The Flash - July 2022

[Bravomite]

Jye is going to have him some fun using that picture in future Jye creations.

 

[T8OO]

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Make me unsee it please.

Let's hope Keaton made his Returns suit out of the same material the space shuttle is made from.

 

[Dave_W]

Jye is going to have him some fun using that picture in future Jye creations.

...as he clicks on Photoshop.

 

[DiFabio]

Hot Toys will probably make a spray painted red Batman Returns suit Flash with chopped off ears before they ever make Catwoman and Penguin . . .

 

[Garlador]

Hot Toys will probably make a spray painted red Batman Returns suit Flash with chopped off ears before they ever make Catwoman and Penguin . . .

Every toy company with the license and old Batman Returns body molds:

 

[a-dev]

Hot Toys will probably make a spray painted red Batman Returns suit Flash with chopped off ears before they ever make Catwoman and Penguin . . .

That's what that is? Holy ***t

 

[Dave_W]

 

[ironwez20]

A great representation of WB. Take all there heroes and make them connected to Batman

 

[Prime Clone]

A great representation of WB. Take all there heroes and make them connected to Batman

Yes, that Flash toy is 90% Batman.

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(Kinda like how the MCU couldn't do Spidey without Iron Man!)

 

[Victοr]

A great representation of WB. Take all there heroes and make them connected to Batman

It’s astounding how DC made me lose all interest in Batman. At this point I’m looking forward to InArt’s SuperCavill far more than BaleMan. And I love Bale. I have far more BatMerch than SuperMerch, but right now I’d not care if Batman was erased from the timeline. I’m Batmaned out, completely. I don’t even know if I’ll ever buy a Battinson, unless the sequel has a more comic accurate suit or something. I’m just tired of him in every way. I’ve reached that point where he comes off as cringy and I’m finding Superman the cooler one with more stories to tell. I swear to God, I’d rather watch 3 hours of Clown Kang than read a single current BatBook. DC’s first week of 2023 was literally just BatBooks. We’re at the point where one of them is starring Luscious' other, secret, edgy-but-not-too-edgy son. Come on. Well, at least he’s not a literal child killer being paraded around as a hero like Harley. She’s part of the Bat-Family now. And somehow Jason still hasn’t put a bullet in her. Batman working with her is a disgrace. And people wonder why one would prefer Punisher and Moon Knight...

I still don’t understand how he caught on so, so much. The Shadow, The Spider, The Phantom, Hell, even literary characters in the same vein like Zorro and The Scarlet Pimpernel, all of them faded, but here is Batman, comparatively a dork, and he’s still the king. Well, actually I do know how he caught on. Miller and Moench refined their Marvel work and put out some evergreen grim n’ gritty stories that are always great for newcomers. He’s part power fantasy, part “deep and thought provoking” character who‘s “not like the other capes”. And a great aesthetic. Superman never got those things so he faded, since he didn't lean into his Space Opera/Sci-Fi roots. Kind of like the FF. The 90s and their edginess meant that not everyone could make it to the new millenium. But Jesus. How are people not Batmaned out? Will they ever be? We’ll see. I hope they do.

 

[ironwez20]

I love the character but I am getting fatigued and I think I’m … growing up? I don’t care if they replace Spider-Man in comics anymore and I don’t care what happens with Batman or with the mcu as much as I use to. I use to care and about anime a lot but I don’t watch it as much lol.
I’ll still be on board for certain stuff but I’m getting tired of certain things. They really are stretching Batman to thin imo. And that’s not good

 

[ironwez20]

I still enjoy collecting but as far as the media goes for this stuff I’m not as heavily invested. I enjoy it but I’m not freaking out about it

 

[Victοr]

I love the character but I am getting fatigued and I think I’m … growing up? I don’t care if they replace Spider-Man in comics anymore and I don’t care what happens with Batman or with the mcu as much as I use to. I use to care and about anime a lot but I don’t watch it as much lol.
I’ll still be on board for certain stuff but I’m getting tired of certain things. They really are stretching Batman to thin imo. And that’s not good

I stopped really liking Batman once I got over my street level/gothic phase. Not that I'm a "sunshine and rainbows" type, but I'm tired of THE STREETS and THE NIGHTS. I like the odd gothic atmosphere material around Halloween, but I'm not in the mood to consume it at all times. I've come to see Batman as a rather constrained character. But maybe that's me consuming too much over the years and my tastes aligning closer with other genres. Either way, he'd have been next to Spider-Man for me, a childhood/teenage memory, had it not been for the sheer oversaturation of him across the board. Bale and now Pattinson are bigger reasons for me wanting their dolls than Batman as "Batman".

Anyway, I get you. I do get irritated at changes big enough to break the core, but I've come to not really care all that much. Manletmor I've grown to like in his own way, and I'm even warming up to Clown Kang in a jokey sense. Comic "Canon" I disregarded ages ago. I just like looking into it from time to time to laugh at all the lunacy. Anything else, eh, I've accepted that 90% of the pop culture I "like" was just me merely latching onto some specific aspects and building ideal versions in my head. And that's fine. You are meant to outgrew it all and keep a few as crystalised memories.

