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The Venture Bros. Are in Danger, and Only Brock Samson Can Save Them (Also, They’re Toys)
The Venture Bros. Are in Danger, and Only Brock Samson Can Save Them (Also, They’re Toys)
Remember all those 3 3/4-inch Venture Bros. action figure sets from Big Bang Pow I told you all to pre-order? Well, apparently you didn’t listen, because BBP is canceling them. Now, the line isn’t completely dead — but BBP will now be releasing them as stand-alone figures, starting with Brock sometime in July or August (incidentally, BBP explains more about the change and why they had to do it here). II know it’s a pain, and I’m sorry it has to be this way, and that we can’t just walk into a Toys “R” Us and buy a dozen Venture Bros. figures at once. But if you want VB toys — and I do — suck it up and pre-order the shit out of them because otherwise the line will die.
About The Author
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.