Jun
02
2011
02
2011
Batman: Arkham City Is Officially the Cat’s Pajamas
Sorry, but this news is going everywhere, and everyone's going to use a cat pun like "Batman Gets a Purr-fect Companion!" and I just wanted to have something slightly different before everything went to hell. Anyways, there's a new Batman: ...
Jun
02
2011
02
2011
I Want to Go to There
Specifically, I want to go to this Indianapolis Mall in 1986 and its incredibly fucking awesome Masters of the Universe toy display/event/thing. If I had seen it when I was 9, I would have lost my mind. I'm kind of ...
Jun
02
2011
02
2011
The Michael Bay Creative Process at Work
I'm not going to say this any better than Vince at FilmDrunk already did, but I do feel it's my duty to also present this behind-the-scenes video from Transformers 3: Turn Off the Moon regarding the film's vaguely heralded wingsuit ...
Jun
02
2011
02
2011
A New (Star Wars-Muppets Cross-Promotional Merchandise) Hope
Disney just unveiled their new line of Disney-exclusive Star Wars Muppets figures, due this November when The Muppets movie comes out. They'll be sold in two-packs for the upsettingly high price of $19, but supposedly, they're more articulated than the ...
Jun
02
2011
02
2011
Tekken. Tekken? Tekken!
I give Tekken and its fans a lot of shit on Topless Robot, but I will admit you guys didn't deserve the live-action Tekken movie. I mean, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li was awful, and Capcom just remained ...
Jun
02
2011
02
2011
You Don’t Know the Power of the Buttered Side of the Force
Okay. An elaborate video for a very simple -- maybe even stupid -- idea, which happens to be the nerdiest corncob holder in existence. That's the way you're going to play it, Thursday? All right. Well, you asked for it. ...
Jun
01
2011
01
2011
Rob’s Wonder Woman TV Pilot FAQ!
I managed to get a hold of the David E. Kelley-written, NBC-ordered-and-then-cast-aside-in-shame Wonder Woman pilot over the holiday weekend. After I watched it, I became horribly ill. Was the Wonder Woman pilot to blame? Yes. Absolutely it was. There is ...
Jun
01
2011
01
2011
Game Start, Man, Game Start!
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "Game over, man!" does it? Oh well. Here's a new teaser for a new Aliens game, surname Colonial Marines, developed by Gearbox. The teaser seems pretty groovy, although there's no game ...
Jun
01
2011
01
2011
Isaiah Mustafa Really, Really Wants to Be Luke Cage
Deodorant pitchman and celebu-nerd Isaiah Mustafa has already gone on record saying he would love to play Luke Cage if a Power Man movie came out. What's the next step? Well, for Mustafa to release his own little fan flick ...
Jun
01
2011
01
2011
Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Skyline Tenga
If you're one of the few people who saw the aliens-invade-L.A. movie Skyline -- you know, the one that wasn't Battle: Los Angeles -- you may have thought, "I enjoy this movie. I would like to stick my penis in ...
Jun
01
2011
01
2011
This Is a (Live-Action) Triumph
The cosplay group "Ninja of the Night" group decided to put on a little live-action Portal show for the recent Fanime Con. It's pretty groovy, even if the portals seem to make Chell grow and shrink about six inches each ...
Jun
01
2011
01
2011
The Harry Potter Cast Has One Word for You
Empire magazine asked the Harry Potter movie cast to sum up their massive movie experience with one word. It's the kind of weird, esoteric exercise I actually loved doing back when I was interviewing people regularly. The big winner is ...
Jun
01
2011
01
2011
And Speaking of George Lucas…
I have a shit-ton of great fan-made videos to post today, but none of them come close to the awesomeness of this one. Seriously. I don't even want to talk about it, lest I spoil an iota of its awesomeness ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
TR Contest: The George Lucas Star Wars Name Generator
NOTE: Topless Robot will be off on Monday for Memorial Day. Just so you know.A week and a half ago, I posted some news on the new Star Tours ride at Disneyworld. Among the other details included was that wonderful ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
Leonard Nimoy’s Day Off
Honestly, I have no idea how Bruno Mars got Nimoy to star in this music video, or if it was filmed before Nimoy retired, or what. All I know is that I don't care because it is totally fucking awesome. ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
Fan Fiction Friday: Xamot and Tomax in "Slave to the Crimson Guard"
After the 15-chapter epic "Breasts" last week, I hope you don't mind if I pick something a bit shorter -- partially for my sanity, and partially because it's just about to be a three-day weekend and I really, really want ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
A Link to the Past (and the Future, and Then Further in the Future, Then an Alternate Present, and…)
This video starts a bit slow, but it's well worth watching until the end. I mean, it stars the one person that can truly explain how all the Legend of Zelda games actually fit together... Doc Emmit Brown. Of course, ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
X-Men: First Class Is Gonna Be a Great Movie
All right, respect. Whatever qualities or problems X-Men: First Class is going to have, it really will feature a scene of January Jones as Emma Frost just hanging out in lingerie as if it was a regular, socially acceptable outfit. ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
Don’t Panic (Okay, Maybe Panic, I’m Not Sure)
Hothead Studios is making a new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game. If you recognize the name Hothead, it's probably because they made the episodic Penny Arcade games, as well as Deathspank. Now, I never played any of these things, ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
Data’s Beats Have Been Programmed for Maximum Phatness
Data rapping about his cat Spot, courtesy of Dan Bull. Warning: This will not be the only Star Trek-related music video I post today. It's a Star Trek kind of day, I guess. (Via Gamma Squad)
See the rest here:
Data's Beats ...
