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Fine, I Guess We Can Have Decent Hobbit Action Figures

Fine, I Guess We Can Have Decent Hobbit Action Figures

By July 11, 2012 Miscellaneous, Movies, Toys 0 Comment

When it was announced that The Bridge Direct — makers of Justin Bieber dolls, Zhu Zhu Pets, and jack shit else — would get The Hobbit action figure license, I was… skeptical of how good the figures would be. Based on my knowledge of the toy industry, I know that very few companies release a good action figure line on their first attempt — and with a huge property like The Hobbit, the problems are usually compounded. Well, looks like I needn’t have worried.

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The first pics of TBD’s Hobbit figures have surfaced, and they’re fine. Good, even. That’s Bilbo, obviously (I’m pretty sure it’s the 6-inch version [which I’m hoping means the 6-inch scale version, like Toy Biz’s LotR figures, and not actually 6-inches tall]and not the 3-3/4-inch version [see previous note about scale versus actual size]); ToyNewsI has pics of a less great but certainly solid Gandalf, Thorin Oakenshield, and the suddenly SDCC exclusive invisible Bilbo. Of course, there remains the questions if The Bridge Direct’s Chinese factory has the skills to mass produce figures of this quality… but clearly stranger things have happened.

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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.