Funko Batman 66 Batmobile gift set!

[Hedji]

I placed my preorder at Entertainment Earth. You can save $10 off $50. Wonder how I'm gonna get the Eli Wallach variant?

These are a home run in my opinion. If these came out in the 70s or 80s, I'd have thrown a fit. I just wish the card art were more inspired.

[palitoy]

I think the figures are a nice pistache of vintage, well done with just a hint of limitations at the time. (even the Star Trek TMP figures, which are sculpted by the amazing Bill Lemon, have a little clunk to them).

I don't like the card art but honestly, I've hated ALL the 1966 style guide art, it's all sort sort of mundane and bland for such a colourful program.

[rykerw1701]

^There's a chunkiness to them for sure. I think this is Funko realizing "Retro" doesn't mean "ugly Happy Meal cast-off" and doing a throwback feel right. These kind of remind me of the Playmates Trek figiures, only smaller.

Chris

Oh no, don't say that. I'd have to buy these and immediately throw them into one of the giant boxes of Playmates Star Trek I have in the basement!

[Hedji]

I don't like the card art but honestly, I've hated ALL the 1966 style guide art, it's all sort sort of mundane and bland for such a colourful program.

It is indeed. That dull orange base color doesn't do the style guide any favors, and isn't in the spirit of the show. I also would've like to see unique cards for each character, instead of just Batman on all of them.

Artist Christopher Franchi is pretty good when Batman 66 is concerned, and he did a mock up of a card art, just for fun. (This will NOT be used) But I like something along these lines better.

[palitoy]

I prefer his art but i can't support a man with views on women such as his. He had a tirade on facebook a while back and he has some issues.

[Hedji]

I didn't catch that particular one, but yeah, I've caught just enough comments to know that he's not my type of friend.

[palitoy]

Turned me right off the dude, normally i can separate an artisan and their beliefs but it was pretty vile.

[Hedji]

Yecch...

I had no idea, nor do I want to read it.

[MeWantMegos]

How do you get $10 of EE purchase of $50 or more? Is there a code?

If I had a minor complaint I would say the figures are a little too squat for my taste. Someone here mentioned that was in keeping with their retro style. Which is a fair point. But a bit too squat.

I wonder why they decided to do a mostly realistic approach to these figures and not give them their full Funko treatment. Not a complaint mind you. They've gone full "retro" on all figures. When I think of Funko I think of their Alien, Back to the Future, Buffy, Firefly and Big Trouble lines. These are more action figures like their Suicide Squad line. Often their figures don't look like the actual actors. Instead, they often suggest the character in a more generic way. These do. But it's not the Funko I think about. (Again, not a complain just wondering why this approach.)

[palitoy]

I think the "ReAction" way of doing things for Funko is over. I honestly prefer this style.

[huedell]

I think the "ReAction" way of doing things for Funko is over. I honestly prefer this style.

I am currently building an action figure line from absolutely nothing, with almost no money, and without a Kickstarter.

If they behave in the same way I am...then that "old way" to the "new way" was their goal all along.

Save money every step of the way.

And, if you're lucky (and make good decisions), you have very nice versions of the same thing you started with to begin with.

The less accurate sculpts were part of that process. And, in the judgement of time gone by, not that big of a deal...

I mean that in the context of that it got us from "BTTF Fox" to "'66 West".

And it achieved this by producing figs that while resembling the half-baked inaccurate sculpts of classic Kenner Star Wars, offered the greater thing, a product aspect that is just as important now, as it was then: : Ultimately recognizable "pieces of the franchise" that it was selling....some of it even having barely anything to do with the figure, and more with the packaging.

Would we have gotten so many franchises in a favored action figure format to choose from without the weak sculpts and limited articulation aspects? Absolutely not.

And, frankly, until someone, maybe Funko themselves, make better BTTF or Gremlins etc figures in that scale, I'm not getting rid of those guys in my collection.

[phil]

If you look at some of the early stills of West in the costume he does have a slightly out of shape look and I think the figure depicts that.

[Werewolf]

I think the "ReAction" way of doing things for Funko is over.

Just as well, unlike Super7, they never really got it. To Funko retro Kenner style too often meant intentionally bad sculpts on random non retro licenses.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I actually like the style guide art for Batman '66. It was actually done by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (Praise Be His Name). I don't like the colors in some cases (making Joker's suit green to match the animated opening is just dumb), but overall, it's nice.

I think Funko's packaging looks like something that MIGHT exist in '66 which is why I dig it.

Chris

[ODBJBG]

I don't get the complaints about the card. I think the card looks PERFECT! The gaudy mock up someone posted looks like crap IMO. Mattel's cards were bad, FTCs aren't great, but these Funko cards really evoke the show to me.