#giantaliens — Public Fediverse posts

Found some doodles tonight that I'd made on while at a writer's workshop a couple years back. (They were done on the back of pages from a Golden Nugget Casino message pad). This one I like. Doesn't look so great blown up, but at the original size (a couple inches tall) it almost looks like somebody with ability did it.
The sketch was done from memory of a favorite toy I had when I was a small child. It was a set of tiny, plastic, alien figures, molded in various colors and poses, and each about an inch tall. Small as they were, I lost them, one by one, or maybe in bunches as I left them some place. I was very sad when they were gone. But I never forget them. And mind you, I'm pretty old. I remembered them for almost SIXTY years at this point.
All things considered, pretty good likeness. The suits are less robotic, the antenna more like TV rabbit ears, there are rivets around the eyes, there's no real chest pack, and I completely forgot those jug-handle ears!
I finally tracked down what they were. "Giant aliens," "Giant" in this case being the name of the plastic company that made them, not the size. The photo is cribbed from an EBay listing. I'd love to have at least one of these guys, but apparently a lot of other people are obsessed with them too (and there aren't many left). They seem to go for around $25 on the collector's market. The photo listing is for a lot of nine figures, and the asking price was $250! That's over $330 a foot! Too rich for my blood.
But I have my drawing, and now I'm thinking about expanding my Blender skills and taking this as a project to design one (probably based on my drawing, not the original) in 3D, so maybe I can print my own.
(Edited to correct wrong version of the photo being uploaded, and to add alt-text to the pictures).

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