Custom District 9 mech way cooler than Avatar statue

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I just saw District 9 last night (I’ll try to get my review up on my other website, Biggerboat, sometime soon), and naturally I came away wondering about the toy potential of the movie.

To my knowledge, no company’s announced having scored the license, which reminds me a bit of how toy companies missed the boat with The Matrix (and then we got those mediocre N2 figures before McFarlane got the license after the hype had died down and buried it with McStatues).

However, one enterprising customizer has created this supremely badass custom prawn mech, which already has bids over $500 on eBay. I have to believe a few toy companies are taking notice.

At the very least, I’m sure we can expect Sideshow-style statues in the near future. This thing certainly blows away the design of the mech in the $1200 Avatar statue Sideshow announced today (which isn’t Sideshow’s fault–it’s James Cameron’s).

Here’s the description:

This auction is for a District 9 “prawn mecha” custom action figure.

This piece has been  customized to look like one the giant robot star the new District 9 fallen movie.

This is the first and only piece of it’s kind!

He is scratch built and fully poseable!

He has ball jointed shoulders and elbows, hinge and ratcheted hips, knees and lower knees, and ankles.

He has had multiple paint applications and alot of work put into him! I think i did a good job of making a toy of this awesome machine and i hope you do too!

He is roughly just under 9 1/2″ tall and should be in scale roughly with your 3 3/4″ collections!

If you are a fan of unique toys and of the new film then this might be for you.

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10 Comments

  1. wow, i followed the bid and it ended by 5.3000 $$$ wowowowio!

    i liked the shortmovie District 9 is based on: "Alive in Joburg" (make a search on googlevideo or youtube)and loved that the director of this is the same as of the cinematic feature! the concept is just too good. and i´m kinda ok with it that it gots no toy license at all.

    ..though the original robot design of the short is quite cool, hmmmm….

  2. PrfktTear

    @finkrod: I took in Inglorious at a matinee on Saturday. I enjoyed it, but I felt it was missing a little something. Maybe I'll like it more upon a second viewing. It lacked a lot of cohesion with two story lines bouncing off each other, and then coming together in the end. It felt like a series of vignettes that just happened to coincide.

    My favorite QT movies are Pulp, Jackie Brown, and Kill Bill Vol. 2, Inglorious falls somewhere between them and Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Reservior Dogs.

  3. agaurdiandevil

    @monkeyboy yea it seems rather "transformery" though I think someone said that it was made out of a starscream figure.

  4. monkey boy

    i remember the district 9 mech being a lot cooler looking than that thing in the auction. how screen accurate is it? if i was going to pay $5000 for it, i'd at least expect to be able to open it up and put a figure inside.

  5. neoolong

    You weren't supposed to feel much sympathy for him until the end I imagine. He's not meant to be a saint.

    The movie could be seen as depressing, but the ending is open enough that you could go many ways with it.

    The Avatar mech seems a bit generic (though appropriately military), I thought the D-9 mech was pretty awesome though, with great weapons.

  6. agaurdiandevil

    I didn't care for district 9 too much. It was good but rather depressing and I realy didn't like the main character, didn't feel to much sympathy for him as it seemed you were expected to. though it did have good potential for toys this isn't worth 5k.

  7. DavetheBrave

    To be honest, although I haven't seen D9, I prefer the Avatar mech to the D9 mech. They are honestly way different styles, but I prefer the bulkier, rougher design to the more humonoid D9 mech.

  8. Okay, sounds like I really need to go see District 9 this weekend.

  9. To be fair, saying it's a 20 dollar toy is like saying "Look at that artwork in that museum! I bet the canvas/paints only cost a few bucks each."

  10. BingoBrown

    $5300 for a heavily modified Starscream figure? Uhhh, no thanks.

    Who are the people that will drop this kind of cash on something like this? The winning bidder must be all kinds of rich to drop five grand on a customized $20 toy.

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