Take the Hot Toys/John Connor Terminator Challenge
Look at the above picture. Count the seconds.
How long until you realized that was not a picture of Christian Bale as John Connor in Terminator Salvation, but instead an action figure? It took me about 15 seconds, and that’s despite the fact I found in on Toys R Evil, a site which almost exclusively covers toys. That’s how amazing this likeness is. You know, I’ve joked about Hot Toys selling somebody’s soul to the devil to get their mad sculpting skills, but I don’t think Satan has these kind of skills. New theory: aliens.
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.