I'm actually somewhat inspired to mod mine into a Necronomicon... if I didn't think it'd overheat and RROD.

So you press an eye to turn it on? An alligator's eye? Yuck.

the tech inside is as old as the dinosaurs..

...before the RROD (or in this case, the REOD) popped up due to overheating.

"Hopefully game and film discs won’t be eaten by razor sharp teeth when you open the tray though… "

That's really funny. I think I may never stop laughing. Did you steal that line from Newsround or something?

Yes, Because THATS going to fix overheating issues....

That is probably the goal in the first place. It will make it look realistic. In fact it will be a proper work of art (just try to imagine the eye-button shining with a nice red ring).

I was expecting Aligators+someones house+ American Redneck = Friday hilarity type thing

Shame on you reg, shame on you

*walks away muttering and shaking head*

Why is this news? I painted my daughter's bedroom the other week. Surely that's just as much of a newsworthy story.

... try to remember that alligators are cold-blooded animals, so it's probably a very effective cooling measure.

What a croc.

(I'm surprised no one else had said it.)

If you look at the pictures, the ventilation holes in the console are not obstructed so the machine will still vent the heat the same as any unmodded machine.

Mines the one with the hood, facemask and 'House of Kolor' logo

"the tech inside is as old as the dinosaurs.."

Too right, and just like an alligator it still eats more modern, less capable things alive, like say, the PS3.

Mark's made his insecure PS3 owner comment of the day!

I modded my alligator to look like an Xbox 360.

Pretty impressive! Make log:

Blow smoke in its eyes for the "red ring" effect, sand it down, paint it white.

Install small piezoelectric speakers in /near its ears.

Set up control electroniccy stuff so that the left and right speakers would fire in response to the right and left motion of the analogue stick.

Possibly two sets of piezeos- so one set would be in front of and the other behind the ear- to give some sort of forwards/backwards control too.

Anyone got a pet they'd want to try this out on?

Less Capable? PS3 is vastly more capable than the ex-box360...

You only have to look at GTA IV to see that. Whilst the PS3 version is better, it's still crippled by the 360's limitations... Ever wondered about the startup on the PS3 version with the semi-static pictures, where no HDD access lights are flashing. Yep, you can thank the 360 version for that, and the common codebase, and fear of upsetting Microsoft for that one...

I have to agree, I was expecting a tale of how a alligator came in someones trailer and ate the X-Box, was even invisioning the slang and accent.

It would not be the first, worked with Comcast and a lady could not get online. Asked what lights were on on the modem and she could not answer. Asked her to follow the ethernet cable to the box and tell me what the light configuration was. She then stated that her sons snake had eaten the modem. Nuff said.

You are a complete and total Tool!

Can i have a "Hear Hear"?

YAWN YAWN AND DOUBLE YAWN!!!

You don't give up do you?

@MrM

HEAR HEARRRRRRR!!!!

Mark, prove your comments, stop throwing out Sony fanboy crap.

DO Xbox owners actually have any education AT ALL?

First we have an AC using "Queue" instead of "Cue", and now we have "Hear Hear" instead of "Here Here".

Now I always figured Xbox owners must be slightly wrong in the head, for buying such a horribly overpriced console with such last-gen unreliable tech, but it seems we now have proof of this..

Oh you are quite the boffin aren't you! Unfortunately Wikipedia seems to disagree with you:

Hear hear is an expression that originated as hear ye, or hear him, usually repeated. This imperative was used to call attention to a speaker's words, and naturally developed the sense of a broad expression of favour. This is how it is still used today, although one can always vary one's tone to express different sentiments; the Oxford English Dictionary noted around the turn of the century that the phrase is now the regular form of cheering in the House of Commons, and expresses, according to intonation, admiration, acquiescence, indignation, derision, etc. It is often incorrectly spelled "here here".

Not that I am being pedantic!

It seems the tables turned upon you there! Nice find MrM!

Mark, do you not realise that you yourself are the one who bought such a horribly overpriced console, with mostly unnecessary technology and the worst lineup of games in the history of videogaming?