Mickey Mouse Rolls Out
Japan loves its Transformers and the Disney pantheon, so I don’t know why I’m surprised (and a little scandalized) by this scan from Hobby Japan magazine taken by TFormers.com, which they claim is a Takara Tomy Transformer with a decidedly mouse-ish shape. Now, I’m not exactly sure why TFormers is convinced it’s a Transformer and not, say, just Mickey Mouse piloting a regular robot shaped like his iconic head (they don’t say), but I have to wonder, if the robot mode is already Mickey-shaped, what will the alternate mode be? A regular mouse? A Nissan Sentra? A Stealth Bomber? The mind boggles.
Still, I think the important thing is that we all agree to never let Michael Bay see or hear about any of this.
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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.