The coolest 3D-printed toy you've ever seen has 435 parts and looks like a Godzilla tank
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At Tuesday's TED conference in Vancouver, Sng, a designer and toy maker, showed off the heavy-duty toy.
Called Codename Colossus, it's roughly the size of a infant and built using 435 individually 3D-printed parts. It's fully electronic, fully mechanical, and it's made to order.
It features a rotating turret, spinning Gatling guns, and fully functional windows and doors that conceal tiny operators inside.
"I wanted to push what was possible with 3D printing - and not just to look good on the outside," Sng says. "I wanted people to be able to explore."
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"While I truly struggled," he says, "I never once was bored."
When Sng unveiled the toy to the online world via YouTube last year, he said he went to bed with one lone view - his own. When he woke up, there were more than 1,000. Today it stands at 100 times that.
Although Sng isn't selling the toy just yet, he does encourage people to drop him a line if they're interested in buying one someday.
(Our hand has been raised this whole time.)
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