New York Toy Fair: The Dark Knight is Making Me Uncomfortable
Well, not so much The Dark Knight as the Joker figures, which serve as a grim reminder that Heath Ledger is quite dead. This is likely why Mattel chose not to add any Joker figures to its electronic press kit, although they did have him on display.
See? Doesn’t that make you feel weird?
Oddly, there were no pictures of Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face anywhere, which I guess means director Chris Nolan is trying to save for the flick. But there were figures of a “movie-style” Deathstroke and Firefly for god knows what reason. Deathstroke appears to be wearing a sensible American Apparel long-sleeved t-shirt:
And Firefly looks strangely uninspiring.
Also, you may be shocked to discover that Mattel is making an absolute shit-ton of Batman figures with incredibly large, bizarre accessories.
But probably not.
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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.