New York Toy Fair: Iron Man’s Sweet Ride
You’d think, if I got a bunch of images of Iron Man movie toys, I’d show the action figures, right? Wrong. Ever so wrong. Pics of six pretty identical Iron Man figures are not nearly as interesting to me as this:
I love love love it when toy companies make inappropriate superheros?Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man?ride patently ridiculous and unnecessary ride. For instance, Iron Man can fly. If he’s in his armor, he could not need a ground-based vehicle less. What I find even more outstanding that since his car is matched to his armor, he looks like a douchebag who color-coordinated his outfit to his roadster.
Also, there’s this:
You can pump Iron Man to make him launch to the air, either simulating his rocket-feet or the sensation fo having a six-martini lunch on an empty stomach.
What? Fine. One action figure: the Invincible Iron Man.
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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.