1/6 Batman: TAS figures coming from Mondo...

[Hologram AI]

Love seeing the BTS stuff for Clayface. Cool to see the original 3D sculpt and how it's broken down.

These figures are definitely overpriced but as someone else already said, the fact that these can't be reused elsewhere is definitely a contributing factor. There's no underlying 1/6 body here that traditional 1/6 figures have. Clayface is a complete one off. Same for a majority of their figures, outside of repaints that they can do.

The most expensive part is probably having to get everything molded and then tossed away.

 

[paintHuffington]

Love seeing the BTS stuff for Clayface. Cool to see the original 3D sculpt and how it's broken down.

These figures are definitely overpriced but as someone else already said, the fact that these can't be reused elsewhere is definitely a contributing factor. There's no underlying 1/6 body here that traditional 1/6 figures have. Clayface is a complete one off. Same for a majority of their figures, outside of repaints that they can do.

The most expensive part is probably having to get everything molded and then tossed away.

I loved that segment and how willing they are to share these details. They seemed super proud of this release, as they should be.

Brief summary of the BTAS related info:

• While Clayface is their big BTAS release of the year, they have a couple more BTAS releases planned for 2025
• Next BTAS release in early summer
• Their choices for the other releases are based on what collectors/customers online are saying (hopefully they’ve been following our little thread)
• Peter liked chat's idea of holiday figures, specifically mentioning "Christmas with the Joker" as a great opportunity to bring Joker back in a different way
• To this Hector responded by saying “wait and see” and that they’ve been talking about alt variants for certain characters
• They have full autonomy over what they decide to make, it’s just a matter of "if time permits"
• They haven’t yet considered dioramas for the BTAS line, but are kind of dipping their toes in this with the X-Men Sentinel bases and upcoming X-Men releases
• Hector said they get a lot of requests for them to restock Freeze () and then said “never say never” () and even though he considers it a perfect figure and one of the best they’ve done, there are a couple of things he would want to adjust

 

[KitbashOfficer]

My guess is, that each one of these figures have to have brand new, multiple molds. No reuse. That’s expensive and there aren’t as many made.

All the more reason to have a longer preorder window. They can make some of that money back by having additional opportunities to use those molds. Some folks might like a month to get the funds set to pull the trigger on a purchase.