Holy @#$%! Momo Spotting!
Although no one else seemed to think it weird that Paramount would release movie preview videos for all four Avatar: The Last Airbender nations when they only made decent footage for one or two of them (ahem), I think we can all agree that it’s been a bit weird that we’ve not seen Momo, Team Aang’s beloved winged lemur. Until… now.
I actually think he looks spot on — and it sounds like they’re using whoever made the Momo noises in the cartoon to do them in the movie too, which is groovy. Still, since I can’t post anything Airbender-related without someone getting enraged by it, I assume someone will find fault somewhere. Meanwhile, this actually gives me hope that Appa, the sky-bison, will look somewhat better than the toy indicates.
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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.