The unisex design should fit male or female test subjects just don't ask GLaDOS how you look. Buy it for $40 (AAA batteries not included) Test Subject Jumpsuit We're sure you can think of a reason to dress yourself just like Chell in Portal 2, whether it's Halloween or just a random Tuesday. Hang it over your mantel, your bed, or somewhere equally creepy. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" - Cave Johnson Buy it for $12 Talking Cave Johnson Portrait This 15 x 11-inch portrait is printed on actual canvas, framed in pine, and endowed with 13 of Cave's best one-liners (well, that "life gives you lemons" rant isn't really a one-liner, per se). (But if you do, send us pictures!) Buy it for $6 Lemon Grenade Mug "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Ha ha." - GLaDOS These putties may not behave quite like Aperture's Interactive Gels, but ThinkGeek promises they "exhibit properties of both a solid and a liquid." We wouldn't recommend styling your hair with it. Otherwise, I'm afraid you're about to become the immediate past president of the Being Alive club. Buy it for $20 Portal 2 Interactive Gels "I hope you brought something stronger than a portal gun this time. Set of eight, dishwasher-safe, and packaged in a Companion Cube tin. 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.Cookie Cutters Some desserts might be a lie, but cookies are safe. 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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