I dunno, it just feels like they're milking something that doesn't really need to be done. A few years back, I actually bought the Jumbo Boba Fett and Stormtrooper out of nostalgia and they were alright I guess. I still think the original, smaller versions were sharper in detail. Then when they did a whole line of them, it just started to feel cheap and gimmicky to me, you know? Like they're cheapening the original line with a bunch of excessive gimmicks (big Wampa!) that take away from how you originally perceived the figures as a kid. I don't mean cheapen secondary value either, just the idea of going back to successful lines and blowing them up into this hollow PVC thing with seam lines and flaws you didn't even see as a kid. They weren't made to be 12", they were made to be 4" and 5". It's sort of like those weird bootlegs that are on ebay where they've obviously duplicated the tool of a vintage figure and enlarged it.
Don't get me wrong, Combat Belt Batman is one of my favorite Batman figures, if not my favorite, but I don't really see the point of blowing up that figure. The 5" version is that icon. The line had it's time and we all remember that time fondly. None of them are out of reach if people would like to buy them again. I don't think I need a blown up version to remind me of that. I mean is it to celebrate BTAS and the Kenner line? Isn't that what DCD is sort of doing that with these modern, super articulated figures? Hell, Gentle Giant is sculpting some of those themselves?
Plus, I think it's only a matter of time before Gentle Giant and/or Funko take the next step of actually reproducing the originals in their original scale. These feel like a precursor to that.
