{"id":11804,"date":"2011-05-17T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"are-these-the-coolest-portal-toys-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11804-are-these-the-coolest-portal-toys-ever","title":{"rendered":"Are these the coolest Portal toys ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Personality Cores from the Portal series just ooze, well, personality. Thanks to their good showing in Portal 2, they have raised their profile to near Companion Cube levels.<\/p>\n<p>If only you could carry around your own little Personality Core to make up for your own deficiencies and break the ice at (nerdy) parties. Well, you still can&rsquo;t &ndash; unless you are an industrious engineering type like Chris Myles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/personality_cores_light_up_resize_202598816.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Portal personality core replicas\" title=\"Portal personality core replicas\" width=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Myles has put together some awesome mini-replicas of the Personality Cores from Portal 2, including that misguided fool Wheatley.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures and video should speak this awesomeness for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/db43pjAhqfA?version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/db43pjAhqfA?version=3\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Myles doesn&rsquo;t intend to make any more of the Personality Cores, so don&rsquo;t expect them to appear on an online auction site any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Myles has also created a Rubix-Companion Cube among his other projects. Head on over to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ammnra\/sets\/72157626669964230\/with\/5722889210\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr gallery<\/a> to have a closer look at his work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rubix_Companion_cube_321072709.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13508-Cool-Portal-Personality-Core-replicas\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Are these the coolest Portal toys ever?\"><strong>Are these the coolest Portal toys ever?<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2011\/05\/16\/portable-portal-2-personality-cores-are-ready-for-adventure\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Joystiq\">Joystiq<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personality Core replicas might just be better than cake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}