December 17, 2007
For the WoW gamer who has everything. Just in case you WoWers didn't hear about this, you can now have your Warcraft character made into a figurine. Unfortunately there's a wait list on this and the only way you can win a spot to get one made is to enter their lottery.
If I was still playing, I have to admit I'd probably do this. Would be cool to have all of my old characters from games I used to play. Too bad they only do WoW characters. Actually now that I think about it..if they had a gnome-punt pose option, I'd reactivate my account for that.
figurines? i dress as my dark elf mohawk everyday and insist on being referred to as DoomPwndr. thankfully mohawks travel on lightning sabers cuz they dont like me at the airport. must be horde controlled.
Interestingly, I was looking into how to do this and whether anyone was already. A couple others: Fabjectory will do this for your Mii, GetARealLife, or any Google Sketchup drawing. There's also the OGLE from OpenLabs, which gives you the raw materials to roll your own solution. If you're going that route, or if you just want to give your Mii some Gold Pants, you'll want the full skinny on the MII file format.
Interestingly, it looks like most of them work by capturing the in-game-rendered avatar, rather than by parametrically reconstructing the avatar's structure as from a MII file. (That is, if I understand correctly, they go "hey it looks like you have brownish hair and fuzzy black shoes about 30 pixels high" rather than "oh you have HAIR:=#SIENNA_27 and SHOES:=[#UGGS,#RAVEN,30]".)
Azeroth has Uggs, right?
By the way, as far as I can tell the market for you as south park character figurines is wide open. As are a whole sea of lateral-thinking ideas from "simple and fun parametric ways to describe the 3d appearance of a real world object" -- make your own hotwheels (take a base model of a car and apply various paint and customizations to it; return as a free badge and offer to print for a fee)? cartoon figurine of your pet (same, but s/paint and customizations/coat and accessories/)? You on the 18th green of any famous golf course?
I'm just running through the list of "hobbies where people have way more money than sense" but I think there's a big latent demand...
Dark Elf? Someone is confusing Everquest with WoW, Night Elf you nOOb!
Maybe TheWest is handy with computers and hacked the game to create Dark Elf Mohawk characters. Did you think about that Ms. Condescending Smartypants?
Ummm, could someone please link:
Awesome fun video Number Best! for me. I dunno how to do that thingy.
(Best thing is do "View Source" on any simple page, look for something linked thenmonkey see monkey do -- mgmt.)
Verne Troyer was an awesome idea as a gnome, but the execution wasn't there.
My level 12 (double digits!) Orc Druid totally refutes the n00b comment. Alliance roolz!
Apparently if you want access to avatar data it helps if you worked at Microsoft for 18 years, helped grow their gaming division from 50 to 1200 employees, and can get backdoor access to the WoW Armory data.
No I did not..cause frankly my dear....much as it pains me to say it, you aren't that bright.
Besides it gave me the opportunity to dredge up my leet dewd language skills which are woefully out of practice since I stopped playing.
Level 12? I stand corrected. Truly all of Azeroth must tremble at your approach.
Much Love,
Ms. Condescending Smartypants
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If your tastes run more towards the rhythm game side, you will be interested in the promised (but to my knowledge not yet delivered) market in Rock Band figurines, T-shirts with your band name and logo, bumper stickers, etc. Some fans just can't wait and went ahead and made this.
posted by natedogg at 02:32PM CST on December 17