Re: Hot Toys VGM Series Batman: Arkham City - Batman Collectible Figure NOT REVEALED
Honestly, I'd buy any figures from the line... I'd skip a Batmobile since I don't have the room.
I'd love a Riddler just because I think the suit would look cool.
I really want a the Mad Hatter mask included with Batman.
That would make for one hell of an EX.
I trust you own all the DVDs?
The (new) BTAS Scarecrow was a big guy, and his voice was creepy as hell. He was intimidating just by doing nothing. Perhaps that's why I find the Arkham Scarecrow a bit underwhelming.
Probably because that creepy as hell voice was Dr. Herbert West himself, Jeffrey Combs.
Whaa?? Unacceptable. Shame on you!
Individual volumes are pretty cheap on Amazon. I managed to get the Batman Beyond Collectors' Edition for cheap last year. I didn't buy the JLU tin set though as I already had it on blu ray.
Yeah, I actually have a long history with my TAS DVDs. I initially bought them whenever they would first come out, volume by volume, and I owned the entire series in the individual box sets, but, a few years back, I allowed a friend of mine to borrow them for his new comic shop, so that he'd have something to play for customers. Due to the shop still being pretty new, them not being entirely moved in yet, and the variety of other things in the shop that needed to be done, my TAS DVDs got lost in the shuffle.
I'm a patient guy so I chose to take it as a glass half full, rather than a glass half empty. I figured, if he does find them, I get my shows back, if he doesn't, I'll just continue to hold out for a Blu-Ray release. So, I waited, and waited, and waited...and waited, and neither of those things came to fruition, even though my urge to watch the show only increased. That being said, by that point, I still wasn't going to let it get me down, I figured "what the hell, I'll pick up that Complete Series set that I missed out on back in the day due to my already owning the series, and I'll have the superior set, and everything will be good in the world, again.
By this time, the Complete Series set had long since sold out. I checked Amazon; $250-$300, I checked eBay and most were around $150-$200, which was still too expensive for my tastes. However, one number hit the sweet spot, and I ordered it. That being said, I remembered an old video I'd seen while searching for unboxings of the set to see what it looked like, in which a buyer had received a counterfeit set. It prompted me to do more research, and, after discovering how widespread the issue is, I came to the realization that "if it sounds too good to be true, the odds are that it probably is." When the set arrived, I inspected it, just to be safe, but I'd already contacted the seller with all of the info on counterfeits I'd gathered, and, upon confirming it, I sent it back, and was, once again, Batman-less.
That being said, the story didn't end badly! At the time I had purchased it, I posted in the "latest DVD and Blu-Ray haul" thread what it was, and that it was most likely a fake that would probably be headed back once I got it.
Upon hearing this, a fellow freak contacted me, and said he'd be more than happy to sell me his authentic one for the same price, naturally, I took the offer, and, not only did I purchase the TAS set from him, but, after seeing the quality of it, I sold off my Beyond DVDs and managed to make enough off of them to buy that complete series set, which he also offered to sell for a good price! With that being said, thanks very much to Darth Waller for all of the help with the TAS set!
I am loving the redesign of Bane. And Black Mask looks awesome. I'm interested to see who else is in this game.