 

[ironwez20]

I stopped really liking Batman once I got over my street level/gothic phase. Not that I'm a "sunshine and rainbows" type, but I'm tired of THE STREETS and THE NIGHTS. I like the odd gothic atmosphere material around Halloween, but I'm not in the mood to consume it at all times. I've come to see Batman as a rather constrained character. But maybe that's me consuming too much over the years and my tastes aligning closer with other genres. Either way, he'd have been next to Spider-Man for me, a childhood/teenage memory, had it not been for the sheer oversaturation of him across the board. Bale and now Pattinson are bigger reasons for me wanting their dolls than Batman as "Batman".

Anyway, I get you. I do get irritated at changes big enough to break the core, but I've come to not really care all that much. Manletmor I've grown to like in his own way, and I'm even warming up to Clown Kang in a jokey sense. Comic "Canon" I disregarded ages ago. I just like looking into it from time to time to laugh at all the lunacy. Anything else, eh, I've accepted that 90% of the pop culture I "like" was just me merely latching onto some specific aspects and building ideal versions in my head. And that's fine. You are meant to outgrew it all and keep a few as crystalised memories.

Yea like I’ll definitely buy the raimi toys and a few batmen from my childhood. I’ll still stick with things I enjoy but as far as the future of some of the stuff I like I don’t get to mad about it anymore. I use to hate how they pushed miles as the new Spider-Man and Peter was just a “straight white male who nobody could identify with” but I don’t care cause I have my Spider-Man and Miles is pretty cool when he has his own stories. Comics suck nowadays anyway.

Lol I look back at the days when I bought things just because it was the hot new thing and I thought it would look cool on the shelf. I look at my stuff now and wonder what’s gonna happen to this stuff when I’m gone. Nobody better sell it

 

[Victοr]

Yea like I’ll definitely buy the raimi toys and a few batmen from my childhood. I’ll still stick with things I enjoy but as far as the future of some of the stuff I like I don’t get to mad about it anymore. I use to hate how they pushed miles as the new Spider-Man and Peter was just a “straight white male who nobody could identify with” but I don’t care cause I have my Spider-Man and Miles is pretty cool when he has his own stories. Comics suck nowadays anyway.

Lol I look back at the days when I bought things just because it was the hot new thing and I thought it would look cool on the shelf. I look at my stuff now and wonder what’s gonna happen to this stuff when I’m gone. Nobody better sell it

Miles was good enough back in the early days. He was an OC with all the trouble that entails, but he did have a solid enough hook of trying to live up to Ultimate Parker. But as time went on he got more and more powers, his villains were just repurposed Peter ones, and in the end he stopped having anything unique about him. Which isn’t actually that big of a deal, as most capes have similar enough personalities. But the problem is that Marvel has a mandate where Peter has to be an annoying manchild hated by everyone while Miles is literally sold as “the cooler Spider-Man”. And the kid who started off as kind of insecure trying to navigate normal life is now a “cool guy”. Same way Amadeus Cho went from nerdy adventurer to “cool guy”. It makes them all generic to me. It’d be like if Doom wasn’t actually a hyper-petty weirdo, but could seduce women with Bond-like charm. He’d stop being a character and turn into a parody, a self-insert. You’ve got to make the character both a power fantasy because that’s what capes are, and also give them flaws and shortcomings to keep them grounded.

Personally I was never against Legacies, because I want progression. The problem is that the Originals never move on with their lives and we just get a bunch of repetitive “hip and cool” young replacements which remain eternally hip and cool young replacements. Same personalities, same grudge against “the old guard”, same marketing push. Be it the 90s, the 00s or the 10s. It’s just boring. If Peter was married with kids now, and Miles was the 20-something new guy learning the ropes next to Ben and Kaine, with Peter in the background, it could work. As it stands, what’s the point? Ultimate Miles worked because his Peter was dead. It works the same way in the Spider-Verse movies. Main/616 Miles is just superfluous.

Anyway, in this instance I’ve found that if there’s no nostalgia attached to it, there’s no reason to buy a dolly. Something you like right now will go away very quickly. It’s not even a money question. A good car would cost more than a big, 100+ dolly collection, let alone one spread over 10, 20 years. It’s just that in this game of constant upgrades, reboots, remakes, anniversaries, rereleases, there’s always going to be something cool, something new, something else. You’ll never be over with it. And like you said, at some point you’ll look at all the plastic and wonder. Not everything retains its emotional value. And sadly, just because we liked those things doesn’t mean our kids or next of kin will care. You could spend 40 years amassing the best dolly collection possible, and have it in the trash a month after you’re dead, because why would they waste the space? By then there’ll be new technologies, new forms to take money away from nerdy collectors, new things. Maybe they’ll keep around the 5 characters you gushed over. The rest? Well… Point is, a curated, more personal and concise collection is better than one that’s all over the place. Otherwise, what’s the point?

 

[jye4ever]

 

[Prime Clone]

 

[Dave_W]

So not only Snowspeeder's hover, but also Batwing's.

 

[ironwez20]

Lol if that isn’t very telling of WB I don’t know what is.
DC characters always fall under the shadow of Batman nowadays . .

Like Batman reminding flash “your not who they came to see buddy.”

 

[jye4ever]

Man that poster is wack!