The most common request: characters from the world’s most popular video game, “League of Legends. It also prints out designs that people send to it. His company sells a high-resolution printer, the OWL Nano, for around $5,000. It’s the category that has caught on the most.” “We have people ask us to print figurines, objects for train sets, characters from videogames,” Nicholas Liverman, co-founder of Virginia-based Old World Laboratories (OWL), told NBC News. It’s not about 3-D printing for convenience it’s about creating something unique. There is a Stormtrooper helmet that fits over a little pony’s head that looked so cool I had to make a mold out of it.
One-of-a-kind toys, however, have a different kind of appeal. My daughter has a bunch of tub toys, most if which are ponies or fairies, but there are a couple Star Wars toys too. Of course, screws are cheap and readily available, and guns bought from a licensed dealer are more reliable. 'Well, I printed a chess set that turns into a Transformer, so they can get pretty complex.'
3-D technology has been around since the 1980s, but only now have 3-D printers become cheap enough (some sell for under $1,000 on Amazon) for people to make items like screws and - more controversially - firearms at home.
