"Protect All Wildlife" custom-PAWS by Cris Rose
UPDATED: 21.04.09 = CLICK THRU for still-images (from above-video slideshow) and to find out more about UK-based artist / customizer Cris Rose's commissioned-custom 12" PAWS - aptly dubbed: PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE!
[Still-images of completed custom]
BACKSTORY: "In the year's following Runcible's public unveiling, his creator was put under international pressure to create robots for purposes he was not so comfortable with. The projects rarely got off the drawing board, but one that made it to Prototype was Project P.
This 12 foot beast was designed for duties deep in the Brazilian rainforest, where loggers and poachers had decimated the ecosystem. While his creator deplored all forms of violence, the rainforest was now almost entirely gone and he knew something drastic had to be done. Silent-running, fully autonomous, camoflaged in green and stone and reaching speeds of 60 miles per hour, his sole mission was "Protect All Wildlife". He achieved this by using his massive granite fists to destroy illegal logging plants and smashing the trucks of hunters together.
Within 9 months the prototype had rampaged through what remained of the rainforest, crushing every hunter that wasn't smart enough to run and somehow overriding his recall commands. For a century the metal sentinel roamed the rainforest, ensuring it's full recovery and falling into legend.
No one ever found out that his recall commands never existed."
"PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE" is a commissioned-custom by Cris Rose enacted on a 12" PAWS = which may be a first PAWS-custom I have seen (peeped thru TRE's peepers online anyways) - and is a custom that will not be revealed in full - only after it has reached it's new owner's home (which should rightly be in Singapore, at my home, but alas tis a fantasy I've concocted in my own mind darnnit). Above-left is the completed (but concealed custom, while above-right and below-left are WIPs. (CLICKY to view bigger). Below-right OG-PAWS by Coarsetoys for your reference :)
