Nurturing your Spore avatar from the single cell to its current form, makes you a proud parent. However your virtual friend get a physical avatar of the third dimension, much like the Wii Mii avatars that I mentioned earlier. Maxis, an Electronic Arts studio, and Z Corporation have come together to give you the Spore Sculptures, a platform that allows you to sculpt your own Spore. Before you jump the gun to get your doll, there are a few restrictions to consider. Like your Spore can't be a frail baby or the sorts that is heavy on the top and lanky on the bottom. In short it need to be a proportionate avatar.

This is how you get one made:

Using Z Corporations' ZPrints, a high-definition multicolor 3D printing technology, a player's unique creature can be recreated into a full-color physical object. Creating a Spore sculpture is easy. First, design your creature using the Spore Creature Creator within the game. You can choose from hundreds of flexible drag-and-drop body parts, giving you an endless amount of possible configurations. You can then digitally paint your creature with unique patterns, and once complete, you simply upload the digital creation to the Spore Sculptor Web site, and place your order. The 3D printers use a powder-binder technology to create parts directly from digital data. The 3D printer first spreads a think layer of powder. Then, an ink-jet print head prints a binder in the cross-section of the part being created, mixing color as it does. After the printing, the model is cleaned off and given a quick resin bath.

[Sporesculptors via Gearlog]