Mattel DC Classic Movieverse 4" line shown at NYCC!

[Desamo]

I will get Batman Returns Penguin and Catwoman. Those should be 6" but I am fine with 4".

 

[banthafett]

I'm a fan of this size.

I will buy 2 of Superman and Zod for my daughter, 1 set to play and 1 to play with. And 2 sets of the Burton figures for my son.

MY BIGGEST FEAR IS THAT MATTEL WILL USE THOSE TINY CHEAP CARD BACKS WITH GENERIC COLORS AND LOGO. WON'T BE MOVIE SPECIFIC.

If they do the card backs right, I will buy every single Burton figure I see in stores. You imagine these bad boys on a vintage looking card backs (think vintage sw, not the ugly gold 89 toys). Heck I hate the old Superman movies, but think how cool they would look on movie specific cards.

But this is Mattel after all. They will use those cheap tiny dollar store card backs.

 

[luthor1940]

They can keep it...6" or above for me.

Great to hear. One less person I have to worry about taking my figures.

 

[Keenan]

As a long time 1:18th collector this is awesome news!

 

[GasparZizou]

I cannot believe how good little Reeve looks

 

[Otomofan]

Like so many of you, I too have been waiting impatiently since 1989 for a movie-accurate TOY version of Batman. Even as a kid, I knew the Toy Biz figures were crap...and the Kenner ones a year later were better but still inaccurate.

So yeah, nothing will top Hot Toys in terms of accuracy, but that certainly isn't a "toy" is it?

I just have to agree that the scale thing is the worst part. A year ago I probably wouldn't have cared, but now that Star Wars Black have finally joined the 6 inch scale, it just seems like a huge step backwards for this other "dream" figure to be produced smaller.

Maybe, just MAYBE Mattel is just milking us for all we're worth, and will release the 6 inch versions in 2015?

Nah, that would be too much foresight from a company that has proven time and time again that they have NONE!

 

[sallah]

Great to hear. One less person I have to worry about taking my figures.

Ha! I am kinda thinking the same thing when I hear folks not buying them because they aren't 6"... Might make them easier to find for those of us into it.

Then again, I have a feeling the fence-sitters will probably snag them when they see them in stores, regardless of scale.

Sallah

 

[Batfreak]

That's the problem I have with the Reeve Superman films. They aren't bad movies but they're dated so horribly in regards to the styles of the late 70s and early 80s that they're just kind of hard to watch at times. Certain films are better to pull off the timeless quality no matter what era they were made in but honestly the Reeve Superman films while fun movies just haven't aged well to me.

I think that's the only problem I have with the original superman films, I love them to death but that 70's/80's styles are a painful reminder of how BAD styles back then were. not that they are much better today, post 2000 we seem to be heading back to the freakish weirdness of that era, perhaps even worse. however, that's besides the point. that 70's sheik is pretty bad.

that said, I can see the same thing happeneing to many superhero movies today, which are all trying to look "today". nolans batman already looks like its time thanks to the overuse of cell phone junk and so on. unlike the original batman series, which more of less opted for a timeless look mixing today with the 1940's noir, you cant place them in any particular time. that's why I can watch the original batman series anytime and not always think "man that is so 70's/80's", though Schumacher does date it a little bit with his overuse of neon and dayglo. I do not like the recent films (returns and MOS were all around disappointing), I love the reeve films so much despite the datedness. they are just fun films to watch, and reeve is by far the best actor to play superman EVER and proably always will be for me.

 

[batfan08]

Nolan's films aren't meant to be, though. The Burton films had a sense of surrealism and whimsy; like they existed outside of reality, whereas Nolan's films are supposed to be somewhat grounded. I kind of wonder how much will be lost with time, as a ton of it is most relevant today, and I'm not just talking about aesthetics, like cars and phones.

Look no further than the heavy Post-9/11 subtext in TDK; "Privacy Vs. Security," etc., etc.; hell, after the Snowden NSA leaks, that's more relevant than ever.

 

[Batfreak]

i think the Nolan films banked too much on the post 9/11 terrorism stuff and it just IMO makes it look very dated, and that goes with many films post 2001. years from now, i just don't see those films having much of a shelf life but i can see the original batmans still being enjoyed years from now because of there timelessness and comic book styling's.

 

[DiFabio]

As we age, get older and people die, so to do these movies.

Superman: The Movie is extremely dated (it's freaking 35 years old!). . . so will MoS.

Batman '89 is dated (Prince, visual effects, 80s Kim Basinger), but Begins is starting to look it too (CGI city and narrows are starting to look like 2002 Spider-Man effects quality, Katie Holmes fresh from Dawson's Creek, Bale actually looked young then).

Once these actors get older and die and filmmaking evolves, all of this stuff will look dated. That's just how it is. You take it for what it's worth, not how it stacks up with the now. That's why we refer to them all in the past tense. The only "modern" superhero movies are the ones that haven't come out yet (Thor 2, Cap 2, Avengers 2, Batman vs. Superman, etc. etc)

 

[DiFabio]

The Wave is up for order.

 

[GasparZizou]

God, they look so good, for such little figures.

 

[darth]

Penquin looks the best.

 

[GasparZizou]

Yeah, how come Penguin's sculpt is perfect and Bats' and Zod's look like any other mattel figs?

 

[spindrift]

Yeah, how come Penguin's sculpt is perfect and Bats' and Zod's look like any other mattel figs?

Good question!

 

[Master Wayne]

Yeah, how come Penguin's sculpt is perfect and Bats' and Zod's look like any other mattel figs?

Don't worry. The final product will look just as bad as the other two.

 

[GasparZizou]

Don't worry. The final product will look just as bad as the other two.

 

[Lee in MI]

Don't worry. The final product will look just as bad as the other two.

Too true!!!

 

[GasparZizou]

Kinda bugs me that they decided to sell 2 separate figures for Batman, instead of giving you 2 heads with one figure.

That's the 7" and below figure market for y'all!