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Post by String on Feb 9, 2019 12:44:17 GMT -5
I was backwards for I liked the Secret Wars comic yet never read any of the Super Powers comics. However, I liked the Super Powers figures better than the Secret Wars figures.
As others said, the Super Powers figures had *some* form of action. I only had Flash and Green Lantern but it was such a simple cool thrill to squeeze Flash's arms to make his legs 'run'. (Ditto for making GL raise his ring arm by squeezing his legs).
For Secret Wars, I only had Wolverine and Iron Man. They were good figures and I had fun trying to reenact scenes with Iron Man from the O'Neil IM issues of the time. Wolverine's claws clamped over the figure's wrists which was cool and I liked the brown costume (I still have him...somewhere....) The shields were o-kay but not really necessary.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 13:02:35 GMT -5
I won't get ahead of myself - perhaps it requires a different topic - but I quite like the DC figures produced by Toy Biz in the 80s, particularly the ones based on the Keaton Batman movie.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 0:40:42 GMT -5
As an addendum to an earlier post about who has the licenses, it was just announced this week ahead of Toy Fair that McFarlane Toys will be getting a significant chunk of the DC license beginning in 2020 and the license is for 3 years. It covers several scales including 6 and 12 inch figures, for collectible and mass market toys. It looks like McFarlane and Spin Masters will be splitting the DC license for that three year period.
-M
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 15, 2019 20:00:52 GMT -5
No votes for Secret Wars. Wow...tough room!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 20:28:58 GMT -5
No votes for Secret Wars. Wow...tough room! If only the toys had put mini-comics inside the packaging! |
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 16, 2019 12:13:07 GMT -5
No votes for Secret Wars. Wow...tough room! If only the toys had put mini-comics inside the packaging! Well, that would have been nice. I do find it odd that in the wake of the Mego's DC & Marvel 8-inch line ending with Mego's bankruptcy, that Kenner's Super Powers and Mattel's Secret Wars made their superhero series at roughly the same scale to each other, as if to continue the cross-company compatibility established by Mego. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 14:13:57 GMT -5
If only the toys had put mini-comics inside the packaging! Well, that would have been nice. I do find it odd that in the wake of the Mego's DC & Marvel 8-inch line ending with Mego's bankruptcy, that Kenner's Super Powers and Mattel's Secret Wars made their superhero series at roughly the same scale to each other, as if to continue the cross-company compatibility established by Mego. That 3 3/4 scale had become the industry standard because of the success of Kenner's star Wars line. Even Mego was moving towards that scale before they went bankrupt, with releases of some of their licenses in that scale (Chips, Love Boat, Star Trek the Motion Picture, Comic Action Heroes Pocket Heroes, etc.*). The successful relaunch of GI Joe in that scale also played a big factor. It made playsets and vehicles more affordable and easier for stores to stock. It wasn't about compatibility between Marvel and DC, is was compatibility with the most successful scale on the market that determined the scale of those lines. -M edit to add: and oh yeah Micronauts mostly paved the way for that for Mego but the majpr shift to the scale was in response the Kenner Star Wars toys dominating the marketplace |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 16, 2019 14:39:06 GMT -5
I loved the flexable record The Darkseid Saga so very much:  Oh yeah. I think that was a mail-away? I probably listened to that 50 times. |
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 16, 2019 16:12:52 GMT -5
Well, that would have been nice. I do find it odd that in the wake of the Mego's DC & Marvel 8-inch line ending with Mego's bankruptcy, that Kenner's Super Powers and Mattel's Secret Wars made their superhero series at roughly the same scale to each other, as if to continue the cross-company compatibility established by Mego. That 3 3/4 scale had become the industry standard because of the success of Kenner's star Wars line. Even Mego was moving towards that scale before they went bankrupt, with releases of some of their licenses in that scale (Chips, Love Boat, Star Trek the Motion Picture, Comic Action Heroes Pocket Heroes, etc.*). The successful relaunch of GI Joe in that scale also played a big factor. It made playsets and vehicles more affordable and easier for stores to stock. It wasn't about compatibility between Marvel and DC, is was compatibility with the most successful scale on the market that determined the scale of those lines. I know about the shift to 3 3/4 scale figures just before (Comic Action Heroes) and certainly after the introduction of the Kenner Star Wars line, but larger figures were still being produced, as in the case of Mattel's Masters of the Universe line, which was in development at the same time of the height of the Star Wars line. That larger line was not short on playsets, vehicles, and other accessories, despite other lines going the 3 3/4 route, so it makes me wonder why the DC & Marvel figures (at 4 1/2 inches) both selected a scale that made them compatible just as they had been while Mego held the licenses. |
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Post by urrutiap on Feb 18, 2019 23:49:28 GMT -5
Back then when I was a little kid in the early mid 1980s, Super Powers toys I saw in stores more than Secret Wars.
Secret Wars they mostly ended up in small town Ben Franklin stores and they were overpriced.
As for Super Powers,they were everywhere anytime. I knew nothing about Brainiac or even Metallo but back then I kept thinking that the Super Powers Brainiac figure was Metallo. Why? Just because I guess lol.
the whole silver robot look for Brainiac, I always thought it was Metallo the whole time even though I was just a little kid at the time.
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Post by wheeljack01 on Aug 26, 2019 6:42:57 GMT -5
To me it has to be Super Powers, such great sculpts, articulation, and that Jose Luis Garcia Lopez boxart!! Secret Wars were decent, but it really is hard to compare the two lines to me.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 4, 2019 6:25:58 GMT -5
Heck, I think I like the Super Powers comics better than Secret Wars. (And I like Secret Wars!)
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Post by Nowhere Man on Sept 27, 2019 21:14:04 GMT -5
Super Powers all the way. I’ve always been more of a Marvel guy than DC, but since I was still a big DC fan as a kid, it was no contest. The DC line was superior in every way. They were basically Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez art in physical form. The biggest knock on Secret Wars for me was the lack of a Hulk figure. Clearly it was a cost cutting issue since all the Marvel figures were from the same mold but it’s still unthinkable. It’s akin to Super Powers skipping Batman given that the Hulk was easily Marvels second most popular hero next to Spider-Man. After all, Kenner produced Darkseid which was at a larger scale and separate mold.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2019 9:37:35 GMT -5
Yes, the lack of a Hulk figure disappointed me, especially as some characters included in the line hadn't actually appeared in the comic.
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 28, 2019 13:10:43 GMT -5
Yes, the lack of a Hulk figure disappointed me, especially as some characters included in the line hadn't actually appeared in the comic. The lack of a Hulk character made no sense; it was not as if licensing for the character were held by another company, since endless Hulk products were on the market at that time. Moreover, he was a very popular character, with the live action series ending only two years earlier, and the character had already starred in his own cartoon that same year (1982). So why he was left out of the line while others not in the comic were added is a mystery, and one adding weight to the criticism of the Secret Wars line being sort of misguided. |
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