Devastator with More Style, Less Testicles
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Looks like Japan is going to offer a G1-colored TF:ROTF Devastator toy, and, while I’ll never buy anything directly related to the film, I thought this was interesting enough to post. Mostly because while I think he looks much better than how Devastator looked in the original, even I know that’s because I began my Transformers life with G1 and not any sense of reality. I mean, he’s purple and yellow — there’s no way I could think that looks better then the original’s more muted (if not entirely realistic) tones other than my nerdy proclivities, right? Is it even possible that the original G1 color scheme genuinely looks better, despite how garish it is? ROTF fans — or at least non-G1 fans — I am 100% ready to believe that I’m wrong here, just tell me. But if you prefer the yellow and purple as well, I think you should fess up. (Famitoy via Seibertron)
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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.