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08-25-2009, 04:20 PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2009/08/figureprintsblizzcon.jpgFigurePrints was at BlizzCon (http://wow.com/blizzcon-2009) again this year, and we stopped by their booth to say hi to our friend Ed Fries (http://www.wow.com/2007/12/12/wow-insider-interviews-ed-fries-founder-of-figureprints/) -- his company has been making virtual World of Warcraft characters into real-life 3D figurines for a couple of years now. Since the last time we'd spoken, FigurePrints had not only raised their prices, but we'd unveiled their new FigurePets series (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/24/turpstervision-figurepets-unveiling/) right here on WoW.com.
Fries gave us a few more things to unveil in this exclusive interview, including the fact that FigurePets will have another series get released next month, and that they're planning to offer some new options to players who want to print characters out but don't have the time to go find their favorite armor. Additionally, we asked him about the price raise, and what the company planned to do about people who really wanted to immortalize their figures but didn't really want to spend all that money.
Additionally, we've got a short video after the break showing one of their employees manually removing some of the powder from a newly printed figurine in the booth at BlizzCon. It doesn't have much explanation of what he's doing (for more on the process, you can see last year's BlizzCon interview (http://www.wow.com/2008/10/13/blizzcon-2008-a-followup-with-figureprints/)), but you can see inside the printer and what it's like to create these figures.Continue reading BlizzCon 2009: Ed Fries of Figureprints (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/25/blizzcon-2009-ed-fries-of-figureprints/)
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Fries gave us a few more things to unveil in this exclusive interview, including the fact that FigurePets will have another series get released next month, and that they're planning to offer some new options to players who want to print characters out but don't have the time to go find their favorite armor. Additionally, we asked him about the price raise, and what the company planned to do about people who really wanted to immortalize their figures but didn't really want to spend all that money.
Additionally, we've got a short video after the break showing one of their employees manually removing some of the powder from a newly printed figurine in the booth at BlizzCon. It doesn't have much explanation of what he's doing (for more on the process, you can see last year's BlizzCon interview (http://www.wow.com/2008/10/13/blizzcon-2008-a-followup-with-figureprints/)), but you can see inside the printer and what it's like to create these figures.Continue reading BlizzCon 2009: Ed Fries of Figureprints (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/25/blizzcon-2009-ed-fries-of-figureprints/)
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Interviews (http://www.wow.com/category/interviews/), BlizzCon (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzcon/), Fan art (http://www.wow.com/category/fan-art/), Hardware (http://www.wow.com/category/hardware/)
BlizzCon 2009: Ed Fries of Figureprints (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/25/blizzcon-2009-ed-fries-of-figureprints/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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