For years I’ve had the secret wish to visit San Diego’s ComiCon. For years I always wondered what people were talking about when they were referring to the “con flu”. No sooner that this years convention is upon us Ben Mininberg of Prometheus Rising Studios (website, twitter) unveils his new strain-1 of his Escherichia Killer. Bad timing I say. Ben might argue that these are very professionally made, sparkling resin cast toys but we all know better. Hah! The culprit has been discovered. Give up now and send me at least one specimen so I can develop a counteragent!
Seriously though. Ben, student of biology, combines his love for nature and plastic and the outcome is this cool little monster. Painted with the best color available (MonsterKolor) featuring one point of articulation this resin toy is really hard to turn a blind eye on. The first wave of purchasable figures (5!) will go up for sale at 8:00PM EST Saturday, July 31. For 35$ not including shipping these are a good score.
And for the record it also comes with a neat little background story: In 2010, the esteemed Dr. Hayflick was experimenting with macrocellularification, an experimental technique for making normally microscopic specimens large enough to be analyzed using the naked eye. Using highly unstable ATP-X, Dr. Hayflick was able to grow individual cells that were up to two or three inches in diameter for analysis. What happened next is still under investigation, but early reports indicate that a mutagen experiment elsewhere in the facility suffered some complications, and an experimental mutagen leaked into the ventilation system at the same time that a major breakthrough in Dr. Hayflick’s work was expected. The facility was destroyed in the aftermath of what happened next, with Dr. Hayflick still unaccounted for, but the world now faces a deadly new menace, the Killer Cultures! From the mutagen ATP-X birthing pools beneath the site of the lab, macrocellified pathogens have been launching their attacks on humanity, wreaking havoc wherever they appear!
