Classic Teen Titans or The New Teen Titans?

[samurainoir]

On a related "Teen" note, Batman Beyond SHOULD be on a 7" since he's 16 and shown shorter than Superman.


But at 8" I could still buy him as a teen who had his full growth spurt already. Same with a Smallville style Clark Kent, he's already a Big Boy when we meet him in the pilot ep of Smallville.

Ultimate Spider-man (While I'm in fantasy land) would have to be 7" and have a very oversized noggin to feel right to me.

If we went with actual heights in comics, we'd have to have Wolverine and Rorschach on 7" bodies.

[samurainoir]

To sum up my thoughts on Robin's, and why I think Mego got it "wrong"

Robin with the side-part (like Perez drew him) should be 8".


By this point he was headed to college.


Robin with this hair, as Dick Sprange drew him, should be 7" (or on a munchkin/our gang body if he was still the boy wonder instead of the teen wonder)

[samurainoir]

It would be kind of fun to get a Kid Flash animated variant...

[samurainoir]

Would they have made the new Titans in the same scale as the '77 original
Titans?

That is a question that I ask myself as I contemplate customs.

7" is justifiable if you look at the original Titans as 13-15 year olds.

By the time Perez and Wolfman's New Teen Titans came along, it had been established that Robin had gone to college, thus he was 18-19 if we are to believe the "Teen" in the title, and they entered their twenties around the time the title switched to "The New Titans".

So Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Cyborg, Robin and most definitely Starfire (since she was Amazonian proportions and always shown as taller than Dick) would be 8" if they portrayed the Perez era as being 17-19 year olds and fully grown as drawn by Perez (see Wally West in his Kid Flash outfit standing next to Barry or Jay in Crisis).



The exceptions for this group would be Changeling and Terra, who were younger than the others, I'm guessing 14-16, so 7" would be perfect for them.

If you did the current era of Young Justice/Teen Titans, most of them (Kid Devil, Kid Flash, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Robin, Arrowette, Blue Beetle) are around 14-16, so 7" is appropriate. Geoff Johns portrayed Beast Boy/Changeling as being the bridge between Starfire and Cyborg's mentor roles/generational gap, so in his current incarnation (in the black and purple outfit) he'd be an 8" figure since he'd now be about 18-19.

With Damian Wayne joining the Teen Titans as Robin, he's much younger so put him on an Our Gang/Munchkin body.

[Boywonder0]

I think it would make sense to make them like this:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/teen-titans/4-1.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/teen-titans/53-1.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/teen-titans/23-1.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/teen-titans/44-1.jpg

http://www.titanstower.com/assets/re...allarchive.jpg

Agree! These are great! They look much better in the teen/young adults rendition!

[Krypt0nite]

Mego back in the day would probably have made both the Titans and the Legion as they were DC's best selling titles in the early 80s---I imagine they would have made them in the 8-inch scale to look as close as possible to how they looked in the comics at the time.

[Meule]

Either style is good for me, as long as we get Robin

[Nostalgiabuff]

actually I would not mind seeing the more adult Titans of teh eighties, same scale as the adults characters.....how about Nightwing in his Disco getup? Cyborg was discussed in another thread. Beastboy I always thought was a boring character but Starfire would work.

[Brue]

I think it would make sense to make them like this:

I would sell them in pairs.

They could be done as old and new combos or mentor combos

1960's (64-73) Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad along with Wondergirl and later Speedy


I'd like to see mentor two packs as seen here-

I wouldn't do Speedy. If I had to drop another it would be AL.

Or
original 4 in 7 inch with the same four in 8 inch (basically the same outfits except WG maybe do Nightwing for the 8 inch Rob)

1970's (76-78)
WG new costume


I think it would be fun to add the Guardian with Speedy in 8 inch as possible chase figures.



New Teen Titans 80s (and 90's)
Robin, WG, KF, Changeling (aka beast boy),Cyborg, Starfire and Raven.
2 2 packs:
changling and starfire 7 inch
changeling and raven 7 inchers

[Captain]

Bring 'em on. A Mego Vac metalized chrome Cyborg would be cool! Old, new, and maybe even current....Make 'em all!!

[Earth 2 Chris]

I'd love to see the Titans in 8" size. Any and all, new and old. The 7" Megos can be the Pre-Teen Titans!

Chris

[rlkrefft]

I tend to agree. I can do without the Teen Titans. I want Robin for sure...Nightwing would be nice as well. I'd just rather see the JLA all done first. I personally won't buy any Teen Titans if they are 8" tall. Teens should be smaller then adults. I don't know what comics you guys were reading but even in the 80's Robin and Wonder Girl were shorter then say Batman and Wonder Woman. I have never seen a comic where Robin was as tall as Batman. So far Mattel has done pretty good in making all the outfit designs much better then Mego (with the bodies as an exception,Mego did better there) so why mess it up by making 8" teenagers? 7 and a half inches even is o.k. but 8" just seems wrong. Scale should be taken into consideration more.

[Brown Bear]

I'd pass on any Titans. I see more success for Mattel pursuing the Super Friends and JLA characters.

[MIB41]

Our guiding light has been "What if MEGO never closed its doors and kept going
in the 8 inch format?" They would have known about the popularity of X-Men
and Teen Titans in the early '80s and added them to the lines.

Would they have made the new Titans in the same scale as the '77 original
Titans?

YES!

[drmego]

Our guiding light has been "What if MEGO never closed its doors and kept going
in the 8 inch format?" They would have known about the popularity of X-Men
and Teen Titans in the early '80s and added them to the lines.

Would they have made the new Titans in the same scale as the '77 original
Titans?