Feb
15
2011

Shout Factory Is Significantly More Than Meets the Eye

A dude at the awesome DVD company Shout Factory just confirmed that he's working on a release of Transformers: Beast Wars. If you're a fan, you know this is good for several reasons: 1) that Shout Factory is to awesome ...
Feb
15
2011

Another Two-Minute YouTube Video Better Than the Entirety of Two Street Fighter Movies

Remember that insanely well-choreographed, amazingly edited "live-action Street Fighter ultra combos" video I posted a couple weeks ago? Well, the Thousand Pounds Action Company just released another incredible vid, this time with girls. I'm not going to lie; when that ...
Feb
14
2011

The New Spider-Man Movie Is Amazing, and I Mean That in a Couple Different Ways

The first way: The movie has officially switched names to The Amazing Spider-Man. I approve. It's nice, classic, kinda classy. Now for the second way it's amazing: Sony released the first official pic of Andrew Garfield in the full Spidey ...
Feb
09
2011

Today’s Gonna Be a Good Day

Len Wein: Acclaimed comic book writer. Co-creator of Wolverine, Swamp Thing, Colossus, Storm, and more. Editor of the Watchmen comics.Topless Robot t-shirt wearer.​I can't tell you how delighted I am about this. Infinite thanks to Edgreen86, one of the winners ...
Feb
04
2011

Shatner’s Recording a Metal Album

​I'm going to copy and paste this article from my sister site LA Weekly pretty much wholesale, because I'm so excited I can barely type:William Shatner is back in the studio working on yet another great big pile of Shat-mazing, ...
Feb
03
2011

Did Someone Order an Ultra Combo?

The Thousand Pounds Action Company made this short but utterly fantastic clip of what some Street Fighter-style ultra combos might look like in real life. They are amazingly well-edited, but the best part, as Nerd Bastards rightly points out, that ...
Jan
19
2011

The Greatest Game Review of All Time

Seriously, I don't think we need another game review of anything ever, from myself included. This pretty much covers anything. Thanks to Brandon M. for the tip. Here is the original post: The Greatest Game Review of All Time
Jan
11
2011

10 Sweet Pieces of Nerf Weaponry

​Nerds and Nerf were made for each other. The fact that only one letter separates the two words can't be coincidental, right? What other group would take such glee in chasing its members around the house with neon-colored ...
Jan
10
2011

The Famicom Scion Probably Costs More than 100 Coins

The guys at the fabulous Giant Robot magazine got to design their own Scion, and the result was this retro gaming/Nintendo/Famicom masterpiece above. My only genuine complaint is that the door opening noises are much too long, and would get ...
Dec
20
2010

The Most Beautiful Version of the "Star Blazers" Theme You’ll Hear Today

There is something so relaxing about this live performance of the Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers theme performed on classical instruments that it can almost make you forget about the frustration and aggravation that seems to be all around given the ...
Dec
16
2010

X Reasons Why You Need to Watch this L.A. Noire Mini-Doc

Video Games | L.A. Noire | Developer Diary: The Technology Behind PerformanceXBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo WiiIn case you don't remember the awesomeness that was Rockstar's '40s mystery L.A. Noire game and its totally fucking incredible facial animation ...
Dec
15
2010

Grand Theft Mario Is the Greatest Thing You’ll See Today/This Week/Maybe Ever

If you have any hesitation is seeing what Super Mario Bros. might look like if it was reimagined as a Grand Theft Auto game -- and I don't know why you possibly would -- then you still need to see ...
Dec
14
2010

The Mis-Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: And the Winners Are…

​Good lord. Between the awesome prize -- sets of Doctor Who season 5 and Steven Moffat's marvelous modern Sherlock reimagining, courtesy of BBC America -- and the awesome contest subject, courtesy of me -- I'm not shocked that we had ...
Dec
07
2010

The Tron Legacy Music Video for "Derezzed" Has Forced Me to Type With My Nose

Because my hands are otherwise occupied (Get it? Get it?! ... it makes me masturbate). Seriously, this video is so gorgeous I can barely stand it. Its fantastic design is so close to the original Tron it brings tears to ...
Dec
06
2010

10 Minutes Behind-the-Scenes (And In-Front-of-Scenes) of Game of Thrones

lsadjfhh;afksjfgvSorry, I had to wipe my drool off my keyboard. I started salivating about 30 seconds into this 10-minute look at HBO's Game of Thrones, which meant a full 9 minutes, 30 seconds of saliva dripping onto my laptop. I ...
Dec
06
2010

"We Seem to Be Made to Suffer; It’s Our Lot in Life."

