DIY Weighted Companion Cube costume
by Ross Miller 
{ Oct 30th 2007 at 2:07PM }
It starts out with a foam core cube, modifies plans from a papercraft found on 4chan, and finishes with a liberal application of metal spay paint and six foam core discs to form a friend guaranteed not to stab you. It's rather amazing the culture that has sprung up over a virtual, inanimate object. If anyone has the schematics for a model portal gun, we'll be happy to drop our current costume plans and run around our respective downtown establishments in an orange jumpsuit and aforementioned accessories, blasting Jonathan Coulton from a portable stereo.
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FrankTheCrank @ Oct 30th 2007 2:14PM
What the hell is this thing?
Is this a Halo thing?
CaptNink @ Oct 30th 2007 2:15PM
It's Portal, baby. Greatest game ever made.
WiNG @ Oct 30th 2007 2:17PM
wow, prepare to get a lot of [-]
FrankTheCrank @ Oct 30th 2007 2:19PM
Portal? Cool.
I haven't gotten mine yet, waiting for the ORANGE BOX PC to come down in price.
Zach @ Oct 30th 2007 2:28PM
You mean 5 games for the price of 1 isn't a good enough value for you already?
d-pad @ Oct 30th 2007 2:31PM
All you need to know about CC.
A Tribute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqQISNKWZSA
NATO_Duke @ Oct 30th 2007 3:15PM
....I can't believe you are waiting for it to come down in price. Its 5 games man. Its a cheap price.
xGabrielx @ Oct 30th 2007 3:54PM
"You mean 5 games for the price of 1 isn't a good enough value for you already?"
Six, if you buy it on Steam and count Peggle.
Blazur @ Oct 30th 2007 3:32PM
I'm always amazed at how much outright praise Portal gets. Don't get me wrong, I do believe it was an amazing game and will pave the way for future expansions. Also the comedy was pure gold. But for me, the ease in which I was able to conquer the game (beat it, along will all advanced maps in less than 4 hours) makes it rather disappointing. The game was simply too short to be as stellar as others make it out to be.
Oh and Frank, just do yourself a favor and buy Orange Box. It's well worth its current price and I doubt it'll come down anytime soon.
CaptNink @ Oct 30th 2007 3:49PM
So who's thinking that Frank is just pretending to know what Portal and the Orange Box are? :P
Mainman @ Oct 30th 2007 2:21PM
Feck. I was going to do something like this tonight, thinking it wouldn't be thought of by anyone else.
I underestimated you, Internet. We shall meet again, mark my words.
*Angry fist shaking*
modified @ Oct 30th 2007 3:15PM
You are really delusional if you thought you were the only one thinking about making one.
Mainman @ Oct 30th 2007 7:19PM
Not delusional; just stupid.
harrison_schaerr @ Oct 30th 2007 2:32PM
Portal was the gem of the orange box, a chocolate éclair among roast grasshoppers...
there is no better waste of time than to build a companion cube... loving companion cube =)
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 30th 2007 2:37PM
Man I can't wait for the next GameFAQs character battle. WCC by a landslide.
Neebs @ Oct 30th 2007 2:46PM
Hell yes. GLaDOS and WCC 1 and 2.
Bugger Cloud.
Dio @ Oct 31st 2007 2:08AM
GameFaqs' polls are 120% failure.
Bucket @ Oct 30th 2007 2:41PM
I was going to do this for Halloween, but I was afraid it would stab me.
Ross Miller @ Oct 30th 2007 8:42PM
Don't worry, the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.
Smoke_Dawg_187 @ Oct 30th 2007 2:45PM
Kewl
copa @ Oct 30th 2007 2:51PM
I wish Sephiroth had run a sword through the back of my weighted companion cube.
It would have been a far kinder, less tragic fate than what befell mine.
rdj75 @ Oct 30th 2007 2:56PM
I don't know about the rest of y'all but I have got some serious issues with portal. Basically the problem is that I would love to enjoy everything else on the damn disc but portal some how manages to pull my attention away from the rest. As simple as a game it may be, it is very addicting and I can't stop playing it. And to think the main reason why I even bought the orange box was to play team fortress 2.
