Totoro Guest-Stars in Toy Story 3
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?John Lasseter and the guys at Pixar are big Hayao Miyazaki buffs. So I don’t know why I’m surprised that my pals at AnimeVice discovered that Totoro is making a guest appearance in Toy Story 3, but I am. I’m of the opinion every nerd child should have a copy of My Neighbor Totoro and a stuffed Totoro doll, and my progeny-spawning friends can tell you that I back that up when it’s baby-gift time. Anyway, as an anime nerd, it’s just nice. Very classy, Pixar. Not that I expected anything less.
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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.