Action Figures in the Cat Tales Universe

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JabberwockyPie	Action Figures in the Cat Tales Universe		Lead	[-]
Posts: 53 12/07/07 06:15	Tags : None I'm a toy collector. These days I mostly collect American Girl dolls because I had them when I was a little girl. My best toy-collecting friend also collects AG dolls AND loves comics, though she's more of a JLA fan. We're working out a cunning plan to make various superhero costumes for our dolls, and this includes a proper purple Catwoman costume for one of my dolls - she's very "complex", I'm afraid, but the dolls are supposed to be about 10, so I hope Selina will forgive that. The doll in question has LONG curly dark hair and goggles will not be involved in any way, shape, or form. As crazy as the comic fanboys are, I think that the doll collectors could give them a run for their money. Seriously. Supernonamegirl and I are the SANE ones in the fandom and we're trying to make doll-sized superhero costumes. Trying to figure out how to create little bitty articulated Hawgirl wings out of materials from Jo Ann Fabrics might sound crazy, but a few of the doll collectors I know would get along well with Joker and "Let's kill all the henchmen because it's Thursday!" (Or possibly in their case "Let's kill all the henchmen because they didn't admire my favorite doll enough!") Ahem. Anyway, I also sell toys on ebay and I have some action figures. I've spent the last few days looking very hard for some specific toys for my 9-year-old brother for Christmas. (Sorry guys - he's not a Batman fan. Sam likes Spider-man.). So today, as I battled collectors and ebay scalpers to find the shortpacked Shocker action figure for Sam, I thought of a silly question. Can you buy Batman toys and stuff in the Cat Tales universe? In JLAin't, Kyle got the JLA dish set for Third Saturday. More recently, in Riddle Me-Tropolis, Selina gave Clark a Superman teddy bear. I can't see Bruce being okay with the Batman connection if it went through Wayne Enterprises. And it'd be hard to do it through a third party (How would that even work? It's not like you can schedule a meeting and say "Hey, Batman, we'd really like to make a line of toys. Could we work out some kind of licensing agreement?") The only thing I can think of is if things like that were handled through the League, but if there's some other more amusing explanation, please enlighten me. (Either way I'm pretty sure that some toy designer would be in big trouble if they tried to release the F. Miller/Gotham Post version of Catwoman.) Last Edited By: JabberwockyPie 12/07/07 06:44. Edited 1 time.
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Posts: 774 12/07/07 09:26	Yes indeed, there are action figures in the Cat Tales storyverse and even Batman is involved. In addition to the instances you mention, I can think of two others. The first from Blueprints, when Jean Paul is making a pick up at Wayne Tech: He picked up the microchips as if he had no idea what they were, then stole a last look at the coder whose cubicle was next to the artist's. The huge Star Wars poster tacked to the wall of the cube is what first drew his attention, but he found himself focusing on the smaller details that denoted the occupant's profession: the pyramid of Mountain Dew cans, the bird's nest of peripheral devices sitting on the corner of his desk, the matched Superman/Batman action figures sitting atop his monitor. That could have been him if things had worked out differently. No Azrael. No lineage. No duty to anything higher than holding down a job, paying his rent, and working up the guts to talk to that artist a couple times a week. He wouldn't know who Bruce Wayne was other than a name on his paycheck or a picture in the annual report. He wouldn't know Batman other than as a small plastic action figure on his monitor. Yeah, I didn't have to quote the whole thing, but I like that sequence. There has also been mention of a souvenir place in Times Square with a big bat emblem in the window and lots of Bat merchandise inside (that might be in Iceberg Tale) and when Eddie was hiding in plain sight in The Gotham Post, he disguised himself as a tourist by wearing some godawful Riddler shirt from the same kind of store. So we can infer that the merchandising situation exists just like in our world, although the real heroes aren't as ubiquitous as Mickey Mouse the way they are in our world. But the stuff is definitely out there. There is no licensing with the individual Batman and Riddler stuff. The thinking is pretty much: What are they going to do? It's a question mark. etc. The JLA stuff which displays their logo, or the likeness of people who show their faces (Superman, Wonder Woman, etc.) is all licensed through a one man office in Metropolis and moneys collected are donated to charity. That office is staffed and the charity gifts are administered by (say it with me now) the Wayne Foundation. As for the goggles, yeah, ah, remember that strip club mentioned in What's New Pussycat, the one that had male dancers dressed as Batman, Nightwing, etc. The one that "kept getting blown up? whistles That's all I'm saying. --Chris Dee Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Superpowers corrupts - superbly. --Identity Element Last Edited By: Chris Dee 12/07/07 09:29. Edited 1 time.
