Shocker Toys Toy Shocker: They’re Out
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There’s no reason you would no this, but there’s been a very small war between a few TR readers and Shocker Toys back in this October article. See, Shocker announced their Indie Spotlight toys (shown above) way back in 2006 — seriously, they had prototypes back in February 2007’s NY Toy Fair — and since they’ve announced release dates and missed them about a jillion times. The article I wrote said that Diamond said the figures would finally be released last December, and several readers pointed out that this date wouldn’t be met, and the toys would likely never come out. A Shocker Toys rep disagreed.
Yesterday, the figures became available for purchase at Big Bad Toy Store.
And thus, this minor nerdpocalypse comes to an end (until we go through this shit again with series 2). The haters must recognize that the toys can, finally, be bought and owned by human beings, and Shocker should probably acknowledge that perhaps they were a tad optimistic about the dozen or so release dates they announced for the toys. Now you boys shake hands and make up… or just continue sniping each other, which will at least be entertaining. Whee!
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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.