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I got these a few hours ago. Looks like season three being represented here. That’s a 1:18 Hot Wheels in the background of a couple of the shots, presumably for size comparison. Make of this what you will. In case you’re speculating  – no, this is not something I made. And yes, these shots are less than a day old. (I should have asked for today’s newspaper to be included in the pics) Other than that – my lips are sealed for the time being. Other than to say that AS FAR AS  WE ARE AWARE these photos did NOT come to us from ANY professional toy or model company. Capisci?

NOTE: Please do NOT remote link or copy these photos to other websites.

These 1/43 Figure sets from TPM Customs have received a lot of inquiries as of late. We were holding out until we had the siren and antlers ready as well, but since they’re going to be a bit longer – we decided to offer  the figures now.  We’re ordering about 15 sets of these, so act fast if you want them.

These are similar to the ones we showed earlier: fully hand-painted, modified to look more like the TV versions of the crimefighters, full-size passenger and “buck” style driver. The driver’s arms are separate so you can drop into place more easily and position them as you like. (then just a drop of superglue will hold them in place).

[Pre-Order figures HERE]

As we near the date of our upcoming Super Sale (sometime during the week of 3/15) I wanted to remind people of a few things:

1.) We migrated our server today (Yay!) so if there are some little glitches with the new site or how it is behaving – let me know. It seems fine but ya never know.

2) The place to subscribe to our email list for sales updates etc. is not the same as the WordPress registration. It is over in the right hand sidebar under “subscribe to our mailing list”  You can just click HERE to get there too.

3) A little trash talk time. A couple people have sent me links to these Bat figures that heroes Club is selling on ebay. And I just have to spout off a bit. Firstly – I would hope that you folks that call yourselves bat-collectors would recognize that they just recast the Polar Lights Batboat figures. Here are the two sets of figures:

1. Polar Lights Batboat:

2. Heroes Club Figures:

Now, it really doesn’t take too much of a detective to realize these are the same figures. That would be fine too.We certainly borrowed some existing figures to make our gen 1 sets. But here’s the deal. Do the math. the Polar Lights Batboat is a 1/25 scale model. So these figures are (as you can see) much too small for the car. And the ones I saw were cast in a static posed hard vinyl and just look very comic booky, not like Adam and Burt at all. Comic Booky, small, poorly painted and crazy bright. And they did a piss-poor job of switching Robin’s bent arm to boot. I think these look ghastly.

So hey – if you want to chalk this up to trash talk – feel free. We’re going to be all out (for good) of our figures by April so it doesn’t really impact us at all. But if you’re buying these because you think $50 is a bargain – just be forewarned: You get what you pay for.  Not only that but our new run of figures is almost as affordable. (shhhh don’t let that out yet – it’s a sale secret!)