New York Toy Fair: Batman Continues to be the World’s Most Adorable Psychopathic Detective
I’m not a big fan of Hasbro’s Superhero Squad or Spider-man & Friends pre-school lines, nor Mattel’s Spidey-sized Superfriends series, partially because I think the sculpting could be better (even for youngsters) and partially because I’m old and the toys are not intended for me in any way, shape or form, and thus my opinion is less than irrelevant at best and completely asinine at worst. However!
Mattel took me to see their new Superhero Squad-sized DC Super Friends line, due in May, which is pretty damed awesome.
You can see all the figures above (even the Penguin looks cute!), including Superman with Krypto and the Joker with a mallet-equipped car. But the star of the series is this Batcave playset:
It’s got a jail, grappling hooks, a garage that opens the door when Batman’s Batcycle is turned, and more, and I wholeheartedly approve of it and the entire series. Please inform every preschool kid you meet.
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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.