Tag: Mister Rant

Mr. Rant says I thought we were past “female figures don’t sell”.

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Apparently, it’s 1950 and boys don’t play with girl action figures. At least, that’s the way Mattel still sees it for a few of their lines.

If you are a fan of the Secret Saturdays or Batman: Brave and the Bold, don’t get your hopes up for a complete set of characters. Mattel’s display cases were noticeably absent a Drew Saturday, a main character on the show, and Black Canary or Huntress from the crazy-popular Brave and the Bold cartoon. When asked, Mattel said the lines are primarily intended for young boys, and no female characters were planned. In the Brave and the Bold: Action League line, a poster was shown with a ton of new characters and not a woman in sight.

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Mr. Rant says, “Stop showing unproduced figures!”

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img align=left src="http://www.itsalltrue.net/resources/images/really.png" hspace=4>Last weekend’s Comic-Con gave us a ton of interesting news and great pictures of the upcoming toys this year. But there was one thing that stood out to me like a glaring imperfection, and it was something Mattel doesn’t plan on bringing to the fans.

After all the years of rainbow, neon, ultra-violet, and caramel versions of Batman that fans have been bombarded with by various companies, you would think that every variation of Batman’s costume would have been made at least once. But you’d be wrong. As I perused the pictures that flooded back to us from San Diego, a shiny black and white beacon of awesome stared back at me from the Mattel case. Zebra Batman.

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