This isn’t really playing with dolls. These are more like Action! Figures! But whatever you want to call it, it’s too much fun.

WoW Model Viewer is a downloadable app with character models, armor sets, weapons, mounts and animations from World of Warcraft. I didn’t waste my entire afternoon — let’s just agree that some time was wasted while messing around with all the possibilities in the Model Viewer.

Quick start tips: Download zipped version 0.5.07 from this page, extract, fire it up.

My first project: a model of one of my guild’s whining paladins in full crying animation. As I have administration rights on our guild boards, I wonder how long until he notices that his avatar’s been changed to something a little more … appropriate.