Blender

Hmmm.... 3D printed Tempy keychain...
But perhaps it will not last long... not sure how sturdy a 3d print can be.

Cool.

Very cool, nicely done! Looking forward to 3D printed GBAtemp merch.

I'm just learning at this point, but it would be cool to print out a tempy "amiibo"

I don't know that I would use blender to feed a 3d printer but if you are going for artistic things then I would probably consider that over some of the more engineering approaches.

You can pretend it is useful for playing medic too. Once spoke to someone in a hospital and apparently some guy had a CAT or other 3d scan of his guts looking towards having something removed, got the files, printed it, apparently saved the surgeon a bunch of time and then got landed with printing all the rest. I imagine the future is also quite shiny for such things too (metal 3d printing is a thing, as is cells with that looking more and more like it will become something truly special).

@sarkwalvein https://all3dp.com/2/3d-printed-pizza-myth-or-reality/

3D printed pizza is a thing. Would be curious as to how it tasted, though.

What it would look like if I printed it out - I got a long ways to go

Looking great!

To be fair @FAST6191, powdered metal sintering has already overtaken CNC milling or forging when it comes metal consumer parts, printing from metal powder is the next logical step. I have seen some metal 3D printers, but I wonder how accurate the prints are and what the structural integrity of the finished part is. Judging by how "scuffed" powdered metal gears are under a microscope (provided they weren't machined after the process is complete) I suspect there's a considerable reduction in quality, but the ease of prototyping such parts is definitely a very good argument in support of metal prints.

Print out the van

Accuracy wise then most 3d metal printing is likely to be laser sintering. So as accurate as a laser really (lasers even going down fibre optic pipes if you want so not like slamming your milling head into a part to rip chunks of metal off and missing steps or needing constant correction/positioning). Much like conventional powder metallurgy it is sintering rather than melting so rough as anything, though that roughness means places to adhere to in a body (assuming you want that) and fun things like making oil impregnations (heat it up, dunk it in oil, cools off, oil goes down "holes", when part heats up again oil comes back out but is capillary actioned away when you cool off again.
Structurally it is about the same as sintering, which is to say nothing like a conventionally cast, never mind forged, part but the solution to a weaker material is usually give it a bigger area to have the force act across such that it meets your specs. Given you can make gears to go in a drill with such techniques then most vaguely normal mechanical problems are within reason.

You can also come the other way and make an item the size you want out of a plastic/wax to use in investment casting if you were so inclined.

On the matter of taking over... it makes a nice intermediate step between CNC and having to do expensive big boy tooling for one part.

I NEED A TEMP FIGURE

Do you have the files?