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The arrival of Hasbro’s “Selfie Collection” figures at final weekend’s Pulse Con lastly provides individuals (within the U.S., not less than) the possibility to get their very own little lifelike motion determine, lifelike as long as you dream of being considered one of a number of tremendous Hasbro-affiliated licenses already. However how does the tech maintain up? Properly, the app not less than makes issues attention-grabbing.
Whereas what we’ve seen of Hasbro’s proposed end-results for the Selfie Collection look fairly neat, the issue proper now’s that the artistic course of that results in you ultimately spending $60 on such a mission leaves one thing a bit of to be desired. It includes a collection of images you’re requested to take of your self, which the Hasbro app then makes use of to create a map of your face that can ultimately be printed onto a determine sculpt.
It’s a straightforward sufficient job, however the best way the photographs are previewed within the app—awkwardly rendered in 3D with no matter hair and physique you choose, from Star Wars characters to Energy Rangers, from Spider-Man to Ghostbusters—leaves… one thing to be desired. As action-figure followers struggled to seize one thing that didn’t appear like it got here out of the brand new Hellraiser, the staffers at io9 (not less than, these of us within the U.S., harumph) took a glimpse contained in the digital mirror to see how they could end up… and you may see the ends in the following few slides, together with their ideas.
Keep tuned to io9 for extra on Hasbro’s Selfie Collection, as figures start rolling out to clients within the coming months.
Originally published at Gold Coast News HQ
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