Mystery Science Theater 3000, an award-winning television comedy, created many unique puppet characters during the course of its 20-year existence. The show quickly became a cult classic and is still popular today with a large devoted fan base.

Challenge

Producers wanted to create a collector’s item of one of the show’s robot characters. The “real” robot puppet was more than six-feet tall, so a life-sized replica was impractical and too expensive to make.

The series’ six-foot robot needed to be scanned to create a six-inch figurine.

They decided to scale the robot down to a six-inch tall size. Because they had already re-created another scaled-down puppet character using 3-D laser scanning technology, they knew that this technology would provide the most accurate and detailed model from which realistic figures could be easily manufactured.

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