I Want to Have Square Enix’s Babies
Be still, my heart. Yes, that is indeed Cloud and Sephiroth as seen in Kingdom Hearts 2, along with far less important main character Sora in his Nightmare Before Christamas/Halloweentown garb, courtesy of Square Enix’s next batch of 6-inch Play Arts action figures. Big Bad Toy Store says they’re due out in April 2009, and has them for pre-order for $80 (I made sure I pre-ordered mine before I told you knuckleknobs about the deal, of course).
I would like to point out that Square Enix did not make these figures because I kidnapped a top SE executive, and threatened to send him back to the company in pieces unless they would make KH Cloud and Sephiroth. I simply sent several letters to them stating that I was planning to kidnap an executive if they didn’t. Who says they don’t listen to the fans?
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.