You Owe G.I. Joe $80
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?I know Topless Robot has shown off the G.I. Joe: Resolute figures back during SDCC (well, some of them), but given the totally justified love for the cartoon, I figured the fact that you can now pre-order the figures is plenty newsworthy. As you can see, the set comes with (left to right, top row): Storm Shadow, Cobra
Trooper, Firefly, Cobra Commander, Zartan, Baroness, (bottom row) Beachhead, Flint, Duke, Snake
Eyes, Stalker, Scarlett, and Roadblock — they’re due out in September, and for $80 for all 14, that’s less than $6 a figure, not bad nowadays. Frankly, that Destro figure is worth like $50 by himself, so the other 13 figures are just gravy.
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.