A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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Batman TAS figures. 90s.
Oh, it's got to be the Super Powers range from the 80's. I had loads of those. I still owned Superman up until a few years ago when he got lost in a house move.
There was a similar toy range available at roughly the same time based on Marvel's original Secret Wars. This allowed me to create my own personal DC/Marvel company crossover.
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Batman Command Console from Mego (1977)
Got it for Christmas when I was 6 and it was just mindblowing to me at the time.
I mentioned Captain Action before and I guess you could consider that a DC toy as DC published a comic book about him (but after I had got the doll). I am bitter that the only costume that I got for him at the time was the Phantom (not Batman or Superman); however the full face mask for the Phantom was molded to the doll's face, so I could press plasticine into that mask and get a nice three-dimensional copy of the face. Then I could use that to create other characters. That made for hours of fun. It was always the other uses I could find for toys that gave me the most enjoyment, rather the manufacturer's intended purpose.
The first DC related "toy" that I ever had was the Sugar & Spike paper dolls--which actually my sisters cut out of the comics and pasted onto cardboard, so we could put the paper doll outfits on them. I also made a lot of my own dolls by tracing the characters from the comics onto paper and then mounting those on cardboard.
They had a little plastic set of the '66 Batmobile pulling the Batboat on a trailer, it was bigger than Hot Wheels. I would get one every summer when we went camping.
Pulls: Batman, Detective Comics, SiKtC, Catwoman, Nightwing, Titans, Godzilla, Wonder Woman, Batman & Robin, Brave and the Bold, No/One, Kill your Darlings, and Deviant.
My runs: Batman #230-, and Detective #420-
One word: Batmobiles.
LOL subbing toothpicks for the lost rockets seems to have been the universally shared go to solution.
Yes this was the Holy Grail of toys even back then, not surprised they are fetching so much today!
There was also the smaller scale line of Corgi's , but they never lived up to the awesome that was the large slasher blade and rocket lunching "Crime Busters" scale one.
Any particular ones? Era? Or you saying you had them all!?
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I had a big 1989 Batman the movie Batmobile, and a Batman Forever Batmobile around the same size.
When most of your toys are people or robots, stuff like Batmobiles tend to stand out. I had some Batmen too, back when they were making 150 different types of Batmen a year. "Sewer battle Batman!" "High Seas Batman!" "Skater Bro Batman!" I couldn't tell you which one of those I had, and that's why they aren't a favorite. The Batmobiles I remember. The Batmen I do not.
My mother gave me a large size Batmobile from the 1989 movie--she was always trying to make it up to me for all the things of mine they threw out. I kept good care of it, but I'm damned if I can find it now. I'm sure I must have put it away somewhere safe, but I haven't got a clue.
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
Pre-CBR Reboot Join Date: 10-17-2010
Pre-CBR Reboot Posts: 4,362
THE CBR COMMUNITY STANDARDS & RULES ~ So... what's your excuse now?
Pulls: Batman, Detective Comics, SiKtC, Catwoman, Nightwing, Titans, Godzilla, Wonder Woman, Batman & Robin, Brave and the Bold, No/One, Kill your Darlings, and Deviant.
My runs: Batman #230-, and Detective #420-