Awesome Macross Robotech Motorcycle Helmet!
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Geektrooper turned me on to this awesome Rick Hunter Robotech: The Macross Saga motorcycle helmet! Made in Japan — which is funny, because they didn’t even have Robotech over there! — this awesome Robotech helmet is $460, which is expensive, but not utterly inappropriate for an awesome replica of the beloved American and not Japanese cartoon. Looks like there’s going to be a Roy Fokker helmet, too, when they get released next February — you can pre-order them here. My only question is what is all that Japanese gibberish on the pre-order page? That’s Rick Hunter’s helmet, baby! He’s the man! In his Veritech being awesome in Robotech! Ha hahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHARobotech is so much better than Macross.
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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.