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Originally Posted by squeezeplay

Especially towards the end of that checklist, the variants that were proposed but never made are shown. Some of them obviously went as far as packaged mockups, which is how Rafael got his Tornado.



Gotcha. Man that must have been a sight. Can you tell us any other specific rare items he had?

His daughter tells me that he is obsessed with Batman so, to start off, I saw just about every Batman figure ever made plus so many unreleased and prototypes that never made it to production. I saw that he kept at least one of each figure from every wave including the SH series and the infinite crisis 3.75 inch toy line too. The coolest stuff (besides the rares of course) was that his daughter tells me that all those prototypes of Batman could've made to production if he really pushed for it. She says that at the time Mattel had given him the opportunity to push as many figures as he pleased, therefore, he just left so many unproduced prototypes because newer and better ideas would always make come up. I also bought from him a variant Etrigon Demon and several GL and Sinestro wave 3 figs but they all have "neon colored" lanterns. I'll post pics of those later.