Koudelka @ Oct 30th 2007 3:00PM
My girlfriend and I built a companion cube from a bunch of 24" uhaul boxes and she quite cleverly designed a portal gun out of nesquick containers, milk jugs, glowsticks, a fuel line and a toy gun. :D
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa280/picunrelated/portalgroup.jpg
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa280/picunrelated/Photo3-1.jpg
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa280/picunrelated/Photo1.jpg
Maia @ Oct 31st 2007 11:36AM
were you at the MICA Halloween Party? I think I was drunk and commented on how awesome your guy's costumes were.
Koudelka @ Oct 31st 2007 11:41AM
That was us, yeah. :D
Maia @ Oct 31st 2007 2:56PM
that's awesome. :D you guys did a great job on putting that all together haha.
Sean @ Oct 30th 2007 3:01PM
Spay paint sounds dangerous.
Silver R. Wolfe @ Oct 30th 2007 3:05PM
This was a triumph!
Mainman @ Oct 30th 2007 7:20PM
*Makes a note of the huge success*
randompickaxe @ Nov 1st 2007 4:48AM
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Kevin @ Oct 30th 2007 3:14PM
Can someone scale the dimensions up for us fatties?
JanJan @ Oct 30th 2007 4:58PM
It's a cube, I'm pretty sure we all know the dimensions of a cube
Monthenor @ Oct 30th 2007 3:17PM
"...to form a friend guaranteed not to stab you."
No no no. It's guaranteed not to threaten to stab you. Actual stabbing is still fair game.
Donald @ Oct 30th 2007 3:24PM
A slice of delicious cake for her. Very nice.
Sieged Eagle @ Oct 30th 2007 4:18PM
Nicely done. It shows how popular the Companion Cube has been in these days. Hell, Portal hasn't even reached a month since it came out and WCC has become a very popular character. Valve really knows what characters they create!
And Donald, THE CAKE IS A LIE!
voodoomage @ Oct 30th 2007 4:53PM
I refuse to euthanize my WCC so I am forever stuck on level 17... WCC + Me 4 eva!
Autopsy15 @ Nov 6th 2007 6:07PM
You can put in a code that will open doors for you and you can keep your WCC with you.
jorojoserojas @ Oct 30th 2007 7:44PM
You're a better person than I am...
I'll always miss you, WCC...*sob*
shaoron @ Oct 30th 2007 9:18PM
it would be cool if a section of the cube can pop open and you can dump the candies in there
Rawker @ Oct 30th 2007 9:27PM
So whats the obsession with this? It was in the game for like 2 mins?
Sieged Eagle @ Oct 31st 2007 12:17AM
Sir, you are by far, the biggest idiot who has ever posted on this blog. I've already played Portal at my local gamestore, and I have to say it's amazing. WCC has that unique best friend forever feeling that makes you want to have it on real life(and I've only played the first three rooms and half of the fourth). That is why this character has gained popularity among the whole gaming world and the Interwebs.
If you hate WCC or don't even care about him, you deserve to eat potasium and drink water right away, because someone like you who doesn't appreciate simple things doesn't deserve to exist.
voodoomage @ Oct 30th 2007 10:52PM
Rawker, You sound like the type who could dispose of their faithful companion cube quicker than any other test subject... I bet you are....
Rawker @ Oct 31st 2007 1:54PM
It was a block... i used it to jump up a ledge, and to block a energy ball... Am i supposed to feel attachment to it cause it had a heart on it? or cause the annoying voice told me not to? Oh and i was able to dispose of my faithful companion cube quicker than any other test subject, so there.
loof @ Oct 31st 2007 3:15AM
Oh companion cube! How could I have betrayed you so easily?!? Will you ever forgive me?
Mark @ Oct 31st 2007 4:16AM
It is NOT JUST a Cube!
SPOILER:
In future updates of Portal you will learn that test subject who survive the test chamber in a vegetative state are converted into weighted companion cubes.
So if you hear delirious voices coming out of the Cube it is NOT a hallucination, even though that's what GLaDOS would rather have you believe.
How this will be demonstrated in future updates is yet to be decided. (unless the idea is scrapped)
Linc @ Dec 2nd 2007 10:26PM
That is an awesoem slice of cake...mmmmmmmmmm slice of cake!
Autopsy15 @ Nov 6th 2007 6:09PM
I prefer cake over WCC.