Better than Oscar: Metal Gear‘s Hideo Kojima Gets His Own Toy
Here in Los Angeles, everybody wants to win a gold statuette of a naked, featureless dude. That’s cool and all, but when I look back on my life, I want to see a career honor like this:
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That’s Metal Gear director Hideo Kojima as Raiden, a one-of-a-kind 8″ Play Arts figure from Square Enix to salute his achievements. And since these figures have interchangeable heads, he can now be Batman, Master Chief or any other character in the roster.
Take that, Anne Hathaway! Oh, wait…
Do any of you collect these Play Arts toys? I like the look of them but they kinda scream “instant breakage!” in a frightening way…
h/t cerebus via Gamezone
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist