Did You Know They Made Toys for Zero Dark Thirty? It’s True
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“Yo, Stormtrooper! I’m the ghost of Uncle Owen. Wanna try shooting at me now, bitches?”
That’s how I would play with this action figure of Joel Edgerton’s ripped-from-the-headlines SEAL from the Osama bin Laden mission. There are plenty of far more unfortunate things you could do – I think there was a reason that a Tom Hanks figure from Saving Private Ryan was once proposed and then ultimately scrapped, but whatever that reason was (decorum? Good taste?) it has long since ceased to apply to today’s world. I suppose we should be glad an “enhanced interrogation” playset isn’t included.
I imagine most people who buy this guy would be doing so for some sort of heroic display, rather than “if he fighted Snake Eyes, who would win?” scenarios. It’s the small percentage of others that I don’t really like to think about.
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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