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Want your own Jessica Chobot? Now you can have one, kinda photo

Yes, I myself would have to say I would like my own Jessica Chobot. However, since it's highly unlikely that I can steal the real thing and hide her away at my house, I may have to settle for the next best thing. Southern Island Toy Company has announced a limited edition Jessica Chobot anime-style statues after meeting her at San Diego ComicCon. There will be 500 made of each and they will be sold on the specialty market (at retailers such as Hot Topic and Spencer's) as well as online. Cheers, beautiful lady -- as the first game journalist to be immortalized in toy form, you make us proud!

This whole thing got me thinking I would really like to have a Destructoid action set. Niero with removable helmet and pew pew pew action sounds? Ron Workman with interchangable cat masks?  How about Chad Concelmo deluxe set with dolphin companion? The list goes on. I feel a Photoshop coming on. Faithful community? Help me make my fantasy come true, even if it's only here in the comments. I'll buy you ice cream at PAX.


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eksMAN's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:35
eksMAN
chicks with lower back tattoos are easy! ;)
JohnnyWadd's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:36
JohnnyWadd
You have GOT to be kidding, what's next an anatomically disappointing AKTREZ ACTION FIGURE??????
Rogue Trooper's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:37
Rogue Trooper
I didn't say she wasn't hot. I said she wasn't that hot.
Rogue Trooper's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:38
Rogue Trooper
I would say she is somewhat lukewarm.
topgeargorilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:39
topgeargorilla
I thought Aktrez was like 17 years old.

That's jail bait, and you should treasure her like a little sister.

stangend77's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:40
stangend77
Does anyone else think that the bathroom doll scene from Grandma's Boy is gonna be recreated by a lot of ppl when this thing releases??? (Damn I love that movie no matter how damn stupid it is)
bmdubya's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:51
bmdubya

Hehe
bmdubya's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:51
bmdubya
Sorry...

Hehe
TJH518's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:59
TJH518
<3 The Chobot pwnage.

Commenter - "ZOMG TOTALLY STUPID!"
Chobot - "What?"
Commenter - "LULZ! JAY KAY! TOTALY LUV U!"

Btw, Chobot actually talking about her vagina like a guy would his junk +25 cool points.

Hot pix too.

AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 00:59
AngelsDontBurn
I see someone printing HUGE sizes of these and making "body pillows."

Uh oh. :/ Lol. I'm sure someone out there actually thought about it, damn otakus!
Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 01:04
Colette Bennett
@Jess - No Germany for me! Sad panda. I see you at PAX?
Bas's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 01:09
Bas
Goddamn. I'm aware that male gamers in general seem to be a hormone driven bunch, but god damn. What kind of moron would want to buy this, AND retain the last shred of self dignity they have?

I had nothing against Jessica Chobot until now, but selling herself like this makes me hope she gets hit by a train.

Dear ladies in gaming, if you want to be taken serious, I suggest not to have half naked anime statues made of yourself.
Rogue Trooper's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 01:17
Rogue Trooper
And the bloody model looks like some generic anime character. If I walked into a store and saw this model on display, I would have to look at the tag to see that it's a model of Jessica Chobot.
allisonaxe's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 02:07
allisonaxe
thats the whore that licks electronics and turned it into an undeserved writing career, right? I wonder if the toy will be of her licking something... and in turnh, i wonder if she'll lick the toy. recursion? yes please, i'll take two.

but seriously, does anyone even give a rats ass about this ho-bag?
MaximusPaynicus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 02:10
MaximusPaynicus
Geez, allisonaxe, relax. There is no need to be...

Holiday's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 02:21
Holiday
Wow you meet the nicest people on the internet.

It's just an anime statue, not an increase in gas prices, so chill. Though I get rather tired of the "sex sells" bit myself (wasn't there a woman's liberation movement a few decades ago?) there is no reason to say shit like "I hope she gets hit by a train", etc. Seriously, some you guys got to get off of WoW and go outside and socialize more. It's healthy.
Orionsaint's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 02:27
Orionsaint
Yeah I want it. I also want the damn photos you guys said you were gonna post from Jessica Chobot's birthday pool party. Did you forget? I sure didn't!
Faith's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 02:46
Faith
If I got an action figure made of me, it would have to look wicked cool like the Resident Evil figures by Neca or the Army of Darkness figures by McFarlane. It must be McFarlane or Neca - no other companies would be worthy of my likeness.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 02:54
Sharpless
I want Chad Concelmo and Nex figures.
Detry's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 03:21
Detry
@Faith

As long as the panties are removable, I'm down.
onomelon's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 03:33
onomelon
okay, lets all take bets on how long it'll take for a picture of one of these thing covered in semen to show up on 4chan. I give 'em a week tops.
Sir-G's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 04:03
Sir-G
Heh heh heh heh..........
Bas's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 05:22
Bas
@ Holiday

Yes, we need to be aggressive like this. It's to process the bitter feelings we have of not having somebody to go to the highschool dance with. :( :( :( :(

The more I think about this, the more angry I get. Here's people trying to convince non-gamers that gaming is a mature hobby. Only to have some dumbass, who apparently got into the industry by licking electronics, give everyone the impression we're hormone driven retards.

