New York Toy Fair: Amok Time Runs Amok
Amok Time has been a swell toy retailer for as long as I can remember, but just a little while ago, they decided to start actually producing figures. I don’t understand where they get off getting so many decent (alhtough weird) licenses and having the toys look so good. For instance, I’m no classic Battlestar Galactica fan, but Amok’s 12-inch figures looks incredible. I am dead certain the figures are wearing higher quality clothes than I am (admittedly, my Tweety Bird as a Gangsta T-shirt I got at Wal-Mart is pretty ragged by now). It’s kind of unreal.
Apollo, Starbuck and Adama are out now and the rest will be available later on through the year.
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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.