• I made basically the same thing after X-Men 1 came out, for a Halloween party (left arm only; the added effect of having two of them wasn't worth building a second set.) Remarkably similar; mine released the latch via a ring (you cant your wrist, which pulls the cable that releases the latch) and the blades are part of an assembly that (in mine)slid inside aluminum channel. Great party trick; spearing hor d'oeuvres. Mine didn't retract either. Considered running a cable up to an anchor point (an upper arm cuff or something), so that the blades would stay extended until I straightened my arm out, but was just to motion limiting. They're in a box in my basement somewhere now, along with other things that had a novelty value measured in minutes.

• While the 12 year old side of me, that used to tape plastic swords to my arms and pretend to be Baraka or Wolverine, is impressed, my grown up side says that's really dangerous. I can only foresee lacerated hands, stabbed feet, or some other calamity befalling this nerd. Bravo for the craftsmanship, but you might be better off with a simple Freddy Krueger glove. Speaking of which, wasn't there a fellow a while back who made one of those and tried to kill his sleeping room mate? Maybe this guy is similarly deranged, but intent on fighting crime.

• Maybe it's just me, but why is there no picture here?

• We need to find out who he is, and get the directions to build these mo fo's. I need this nao! I have the replica ones i hold onto and they dont do anything but sit there and look pretty but these... damn i want them!

• We need to find out who he is, and get the directions to build these mo fo's. I need this nao! I have the replica ones i hold onto and they dont do anything but sit there and look pretty but these... damn i want them!

• .....I want him now.

• Well I know I won't be the first person to think this, but I'll be the first person to write this: Even though he is a gigantic nerd with too much time on his hands, him "sniking" out those claws was more awesome and more realistic looking than that horrid bathroom scene in XO:W, too bad he punches a box instead of slicing a sink.

• I think he imagines that the box are the producers of the Wolverine shitty flick.

• Pretty cool, but yeah, retracting them too would be even cooler. Also, was he stabbing the floor there? The claws look longer than that box was deep.

• Well, damn. Here I was all set to laugh at a dork, but now I'm thinking I want a set of those. I'll take the long way home, just hoping someone tries to mug me. *SNIK* "Your ass is cardboard, bub."

• crazy fool better not mess up mom's living room!

• Hope the thing doesn't screw up and hurt or possibly kill him or anybody else in the process.

• It's all fun and games until his kid gets ahold of them and takes out his frustrations on the kids at school who tease him because his dad's a gigantic comic-book geek on YouTube.

• I wouldn't mind a pair of those myself! I dread to think how much time and effort that would involve, though. I'll just make mine out of knives and scotch tape.

• Um, that is fucking awesome? Why is everyone shitting on him? There are articles every couple of years about army contracts being given to people making "spider-man gloves" and crap- this Guy made functioning 'snikt'-claws...that's awesome. Hope he doesn't hurt himself.

• Thank god he never wore those to a comic con that Marina Sirtis was attending. With her luck at cons as shown in the contest that just wrapped you just know she would have ended up decapitated. Mind you it could have led to an awesome battle of Fat sweaty Klingons (including one in a cheerleader costume) with their battle swords (I am too lazy to look it up on Google and not nerdy enough to know the Klingon name of the damn thing) vs Nerd Wolverine and his claws. Sidenote - the Toronto Comic Con is coming up in August. I am praying that Marina attends. I'd love to ask her about the clothesline she took and sell out the offender for a free autograph and picture with her. :)

• He certainly is the best he is at what he does...

• It only looks like one box... He's not a very good wolverine...

• Heh, just love that facial expression around 0:09 - 0:10. And poor Mars Volta, being used as backing music to this "cool" vid :(

• OK I guess....but all I can see is an eventual trip to the ER and having to explain how I "had" a few fingers in the way when the cool blades extended. . That wasn't in my design though.....did I mention they are "cool" blades?

• Boxy Brown will not be amused.

• As I said on YouTube: It's the new Star Wars Kid... We'll call him "Weapon Echhs".

• A friend of mine did up plans to do something quite similar to this. He pretty much abandoned it when I made him realized that there was no non-manual way to retract the claws. Glad to see a set in full function. Makes me want a pair.

• Wow. It's as if you take 'pathetic', add a bunch of 'waste of time and effort', and stew it in the oven while occasionally basting with moron sauce.

• Wow that guy has a LOT of time on his hands. But I can understand, revenge drives men to devious lengths. If a box killed my family I might do the same thing.

• I was really hoping they would come out from under his skin. DIY body modification FTW.

• Wow, geeky AND really dangerous! Nice combo.

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