Spike Witwicky Gets His Due
And I don’t mean Shia the Beef’s “No!”-filled portrayal of the young Witwicky. I mean the original G1 Spike, who with his son Daniel, wore goofy-ass Gobot-like “exo-suits” in Transformers: The Movie. ImpossibleToys.com, which has somehow made Quintesson toys without getting their pants sued off by Hasbro, has made the above Spike and Daniel figures in all their boxy, barely articulated glory in their bid to make the figures that Hasbro clear has no intention of ever doing. Pre-order them here for $70 (hey, the Witwicky’s gotta eat, too).
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.