Wasn't exactly sure how to phrase this title since a few people haven't seen the movie, and what I want to replicate is sort of a spoiler. It's a prop, but also a character, so pardon if the title is a little ambiguous.
Spoilers ahoy!
One of my favorite moments in the film was the Nokia phone death bot. Combined with the sheer awesomeness of the Mt Dewbot, I was wondering if these things can actually be made.
I know they were CGI in the film, but that hasn't stopped people from making clone armor, guns, and many other CGI'd props seen on the board nowadays.
I honestly cannot think of how to do this, but I had 2 goals in mind.
1: Be (somewhat) transformable. Doesn't have to be pretty but just not a "Static" prop. This design just screams "poseable".
2: Be made of something that won't break easily. I know these could probably be made out of metal fairly easily with a CNC machine and some cad work, but I also know that it would be somewhere in the many hundreds of dollars per replica. Maybe plexiglass and resin?
Obviously I am mostly referring to replicating the Nokia bot moreso than the dewbot, because no matter how cool dispensing rocket flavored soda at puny humans is, it's hard to find shelf/house space for a coke machine.
I know both of the bots only got a few seconds of screen time, but damn that Nokia one was just cool.
Has anyone started any plans for replicating it? Anyone have any ideas on it? I haven't been around on the boards much lately but search didn't really turn up anything.
Just wondering if it will get made, and if it does, what it will be made of. I started doodling out a design to make by hand, but I have no clue where to start. These things are pretty complex, but even more so, I dunno how to make thin sheets of anything for the "real world" parts.
Chris
Spoilers ahoy!
One of my favorite moments in the film was the Nokia phone death bot. Combined with the sheer awesomeness of the Mt Dewbot, I was wondering if these things can actually be made.
I know they were CGI in the film, but that hasn't stopped people from making clone armor, guns, and many other CGI'd props seen on the board nowadays.
I honestly cannot think of how to do this, but I had 2 goals in mind.
1: Be (somewhat) transformable. Doesn't have to be pretty but just not a "Static" prop. This design just screams "poseable".
2: Be made of something that won't break easily. I know these could probably be made out of metal fairly easily with a CNC machine and some cad work, but I also know that it would be somewhere in the many hundreds of dollars per replica. Maybe plexiglass and resin?
Obviously I am mostly referring to replicating the Nokia bot moreso than the dewbot, because no matter how cool dispensing rocket flavored soda at puny humans is, it's hard to find shelf/house space for a coke machine.
I know both of the bots only got a few seconds of screen time, but damn that Nokia one was just cool.
Has anyone started any plans for replicating it? Anyone have any ideas on it? I haven't been around on the boards much lately but search didn't really turn up anything.
Just wondering if it will get made, and if it does, what it will be made of. I started doodling out a design to make by hand, but I have no clue where to start. These things are pretty complex, but even more so, I dunno how to make thin sheets of anything for the "real world" parts.
Chris
