And this one-of-a-kind custom-made piece of awesomeness will only set you back $3,000! This was made by Andrew Butterworth for the Mega Man Boss Battle art show at San Francisco’s Gauntlet Gallery.
Check out a video of the beast in action below.
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Oh, hey. Look what I’ll be pre-ordering a gazillion copies of at my local comic shop.
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Ariel dual-wields a pair of blue lightsabers under the sea, Rapunzel rocks short hair with an exceptionally long Padawan braid, and Snow White makes one hell of a bad-ass Sith in these illustrations by Ralph Sevelius.
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I’ve paid actual money for action figures that aren’t nearly as cool as these.
One of the greatest 80’s cartoon bad guys gets a custom sneaker homage courtesy of Mache.
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Illustrator Vick Trola decided to merge all of the Justice League with the cast of Parks & Recreation for a pretty rad piece of pop. These prints are for sale at Trola’s Etsy shop here. Personally, I would’ve went with Batman for Ben, but it still works.
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Buy it: Season 1 of Parks & Recreation
You guys remember how those old Penguin books used to look? Artist Sharm Murugiah does, as he used that style to merge Quentin Tarantino films into those books, with these super clean mock-book covers. Love the idea.
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Buy it: Tarantino XX Film Collection
These awesome grid-type illustrations were created by Eric Dufresne. The geometric style and shapes are used here to create super colorful versions of Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Robin, and Catwoman.
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Buy it: The DC Comics Encyclopedia
Here’s a clever series of paper banknotes that were created to represent Hyrulian currency from the Legend of Zelda series. The rupee bills were imagined by Deviant Artist g33k1nd159153 (really dude?) and show each value in writing, as well as color, true to to the series.
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A fresh take from Deviant Artist, Drew Northcott (Smaggers), who has mashed the beloved Portal series with Salvador Dali’s infamous “Persistence of Memory,” painting. According to the artist, it could very well be hung in Valve’s offices right now. Very cool.
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Buy it: Portal Bookends
Our friend and designer toy artist extraordinaire RSIN sent us these pics of his custom Mario figure for the Game On art show being hosted by 1AM Gallery during this year’s Game Developers Conference. This custom 8” Mario piece features a sculpted base, gold accents, and Mario’s grill has been sculpted into a Mexican sugar skull with gold teeth.
Kind of makes me wish there was some sort of evil power-up item that made Mario look like this in the games.
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Buy: Super Mario 5" Vinyl Figure Set of 5
Triforce symbols and 8-bit Rupee sprites from the Zelda games adorn a gate in Cork, Ireland thanks to this clever piece submitted to our Geek Graffiti Flickr Pool by Starman Super.
With Heart of the Swarm releasing this week, many gamers have undoubtedly sacrificed sleep for a marathon session through the HoTS campaign, only to break for the occasional laddering session. With these beautiful pillow cases from Patchnotes, you can rest while still keeping the image of collecting minerals in your head.
However, as a Zerg player, I have to ask where the drone pillow case is? I would sleep better knowing I am honoring the swarm
Pick one up here.
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Buy it: Heart of the Swarm Collector's Edition
Exciting news. To hold you guys over until the video review of my new Twig Case for iPhone 5, they sent over a coupon code for you all. The code will save you 20% on anything until March 15th.
Simply enter in “albotas” (without the quotes) at checkout and get yourself a new iPhone case made of wood. I just got mine in the mail and admittedly, it is amazing. Very well done.
Be sure to Facebook and Tweet at them and tell ‘em Albotas sent you.
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