Team Fortress 2 Action Figures Are Credit To Creator
For all Valve’s expertise in the software field, the studio has always lagged behind in one crucial area: merchandise. In particular, action figures, and in particular, Team Fortress 2.
Well, Half-Life as well, but people have done that. And it’s “people”—not Valve—that are behind these Team Fortress 2 figures.
Sure, they’re not what I’d have chosen—the game’s exaggerated art style would be better-suited to vinyl figures—but that’s what’s called nitpicking. These are still awesome.
Click through for the creator’s (Jacob Norad’s) website, which has pics of more TF2 figures, including their weapons and accessories. There’s even a suite of gadgets for the engineer, like a sentry gun and dispenser.
[TF2 @ The Vortex, via Offworld]
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@Oreot: OH YES AWESOME IDEA
MrMister
THERE ARE TOO MANY TINY MEN ON ZIS TEAM!
Tiller
Um, Luke? These figures were made out of MAGIC CARDS. No freaking joke. Infinitely more impressive than vinyl.
Holy crap.
They look great. Shame we can't buy them.
I also support Oreots request to mail them to Robot Chicken. I'd love to see some TF2 sketches.
-MasterDex-
WAAAAAAAAAAAAANT
DRaGZ
Valve would definitly make a whole lot of money with decent action figures from their games. Maybe they should ask [www.hottoys.com.hk] to help them :D
M.C.-Action
@elevenoverzero: Beat me to it, eh?
But yes, mail them... mail them now!
Those are pretty cool.
@Oreot:
Goodness me, yes!
Please mail those to Robot Chicken care of Seth Green ASAP.
Oreot
Can't buy them huh? Shit.
Mister Jack can has cheezburger?
CREATOR IS CREDIT TO TEAM
The pyro looks like he's been beaten to death with an engineer's wrench and is now a ragdoll corpse.
Respectfully disagree on the construction material gripe.
Everyone does vinyl figures, they got no soul.
THESE however look like the big oldchool G.I. Joes, the fabric clothes highlight the 3D cartoony art style perfectly.
tehsquish - Still plays Ultima Online
Oh, man... Valve should totally 3D print their TF2 characters, paint and sell'em.
digitalmorphine
Would purchase all nine and I havent bought action figures/dolls in years (last ones were Monty Python/Evil Dead ones I think), Valve should totally make official ones.
Also, awesome new use for MtG cards.
Rajolae
@Rajolae: whats this about magic the gathering cards? I'm confused now..
JustOneFix
@M.C.-Action: I think the main (only?) reason they haven't is because they'd have to outsource to somewhere and Valve just don't like doing that. They want to be 100% sure that the job will be done properly and the only way they can do that usually is by doing it themselves (Which is why Meet the Team videos are done by the people who make the game instead of a film company of some sort).
Which is a shame because I doubt Valve are planning to install a figure factory anytime soon in their studio.
Pretty good. Not great, but certainly solid and better than anything I could do.
@NicolasCage: Weekend at Pyro's?
@JustOneFix: Me too.
@Oreot: I support this idea
I would so buy these, especially a Solider and Demoman figure as those are my two best classes.
12" figures rule. Wants nao!
~19
Black_Ops_19
Nice work.
Get on it Valve!
I'd like to buy one of them invisible spy figurines!
Its nice, I like the minigun, very nicely done!
I'd buy a Scout figure with talking action.
twinturbo2
@ZenGaijin:
Is "Solider" an intentional alternate spelling of "Soldier"? I see it bloody everywhere. I'm genuinely curious. Every time I read it, my mind goes "Large Hadron Solider".
I guess the spy is cloaked.
@twinturbo2: "Who's the tough guy now, huh tough guy?"
"That fancy scope? I bet it gave you a great view of me kicking your ass!"
"I broke your stupid crap moron!"
"Here's something you should of invented, my ass!"
"Hey, look! You disguised into a dead guy!"
R0bster
No halo? Idling scumbags.
Richo
@Oreot: This.
@JustOneFix:
Most of the weapons(if not all of them) are made from MtG cards.
I'd buy ALL OF THEM if Valve ever released any of their own figures.
yanipheonu
@Bryan_: THAT SNIPER'S A SPAH
@gunluva listens to Top Gear, watches Fatboy Slim: So the correct spelling is "Large Hadron Soldier"?
DO WANT
yargh
@VeeKaChu: And just for fun, here are the nerds that won them.
I made gilded "Team Fortress" figures, though it was technically TFC at the time. These were the trophies for a 2v2 tournament at ChiLanDoo3, a TFC Lan party I organizized back in ought-two.