Cue Thus Spake Zarathustra, Please
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?You may or may not recall that back in October, ThinkGeek — deliberately and with malicious intent — pretended to offer a Monolith “action figure” from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It didn’t really exist, and ThinkGeek was just fucking with us all.
Then I threatened to beat all of their employees to death with a bone, Monolith-inspired primate-style.
So today, ThinkGeek is proudly offering the real and purchasable Monolith action figure for $13 right here. Can I take full credit for this happening? Probably. You may thank me at your leisure. Meanwhile, I’ll be sitting here wondering why the Monolith’s list of action features doesn’t include “the ability to throw a bone into the air and have it turn into a spaceship.”
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.