Why is DC Super Powers Sending Mixed Messages? McFarlane v. Kenner

Do you like McFarlane or Kenner DC Super Powers?

Agree with Bobby 100% regarding the DC McFarlane packaging. Retro figures deserve retro art!

Still superpowers, is our child Hood fun. I appreciate every toy collector who takes the time out of their time to do these videos. Thank you ❤

This was like watching paint drying - and realizing you used the wrong color....

Man, Bobby sold a lot of McFarlane Super Powers figures with that video cause I basically bought the same figures you did after watching the video 😂😂✌️

McFarlane DID do a vintage style Super Powers Batman in the grey and blue with the Garcia card art. You guys just don't have that one in this video.

where is the Exosquad video?

McFarlane went with pins for the knee joints because it was cheaper: producing the upper leg the same way Kenner did would have required a different line of production, different kinds of plastic for the upper and lower leg, for an instance, which would have made the figures more expensive to produce. It must be noted that McFarlane tried everything to keep the retail price low as possible, in fact, adjusted for inflation, the Kenner Super Powers were a bit more expensive than the new McFarlane ones (of course, Kenner figures had the action feature that bumps up the price quite a bit). Even if Playmates remolds are from the riginal molds, I don't consider them authentic, for two reasons: first of all, there are differences in the paint applications; second, they were not around thirty years ago.

Great Video. I love the knowledge behind the toy figure business. I can't believe you sit down in person with Bobby one on one with is super cool. Keep it up.

That Flash figure actually is based on the New 52, which is why I’m waiting for a new classic one

Interesting conversation thank you dude started his own company and competes w/ big boys ✊🏼 Respect

I love the 89 black costume Batman. From the toy catalog I got at the movie theater back when I saw Batman it had that repainted Kenner Batman figure that we never actually got with the Toy Biz version. So this was a wish come true the best it could in modern times.

Thanks for your honesty ❤

Great video. I loved all of the background information about the manufacturing process. Definitely learned something from this discussion!

First printings of books are always worth more than later printing even when they have corrections

Great video as always. Lots of interesting things to think about especially the tooling which is very cool to learn about. Do you get into talking about ExoSquad at any point?

Because I'm in a lot of TMNT Groups online, I would like to educate on the fact that these recent TMNT Vintage reissues vary from figure to figure, regarding the "authenticity" that Bobby Vala is trying to convey. While yes, a lot of them are re-using the old molds from the 80s and 90s, many of them have slight differences that may not be notieable to the average person, but they're apparent when you look closely. Some figures have the wrong heads, like a Leonardo figure may simply have a Raphael head with a blue bandana. Or some of them have everything perfectly recreated, but one of the arms or legs will be from another turtle... ergo, a Leo may have everything great, but randomly have a Mikey arm or a Donnie Leg... painted to match the rest of the figure, so it's not blatant, but the one amazing thing about the vintage TMNT Playmates figures, is how little they reused parts... almost all figures had unique sculpts from arms to legs... etc, with only the torso's being the common thing that were re-used between the four brothers, but by and large the musculature, the posing of a foot or hand, would be slightly different from turtle to turtle, so Playmates mismatching arms to legs, is moreso them finding means to reproduce some of the original figures, even though they may have lost or damaged the original molds perhaps... so if they're missing an arm or leg to a specific release, they tend to just grab another brothers arm or leg and slap it on there with the matching paint applications to mirror the rest of the turtle and they hope most people won't notice... but super fans obviously do. There's other more blatant examples, like the reissue of the TMNT 1990 live action Splinter, which originally had felt fur on the fitgure, but in the reissue was just painted orange fur that looked terrible. And then there's some figures that are missing accessories compared to the original, or simply have the same accessories across all four brothers, where maybe the original releases had unique weapons/accessorizes from brother to brother... And then some lines are missing one or more figures entirely because the mold was damaged, like they mentioned in the video with the walmart exclusive "Pizza Tossin" line, which release Leo, Raph and Mikey, but not Donnie, and when people reached out to Playmates, they were told that the original mold was damaged, so there were incapable ot completing the four brothers in the Pizza Tossin line, so we'd only get the three remaining brothers sadly. So yea these reissues aren't simply "perfect recreations", there's many variables to them that range them from "Great Reissue" to "Terrible Reissue"... but reissues they are... The only argument in this video that can't be debated is the fact that paint applications on modern figures, generally speaking, would be better than old... that's not to say that paint applications are better... lord knows a lot of details in the original sculpts go unpainted in a lot of these modern reissues, but the QUALITY of the paint is undeniably better and will likely last a lot longer before they start to dull and fade like the old ones... or grow that weird fuzzy plastic mold that sometimes pops up on really old sealed vintage figures... that issue will not likely plagues these reissues as soon as it did the vintage one's... so in the argument of paint quality, yes, today's paint is likely much better than the old...

You didn't focus on the Super Powers line. You talked mostly about the Turtles. I think you should have covered the difference in the molds of the McFarlane figures... compared to the original Kenner-Styled figures. That's the 'rub' that's going on with the new Super Powers line. The differences in the size and scale of figures in this line. Now, ... McFarlane is giving us more of the Kenner-styled figures that go with the Original Kenner figures... which is Greatly appreciated. The Detective Batman, the Black-suited Batman, the two Robins, Sinestro, Brainiacs, ... the Hal Jordan-Green Lantern... Blue Beetle....are in the Kenner style and scale. I'm starting to really love this new line. Even the selections are improving...!!

Great video just subscribed. Whether my tastes for a toyline is different from Bobby i always love listening ti him talk about the behind the scenes of the industry.

Purpose of Putting new art is to refer to the Fans that followed/Liked that era of Batman etc. Super Powers is a specific look/style that is made for new and old collectors. In order to McFarlane to expand the line he will make varieties of the same character and come out with characters never made. This is one of the best process in expanding a line that was once limited on characters produced.