Character Style Choices SUPERFRIENDS vs. BRONZE AGE COMICS or...

[huedell]

Well, it now has come to me creating a thread over this
thing that I have pondered for a LONG time...even way
before MATTEL became a part of the equation, back when
I first started commissioning customs almost a decade ago.

I saw someone mention that the HANNA BARBERA style
was perfect for a MATTEL SCARECROW figure...and I have to disagree.

To me, if the style isn't inspired from a BRONZE AGE comic book,
then it's a misstep.

I don't mind the CHALLENGE style...heck...I was bred on it...
and it's a big reason why I love most of these DCU characters...

still...the comicbook style is more reasonable to me....
unless it's clearly marketed as a "SUPERFRIENDS LINE"
or a figure is marked as "SUPERFRIENDS STYLE" which
thus far it has not been.

[samurainoir]

[Jason73]

I'd love for Mattel to start a seperate Superfriends line of retro-action figures.

[Meule]

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0...tman_super.jpg

That's the Scarecrow I'd like to see

[thunderbolt]

Don't really care what the Scarecrow looks like, I'm of the opinion that the Mattel line will sort of follow the Challenge lineup.

[huedell]

That's the Scarecrow I'd like to see

I'd prefer that one too. (And props to samurai for posting that pic!)

Granted "SUPERFRIENDS" SCARECROW is a great way to go, but I think it
makes the whole project of making this line too messy.

If they WERE to use the HB SF SCARECROW as a model for the figure,
I'd hope they'd at least have the decency to label it that way, so at least
there was HOPE for a Bronze Age Comicbook version.

[thunderbolt]

Pretty sure we won't get two versions of Scarecrow.

[Brown Bear]

Superfriends All The Way!

[huedell]

Pretty sure we won't get two versions of Scarecrow.

I hope not.

[The Bat]

Please God...no Superfriends! Mattel should follow the Comic Books, not Cartoons. So let's stick with 70's Artists like Neil Adams & Garcia Lopez.

[bizzaro megomauler]

Don't really care what the Scarecrow looks like, I'm of the opinion that the Mattel line will sort of follow the Challenge lineup.

I agree, that scarecrow was plenty cool!

[huedell]

I agree, that scarecrow was plenty cool!

I dunno...I think when T-bolt said:

Don't really care what the Scarecrow looks like, I'm of the opinion
that the Mattel line will sort of follow the Challenge lineup.

I just think he meant the decision on what characters to release first...
not the actual "model" of the character.

Altho' T-bolt, correct me if I'm wrong

[jwyblejr]

Let's say they do go with the Challenge line-up;who gets paired up with the following:Grundy,Toyman,and Bizzaro?

[Riffster]

[huedell]

THAT riffster is the comic I asked Ed to base my custom SCARECROW on.
I sure hope the MATTEL version resembles that.
Granted the SF version isn't as different as, say, the SF Capt. Cold
or the SF Brainiac is from the comics...so a bit of a "mixture" with the
Scarecrow wouldn't totally rattle me.