[Rane]

I think this is a fantastic line and the figures really looked great, but there seems to be very little interest in it. They don't even sell on eBay. What's the problem that everyone's aware of except for me?

[DHeezy81]

Nm, I had the wrong figures in mind...

[ToyAddict]

limited characters in the series
some of the characters are not the most popular incarnations of the figure (Green Arrow, Black Lightning, Green Lantern)
limited articulation

The sculpts are pretty good I guess but the lack of articulation, and some of the poses they are made in, limit playability -- puts them on par with Happy Meal toys almost.

[lanternjv37]

paying the 21 dollars for 1 6" isnt worth it. all of mattels 3.75" lines are horrible, i feel the same as ToyAddict and have called mattels work kids meal caliber figures.

dont mean to be a debbie downer! if i can buy them for 9 bux from HK then I do :-)

[redx24]

have the darkseid from this line. but the rest were not so great bought and sold them off quick. i did like the fact they did the superman with his longer 90's hair-do

[snake5289]

I still have The Flash, Batman, and Robin from this line. Lost all their armor but when I was little Flash was my all time favorite toy. I took it everywhere I went.

[kenm2474]

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Originally Posted by ToyAddict

limited characters in the series
some of the characters are not the most popular incarnations of the figure (Green Arrow, Black Lightning, Green Lantern)
limited articulation

The sculpts are pretty good I guess but the lack of articulation, and some of the poses they are made in, limit playability -- puts them on par with Happy Meal toys almost.

I hate "FIGURES" in molded stances. They then turn to Statues IMO.

[Snowflakian]

Tons of figures for the 90s JL, and it branched off into it's own outright JL line too.

The sculpts are amazing. I still have GL and Parallax, and at random times am looking for the GL in the polaris 2 pack. Might someday pick up a superman blue from this line too and Zauriel. Nowadays the line is mostly only good as a background piece(that's what I use classic Kyle Rayner GL and Hal Parallax as on my cosmic shelf).

To be blunt though, as awesome as the figures are, and the in the TJ line the accessories too, the limited articulation kills it. Even as a kid, the 5 point articulation annoyed me, and made me lean towards toybiz at the time other than the handful of must haves I just couldn't pass up.

To this day I've thought about picking up the extended figures. Just some to finish out like a Justice league icons museum statue display thingy.

Personally I have the figures from TJ only like:
GL Kyle (With GL armor accessory)
Batman (First one with the flight armor accessory)
Superman (classic long hair with solar armor accessory)
Aquaman (gold harpoon, atlantean armor accessory)
Huntress (with crossbows and armor accessories)
Hal Parallax (with power accessories)
Connor Queen Green Arrow (Bow and sight accessories)
Hawkman (Hawk God Accessory Armor)
Wally West Flash (speed Armor accessory)

Also the 4 issue comic miniseries too.

But the full list they made:

Batman Total Justice
(All figures have amor accessory pieces)

Wave 1
Aquaman
Batman
Darkseid
The Flash (Wally West)
Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
Robin (Tim Drake)

Wave 2
Despero
Fractal Armor Batman
Hawkman
Superman

Wave 3
Black Lightning
Green Arrow (Connor Hawke)
Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)
Parallax (Hal Jordan)

Toyfare exclusive
Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne, Professor Zoom)

DC Super-Heroes 2 packsBlue Beetle (Ted Kord) & Fractal Armor The Flash w/ the Atom (Ray Palmer)
Fractal Armor Green Lantern vs Doctor Polaris
Superboy (surfing) vs King Shark

JLA
These only have character specific accessories.

