MASK’s Matt Trakker Got a Promotion
From 3-inch toy to 4-inch bad-ass action figure in the new 25th Anniversary G.I. Joe collector’s line. Now, I know we’ve known about ol’ Matt for a while, but I thought it was newsworthy to post his card (check out the little MASK logo on the upper right) and the best pic of the figures and his mask that I’ve seen available. In case you don’t recall, Matt is part of series 7, which includes Sgt. Airborne, a Cobra Eel, Flint in his Cobra soldier disguise (he looks pretty awesome), a dead sexy Scarlett in her pilot outfit, and “Swamp Squad” Zartan, who comes with not one but two masks?you can see great pics of all the figures and their cards over at ToyNewsI. Matt and crew should be hitting toy stores this month, so start “trakking” him down now! Ha ha! Oh, I hate myself.
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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.