May
27
2011
27
2011
The 10 Greatest Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes
It's been said that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the red-headed stepchild of the Trek franchise, and I'm pretty much inclined to agree with that assessment. During its initial run from 1993 to 1999, the series was constantly overshadowed ...
May
26
2011
26
2011
So Long, and Thanks for the Goldfish Video
This video is very new, although it's also certainly been viewed a lot already. If you've seen it before you have my apologies, but I need to make sure all the Topless Roboteers see it. It's a music video for ...
May
26
2011
26
2011
Now the American Akira Doesn’t Have a Director, Either
From Deadline:The twists and turns on the Warner Bros adaptation of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo's graphic novel Akira continue.
Director Albert Hughes is exiting the movie, I'm told. Insiders say
that it is an amicable creative differences parting of the ...
May
26
2011
26
2011
Help a Brother Out
Specifically, please help me help my corporate overlords. They asked if I could pimp their fascinating article about how hard it is to make a living doing comics, which I find fascinating, if kind of depressing. And on a lighter ...
May
26
2011
26
2011
Mo’ Muppets, Mo’ Awesome
Actually, this second new teaser for The Muppets movie is actually some kind of take-off of The Hangover 2, and thus, it's actually kind of depressingly mediocre. That is, until the end, which explodes with pure awesomeness and fills me ...
May
26
2011
26
2011
L.A. Noire Is Real Detective Approved
G4 had the fantastic idea to have a real detective -- specifically, SKip Bauchman, also a former LAPD detective-- to play through a case in L.A. Noire and explain how authentic the game is. The answer is "mostly," because a ...
May
26
2011
26
2011
You Will Believe a Toy Can Fly
Two words: Hot Toys. Two more words: Holy shit. 33 more words: I'm not even a big '78 Superman fan and this thing made my jaw drop. He's due out at the end of this year; for more equally ...
May
26
2011
26
2011
Jennifer Lopez Defeats Spider-Man
In order to celebrate the all-new, more sensible, less deadly Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical, Bono, the Edge and guys who plays Peter Parker/Spidey Reeve Carney went on American Idol and performed "Rise Above." Maybe I'm just in a ...
May
26
2011
26
2011
The 13 Best Lawyers in Comic Books
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," Shakespeare once wrote. Little did he realize that lawyers would become so popular that courtroom dramas now festoon the airwaves. Or maybe he did know, and he was just ...
May
25
2011
25
2011
Voltron, Forced
There's a new clip from the upcoming Voltron Force cartoon showcasing Voltron forming. Again, the robots and Voltron look good, but man the character designs and the 2-D animation are awful. Why is everyone just sitting there smiling idiots? Are ...
May
25
2011
25
2011
Super Terrific Japanese Things: Pururun Angel Bust 2 (NSFW)
This week's STJT is totally, 100% NSFW, so I'm putting the whole damn thing after the jump. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Continue reading "Super Terrific Japanese ...
May
25
2011
25
2011
Learning to Speak Klingon, with Dr. David Klingon
Okay. First off, this dude's name probably isn't Dr. David Klingon, and second, it's some kind of tie-in for some kind of browser game called Star Trek: Infinite Space set around the Deep Space 9 era. Maybe it's awesome, I ...
May
25
2011
25
2011
Now You’re Playing with Nudity
Don't worry, there's not actually a "nude gaming party" craze sweeping the nerdy hedonists of New York City. This is just a clever viral ad for the XtendPlay, a kind of attachment to Xbox and PS controllers that supposedly make ...
May
25
2011
25
2011
The New Cowboys & Aliens TV Spot Raises a Disturbing Question
So Daniel Craig's cowboy wakes up in the middle of the desert with no memory and an alien artifact stuck on his arm. The bracelet and amnesia implies that he was abducted by aliens previously. ......did aliens probe Daniel Craig's ...
May
25
2011
25
2011
Professor X: Before the Dickery
It's yet another clip from X-Men: First Class, this time showing Lil' Professor X and the utterly nightmarish Lil' Mystique upon their first meeting as tots. As it turns out, Chuck's mother didn't make him hot chocolate as a kid, ...
The Protomen - Rock Music and Mega Man Combined.
An Irrelevant Take on the Zombie Goodness of the Walking Dead
Halloween Fear Fest - Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus
Amnesia: The Dark Descent will induce heart problems.
Redline - 7 Years in the making and damn, it looks good.