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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Big Daddy Repair

My son got one of the "Big Daddy" figurines when he bought a copy of the BioShock video game a couple of years ago. The other day "Big Daddy" took a fall and broke his arm and leg and one of his fingers. We suspect he had a run in with one of the cats and lost his balance.

The surface of the breaks were kind of crystalline looking, like they were made of compressed salt or something. I got some super-glue at the local market (they had four kinds) and was able to put humpty dumpty together again. I was a little worried that the super-glue would not hold. That has happened more than once, and this material looks really odd, but so far, so good. The arm and leg breaks are almost invisible. The finger break is detectable.

I looked at bunch of pictures before I finally settled on this one. Most of the photos of the actual figurine had light colored backgrounds, which did not really convey the correct mood. Most of the other shots (computer renderings, artists conceptions, etc.) did not show the same configuration of a big screw on the end of the right arm and a hand on the left arm.

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