Update: The real creator of this masterpiece unknown, but was bought bye Willard McFarland. Source

Original: 3D printing has opened up doors to create great fan art in a shorter amount of time that would have taken so much effort to craft. We’ve seen paper dioramas of Zelda maps, but this project takes it a step further by 3D printing The Legend of Zelda‘s map. Hopefully this iconic overworld is very familiar to you, as it comes from Link’s debut on the NES. There’s so much detail put into this—you can see all the paths and even the elevation levels of certain areas. It’s definitely better than a standard 2D map.

Congratulations are in order for Mike Matei, the one who printed the map out. He also recreated the iconic room where Link obtains the sword from the old man, which shows how zoomed out the full map really is in comparison. If you’re not sure who Mike Matei is, you can read up about him in this interview we published last May. Regardless, let us know what you think of the map in the comments.

Source: Mike Matei