Other Half of the Battle Sold Separately
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?The G.I. Joe Collector’s Club — you know, the subscription figure service like Mattel’s various Classics lines — has been steadily revealing what figures the subscription will include before even offering the sub for sale (which, for the record, is totally unlike Mattel, but would be most welcome). The first five figures are above. Now, as occasional TR contributor Adam Pawlus points out at his site 16bit.com, this means 5-for-5 characters correspond to this list of rumored figs from this past August, which means if it keeps up the sub will include 30th anniversary-style figures of Jinx, Cover Girl and Big Boa. I care not a whit for G.I. Joe figures, but even I’m tempted to purchase a sub to get Big fucking Boa. Whenever the Collector’s Club details are revealed, I’ll be sure to post them here.
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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.