Killer Culture E.killer Wave 1 Release by Ben Mininberg (of Prometheus Rising Studios)

PRESS: Ben Mininberg’s Prometheus Rising Studios is pleased to announce the debut release of the first figure from the Killer Culture line. Killer Culture is a line of resin figures sculpted, cast, and painted by Ben Mininberg, designed to blend kaiju influences with the real-life spectacle of the microscopic organisms that he has observed while studying for his Biology degree.

Each "E.killer" is cast in urethane resin, made from three parts, and features one point of articulation at the tentacle ‘shoulder’. Each figure is fully painted using the excellent Monster Kolor line of paints from Dead Presidents Designs.

The Rollout wave of 5 figures are currently on sale online here ~ priced at US$35 plus actual shipping (probably USPS flat rate boxes) and come with a bag and header card. (Link includes purchasing instructions). CLICK THRU for more snaps and a back-story to the E.Killer (first posted here during it's initial "escape sighting").


"The first species is Escherichia killer, one of the front line and most abundant macrocell bacteria observed. Armed with a crushing tentacle and deadly toxin transport proteins, E.killers exist only to feed and destroy. No antibiotic tried yet has been able to stop their deadly advance!"

BACKSTORY: In 2010, the esteemed Dr. Hayflick was experimenting with macrocellularification, an experimental technique for making normally microscopic specimens large enough to be analyzed using the naked eye. Using highly unstable ATP-X, Dr. Hayflick was able to grow individual cells that were up to two or three inches in diameter for analysis. What happened next is still under investigation, but early reports indicate that a mutagen experiment elsewhere in the facility suffered some complications, and an experimental mutagen leaked into the ventilation system at the same time that a major breakthrough in Dr. Hayflick’s work was expected. The facility was destroyed in the aftermath of what happened next, with Dr. Hayflick still unaccounted for, but the world now faces a deadly new menace, the Killer Cultures! From the mutagen ATP-X birthing pools beneath the site of the lab, macrocellified pathogens have been launching their attacks on humanity, wreaking havoc wherever they appear!