SDCC: The (Marketing) Power of Grayskull
I’m pretty damn excited about Mattel’s new Masters of the Universe collector line, which is supposed to debut tomorrow, I believe. They aren’t showing any toys yet, but I’ll happily make do with this large Castle Grayskull (all the better to sell their exclusive King Grayskull figure, natch).
Not to be outdone, Warner Bros. made a replica of the Nite Owl’s Owlship or Niteship or whatever it’s called from Watchmen. You can peek inside after the jump.
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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.