{"id":2358,"date":"2010-12-17T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2010-12-17T03:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T11:13:00","slug":"im-back-but-more-importantly-tron-x-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2358","title":{"rendered":"I’m back, but more importantly: TRON x STAR WARS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very briefly: I’m going to start posting again, but I think I’m going to ease into it first… let’s see how one post a week goes until I get back into the swing of things, shall we? I’ll talk a little bit about my hiatus in a future super-boring post, but for now (if anyone still reads this thang<\/i>), let’s just get right back to the main event: ridiculously dorky nerd art.<\/p>\n

So, Dave<\/a> and I were talking about Tron and Star Wars action figures, and the following happened:<\/p>\n

6:40:11 PM ME: so i opened my white light cycle
6:40:14 PM ME: and it’s awesome
6:40:21 PM ME: but i had two thoughts
6:40:39 PM ME: 1) white light cycle would match ackbar’s white uniform
6:40:42 PM ME: or
6:41:12 PM ME: 2) blue lights would match a blue mon calamari, but i would have to put the mon cal head on a tron body w\/ blue lights
6:41:16 PM ME: ._.
6:41:18 PM ME: just sayin<\/span><\/span>
<\/span>6:41:35 PM DAVE: lol
6:41:37 PM DAVE: oh man
6:41:46 PM DAVE: you ponder that some more
6:41:47 PM DAVE: or DRAW IT
6:41:52 PM DAVE: and put it on your sketch blog
6:42:04 PM DAVE: TRON CALAMARI
6:42:06 PM DAVE: omg
6:42:13 PM DAVE: i basically just gave you that for free<\/span><\/span>
<\/span>6:42:15 PM ME: O_O
6:42:18 PM ME: NICE<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And thus was born a custom figure created from Star Wars action figure Ibtisam (info<\/a>\/figure<\/a><\/i>) and Tron: Legacy action figure Sam Flynn (info<\/a><\/i>):<\/p>\n

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click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n

I’m not an experienced customizer by any means, so this was a pretty basic head and arm swap. First, I used the boil-and-pop method to remove the relevant body parts from the original figures. Ibtisam’s forearms plugged right into Sam Flynn’s elbows, but as a result the custom’s arms are a bit short. The socket in Ibtisam’s head was too big, so I bummed some Epoxy putty off of Hammers<\/a> to partially fill in the socket, and then used the superglue method to make the ball joint fit tightly. Aaand<\/i> then I drew this:<\/p>\n

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click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n

So, for those of you keeping track at home:<\/p>\n

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  • I have purchased Tron: Legacy toys.<\/li>\n
  • I have made a custom Tron Calamari figure.<\/li>\n
  • I have drawn dorky fan-art of Tron Calamari.<\/li>\n
  • I am listening to the Tron: Legacy soundtrack at home, in my car, and at work.<\/li>\n
  • I have been flipping through the pages of the Tron: Legacy artbook.<\/li>\n
  • I have not<\/i> seen the movie yet…<\/li>\n
  • … but have tickets for a 3D IMAX screening on Saturday morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    It feels good to blog again. If you’re reading this, thank you<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Very briefly: I’m going to start posting again, but I think I’m going to ease into it first… let’s see how one post a week goes until I get back into the swing of things, shall we? I’ll talk a little bit about my hiatus in a future super-boring post, but for now (if anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,30,50,41,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-crossovers","category-customs","category-star-wars","category-tron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}