This old Batman figure line is not one I know really, the Brave and the Bold. It's even more stylised than Batman Animated, which I adored, both cartoon and the figures.
Here we have the big Batmanesque Rubberneck and Kanjar Ro.
Excuse my grainy pics.
There are neat plugs on the back of Rubberneck which allow Kanjar Ro to be slotted on. This may apply to all the figures.
All in all I like the design and look of these figures.
Do you?
PS.
Here's the TV ad for the Rubberneck figure, which came with Batman and Plastic Man.
Hot Wheels do the Batmobile from this series, and it has been released in numerous colours since it first appeared in 2010.
ReplyDeleteWow, have you got one Paul?
DeleteI probably have several, in different colours. I need to go through my Batmobile photos.
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ReplyDeleteAre these Batman figures, or just other figures from this range ?
They're from the Batman: The Brace and the Bold range Mish, which came out in 2008, to tie in with the kids cartoon of the same name. I had thought Rubberneck was an inflated Batman, but he's a wholly different character villain.
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DeleteNot sure they are Batman, but almost certainly from the DC Brave and the Bold pantheon. I cant understand why they need to be quite so hyper-stylised, the original Clone Wars animation suffered from this style of gawky characterisation, which seems to favour expression over realism. It works for Batman, with the tall, austere visage, but it goes too far in other ways. The Hellboy animated series is a case in point - Hellboy is a massively powerful, muscular humanoid demon with a mineralised hand. In the films, Ron Perlman carries off the look perfectly (David Harbour and the latest Crooked Man release are dire however) - but the animated series 'Blood and Iron' et al and depict Hellboy as being an almost spherical body, with huge arms and tiny, deformed legs, like a red humpty dumpty. I think this works well with satire, when the intention is to ridicule the subject, but it falls short with fantasy and heros. Bill
ReplyDeleteYep, Batman: The Brave and the Bold - a comic, a cartoon and a range of figures and all for kids, which is why I guess the hyper-styling came about to attract younger kids. I watched a TV ad for the Rubberneck figure, added now, and it's clear his stretching action is to stretch the poor Plastic Man, which is quite a good play feature. The cartoon culminated with a Scooby Doo mash-up film. Yep, Batman and Scooby Doo. Is if wasn't for those meddling kids! PS. Will have to look up Crooked Man.l now!
DeleteI think the style was based on Dick Sprang's style of art, i had a bunch of the syndicated newspaper strips
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