ThinkGeek’s Annual Soul-Crushingly Necessary April Fool’s Day Products
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?As any long-time Topless Roboteer knows, I hate April Fool’s Day almost as much as I hate Michael Bay. They’re rarely funny, and they’re rarely clever, and those that actually do trick people make the internet even more awful than it normally is (also, in full disclosure, I’m pretty fucking gullible). There is one exception to this rule: ThinkGeek, which reveals a variety of awesome fake products on AFD every year, like the inflatable Star Trek Captain’s Chair above. The only reason I forgive ThinkGeek is because eventually they let people vote on which of their April Fool’s Day products they can attempt to make real, and thus are, in a kind of obnoxious way, still providing awesome, purchasable merchandise for nerds. You can check out their 2012 April Fool’s Day wares here, so you can figure out which one you hate ThinkGeek most for taunting you with its existence.
PS: That Mars Attacks musical announced on Friday? That’s fake. IDW and Topps just released the press release early so that everyone would be tricked, which is cheating and defeats the whole already dumb purpose of April Fool’s Day. IDW and Topps are assholes.
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.