Stately as fuuuuuck! |
Also, while I did have a tone of shit show up in April, and some more in May, it all showed up in like the last week of the month. So it was May before I got around to shooting it, and then suddenly it was June and a bunch of other shit showed up last week of May and I had to clear THAT off the boards to make way for June’s preorders all shipping in the first week.
So let’s start with the MOST FUN. The vast array of Batman ‘66 stuff that finally shipped from Target, the most important of which is Stately Wayne Manor, which, as Batman 66 playsets go, really goes above and beyond.
There’s been a clear evolution of these playsets. The Batcave was a little less solid, with lots of molded plastic batcomputers and equipment that you just placed haphazardly as your space allowed. The Villain’s Lair was more solid, but wasn’t a constant presence in the show. Wayne Manor, however, is a dead on, rock-solid interpretation of a set in pretty much every episode, and throws in a sliding bookcase feature to boot. Really, the only thing missing would be a battery/LED built into the desk so that the red phone would light up, but that’s not really what Mcfarlane is doing with this line.
Two-Face was never in the series, but there is a whole line of ancilarry Batman ‘66 canon for them to work off of, including a couple of animated movies and a comic book, so I’ll let it slide. Because it’s not based on a specific actor/outfit from live action, it’s a little more cartoony than the rest of the line, but not wildly out of place. Plus, giant prop coin!
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