G.I. Joe Movie Toys Are Just Taunting Us Now
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If all the vehicles and figures Hasbro made for the Rise of Cobra movie toyline actually showed up in the movie itself, I think we’d actually have a pretty decent movie on our hands. I mean, while Duke and that idiot from the Dungeons & Dragons movie looks like bad Robocop bootleg toys, there’s still be this — the S.N.A.K.E. armor, now in black and called Serpent Armor, which would make up for a lot of nonsense if it actually was sent to attack the Joe HQ on screen (at least for me). But since it’s an exclusive toy — along with a few others — I imagine that the only place it will be is on Target toy shelves and my dreams. (Via 16bit and Terror Drome)
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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.