Seriously, she's in a frigging bikini. I don't see any female Destructoid editors (you know, women in games that actually know a thing or two and don't position themselves as whores) do that. A woman can't be taken serious in any field of work if she has to use her body to make herself look valuable (unless you're a pornstar, durr).

In short, Jessica Chobot needs to be ignored, as it's obvious she can't be a serious journalist if she has to rely on looks.
Faraday's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 05:53
Faraday
Some of you people take this "gaming" stuff to seriously.

I don't see how this is any different from those Castle Crashers figures.
And where do you people get off on calling her a whore just because she's in a bikini?
Tron Knotts's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 06:14
Tron Knotts
If I were a hot girl gaming journalist, you could bet your ass I'd pose for magazines in a bikini. What's wrong with it? If famous actresses and singers can do it and still be considered "respectable", why can't the Bot?

My only negative comment is that the toy is basically a generic anime character with Chobot's name stamped on it. Seems sort of phoned in. I wish they actually went for some sort of likeness.

But thats just a niggle. All in all, shit is for real.
Cyberxion's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 06:20
Cyberxion
Congrats I guess. It's too bad the art in those images sucks. It's just more of the typical fake anime shit, the likes of which pervade our television tubes these days, in an attempt to appeal to those who've gone hard for Pokemon and everything to come down the pipeline from Japan ever since. It's Jessica in name only, really.

Honestly, that's great that someone out there looked at Jessica and thought "Hey, she's licked electronic appliances before, so let's go ahead and make a couple of scantily-clad statues of a gross approximation of her in a really shitty anime style to appeal to hormone-driven video game fanatics!", but there's so much wrong with all of that, that it's sort of hard not to be kind of disgusted by it, even as I'm congratulating Jessica for being immortalized in such a fashion.

Hey, I just think that if they're going to slap her name on something, they ought to take pride in it. There's nothing really wrong with the scantily-clad part, but I'd be pissed if someone attached my name to what looks to be nothing more than an ill-conceived cash-in.
bloodylip's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 06:41
bloodylip
@Sharpless: second on the nex figure, but only if it comes with "Listening to music you've never heard of" action.

And where are those comparison pics of the ladies of dtoid licking electronics in bikinis (ladies in bikinis, not electronics in bikinis)? We can't make a valid decision until we've seen all the cards.
Extreme_Drunk's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 07:38
Extreme_Drunk
Damnit chobot - get your facebook account into gear and accept the millions of fans you have.
guy e's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 08:45
guy e
she's adorable! there needs to be more girls like this. unless you want to go out with the same girl who thinks loving mario kart is the same as loving video games.
savagesaladin's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 09:18
savagesaladin
I would like to coat her in my man-juice. Other than that, she's a stupid whore.
Virtualgirl's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 09:49
Virtualgirl
I know there is a ton of negative reactions to this, but I bet Chobot is pretty excited about it, especially being a big anime fan. Seriously, who would turn down being made in to an action figure? If you don't like it, don't buy it!
Virtualgirl's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 09:49
Virtualgirl
I know there is a ton of negative reactions to this, but I bet Chobot is pretty excited about it, especially being a big anime fan. Seriously, who would turn down being made in to an action figure? If you don't like it, don't buy it!
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 09:58
GuitarAtomik
I don't care what any of you say, I would totally marry Chobot if I had the chance. + babies. Lots of game playing babies.
jerrt's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 12:13
jerrt
i'm with pangloss [and not just because of his icon] i want the whole set. [; Congrats jessica for the conversion to plastic. I will have to track these down....
Holiday's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 12:17
Holiday
Upon closer inspection I realized that the anime figure has Ass Antlers and i am deeply offended by this product.
Jchobot's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 12:37
Jchobot
First of all: Bloodylip stole my icon!!! WTF!?

Second: I'm NOT a journalist you tardo! I'm a videogame HOST!(ahem *Bas* ahem). I don't do reviews! Now for the THOUSANDTH time-GET IT RIGHT!

Christ!

As for looking or not looking like me...I really think it looks like me. If it's generic, well I guess that means I'm generic looking, but it has all the makings of what I look like (roughly): Brown hair, tramp stamp, t-shirt and jeans (and that bikini is actually mine btw. Bought that bad boy at Target). The only thing I notice thats off is that my eyes are green and not brown-so they're changing that.

Seriously though, for those of you making these acusations that I don't know what I'm talking about-it's so obvious you're strictly trolling. I certainly don't expect everyone to love me, but if you're going to hop on a message board at least back it up with some knowledge of what you're saying.

There's a difference between:

"I don't like Jessica because when she was on GGL's Free-For-All-Friday podcast she expressed her love of FFVIII when it's OBVIOUS that FFVII is superior. Plus the fact that she's more excited to play RE5 than Madden for the Wii shows she's uneducated in the way of videogames".

V/S

I don't like Jessica because she's a whorey-whore butt! MEH!

