Tony Stark and Leonidas, Nerd Girl Porn Tag Team
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Shockingly, I am not referring to a fan fic. These are the new new 12-inch figures being offered from the diabolically talented Hong Kong-based Hot Toys sometime in 2010. Between the uncanny (and armorless) Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and the taut stomach of 300‘s King Leonidas, I’m tempted to simply file these guys under Nerd Girl Porn. One thing, though — note that Leonidas has no visible joints, but if you look at the other pics over at Toys R Evil (he’s got more of Stark too) he’s clearly poseable. What gives? Hot Toys figured out how to make moving eyes; did they finally figure out toy flesh as well? Madness, I tell you!
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.