Found on eBay: Custom Gordan Freeman and Bionic Commando Figures
By Jonathan on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 at 4:35 PM PST In Capcom, Game Companies, Gamer Life, Valve
Some people make custom action figures that bear only passing resemblances to their inspiration (as do some retail manufacturers for that matter). Other people however, like Jin Saotome, construct figures that replicate a famous character and then some. His two latest creations, based on Half-Life’s Gordon Freeman and the 8-bit Bionic Commando, are now up for auction on eBay. He built these two using G.I. Joe Sigma Six figures, but the results look almost worthy of retail. Freeman and the Commando even come with their signature crowbar and grappling arm, respectively.
You can hit the link below to check out both the auctions and more pictures of the figures. If you want to bid though, you’d better scrape together some good cash, as the auctions close this Sunday and the Gordan Freeman figure is now worth over $100.
Via eBay
I’d feel sorry for Freeman if that is what his anatomy was actually like. Damn. Also, he’s doing a Superman with his underwear. Otherwise, classy.
What ^ said.
wow, can anyone say “copyright infringement”?
It could be counted as “Fan Art”….
There are people that create figures from scratch i.e. sculp their own figure with great results. So modifying existing figures and selling them off at a premium is kinda lame.
Hey wow, my customs showed up here! Actually I don’t sell them off at a premium, I start every auction at $1 regardless of what it cost me to make in time and money. Customizing is taking an existing figure and altering it to become an entirely different character usually. You can’t sculpt a figure from scratch and have it articulated/durable as a store bought figure, no matter what anyone tells you. That’s why customizers have to use base figures to start on, we don’t have the million dollar plastic injection factory machines and steel die cutters. I could sculpt a statue of Gordon Freeman, but then it’s just a statue and not an action figure, and where’s the fun in that? I wanted to make a Freeman that you could pose, and for that you need figure to start with.