Lion-Oh My
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Ladies and gents, you’re looking at the first new Thundercats merchandise in many, many years. It’s a 10-inch-tall statue of Lion-O from Hard Hero (they make some swell Transformers busts and one of the many millions of companies that have a Marvel statue license); it’s painted, made of porcelain, and costs $215, which is pretty reasonable for these sorts of things — and it’s not like you’ve had a lot else to spend your Thundercats budget on. You can pre-order ’em here — I’d suggest doing it sooner rather than later, because I bet he’ll be sold out before you can say “ho.”
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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.