![]() To top it all off, it can tell the difference of whether it’s standing or knocked over, and will shout key game phrases depending on it’s position! If it get’s lonely and feels like you’re not paying any attention to it, it even asks inquisitively, “Are you still there?”. The Turret here loudly speaks 11 key phrases from the game, including. Just taking a look at it from a distance, it’s clear that the design team over at ThinkGeek went all out to make sure this thing was as close as possible to the design from the game, while still being a soft and enjoyable plush toy! The Turret itself is life-sized to a 1:1 scale, so it stands around 14.5″ tall! It features built in lights and sounds too! So when you see this glowing red eye in the center of your Turret, you can tell that the Turret is really just telling you how much it cares!Īs if being a cuddly plush with built in lighting wasn’t enough, don’t forget that this Portal 2 Plush Turret also talks! It’s motion sensitive, so you won’t have to worry about pressing any buttons to make it speak (although you do have to turn on an initial ‘on’ switch). The major difference you’ll notice between this real version of the Turret, and the one seen in game, is that this one is a soft and cuddly plush that you can snuggle up with an enjoy for all of it’s demented commentary! But is the officially licensed Portal 2 Turrest Plush worth picking up? Let’s take a look at it!įirst off, yes, this thing is awesome. A full rundown of the plush’s capabilities can be found on the Thinkgeek website, and if any of you would would like to send me one or fourteen of these fuzzy lil’ dudes, I won’t complain.It’s every gamer’s dream become a reality! A real life Turret straight from the Aperture Science labs as seen in the popular video game ‘Portal’ and ‘Portal 2’. So, with that disclosure out of the way, you ought to nab one of these turrets before they sell out. When the bullets fail to arrive, we snuggle.ĭespite its appearance as some kind of Dadaist attempt at official endorsement, the above is not at all a for-profit attempt at pushing your cash toward these things. Actually, scratch that I want to fill my room with dozens so I can take a Scrooge McDuckian dive into the middle of a plush ocean.Īs I lie there, squealing with glee (and brain trauma because I smashed my head against the ground), my plush pals will serenade me with friendly words that would otherwise precede a hail of gunfire. Knock it over and it might say, “I don’t hate you.” Move your hand in front of its motion sensor and the plush will reply with, “There you are.” Ignore it and the clingy machine would sadly quip, “Target lost.”īeing a heterosexual male stereotype, I was raised to shun things like plush dolls and outward displays of emotion in favor of wrestling bears and punching commies, but this turret has just the right combination of fan service and adorable functionality to break through my hardened shell of Viking-esque masculinity. ![]() Instead, the plush turret responds to things much as its virtual analogue would. Notice that I said “reacts to external stimuli,” instead of “says.” This isn’t one of those dolls that you squeeze to hear a litany of pre-recorded pabulum. Set to debut on December 18, the $30 plush is a little over a foot tall, has a glowing red eye on the front of its fuzzy carapace and reacts to external stimuli with the sort of Portal-appropriate quotes a fan might expect. Just in time for the holidays, Thinkgeek is rolling out a line of official Portal 2 plush turrets that do everything except gun people down.
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