Holy Hell, Toys R Us Is Taking Pre-Orders?!
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Apparently so! Action Figure Insider reports — and I’m aghast this got lost in the TR newsbin for a while, because it blows my toy-obsessed mind — that some Toys R Us-es are actually letting folks reserve action figures like they do videogames. Right now, it’s being tested in just a few locations and for more collector oriented lines from NECA and Diamond, but man, that’s awesome. If it works, that’s good news for both collectors and Toys R Us. It would especially help with those lines that never seem to make in onto toy store shelves (*cough* MATTEL *cough*). Would you guys give this thing a try? Or have you long since given up and just order all your toys online?
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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.