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Amazing technology when you think about it. Sure it's clunky now, and material is limited and expensive, but it wont be long before we can print copies of the machine itself.

http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

It's really going to be fun watching physical product manufactures complain when we start printing pirated copies of our favorite toys.

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I collect old Transformer toys and already I have begun to see some 3rd parties sell off "unpainted" transformers. I would not be surprised if in 10 years it would be very common for their to be printed addons and or all new toys.

There would be a huge market for things like this. My father collects multiple copies of war toys (things ranging from Micro Machines all the way up to planes with three feet wingspans). He's said that good ones are hard to come by. With a tool like this, he'd probably churn out several copies and spend considerable time detailing each one.

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