Robin's mask

[LonnieFisher]

What do you think made them change the mask to be painted on? Customer complaint or cost? I wonder if there were a lot of masks that sat around the warehouse after the change or if they used all the ones they had. I wonder because for the picture of the secret identity figures shows Dick holding a Robin mask. That was for Christmas '74. Robin had a painted mask long before then. Do you think it was like "go grab me one of the little black masks out of the giant box of them in the warehouse"?

[MIB41]

I think at this stage little kids were losing both the Batman and Robin masks, so the decision was made to make them permanently affixed. I would think it had little to do about cost because they had to make a whole new mold for Batman to address the problem. I'm all for bring the removable mask back (even on Robin). I doubt Mattel will mess with that, although it would make a wonderful Mattycollector exclusive if they wanted to do it on a limited run for the collectors.

[palitoy]

That was for Christmas '74. Robin had a painted mask long before then. Do you think it was like "go grab me one of the little black masks out of the giant box of them in the warehouse"?

That was Christmas '74 but that photo was probably prepared in the spring of that year, so they weren't that distant a memory.

I work in catalogs, I signed off on my 2010 artwork in March.