See!!!!??? Amirite!? Amirite!? Hell fucking yes I'm right! And don't you forget it! /spankingyourassrightnow(andnotinthehappyfunway).
Jchobot's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 12:38
Jchobot
@ Colette. No PAX for me *sniffles* We SHALL meet again though dear friend.
Jchobot's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 12:42
Jchobot
And let me just hint at this now....

Wait till you see what else I have coming around the corner. It's REALLY going to piss you off.

MUWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!

(although it probably won't be announced for another year. Or maybe myself and my co-worker on it will just let it surface a bit at a time.....)
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 12:49
GuitarAtomik
@Jchobot

Thanks again for putting my song on your myspace for a while btw. I felt cool for a little while.
bloodylip's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 12:58
bloodylip
Sorry, but my avatar is the real deal, not stolen from you. Yours has some barely legible writing on it. Either way, I've been meaning to change mine to my more adorable kitteh, so I guess I'll finally do that. Don't want people thinking I'm some kind of Adrienne Barbeaubot.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 12:59
Sharpless
I get a little tired (from fapping, amirite?!) of gaming women flaunting themselves in bikinis and whatnot. It just seems cheap to me, despite the pleasant visuals.

However, Chobot seems like a very nice lady and that's most important, so whatevs. Let us prioritize, holmeses.
Jchobot's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 13:11
Jchobot
@ Bloodylip-you're right. That is a rather adorable kitten. All I can say to that is: Can I Has Cheezeburger?

@GuitarAtomik: You're welcome. It was a good song ^_^

@Unstoppablejuggernaut: Sorry to say, it's not a removable-clothes hentai figurine. But it is fucking phenomenal and if I can get financial backers for it-it's going to create a shit storm amongst certain people. And when I say "shit" I mean "poop".

@ Sharpless: First of all, I'm not a "girl gamer." Screw that! I'm a gamer. Just because I have tits doesn't help me game-so why should it matter.

However, I have no problem with bikini-flaunting. My viewpoint on it is: If you got it, flaunt it. Youth is fleeting and soon you're going to be some wrinkly, crazy old person who gums their corn and can't have sex anymore because you're so hideously old and decrepid; so you might as well have as much fun when you're young as you can (and since I'm now 30, that "young" thing is close to being on it's way out).


Look at it this way. When I'm at the retirement home, alone and getting abused by some big orderly, I can look at that statuette and remember the good old days when I used to get flame on the internet and could play Guitar Hero on hard without arthritis pains kicking in.

Damn-thats a lot of commentary...I'm sooo bored today.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 13:25
Sharpless
Chobee, Chobee, Chobee, I didn't call you a "girl gamer!" I just made a comment about women who game. I actually hate the term "girl gamer," or even "gay gamer" or "black gamer" - whatever, you're all gamers. I agree. Like it or not, though, most gamers are male and pretty much all of them are horny bastards. So it just kind of screams, "I want lots of cheap attention from these easy-to-manipulate masses!" That's just what it sometimes says to me when women in the gaming community do this. It's a general annoyance for me, and it's not specifically linked to you and what you do. So, we cool, holmes. We cool.

And flaunt that thirtyness, Chobee. I love me some older wimminz. :)
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 13:26
Sharpless
Ack, I was talking about when "gaming women" dress scantily, in that first paragraph. Forgot to specify.
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 13:35
Nick Chester
@ Jess:

Can you yap with these clowns in the comments of some of my stories? I want 1,000+ comments, please.

Oh, and I'm totally jealous -- I want a figurine of me in a bikini. :(
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 13:36
Niero
We need to hook you up with Hasbro


Linkoman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 13:52
Linkoman
at first i thouht to myself, who's jessica chobot? but after reading all these comments (took about 22 min) ow i know! yay! btw nice figure! and the statues are great too!;)
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 13:56
Kyousuke Nanbu
I'll never understand why attractive gamer girls are so revered, I'd rather have a semi-decent looking one who knows what she's talking about than one who gets by because she's hot.

Chobot is no better than girls like Webb and Olivia, getting by on looks alone, I honestly can't think of a more insignificant figure than one of Jessica Chobot.

Then again its not really their fault that the videogame fanbase is made off mostly of men who have never seen a hot woman that didn't have .jpg at the end.

How exactly is the videogame industry supposed to expand toward female gamers, when even female videogame journalists must be pretty to gain huge amounts of attention.

Give me someone like Leigh Alexander, she's pretty, very smart and doesn't lower herself to wearing bikinis and licking PSP's to get her fanbase, she does it with words and well written articles.
bloodylip's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 14:24
bloodylip
@Kyousuke: Leigh++

I prefer someone who can get along with words than looks. Although Chobot does get points in my book for the elementary school reproductive organ humor.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 14:58
GuitarAtomik
@Kyousuke

You should probably read an interview or two with Jessica or read her blog before you say something like that. If you had, you'd know she plays games, you'd know she likes playing games, and you'd know that even if she wasn't working in the industry, she would still play games.

Just because she has boobs and she's not shy about them, doesn't give you the right to write her off like that.
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