All Hail Galactus, Devourer of Shelf Space
I would like to report an error on Topless Robot. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned Hasbro’s SDCC exclusive 19-inch Galactus figure, and I wasn’t that excited. And just last week, that same Galactus figure didn’t even make the cut for our list of best SDCC exclusives. I just figured that 19-inches isn’t much bigger than the Marvel Legends Build-a-Figure Galactus, and although I know he’d be on a card, I guess I couldn’t really see it in my head.
And then Hasbro sent me one.
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Guys, this thing is fucking awesome. Look at it, standing next to my Xbox 360 and 50-inch TV for scale! He’s enormous! His cardback’s enormous! I’m all for taking toys out of their packaging, but the insanity of this giant blister card is just too amazing — but if you wanted to mount him on your wall in true toy nerd fashion, I swear you’d need to find a support beam to hang this guy onto, because he’s just so damn big and heavy. He’s a helluva lot of toy for $60 (he has light-up eyes and a voicechip,
too).
Anyways, the point is this thing is totally amazing, and I regret the error of not being totally stoked about him for two separate occasions. Check out Galactus’ even larger carrying case after the jump, if you’re so inclined.
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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.