Toy of the Week: Horrified B-Movie Victims Figure Set
If you’re any kind of toy fan, I can’t imagine how you could pass up a chance to turn your favorite action figures into monstrous behemoths, raining terror and destruction down about these tiny, fleeing humans. This Accoutrements set includes eight tiny figures?each about three inches tall?in various states of distress/escape, and, as Entertainment Earth says, “One of them is a couple?so it’s like getting a 9th victim free!” You can order them here, and at $16 a set, they’re cheap enough that I can buy one to flee from my Masterpiece Voltron, one from my new Japanese girl in a Playboy bunny suit holding a machine gun vinyl statue, and last but not least, one set for my figure of Labyrinth-era David Bowie and his enormous package. I would have to think the latter would be most terrifying for the poor bastards, because some things truly are worse than death.
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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.