One good thing that’s come out of the arts and crafts fad is that anything from video games is a plushie now. Except Bayonetta, but our standards and practices department (read: Robo with a bullwhip) won’t let us talk about the Bayonetta Real Doll, so let’s talk about the Portal turret plushie instead.
There’s far too much technology in what’s supposed to be a huggable death machine. It has an infrared sensor, a tilt sensor, and a lift sensor. Why? Because they needed something to tie the dialogue to, and a pull string was just too hokey.
Yes, it talks, and it delivers all the classic quotable lines. Personally, I want the oddly very well informed turret you rescue from redemption in “Portal 2”, partially because I missed the dialogue the first time, but Leigh Nunan and Jonathan Guberman have only built the one.
No word on when, if ever, you can actually buy this, but Nunan and Guberman are hoping Valve would be interested in using their design. See for yourself on the next slide.
Interactive Talking Plush Portal Turret from Jonathan M. Guberman on Vimeo.
[ via the party submission position assumers at The Escapist ]