I spent a few minutes talking to Adam Allessandrini at the Penny Arcade Expo last week.

Allessandrini is the guy who created the Fruit Fucker case mode for the show. He's also the one who did the Anarchy case mod last year.

"Last year I came and made the Anarchy case mod because I thought it would be simple and easy to do," he said. "I had to out do myself this year, so I though the best possible thing to do would be the Fruit Fucker."

The mod took his team about three months to put together and it wasn't easy, but it was, of course, well worth it. The case itself cost about $500 in parts.

Initially the plan was to install an actual juicer inside the FF casemod and have it spew out the pulpy remains of the fuckified fruit into a glass, but that turned out to be a bit unachievable.

Besides, as Allessandrini points out, the Fruit Fucker is a juicer, it doesn't have one inside it.

So instead they installed a vat that can hold the juice. Allessandrini said they used water-cooling equipment to circulate the juice from vat to cup in a warm, frothy stream.

Allessandrini said the Hot Head Studios guys were talking about buying the case, which is about 5-feet tall, from them, but that he might end up giving it to Penny Arcade instead. He hinted that he was hoping for them to perhaps include him in a strip in exchange for the mod.

He ended up handing over the powercord to the FF computer to the guys during their second comic panel.

My money is on the guys auctioning it off during their annual Child's Play dinner. That could raise some serious cash for kids.

I did forget to ask Allessandrini what it was like when he first got the thing working. In my imaginings it was like something out of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but with way more oranges. Brian Crecente

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