The AFB Podcast Episode 193: Kotobukiya Super Powers ArtFX / Joker Toy History

Episode 193 of the AFB Podcast is live at iTunes and is now available for direct download! Download and subscribe to the podcast at iTunes now! 

This week, join Ben, Scott and John for a great new show with all of the latest news and reviews and some vintage goodies with great stories!

This week our Toys of the Week are the Kotobukiya Super Powers ArtFX Superman, Green Lantern and Flash Statues, and we give DC's Joker the Toy History Treatment. 


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News Covered in this Episode

1. Sideshow preview of new Green Lantern Premium Format statue
2. Sideshow Star Wars “R2-Q5 Imperial Astromech droid” ⅙ action figure
3. SH Figuarts Blank Bucks
4. NECA 7” Superman and Batman action figures
5. KidRobot South Park “Many faces of Cartman” blind boxed figures
6. Funko “Rock Horror” ReAction figures
7. Funko “Hanna-Barbera” Wave 2 Pops
8. Lego “Ghostbusters” Firehouse” set
9. Dorbz Wonder Woman and Jet
10. Sideshow Darth Maul “Duel on Naboo” ⅙ action figure
11. Sideshow Iron Man Mark 43 Legendary scale statue
12. Sideshow “Loki” Premium Format statue
13. Hot Toys “Stan Lee” ⅙ action figure

Joker Toy History Items:

Action figures

• Mego “Comic Action Heroes” (1975)
• Mego “Bend & Flex”
• Mego Carded
• Kenner “Super Powers”
• Kenner “Batman: The Animated Series” (1990) (there’s a dozen in the animated series)
• Kenner The Adventures of Batman & Robin “Machine Gun Joker”
• Kenner Legends of Batman “Laughing Man Joker”
• Kenner Legends of the Dark Knight “Laughing Gas”
• Toybiz 4 ¾” (1989)
• Toybiz “DC Heroes” (1990)
• Hasbro “DC Heroes”
• DC Direct “Hush”
• DC Direct 13”
• DC Direct “The Long Halloween”
• DC Direct “Alex Ross”
• DC Direct “Dark Knight Returns”
• DC Direct Silver age set w/ Batgirl
• DC Direct “Mad Love 2-pack”
• DC Direct “Batman & Son”
• DC Direct “Origins 2-pack”
• DC Direct “Unmasked: Secret Files”
• DC Direct “Unmasked: Secret Files 2”
• Mattel “Quickfire Joker” (2003) (the first Mattel, pre-dates DC Universe)
• Mattel “DC Universe Wave 10”
• Mattel “DC Universe Wave 16”
• Mattel “DC Universe Legacy: Golden Age”
• Sideshow ⅙ action figure
• DC Collectibles “New 52 (Capullo)”
• DC Collectibles “New 52 (Capullo) v2”
• DC Collectibles “Animated Series 6” figure”
• DC Collectibles “Supervillains”
• DC Collectibles “Lil Gotham”
• DC Collectibles “Icons” (Coming Soon)
• Figures Toy Company 8” Retro
• Jakks Pacific “20 inch jumbo”

Busts

• DC Direct ½ scale
• DC Direct “Classic joker”
• DC Collectibles “Villains of the DC Universe”
• DC Collectibles “New 52”
• DC Collectibles “DC Super-villains” (coming soon)
• Sideshow Life Size

Statues/PVC

• DC Direct First
• DC Direct “Batman vs Joker”
• DC Universe Online
• DC Direct ¼ scale Museum
• DC Direct “Ultimate Showdown”
• Yamato Kia Asamiya
• Square Enix PlayArts Kai
• Kotobukiya “Killing Joke”
• Kotobukiya ArtFx “Dark Knight Returns: Batman vs Joker”
• Kotobukiya Vinyl
• Kotobukiya “Joker on throne”
• Sideshow Premium Format
• DC Collectibles “Dynamic”
• DC Collectibles 11” “Icons”
• DC Collectibles “Alex Ross: Joker & Harley”
• DC Collectibles “Bombshells”
• DC Collectibles Black & White Jim Lee, Jim Lee2, Brian Bolland, Dick Sprang, Lee Bermejo
• Factory Entertainment “Birth of the Joker”

Other

• Funko Mystery Mini
• Funko Pop
• Lego minifigures
• DC Direct Marionette