I’ll be honest: normally, I shy away from the idea of remakes and 2.0s, lest a company become Hot Toys, but a part of me looks at all of the releases Mondo’s come out with since this line first started, sees stuff like the new X-Men ‘97 Wolverine remake they’re doing, and would love to see legit remakes by their new sculpting/painting teams of Batman & Catwoman. Batman because I feel like he’s always been sort of a point of contention for a lot of people and, while I know we got the Redux, I feel like he had so many appearances and accessories throughout the shows run that there’s enough there to justify a totally different release (maybe alternate torsos, for if they made a Batcycle, or if they wanted to do the bare chested sword fighting Ra’s look as an exclusive?). Plus, there’s nothing to say they couldn’t make sure any new heads were compatible with the O.G. so as to incentivize it for previous owners.
Catwoman’s another one. Their female figures have improved so much since Zelu joined the fold. I liked her enough when she came out, but that Selina head in particular was very much serving “blow-up doll” and, honestly, since, has even gone on to be surpassed by the Adventures Continue Catwoman at half the size and a fraction of the price from DC Collectibles. Of course, they seem to have kept the regular versions of those figures sort of evergreen, so, I’m not sure how likely it is they would absorb new tooling and production costs when they can just keep churning out the previous molds, but it’d definitely be interesting to see.
I’m hyped to pre-order Ivy, though. I know it’s got its detractors and, in terms of QC and the like, for good reason, but never in my wildest dreams did I think we’d see this sort of expansion of the line and I’m really excited to see how it develops.