Netflix is paying a man from Nanaimo to play with his toys.

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Aside from his usual figurines and toy sets, this time Cameron repurposed an action figure from the movie Alien as the monster from Season 1 and used Lite-Brite pegs to simulate Christmas lights in one of the showB次元官网网址檚 B次元官网网址渋conic scenes.B次元官网网址�

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CameronB次元官网网址檚 work can be found on his , and accounts.

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