How does modest independent Canadian game shop draw in passerbys and passing window-shopping spaceships orbiting the sun? With a godzilla-sized classic NES pad! Hardcore Nintendo fan Eyes5 became friends with the shop keeper and crafted the giant plastic sculpture. Straight from the artist's spiral-bound Starbucks-smelling online journal:

There's a nifty used games store that just opened up near me called Gamedeals. I got to know the proprieter pretty well and he asked me to make a big NES controller for his window display. I say, sure no problem, and two weeks later this is the result. And no, it doesn't actually work to play NES games. :P

It's mostly made of .4cm styrene plastic and balsa wood and held together with acrylic glue. Spray paints and acrylic paints were used for colors. The buttons are foam sheets, styrofoam, and more plastic sheets. The wire thing is an old christmas light thing that I painted black and held together with screws and epoxy paste. The whole thing is covered in two layers of Varathane floor coating and measures 100cm x 43 cm.

If you live around BC, especially in the Burnaby/New West area, go check out Gamedeals.  It's located right off the Columbia Skytrain.

Varathane, of course! I'm so behind on my handy household chemicals these days. Anyway, I love the slick glossy look of the controller and it's cavernous interiors -- perfect for hiding a stack of games, bloody nail guns, and the  dessicated bones of abandoned children.  Eyes5 also has a killer fanart gallery -- definitely worth a Ninty fanboy's gawking. Ha, I knew I could finish the whole post without mentioning the hot Asian chick ... doh!

[Via UrbanRetroLifestyle -- thanks Dentry!]