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TR Contest Special: Nerd Incorporated, Sponsored by Arcane Movie Tees (Updated)
TR Contest Special: Nerd Incorporated, Sponsored by Arcane Movie Tees (Updated)
UPDATE: Arcane has been kind enough to offer Topless Roboteers an insane 20% off all their products! Enter the code TR20 and get shoppin’!
I’ve featured
Arcane Movie Tees’… uh… movie tees several times on
Topless Robot, because they’re generally pretty awesome. They’re an excellent mix of company logos and movie-inspired designs; exactly my favorite type of nerd apparel, so I’m delighted that they’ve consented to sponsor another
TR contest. The three winners of this weekend’s will each receive their choice of any of Arcane’s wide selection of t-shirts,
which you can (and should!) peruse here.
Inspired by those aforementioned company logo shirts — and especially the Arcane-imagined ones like the
Kaneda’s Motorcycle Customization shirt design above — I’ve decided this week you guys need to make up your own companies for your favorite characters and series. I.e., if such-and-such character decided to go into business, what would he/she/it/they do, and what would they be called? For example:
? Sansa Stark’s Lemon Cake Emporium
? Nick Fury, World’s Finest Samuel L. Jackson Impersonations
? Squall Leonheart: Motivational Speaking Seminars
And so on. Yes, you can say things like He-Man’s Gym or Optimus Prime Moving Company, but extra points will be given for originality, creativity, irony, and mean-spiritedness. You can enter as many times as you want; the contest ends at 12:01 am EST on Monday, August 20th. Much thanks to Arcane for sponsoring the contest! Have a good weekend, folks! Remember, if you steal Batman’s stuff and he asks for it back, j
ust refuse! He’ll give up in like a minute or two.
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.
