Fan of the site, CardScientist, and his wife, Liana.can.art, decided to create an original Krystal model intended for 3D printing. And with such a model, it was only natural that they would print it at a massive scale. Fully assembled, this figurine will be 21 inches tall not counting the base, an approximate 1/3rd scale model of Krystal! They still have final sanding, assembly, and painting to do, but as you can see, they're well on their way to the finished product.

Below I'll share photos and details of the build.

Originally, the model had quite the muzzle, but it was later shortened up into a cute snoot.

With the final design ironed out, the model had to be split up into parts for printing. As you can see, they split up the various parts into segments with notched "keys" to provide alignment and more surface area for the glue.

CardScientist went ahead and did a test print at a smaller size of about 6 inches tall. When printing this and the full-sized body parts, he used organic supports. (He used grid support for the staff parts.) The small print came out well, though a lot of the detail was lost at this small size because of this kind of printer's resolution. Once scaled up to the full size, however, many more details would be captured.

As a side-note, CardScientist came to visit me during this project for some unrelated business transaction. He brought along some of his prints. I got to see this mini-model in person. He was even nice enough to gift me this test print. Thanks again for the momento, CardScientist!

With testing complete, it was time to start printing the big stuff, starting with Krystal's head, probably the most complex and difficult part. After one failure, this piece would take 29 hours and 6 minutes to print. He would suffer at least another 5 failures on other parts during the printing process. In the right-most photo, you can see that although he used supports, there is only so much that they can do. There was a lot of cleanup on the underside of Krystal's muzzle to smooth it out.

Several of the parts, like the two staff halves and the tail had to be printed at diagonal angles in order to fit their massive size inside the printer's volume. That, combined with the fact that these parts didn't have good flat points to print from meant that a ton of support material was needed.

I'll skip posting about individual parts for the rest, but CardScientist was very good about keeping us up to date on the Discord with progress. By my rough estimate, well over 160 hours (at least 8 solid days) of 3D printing time was used to create all the parts, which doesn't count the many hours wasted on failed prints.

In the end, they created a very nice figurine. As mentioned before, it still needs final prep and painting. Plus, there's still the base to figure out. They are held up a bit with some other projects that must be completed first, but the figurine will probably be finished by late summer at the latest.

Godspeed you two! Looking forward to seeing the finished product!

Estelle Ellis created a Krystal inspired inspirational plush back in May 2024. She followed it up by exploring the possibility of making another one.

She was able to launch the Makeship campaign for the second plush, called "The Konfident in a Bikini Krystelle". It features a Krystal-like design, but with glasses, differing tattoos, earrings, and an "I Love You" message on the back. The previous plush had her dressed in casual clothes, but this one's outfit is more similar to Krystal's Star Fox Adventures attire.

The campaign already reached its funding goal so it WILL be produced. At time of writing, 266 have been sold. They plan to ship on August 25th and cost $30 plus shipping.

You have a little under 3 days to make your purchase if you want one for your very own. The campaign and sale officially ends on June 1st at 11AM Central Time.

UndyingNephalim and Estelle Ellis once again get together on stream to discuss Star Fox Event Horizon progress. While they talk, UndyingNephalim will attempt to finish modeling Katt's armored Arwing.

The stream starts today at 4PM Eastern, 1PM Pacific.

In about an hour, Estelle Ellis will join UndyingNephalim for a livestream where they will show off the second Krystal-inspired plushie from Estelle, do question and answers, and just hang out. The new plushie, which features a brand new design, will be launching shortly on Makeship, like the last one.

The livestream starts in about 1 hour, at 4PM Eastern/1PM Pacific on May 10th, 2025.

Luphine Howler and some friends at Huutis Studios are livestreaming Star Fox Assault today and tomorrow in a belated celebration of the Star Fox Assault 20th anniversary. I believe the stream is mostly in Finnish. Adult language warning.

