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3D printing shop Mixee Labs – makers of awesome geeky jewelry – will soon launch a custom bobblehead printing service called Mixee Bobblers. As with the jewelry, Mixee Bobblers will let you design your own bobblehead right from your browser.

Mixee Labs opted for cartoonish parts and features, making its bobbleheads look like a lot like Nintendo Miis.

Each Mixee Bobbler is 2.5″ tall and is 3D printed – spring included – from sandstone and nylon plastic.

You can make and order your own Mixee Bobbler starting January 21 for just $25 (USD) each.

Last September the brilliant Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki said that he’s retiring from making animated movies. As a tribute to his idol, artist Martin Hsu designed Miya-san, a 6″ figure of the genius behind modern classics such as Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro.

Bigshot Toyworks is going to produce 300 copies of Miya-san, and sales from the toy will be donated to an as yet unspecified charity.

You can pre-order Miya-san from Tenacious Toys for $95 (USD). Again the toy will only have 300 copies so you better order now if you want one. Happy retirement Miyazaki-sensei! Perhaps you can drop by your studio from time to time and give them ideas for new films.

[via Cartoon Brew]

I am a sucker for cool LEGO projects. If I see one, you bet I will share. I will share even if I don’t know the show or what it is about. Case in point is this LEGO Downton Abbey build that has recently turned up. All I know about that show I learned while watching Iron Man 3.

I watched the movie Emma in the theater with my wife years and years ago. I still haven’t recovered and shun anything that looks remotely English and romantic. The closest I want to come to an English period costume drama is Game of Thrones.

Regardless, this LEGO Downton Abbey build by Eric Stevens looks pretty neat. The builder of the LEGO Abbey even made the characters from the show in minifig form.

This doesn’t look to be one of the more complex LEGO projects we have seen, though the minifigs look like they required a lot of work. I wonder how long it took him to build the Abbey and the minifigs.

[via Mashable via Nerd Approved]

Valentine’s Day is coming soon and if you want to get your love a special geeky treat, these delicious personalized M&Ms could be the way to go. Not only are they delicious candy, each tiny, chocolate, M&M comes with a personalized message printed onto its surface.

You can go all Han and Leia with “I LOVE YOU. I KNOW.” or the always popular Marty McFly an “I AM YOUR DENSITY.” Princess Bride junkies can go with “AS YOU WISH.” or Avatar fans might like “I SEE YOU.” Just about anything you can fit into 18 characters can be printed onto these M&Ms – though it probably has to be clean. Also, “I AM THE GATEKEEPER” won’t fit.

You can also include clip art or upload images. Your custom candies will have a unique message and more importantly, they taste great. This is a gift that they will remember for years, or at least until they’ve eaten all of them. Order your custom M&Ms over at mymms.com.

Magic: The Gathering fans have something to get excited about now. It looks like Fox is adapting the game into a film. According to THR, “20th Century Fox has closed a deal to acquire the screen rights to the hugely popular fantasy card game from Hasbro and will develop the property with an eye to launch a massive franchise on the scale of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings.”

More good news is that it’s going to have some hands-on involvement from Wizards of the Coast president Greg Leeds and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner. So that should be a good thing, though I can’t help but have the feeling that this could be just another terrible game franchise adaptation. Anyone who has been around the block knows what I mean.

Fox producer Simon Kinberg, who worked on both the X-Men and Fantastic Four universes, will work closely with Hasbro in developing the franchise, so hopefully that will help.

[via Nerd Approved]