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Frank Richards · 12-16-2014, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

We still could have used a few more Legionaires, especially in the villains department and a few more New Teen Titans members. Terra and Jericho should have been made before the morons like Golden Pharaoh, Cyclotron, Samurai, and Black Vulcan.

I was begrudgingly tolerant of Mattel's fixation on the Super Powers line and the Super Friends cartoons, because I thought that surely, SURELY they would eventually come up with some cool ideas, but nope, instead we got stuff like the Wonder Twins and Gleek, lol

Since Mattel was intent on mining peripheral aspects of DC's history, such as earlier action figure lines and older DC animation for inspiration, personally, I was wishing for an homage to the 1989 Lex Luthor from Toy Biz's short-lived Super Powers knock-off series.
I LOVE my armored Lex from the pre-DCUC Superman series, but I really wanted a figure of Lex in a suit, and an updated homage to that figure could have looked amazing.
But, no... we never got ANY version of Lex in a suit. Instead, we got yet ANOTHER Super Friends homage with the Lex in his "popped collar" costume.

Despite all of the poor choices Mattel made with their selection of DC animated figures, I still have to commend them for the Batman Beyond figure(s). If memory serves, at that point, Terry hadn't been featured in the DCU, and had only appeared in comics based on his show, so that was the one example Mattel actually gave us a figure of a DC animated character that some of us actually wanted, lol !

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Frank Richards Adventurer, explorer ... Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Savannah, GA Posts: 1,004	Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Kain We still could have used a few more Legionaires, especially in the villains department and a few more New Teen Titans members. Terra and Jericho should have been made before the morons like Golden Pharaoh, Cyclotron, Samurai, and Black Vulcan. I was begrudgingly tolerant of Mattel's fixation on the Super Powers line and the Super Friends cartoons, because I thought that surely, SURELY they would eventually come up with some cool ideas, but nope, instead we got stuff like the Wonder Twins and Gleek, lol Since Mattel was intent on mining peripheral aspects of DC's history, such as earlier action figure lines and older DC animation for inspiration, personally, I was wishing for an homage to the 1989 Lex Luthor from Toy Biz's short-lived Super Powers knock-off series. I LOVE my armored Lex from the pre-DCUC Superman series, but I really wanted a figure of Lex in a suit, and an updated homage to that figure could have looked amazing. But, no... we never got ANY version of Lex in a suit. Instead, we got yet ANOTHER Super Friends homage with the Lex in his "popped collar" costume. Despite all of the poor choices Mattel made with their selection of DC animated figures, I still have to commend them for the Batman Beyond figure(s). If memory serves, at that point, Terry hadn't been featured in the DCU, and had only appeared in comics based on his show, so that was the one example Mattel actually gave us a figure of a DC animated character that some of us actually wanted, lol ! EDITED for length __________________ I have a Galactus. Like a pet. Last edited by Frank Richards; 12-16-2014 at 03:13 AM..