I was just going through the FTC website, looking at all of the DC figures they have made and seeing which ones I don't have.
When I got to Superman, one of DC Comics biggest characters, and looked at the offerings, it just made me realize how much FTC dropped the ball on Superman.
Series 1 was great, with repros of Superman and Supergirl, a reworked Mxy on a small body, and a new character in Bizarro.
Series 2 gave us... a bunch of civilians. Clark Kent was nice as a SI figure, and Lois, Jimmy and Perry White are important enough to the Superman mythos, so I bought all.
Series 3... um... we got a grinning Superboy, a big head lab coat Lex Luthor, and The Kents. At the time, this was the fastest parting out of a wave I had seen from FTC. I ended up buying Superboy. That was it.
Without any inside knowledge, Series 3 seemed bad enough that the Superman series turned into one off variants from that point, while Batman hummed along with six series and many non-series additions, like the new Riddlers and The Penguin.
With Superman, we could have gotten an early powersuit Lex Luthor before his Super Friends version (I appreciate what FTC tried to do with the lab coat Lex, but it contributed to a boring series), Brainiac, The Parasite, classic General Zod and Jor-El, Mon-El, Maxima, Silver Banshee, etc. CTVT has enough western items, we could have even gotten Terra Man. Any one of those in series 3 (Mon-El would have been a good fit) and we might have gotten another series or two of Superman.
I still would like to see FTC revisit Superman. They have a body type that would work for Mongul too. That could turn out nice. But I feel like the Superman Train has left FTC and it's a shame we didn't get more figures out of that franchise.
When I got to Superman, one of DC Comics biggest characters, and looked at the offerings, it just made me realize how much FTC dropped the ball on Superman.
Series 1 was great, with repros of Superman and Supergirl, a reworked Mxy on a small body, and a new character in Bizarro.
Series 2 gave us... a bunch of civilians. Clark Kent was nice as a SI figure, and Lois, Jimmy and Perry White are important enough to the Superman mythos, so I bought all.
Series 3... um... we got a grinning Superboy, a big head lab coat Lex Luthor, and The Kents. At the time, this was the fastest parting out of a wave I had seen from FTC. I ended up buying Superboy. That was it.
Without any inside knowledge, Series 3 seemed bad enough that the Superman series turned into one off variants from that point, while Batman hummed along with six series and many non-series additions, like the new Riddlers and The Penguin.
With Superman, we could have gotten an early powersuit Lex Luthor before his Super Friends version (I appreciate what FTC tried to do with the lab coat Lex, but it contributed to a boring series), Brainiac, The Parasite, classic General Zod and Jor-El, Mon-El, Maxima, Silver Banshee, etc. CTVT has enough western items, we could have even gotten Terra Man. Any one of those in series 3 (Mon-El would have been a good fit) and we might have gotten another series or two of Superman.
I still would like to see FTC revisit Superman. They have a body type that would work for Mongul too. That could turn out nice. But I feel like the Superman Train has left FTC and it's a shame we didn't get more figures out of that franchise.
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