The War for Cybertron Is Looking Better All the Time
We know Transformers: War for Cybertron is the awesome, G1-inspired but not beholden videogame with the trailer that made most of us pee our nerd pants. It takes place on Cybertron, the Transformers have their Cybertronian vehicle modes, it looks groovy, yadda yadda. You know that. That’s not why I’m posting.
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I’m posting because War for Cybertron is going to be Hasbro’s TF toyline for 2010, apparently, and it’s going to be just as awesome as the game. You’re looking at the robot mode for WfC Bumblebee, and it’s clear proof that the Transformers’ classic and beloved G1 designs could easily have been updated and modified for modern audiences and still be both cool and visually coherent, but Michael Bay did not want them to be. It’s going to be a good year for Transformers fans. A very good year. (Via 16bit)
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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.