Robin and Joker now showing Sold Out, Product Retired on FTC & CTVT sites

[tllgn]

the edition size for wave 1 not counting two packs and singles of batman & robin ,was 1250 cases,wave 2 was 625 cases ,three of each figure
in each box ,thats what was printed on the shipping boxs from figures toy company ,also classic tv batman was 1250 cases .and 666 cases of dukes.

[huedell]

I am (or rather, I was). That was many, many moons ago!

Cool, cool, cool! You're an icon to me---not many people like you existed way back when. I used to pine over the customs on your site for hours upon HOURS!
(On that note...) Not that we got all we wanted when DCUC started up/wound down, but who'd have thought back then that we'd have gotten what we did as far as Bronze Age DCU (albeit in a slightly bigger scale!)?
Apologies for thread-jacking to you and the others, but since your first Mego Museum post was acknowledged in this thread, I thought I'd give it a nod or two Welcome!
(And let's hope FTC can even do a QUARTER of the DCU characters that Mattel achieved w/DCUC!)

[fatsal]

Cool, cool, cool! You're an icon to me---not many people like you existed way back when. I used to pine over the customs on your site for hours upon HOURS!
(On that note...) Not that we got all we wanted when DCUC started up/wound down, but who'd have thought back then that we'd have gotten what we did as far as Bronze Age DCU (albeit in a slightly bigger scale!)?
Apologies for thread-jacking to you and the others, but since your first Mego Museum post was acknowledged in this thread, I thought I'd give it a nod or two Welcome!
(And let's hope FTC can even do a QUARTER of the DCU characters that Mattel achieved w/DCUC!)

Thanks so much for your kind words. Customizing those figures was a lot of fun, as was learning how to create a website back in the early days of the "World Wide Web".

As for DCUC, it was an absolute dream come true for an old DC diehard like myself. For the most part, they served up the exact versions of characters I'd dreamed of in my misspent youth, and I collected them avidly. Their obvious devotion to the Super Powers Collection was especially sweet for me, although in truth, I never much cared for the likes of Golden Pharaoh, Cyclotron or any of the other non-comics characters.

It is my sincerest hope that FTC will go as deep or even deeper into the DC roster as DCUC did. I think they have a lot going for them and the product that Mattel didn't. For one, I think the combination of Mego technology and the more direct-to-consumer distribution model allows them to do smaller runs of more obscure characters more efficiently (if not cheaply) than Mattel could with the production quantities necessary to sell at big box retail and all-new sculpts (and the expensive tooling required for such). Also, I think the natural target market for FTC figures of the 30- and 40-somethings that have great affinity and nostalgia for this style of figure, as well as the novelty of recreating/reviving the Mego aesthetic mean we're more likely to see them stick to the Bronze Age more faithfully than other lines might.

At this early stage, it very much feels like FTC is consciously picking up EXACTLY where Mego left off. Its not hard to imagine that, had Mego survived into the mid-80s, they'd have produced stuff like the Nightwing and the New Teen Titans figures they've already announced. It's my fervent wish that they stick with that mindset until they've exhausted their options with Bronze Age characters.

After the denial, rage and eventual acceptance of the demise of DCUC, this line has me excited and hopeful that I will still be able to get my DC figure fix for some time to come.

[TRDouble]

...After the denial, rage and eventual acceptance of the demise of DCUC, this line has me excited and hopeful that I will still be able to get my DC figure fix for some time to come.

I probably started from, "eventual acceptance," skipping denial and rage , but the FTC Retro line has me feeling the same way. And minus a few leftovers on Matty.com, with DCUC dead, including the Matty Subscription, I have the money to put towards these. If DCUC continued, I probably would not be buying many of these because I can't afford it all. While there are still many more characters and versions of characters I would have loved to seen made in the DCUC line, I am satisfied enough with what Mattel did put out and happy to fill the void of DCUC with DC Repros and ReMegos, especially since Megos were my first super-hero toy line.