Dr. Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators

May 28, 2007 7:50 AM

Dr. Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators is "a line of immensely dangerous yet simple to operate wave oscillation weapons" - rayguns - that includes the Manmelter 3600ZX, the Goliathon 83, and the F.M.O.M. Industries Wave Disrupter Gun. Designed by Greg Broadmore to evoke the old-school Flash Gordon serials, they bring a fun steampunk aesthetic to Weta's Collectibles' traditional movie tie-in fare.
posted by gemmy (12 comments total)

Server already broken.
posted by Ynoxas at 8:05 AM on May 28, 2007 [1 favorite]

Ok now they are working. Weird. I clicked 3 of the wetanz.com links and all returned server error messages.

Sorry for the premature warning.
posted by Ynoxas at 8:10 AM on May 28, 2007

Personally, I always thought of Kirby's depiction of an Ultimate Nullifier as more along the size of what I am looking for.

But does it have an Mp3 player?
posted by humannaire at 8:20 AM on May 28, 2007

BTW.
posted by humannaire at 8:21 AM on May 28, 2007

Beautiful sculptures.

Too bad they don't have the bowel disruptor.
posted by bru at 8:50 AM on May 28, 2007

wish they had prints available of some of the promotional art since the actual guns are beyond my budget of reason currently. very cool.
posted by pokermonk at 9:07 AM on May 28, 2007

Those guns are all kinds o' cool. Good find, gemmy!
posted by Thorzdad at 9:12 AM on May 28, 2007

Those are very cool, even though I try very hard to like "steampunk" stuff I cannot avoid liking these.

And while the prices seem steep, I'm trying to imagine myself making those for sale and coming up with numbers way higher than that.
posted by maxwelton at 10:09 AM on May 28, 2007

Oh, wow. My grandfather had one of these back in WWII, when he was fighting the spider-soldiers of Reverse Germany. This site really brings back some fond memories of sitting on his knee and hearing him talk about the Antivenom Squadron and the Pulse Brigade and how he met grandmom. Cool find, thanks!
posted by Greg Nog at 10:50 AM on May 28, 2007 [3 favorites]

Too bad they don't have the bowel disruptor.

I was always a fan of the Fecalator myself, but that's a different era altogether...

Gotta admit, these are beautiful though, all those cheap plastic toys I had post Star Wars seem so pale in comparison...
posted by pupdog at 11:08 AM on May 28, 2007

I just made a raygun for my dad's birthday inspired by these and Lockwasher's intergalactic self-defense mechanisms.
posted by jessenoonan at 1:48 PM on May 28, 2007

Amazing sculpting work! Made me think though, if only science and art could unite.
posted by samsara at 6:51 AM on May 29, 2007