Well, one day I was scrolling through Cubeecraft, a site that offers free downloadable papercraft toys. They are very neat, but also make for great Minimate decal templates (with some adaptation). One of the characters available in their pop culture section is (you guessed it) Strong Bad, which put the idea in my head. I had a couple sets of boxing gloves sitting around from the Rocky Minimates, so once I made the template, the rest was easy.
As you can see, Strong Bad's rather... unique body type doesn't translate exactly to a Minimate's dimensions, but what can you do? Really, the hardest part of the whole thing was not giving him to Hillary right away, but I stayed strong and made it to Christmas morning, where he was warmly received. I also made one of these for my buddy Dave, another big Strong Bad fan, but he's a little different, since I didn't have another pink torso handy and had to use a slightly tan one. Hope he's opened it by now....
Oh, and here's my decal, in case anyone out there wants their own (you're on your own for the boxing gloves, though):
I love it! Strong Bad now lives on my desk. Thanks, Honey!!
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