Series 1
Batman
The Flash
Green Lantern
Green Arrow
Huntress
Superman Blue
Superman Red

Series 2
Aquaman
Dark Knight Batman
Martian Manhunter
Steel
Superman (w/ short hair)
Zauriel

Series 3
Caped Crusader Batman
Impulse
Plastic Man
Robin
Superboy

Series 4
Atom (Ray Palmer)
Batman
Cyber Armor Batman
Cyber Armor Superman
Red Tornado
Wonder Woman

Diamond Exclusive Box Sets
Box Set #1: Superman Blue, Green Lantern, Huntress, Hologram Batman and Hologram Flash
Box Set #2: Batman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Hologram Superman and Hologram Green Lantern
Box Set #3: Martian Manhunter, Superman, Zauriel, Lex Luthor and The Joker
Box Set #4: Superboy, Robin, Impulse, Hologram Martian Manhunter and Hologram Aquaman

DC Super-Heroes 2001 (WB Store exclusives)
Aquaman
Batman
Despero
Green Arrow
Hawkman
Robin

The downside is they all have 5-6 pts. of articulation. Sometimes 7 if they have wings.


The funny thing being this was hasbro/kenner back in the day. You could almost say it was a precursor to MU.

[snake5289]

Kenner WAS my childhood. I had like every Batman toy they made back then.

[Snowflakian]

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Originally Posted by snake5289

Kenner WAS my childhood. I had like every Batman toy they made back then.

I had some of the batman stuff and some of the superman stuff. Still love the work they did on Conduit from the superman line. I still have the doomsday on display too since it fits in with MU/DCIH.

[Snailbot]

I had the entire first wave of this line. I still have Aquaman (because of my irrational love for Aquaman) but I never liked the line. Bad articulation and the figures were stuck in weird poses. Just my opinion but a line like Superpowers would have done a lot more for me.

[warmachine6]

i think i had batman one seemed no articulation basically okay for models but no playable or pose able material

[bmorr]

I just looked them up. Barf.

[redx24]

honestly i think this was where i noticed how kool a figure with articulation could be. darkseid despero and supes were to damn kool not to get at the time but really all they r are statues.

[lanternjv37]

-_- totally misread the topic sorry!!!!!! i enjoy the kyle rayner and parallax hal jordan figure. I liked them as childhood play rough figures but today, they're no good for displaying i feel

[Crazy Jetty]

Limited articulation is one thing... and these had pretty standard articulation for the day. But pre-posed figures were always aweful to me. So that completely ruined these for me then, and now.

[Jason Abbadon]

These had such detail...but the proportions are off badly on many of them- too long legs and arms, too narrow waists, etc.

Still, they blew me away when I first saw them- Kyle Rayner was great looking, if a plastic statue....which seemed the trend at the time with Spawn doing much the same.

Odd they never made Wonder Woman. Black Lightening but no Diana? Weird.

[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

Odd they never made Wonder Woman. Black Lightening but no Diana? Weird.

Well, that was still in the time of the toy company mindset of "Boys don't want or need girl characters."

The direct markets which catered to the adult collectors that they were still just discovering actually existed had figured out boys will buy girls. But Hasbro, Kenner, and Mattel hadn't figured this out yet.

...and sadly, we're still just barily beyond this mindset.

I guess Kenner figured that Huntress would be considered cooler than Wonder Woman. Also, Huntress was a Batman character, and got priority? I dunno. Wonder Woman wasn't considered as cool or well known then as a bat character.

[Alchemist559]

Are you talking about the Batman and Flash I have in this pic? Lol I have some in my B/S/T no bites.

[The DMC]

I gave away all the ones I had to Toys For Tots.

[snake5289]

That is still an awesome looking Bane. He fits in pretty good with 3 3/4 DC figures.

[Alchemist559]

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Originally Posted by snake5289

That is still an awesome looking Bane. He fits in pretty good with 3 3/4 DC figures.

He could be yours lol.

[Rane]

The articulation is a big deal, but as someone mentioned, back then, it was pretty standard.

I never considered the "posed" aspect. I guess cause I'm older and not looking them as a kid, I thought they looked cool, even when posed.

I still think the look of them is very nice.

[redx24]

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Originally Posted by Alchemist559

He could be yours lol.

heard this in axel rose's voice like he was paraphrasing the GNR song u could be mine

[bigkid24]

They were okay for the time but the hyper musculature was ridiculous. I appreciated Kenner's approach of giving a ton of accessories vs Toy Biz's gimmick approach.

The Flash fig was probably my favorite but Parallax and Green Lantern were probably my other favs.