The Transformers Will Now Transform With Just About Anybody
In a sad commentary on our nation’s declining sexual mores, the Transformers have given up transforming with a particular set of other Transformers, such as the Constructicons or the Aerialbots. No, Hasbro’s new Power Change Combiners — and I say new in the sense that they’ll be coming out to stores soon, and not new in the sense they debuted back during the NY Toy Fair when I was drunk wasn’t paying attention — star Scouts, which form a robot/vehicle, but also a torso, that any drones can attach to any way they want. Sure, some Drones turn into legs and some into arms, and the Power Change Combiners apparently come with four drones that can become a larger robot, but any Drone will attach to any Scout in a debauched orgy of transforming partner-swapping. It’s just like all these high school girls, sending naked pictures of themselves willy-nilly, and having casual sex with all their classmates. It’s sick, I tell you. Sick. And man I’m pissed it wasn’t happening when I was in high school. (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.