Barbie Is So Very Screwed
Mysterious and noble TR reader John (if that is his real name) sent news of what is clearly the awesomest Barbie doll?and probably the awesomest doll period?ever made. Yes, it’s Barbie as Tippi Hedron in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, but more specifically, it’s Barbie being attacked by fucking birds. Is this the first Barbie doll with a look of fear on her face? Am I allowed to pay more than $45 for it, just to support figures of Barbie in mortal peril and/or attacked by nature itself? Should we all pre-order it here? Yes. Yes we should.
Barbie. In The Birds. Holy living shit.
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.