10 Incredibly Rad (and Nerdy) Happy Meal Toys

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The 15 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Bootleg Toys

[Octo: I don't care to acquire bootleg toys; I rarely save packaging (which is 2/3rds of the fun with bootlegs), and after the initial giggle it's kind of annoying having such junk around, especially when I hardly have enough room for the good toys. But they are hilarious, and the examples in this article are beyond anything I would have the stamina to research. So I'll turn it over to the good folks at Cracked.com...]

#15.RobertCop

Yes, it's RobertCop. It looks like a silly photoshop, but pictures abound of the same box in various settings (it's something of an internet sensation -- fans of RobertCop have even given him his own Facebook page).

The beauty of this is that when tweaking the name for their bootleg knockoff toy, they could have went with "Robo" anything and it would have made perfect sense as a toy. RoboDetective, RoboWarrior, RoboMonster -- this is the world's easiest thing to rename. But instead, they replaced the Robo part. With Robert.

Robert is a good officer, but he almost never murders an entire warehouse full of drug dealers.

That's awesome because it doesn't in any way explain why he is made of metal. It almost implies that cops are all robots in America, and that RobertCop is what happens when a robot gets killed in the line of duty and they resurrect it by fusing it with a guy named Robert. He's part cop. Part Robert. He's RobertCop.

Three.

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Playmates To Do Family Guy Figures & Playsets

From toynewsi, Playmates who achieved great success with their Simpsons toyline in the 90's appears to be trying to recapture some of that magic with a new line of toys based on another Fox animated series, Family Guy. Like with their old Simpsons line it appears they will be releasing figures and interactive playsets based on episodes from the series.

The first series of figures will include:

- Stewie
- Peter
- Brian
- Cleveland
- Quagmire
- Halloween Stewie