They are currently streaming now if you want to join in. Below is the planned schedule:

• US Pacific Time UTC-8 7:30 AM
• US Mountain Time UTC-7 8:30 AM
• US Central Time UTC-6 9:30 AM
• US Eastern Time UTC-5 10:30 AM
• UTC-4 11:30 / 11:30 AM
• UTC-3 12:30 / 12:30 PM
• UK / GMT / UTC 15:30 / 3:30 PM
• Germany / CET / UTC+1 16:30 / 4:30 PM
• Finland / UTC+2 17:30 / 5.30 PM
• Turkey / UTC+3 18:30 / 6.30 PM

Saturday, April 12th (tomorrow) at 11AM PST (2PM Eastern), UndyingNephalim (developer of Star Fox Event Horizon) and Estelle Ellis (voice actress of Krystal) will be doing a livestream discussing the ongoing development of Star Fox Event Horizon and all sorts of other unplanned topics as UndyingNephalim works on modeling the Armored Arwing from Star Fox 2. Come hang out and enjoy a fun chat.

UndyingNephalim (or IceCreamMan) has posted another video demoing a level of Star Fox Event Horizon, the eighth in the Saurian Campaign. This one radically shifts the scene and objectives throughout. First, it's a dogfight next to the volcano, then a rescue mission in the volcano, then a defense mission in the upper atmosphere, and finally a boss fight in space. The scale is immense!

If you want to try the latest demo, you can download it through Knossos.NET.

In this morning's Nintendo Direct, a bunch of new games were shown off. No Star Fox games were shown, but we did finally see Nintendo bringing GameCube emulation to their Nintendo Online service.

The games announced so far:

• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• Soul Calibur 2
• F-Zero GX
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
• Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
• Super Mario Strikers
• Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure
• Luigi's Mansion
• Pokémon Colosseum

While not the rumored Star Fox Adventures 2, we could easily see Star Fox Adventures and Star Fox Assault released on the service.

Additionally, we learned that some games supporting multiplayer on the GameCube will now support online multiplayer, which could affect Star Fox Assault's VS Mode. All Krystal Battle Royale anyone?

Finally, these GameCube titles will play at higher resolution, perhaps even as high as 4K. This would be fantastic for graphically impressive games like Star Fox Adventures.

After posting the story about the Star Fox Adventures 2 rumor from DarkSamusHunter last night, I was contacted this morning by another leaker who goes by EarMustardHunks. He sent me materials proving that the original Nintendo 64 version of Dinosaur Planet is being worked on for an actual release. The plan is to use the original game bible and multiple versions of the in-progress game builds to reconstruct what would have been one of the most ambitious games for the Nintendo 64 had it ever released. A remaster, if you will, of the unreleased gem.

Supposedly, this project is part of Microsoft's ongoing attempts to have their games and IPs on every platform possible, including Nintendo's. As you know, Microsoft owns Rareware, and thus the IP rights for things in Dinosaur Planet not directly covered by Nintendo's Star Fox Adventures IP rights. Really, if Rareware and Microsoft were going to release Dinosaur Planet, they could only partner with Nintendo on this.

EarMustardHunks is pretty new to the Nintendo leaking game, but he provided material evidence that leaves me with no doubt he has real insight into this project. He shared some videos of a build running natively on the Nintendo Switch using official Nintendo developer portal tooling. There were sequences from the very late game that were not included in any build from the original Dinosaur Planet leak. Nintendo and Rareware are working on it together, planning for a release as part of the Nintendo Switch Online service, which will continue on the Switch 2.

As part of my agreement, I can't share any of these materials. Sorry, but I agreed to his terms before I realized what he had. Also, there's some identifying information in the videos that Nintendo could trace back to EarMustardHunks and his contacts. Understandable.

And before you ask, yes, Dinosaur Planet Krystal IS in this version of the game. She's in the game exactly how you'd expect, the same young girl adopted by Randorn. Not sure who they're going to get to do her voice, since they're going to need new voice clips for the newer portions being built.

Hoping to hear more about this officially in the next couple months. What I've seen has me very excited!

Update
Sorry everybody. It would appear I was taken advantage of. EarMustardHunks is just an anagram of DarkSamusHunter. I was fooled with some elaborately faked videos made by AI. What a terrible day to be pranked!

Nintendo will be revealing a bunch of info on their next console, the Nintendo Switch 2, on April 2nd in a Nintendo Direct. I suspect we'll see a ton of games, the release date, and the price. Hopefully we'll see some really awesome games. I've heard rumors that a new 3D Mario game is set to be the system's main launch title. Also, there have been rumblings about a new Star Fox, but they are rumors at this point.

The Nintendo Direct will begin at 9AM Eastern (6AM Pacific) on April 2nd, and is an hour long. You can watch it here or on the livestream page. Hope you will all enjoy.