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Legends of Cthulhu Action Figures May Doom your Soul

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If you are into the works of H.P. Lovecraft, or simply like Cthulhu and/or geeky action figures, you need to check these out. ThinkGeek has a complete set of Legends of Cthulhu action figures that you can add to your collection for $19.99 each.

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There are four figures including the Spawn of Cthulhu, Professor, Cultist, and Deep One. They are articulated with five points of movement each. Each of the characters also has its own accessories.

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Each of the action figures is 3.75-inches tall. Accessories for the Professor include a revolver and idol; the Cultist gets a staff, dagger, and removable mask; Spawn has removable wings and the Necronomicon; Deep one gets a staff. All are available to order and torment your soul now.

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Steampunk Cthulhu Playing Cards: Play Go Fish with an Octopus

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Look at these beautiful playing cards that feature a Steampunk Cthulhu theme. They were created by Nat Iwata, an artist based in Vancouver. These are real works of art that you can play poker with.
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This custom playing card set features awesome artwork on back, and the face cards include scenes and characters from Lovecraft’s story. Nat decided to create these Steampunk Cthulhu Resurrection cards as a follow up to his original Steampunk Cthulhu cards from about a year ago.

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Nat has also made some custom Cthulhu coins that you can buy with the deck, which will complete your Cthulhu poker night or allow you to start one. Nat has really outdone himself with this set. I don’t know which is cooler, the cards or the coins.

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He has already met his Kickstarter goal and it still has a couple of weeks to go. A pledge of at least $10(USD) will get you a deck of cards, while $15 will get you the cards and one coin.

[via Nerd Approved]

Cthulhu Beard Perfect for Decembeard in R’lyeh

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With Movember behind us, we’re now in the thick, hairy middle of Decembeard, and for those of you without sufficient time to grow an entire beard, I have a slightly unorthodox solution.

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Sure, this creepy green-tentacled Cthulhu beard might be considered cheating, but who in their right mind is going to stand in your way if you walk down the street wearing this. And if Lovecraft isn’t your thing, you could always paint it orange and tell people you’re Zoidberg.

You can find the Cthulhu inflatable beard over at Archie McPhee for $7.50(USD). Creepy red eyeball contacts sold separately.

 

Cthulhu Bodysuit Will Have You Running in Sheer Terror

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It’s amazing how things with tentacles can range from cute, to disgusting to creepy. Cthulhu and his tentacle-face definitely falls into that last bucket.

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DIYer AlextheMovieGeek created this incredible hand-built Cthulhu costume this past Halloween. The imposing winged creature would definitely have scared up a huge bucket of candy at every house along the trick-or-treat route. This thing looks like the demented love child of The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth thinking about those two getting it on.

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Alex created this dark masterpiece by building numerous plaster molds of his body, then hand-sculpting clay over them and pouring latex into the molds. The head was made using an entirely clay sculpted mold over a styrofoam head form. In order to increase his height, Alex built some short stilts to jack himself up too. He managed to make the entire thing for under $300, but his time and effort were clearly the main expense.

Check out the video below for more on the time-consuming and painstaking build process for this incredibly creepy costume:

[via The RPF and Instructables]


Cthulhu Monopoly: The Ancient Ones Invade New Jersey

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Sure, we have every version of Monopoly that we could want right? Well, maybe now we do thanks to The Doom That Came To Atlantic City. It isn’t really a new version of Monopoly, but it just sort of spoofs it, with a bit of an Arkham Horror theme. Take Monopoly and throw in some Lovecraftian monsters and you have horror in New Jersey.

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The game comes from artist Lee Moyer, designer Keith Baker, and sculptor Paul Komoda. The playing pieces look fantastic, Paul. They should since this game has been a work-in-progress for nearly 20 years. Now it is finally going to get real because their Kickstarter campaign was a success. (Though you still have about 2 weeks to get in on the action.)

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This looks much better than all of those other lame Monopoly clones. Hopefully it will have been worth the wait. Supposedly it plays like a combination of Arkham Horror, with play elements of Munchkin thrown in.

[via io9 via Nerd Approved]


Cthulhu Ski Mask is R’lyeh Creepy

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I know, I know the pun doesn’t make sense, but so does Cthulhu. And that’s the theme of this product so I was actually being clever. I just didn’t realize I was being clever that way. And that’s one of the reasons why the folks at Toy Vault are cleverer. The other reason being their indoctrination of crowd funders to back their Cthulhu Knitted Ski Mask.

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The Cthulhu Knitted Ski Mask is just like the Cthulhu knit ski hat, except it has one hell of a unibrow and more upper case letters in its name.

Bravo sir. Bravo. I bet half of the backers pledged just because of that superb pitch. Come brethren, summon your browsers and head to Kickstarter. A sacrifice of at least $20 (USD) gets you a Cthulhu Knitted Ski Mask. May your fellow skiers or robbers have mercy on your soul.

[via DudeIWantThat]