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JabberwockyPie		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 53 12/07/07 11:49	I had forgotten about that scene with Jean Paul, but I really liked it when I first read it. (Poor Jean Paul. People forget about him a lot. I didn't even know he existed until I started reading Cat Tales.) And I remember that store! They put up the "365 Days without A Joker Incident" sign that frustrated Jack so much. It's a good thing that Eddie takes that kind of thing as a compliment. (On the other hand . . . http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_101205a.htm)
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Chris Dee		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 774 12/07/07 11:56	Excuse me, I have to run. Eddie is having chest pains.
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Abaddon8780		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 345 12/07/07 13:16 Titans Together!	Hands Eddie a paper bag. Breathe buddy. In, out. In, out. "And sometimes," Tim muttered, "it's like living with a bunch of second graders." -Learning Curve
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Letomo		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 22 12/08/07 04:03	Hey, at least it wasn't the 'Metro-Eddie'!
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JabberwockyPie		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 53 12/09/07 08:37	Hey, at least it wasn't the 'Metro-Eddie'! No, it looks more like Angsty Teenager Eddie. He looks like he's about to go sulk and write bad poetry.
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Abaddon8780		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 345 12/09/07 12:15 Titans Together!	"I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself." "And sometimes," Tim muttered, "it's like living with a bunch of second graders." -Learning Curve
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Jarissa Paxton		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 545 12/12/07 07:05	JabberwockyPie wrote: Trying to figure out how to create little bitty articulated Hawgirl wings out of materials from Jo Ann Fabrics might sound crazy Naaah. I'm a Stormtrooper, and I'm trying to figure out how to make a "Airship crew from the Stardust movie" costume that won't kill me if I wear it in the dead of Summer; you're not crazy. You've just got a fandom some of us haven't had the chance to join yet. If you've already figured it out, then never mind me, but I was intrigued by the idea. I figure you've probably seen the stuff on the Internet like this already. If it were me, I'd want the wings to not only be poseable, but able to take a villain attack without my having to do any major repairs. Real feathers would look cooler, but even if you get the "trim" that has the feathers in a row, you're going to be sewing or gluing for hours, I'd bet. How about getting a bag of el cheapo white feathers (turkey? whatever, so long as it's not maribou or one of those boas) and snipping them into a massive pile where each piece is a match for your pinkie from the last knuckle to the tip, then brushing some glue onto one side of a piece of white felt and toss the pile on top of it ... ... no, that won't work. The feathers will wind up looking like "Satan Duck Had Fatal Seizure Here". Everything will be going every which way, and Hawkgirl has a lot of quirks but I don't think she's supposed to be molting. Anyway, when you get the finished product (and if it won't lead to problems with the customized doll sales), I know I'd be interested if you want to show pictures of "How We Did It". The whole project sounds really cool! Plus, Ulstarn wants a set. It'll give him a practice audience to lecture about Basking in the Glory of the Demon's Head. Ulstarn's a creepy bastich, have we noticed this? What'd happen if we locked him and Strange in a room over Christmas? I'm one of those people who "hear" every letter of each word as I read them, and how they shape one another; so, yes, I'm going to totally miss a reasonable point if it's discussing makeup instead of knaves. Not that there aren't some hilarious correlations! Anyway, please be patient with me on this.
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JabberwockyPie		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 53 12/12/07 10:12	Anyway, when you get the finished product (and if it won't lead to problems with the customized doll sales), I know I'd be interested if you want to show pictures of "How We Did It". The whole project sounds really cool! Plus, Ulstarn wants a set. It'll give him a practice audience to lecture about Basking in the Glory of the Demon's Head. I will definitely keep that in mind. We do want the wings to be posable. But once we get some of the costumes made, I'll post them here. Ulstarn's a creepy bastich, have we noticed this? What'd happen if we locked him and Strange in a room over Christmas? The first thing that popped into my head was Hugo's mannequin dressed as Ra's.
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Chris Dee		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 774 12/12/07 10:14	Oh gosh, just my two cents on real feathers. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO My old theatre did La Cage in the early 90s and I think they're STILL coming up with a few every time they sweep the stage. --Chris Dee Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Superpowers corrupts - superbly. --Identity Element
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JabberwockyPie		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 53 12/12/07 11:23	Oh gosh, just my two cents on real feathers. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO My old theatre did La Cage in the early 90s and I think they're STILL coming up with a few every time they sweep the stage. Don't worry, I foresaw that problem and managed to steer my friend away from using real feathers fairly early on in the planning process. (Right now we're taking about maybe some kind of wire mesh so it can bend, covered by some kind of fabric.)
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NoarKelestra		#12	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 02/10/08 22:47	JabberwockyPie wrote: The first thing that popped into my head was Hugo's mannequin dressed as Ra's. shudders Let us never speak of this again. Last Edited By: NoarKelestra 02/10/08 23:32. Edited 1 time.
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