Summary
- PlayStation has released a stop-motion Astro Bot animation to wish its fans a happy new year.
- On top of that, it has shared PDFs for the Astro and Ape Escape figures so you can make them yourselves.
- The PDFs are free and available now, you just need a print to get them and start folding.
It’s amazing to think this time last year we didn’t even know there was an Astro Bot game just a few months away. Fast forward 12 months and Astro Bot is not only here, but it has won more Game of the Year awards than any other platformer ever. PlayStation continues to celebrate the game’s success into 2025 and has released buildable paper figures you can download and print for free.
PlayStation wished its Astro Bot fanbase a happy new year earlier this week by releasing a short stop-motion video in which papercraft bots spell out the holiday message. To further celebrate Astro’s success and the start of a new year, PlayStation has made two of the paper stars from the video available as free PDFs so that anyone can download, print, and make the figures themselves.
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Astro is naturally one of the two characters from the video to be made available, and the second is a Pipo Monkey from Ape Escape can be seen darting across the screen at various times during the animation. The files you need to print to get started on your own Astro and Ape Escape figures can be found on PlayStation’s Astro Bot store page, but you can just find them by clicking here for Astro, and here for the Ape Escape Pipo Monkey.
Astro Bot And Ape Escape’s Paper Figures Are Available Now
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PlayStation has asked those who build their own paper figures to share their results, and a few of you have done so already. The most popular choice is to have the papercraft Astro pose with his matching DualSense. Those with a penchant for stop motion might want to use the figures to recreate Astro Bot’s Ape Escape level. The first of many levels in the game themed after a PlayStation series, and arguably the best one, although it still loses out to the God of War level in my personal rankings.
The future of Astro Bot is currently unclear, but considering the critical acclaim and 104 GOTY awards, it seems almost certain we’ll be seeing the PlayStation mascot again eventually. You might think a new Ape Escape game is far less likely since it has been 20 years since the last game in the core series. However, rumors are swirling that PlayStation has plans to revive some smaller deep-cut IP, and Ape Escape would most certainly fit that description.
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