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Looking great, Kov

Retroid Pocket 5.

Admittedly bought for me by Mrs. Blucey for my 50th in October but only arrived on Friday.

Although I own an emulation handheld, it's only a cheap one that just about does PS1 but this thing can do PS2 and Gamecube stuff. Here it's running Tony Hawk 3 on Gamecube at 2x resolution perfectly. As ever, the real fun is in setting these things up but I'm going to make sure I actually do a lot of gaming on it.

This is probably as far as emulation needs to go on a handheld. Screens would be too small for PS3 era stuff. And I've still got my old Xbox 360 (which I'm keeping just because there's no other way to play a handful of games on it). Anyway, I like it. It feels reasonably premium and the size is perfect.

First attempt. I am quite happy. The hammer is for scale

Where did you get that tiny hammer?

I printed it

Kov's living out his own Shawshank redemption in his house.

What is it, Warhead? Is it a bin? Dehumidifier?

Your second guess was correct.

We have one room, the smallest bedroom, that seems to collect condensation for the whole house. We had a small dehumidifier which worked quite well when the room wasn't occupied, but recently it didn't seem to be coping. So we got this bigger unit which seems to be working far more effectively.

Quite happy how this has turned out.

Looks amazing! How much have you spent on filament?

Awesome!

How much did that cost to print?

A Mystery Box

Far too much...

It is about £15 a roll. I think I went though 3/4 of a roll with the green..

I think about £20, there is a way to work it out, but not done that yet..

About £500 including the printer

Is it a selection of screwed up brown paper?

It's all joy, mate.

Presumably, the drugs are underneath that lot.

That looks like a whole bunch of tat - but is it though?

I bet you could sell those for 2 - 3 times the cost.

Oh yeah, easy. Simple novelty would shift them. Maybe print a couple a week during the year and make a tidy profit from eBay or FB Marketplace next November

Unfortunately there are already many, many people with the same idea.

Yes, I did look on there when the first picture was shared. I'm sure if you buy supplies in bulk there's some money to be made but it's not fortune given all the competition.

That person knocking them out for £2 is tanking the market

Yes I saw that.. happy to print a couple for friends, just need to cover filament.

The whole selling them for a few quid profit seems like too much work.

If I had to guess, they're just selling the STL files for the 3D printers for that money.

That’s for a single replacement stud or bow. I checked that when I took the screenshot too as I know the files are available for free.

You buy one, find out who they are, then go around there, fuck their shit right up, and warn them to cease and desist, and they work for you now.

I was going to say that I imagine President Business may not be keen on this idea if he got wind of people selling things with the Lego branding, but then I noticed it was all Lego inspired, so it's all OK then.

I reckon that anyone selling them would shift a bunch at a Christmas market or something similar, but to me it sounds like a whole pain in the bum to try and do something like that.

Those Lego berry nubbins do double as festive butt plugs (so I'm told)

@maliA was there anything good in your box of stuff?

A replacement touchpad for a laptop, replacement touchpad buttons, some hard drive cables, a usb c to c cable, letter sealing wax, novelty cake topper, 2 orange things that I don't know what they are, beauty and the beast make up bag, orange rucksack, two drill bits (augers), a bodysuit, some snowflakes for a window, and an animal feeding kit, a pair of oversized reading glasses.And a bag of things that look like half a hinge. And a hippy fancy dress costume.

Cuddly toy ... video recorder ... Didn't they do well?

I think I speak for us all when I say we need to see you in the costume, wearing the glasses.

Or in the bodysuit.