Everyone Can Stop Making Toys Except for Hot Toys
Toys R Evil just made me release several liquids simultaneously in my pants by showing off Hot Toys’ new 1/6th-scale movie Iron Man above (with interchangeable Robert Downey Jr. head) and this 1/6th scale Batpod from the Dark Knight below. One assumes that the Christian Bale head next to it means the world’s finest Dark Knight figure will also eventually be made by Hot Toys, and cost a great deal of money and be hard to import.
The figure and vehicle are on display at the Tokyo Toy Show, and you should head over to Toys R Evil for many more luscious pics. I’ll be back after I clean myself up.
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.