Custom Mario-Themed Christmas Ornaments

Remember skilled sculptor (and handsome Geekologie Reader) Kalapusa's Piranha Plant garden sculpture? Well now the man behind the pipe-dwelling plant is back at it, this time with a trio of Christmas ornaments. In case you can't tell what they are because you don't know anything about the Mario universe, they are (from left to right): Dig-Dug, Kid Icarus and a Metroid. Haha, if you don't know you don't deserve to! The blue shell and mushroom already sold on eBay ( and HERE) for $108 and $76, respectively, but the Goomba is still available if you're interested (HERE, for the next two hours). Me? I'm interested in investing in gold. Those commercialsHERE are convincing!
Hit the jump for a closeup of each and a link to Kalupusa's deviantART page.



Thanks to Venus, the goddess of kinky sex. And to Kalupusa, who says his next sculpture's gonna be a Metroid in formaldehyde (seriously).
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