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.