Things I dd not expect to see when I woke up this morning:• Somebody stuffing a terrifying C-3PO pinata full of fireworks and then setting it offAdmittedly, it's a very specific list, and yet that's exactly what this video contains ...
Dec
03
2010

Dinosaur Nazis? I Hate Those Guys

I'm sorry to post yet another videogame trailer and another one from GameTrailers specifically, but I'm sorry: Dino D-Day is too wonderful for me to not share. I can't even type the words "Nazi dinosaurs" without ...
Dec
03
2010

The 13 Best Mystery Science Theater 3000 Songs

​There are awesome TV shows. And then there was Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show so awesome that it can't even be mentioned in the same breath as other shows. And while it re-emerges in the form of Rifftrax and ...
Dec
01
2010

Superhero Tweets: And the Winners Are…

​Blah blah blah awesome contest, tons of results, made me cry because it was so much work and because it was so hard to judge, standard procedure, blah blah blah. I'm not trying to denigrate this holiday weekend's contest result ...
Nov
09
2010

Wildhammer Fact Checker Sings

It was inevitable, but someone auto-tuned the "red shirt guy," a.k.a the well-versed Warcraft nerd who is totally awesome and I will brook no disparagement of. Maybe it's because I love this kid, maybe it's because auto-tuned music still delights ...
Nov
08
2010

Warwick Davis Was Awesome from an Early Age

You probably knew this already. But io9 dug up some visual proof -- a 25-minute promotional video from 1982 titled Return of the Ewok that features Warwick Davis being a total goddamned pimp, from playing pro soccer to kicking Darth ...
Nov
04
2010

William Shatner Sings "F#$% You"

MY GOD IT'S FULL OF STARS (Via Warming Glow) Read the original here: William Shatner Sings "F#$% You"
Nov
04
2010

Watch Bruce Campbell Marry a Bunch of Zombies

Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I mentioned that Bruce Campbell was going to marry one lucky couple at ZombCon, and then hold a mass vow renewal ceremony for all the other wedded zombies in attendance? Geekscape has the ...
Oct
28
2010

Reminder: Rifftrax Goes to Haunted Hill Tonight

Tonight is Tron Night 2010, a chance for fans to watch roughly 20 minutes of Tron: Legacy. The bad news is that the event isn't featured in too many theaters across the country, and the ones who are hosting it ...
Oct
26
2010

Happiness Is the First Tron: Legacy Music Video

A new track from Daft Punk? Containing unseen footage from Tron: Legacy? More shots of Olivia Wilde in skintight vinyl? Some virtual club owner doing an awesome Ziggy Stardus-era David Bowie impression? Excuse me, I need to never stop masturbating. ...
Oct
26
2010

BREAKING: Bruce Campbell Still Unbelievably Awesome

I doubt this news comes as a surprise to anyone reading Topless Robot. But do you know what Bruce is doing now? He's officiating a wedding this weekend at ZomBCon:​Seriously! He's marrying two nerds together at a zombie-themed convention! Ted ...
Oct
19
2010

The New Tron: Legacy Poster Makes Me [Censored]

​[This entire post has been removed for unbelievably inappropriate and potentially illegal sexual content.] See the original post: The New Tron: Legacy Poster Makes Me [Censored]
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Oct
18
2010

Super-Dimensional Wedding Cake Macross

​I know awesome people. This is odd, because I am extremely non-awesome myself. But I know and am good friends with Jerry from Sega, who is totally awesome. He just got married to Kat, who I haven't met yet, but ...
Oct
13
2010

SOMEBODY PUT A LEASH ON THAT FORCE, FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE

There's a second commercial for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, and like the other one, it contradicts everything I hold dear about Star Wars and holy shit do I love it. If you had told me I'd ever see ...
Oct
12
2010

The Force Is So Unleashed It’s Getting Ridiculous

Thanks to Jesse F. for sending me this commercial for The Force Unleashed 2, which is so awesome I can barely type because of my massive nerd-boner keeps getting in the way. It's so awesome that I keep forgetting to ...
Oct
11
2010

You Don’t Know the Prettiness of the Dark Side

​This is Darth Fairy, a custom-made costume by Booturtle for her daughter. It is, without any question, the most awesome thing I've ever seen. It's tough to tell in that pic, but the end of the wand is actually a ...
Oct
11
2010

The Monster I Want to Smell Like

There's a pretty good heap of news from the New York Comic Con held this past weekend, so why am I running an Old Spice parody starring Grover from Sesame Street? Partially because several million of you sent it in ...
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Oct
05
2010

The Avengers Assembly, Part 4

I know, I know, you're probably sick of me post these Avengers cartoon minisodes. Well, I'll stop posting them the minute they stop being awesome. Marvel's up to 13 now (they're all here), including the Wasp handing Whirlwind his ass ...
Sep
29
2010

The Avengers Assembly, Part 3

While I've been dicking around, Marvel has went ahead and post seven of those Avengers microsodes that got me so hot and bothered last week. I've already posted the first Iron Man and Hulk ones, so I was all prepared ...
Sep
27
2010

The Birds of Prey Have a Theme Song

So apparently in last weekend's Batman: Brave and the Bold, Batman got amnesia, thought he was a mobster, grew a mustache and put on an awesome cape, and took over Gotham. But that's not even the most awesome part of ...
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