8" retro batman figures coming soon?

[Figuremod73]

I gotta admit i'm digging the excitement from the forum (and myself) Hope this goes well if it IS true.

[sprytel]

Interesting development. But I'm confused. Wouldn't Mattel still hold the rights here to any Batman figures?

[Mikey]

I dont see any pictures

did they take them down ?

[boss]

nope. your interwebs are broke.

[garfoot]

I just checked their website and facebook page and no news on these figures. This had to be leak by someone. I am excited but I also know that their sister website is classictvtoys and the figures I bought before from them were the Happy Days, Brady Bunch, and Space 1999, and to be honest were very low quality. I mean they were selling these things for like $5 each. I don't have their new Kiss figures so I don't know if their quality has improved over the years. I can't belive that DC would let such a substandard figure be made of their heroes.

[Mikey]

nope. your interwebs are broke.

That's what my doc told me when I said I have trouble peeing

[HardyGirl]

Now this is exciting! And I wish it was Doc making these too, but hey, it's better than nothing. I would buy these before the 60s molded plastic 6" Batman figures. And like everyone said, we can always trade out the bodies, if they're slipshod quality.

[Teemu]

getting these would be great! now bring on retro 8" Marvel figures (Thor,Captain America,Conan etc)

[Saroyan]

Looks like our second chance at retro DC guys. Let's hope Figures/CTVT can get it right and make Mattel ashamed of themselves.

THAT could never happen! Mattel has NO shame!!!!!

[Saroyan]

Someone has to have the inside scoop on this story.

[VintageMike]

My only guess, (if this is all legit) is that they paid Mattel for the rights to do them. Everyone wins, since Mattel gets $ but doesn't have to invest any money themselves into doing something they aren't interested in. I'll be most interested if they do a line extension, even if it's just Batman as there would tons of characters to mine. My "dream" for this line would be to ultimately give us characters we haven't been given by Mego or Mattel-Retro action thus far.

[ScottA]

I wonder if this means new characters as well?

[Wise4671]

All I know is if this is real I know what my kids and nephews are getting for Christmas this year :-)

[David Lee]

. I can't quite wrap my head around how they might have secured licensing.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
And you thought the KISS license was expensive?

Dave

[Meule]

Wow, didn't see that one coming. If they can fix all the quality issues from the past this could be HUGE.
Having said that, I hope they mark all the parts, so we can immediately tell if a boot or glove is repro or not.