So, This Exists
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?A Green Lantern Oa playset for pre-schoolers. It’s from Fisher-Price’s ImagiNext line, which you might know as the series that also has that incredibly awesome Batcave playset. Two things: 1) this isn’t quite as awesome as the Batcave and 2) it’s actually a repainted, recolored generic space-station playset Fisher-Price released previously, but I don’t know that we can hold either of those things against it. I mean, it’s a goddamned Oa playset for toddlers. That’s amazing. Even more amazing? It includes a B’dg figure. As in, the squirrel Green Lantern who is less known than Ch’p. That’s fucking insane. I mean, it’s taken until 2011 for any Ch’p figure to be made (in Mattel’s Green Lantern Classics line), because he’s such a ridiculous concept, and now, immediately, we get the second-tier Ch’p too, thanks to a goddamned PlaySkool set! Truly, this is one of those things that makes me think we live in the nerdiest of all possible worlds. Thanks to Captain AK for the tip.
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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.