As Alice at Wonderlandblog points out, it's rare to see official merch as good as these Bioshock 2 EVE Hypos -- you usually have to find some fetishistic fan art. But this is an actual in-store tchotchke, and it's a corker.
Bioshock Hypo replicas
As Alice at Wonderlandblog points out, it's rare to see official merch as good as these Bioshock 2 EVE Hypos -- you usually have to find some fetishistic fan art. But this is an actual in-store tchotchke, and it's a corker.
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Boo! They don't ship to the US.
No shipping to US buyers :-(
Man, that's gonna hurt going in.
*Gasps with glee*
That's HOT!
*Gasps with glee*
That's... yes.
Did you play BioShock? I winced every time I used one of these things.