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Steampunk Mr. Potato Head Answered

This steampunked Mr. Potato Head by Sarah Calvillo is awesome. Especially cool is using the butt compartment for the mouth. Super sweet!

Spudnik: Steampunk Mr. Potato Head

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unanonymous

10 years ago

freakin awesome

Kiteman

10 years ago

Mr Boilerhead, surely?

Goodhart

Reply 10 years ago

May I suggest an extension of your idea: "Mr. Boilerhead the Terminator". :-)

Rowan_Winterhaven

10 years ago

Sweet! It may not be brass or copper, but neither is a lot of what I see out there being called "steampunk". Swirls of hot glue painted with metallic colored paint comes to mind. Very creative work!

ElusiveGreen

10 years ago

Its actually quite well known that automaton such as this were used in Ireland to protect the potato crops from pests. Scarecrows just don't do very much when it comes to moles after all. They would burrow into the ground, and if disturbed fire upon the trespasser. They were discontinued after a tragedy one fall, during harvest, when several failed to deactivate and numerous families were killed.

Paladynn

10 years ago

Not to toot my own steam whistle, but:\ http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q170/paladynn/Steampunk%20Projects/Ducky%20Goggles/

yoyology

Reply 10 years ago

http://xkcd.com/757/ :-)

heatblast

Reply 10 years ago

XD.

Adum24

Reply 10 years ago

LOL

rocksalt2342

10 years ago

ehhrm, who gave him a gun?

Culturespy

10 years ago

Pretty great hack but it's not brass... http://www.flickr.com/photos/saritamarianyc/sets/72157624366542441/ I thought that looked like dry brushing...

KNEXFRANTIC

10 years ago

groovy

Goodhart

10 years ago

Some people have access to all the brass, don't they? :-)

wraith 5

10 years ago

Woah! the only thing that could make this more awesome is if it was a spoiler from Toy Story 3!

smallstrangegod

10 years ago

I absolutely adore this! :)

Skyfinity

10 years ago

That is quite frightening. I am now surely going to have nightmares in which I am frantically trying to escape the clutches of a be-monacled, mustashioed, mechanical potato.