Toy of the Week: Astronaut Jesus
This indie toy from Doma is 10 inches of holy, galaxy-exploring beauty.
The concept is that Jesus has been in outer space overseeing the world and will one day return to fix our problems.
Can you argue with that? No. You cannot, especially when it’s a mere $40?order it here. On a totally unrelated note, if you’re at all a David Bowie fan, you might want to check-up the runner-up toy of the week, and the greatest plush toy I’ve ever seen. $65 is a bit steep for my blood, but man, if it had been of his Ziggy Stardust era, I would have ponied up for it anyways. (Via Plastic and Plush)
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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.