Re: DC Collectibles doing Batman The Animated Series figures!!!!!
I don't hate TNBA but I think BTAS is superior in every aspect save for animation (lots of the BTAS episodes have aged horribly due to shoddy animation, TNBA is much more fluid in that regard).
This is what I like about The New Batman Adventures,
+ Holiday Knights
+ Joker's Millions
+ Mad Love (I loved the comic, I really wish it was a BTAS episode though)
+ Over the edge (fantastic, well written "what if", I just wish Batgirl dying was true)
+ Old Wounds
+ Beware the Creeper
+ Judgment Day
+ Knight time
+ World's Finest
+ Legends of the Dark Knight (probably my favorite of TNBA, fantastic episode)
+ newly designed Batmobile (it would be hard to pass on a toy of this with Batman and Tim Drake Robin or Nightwing)
+ new Penguin design
+ new creepy Scarecrow (though I though I prefer BTAS and thought it was a mistake to never show a pathetic Johnathan Crane)
+ smoother, cleaner animation
+ I dug Batman's new look with the black and grey and pouches, though I prefer BTAS)
I hated,
- Batman/Bruce Wayne's personality, he seemed completely different, mean and bland
- Tara Strong as the new Batgirl (sounded rough)
- Joker's horrible redesign
- Riddler's horrible bald redesign and no episodes for him
- Catwoman's awful redesign as that small, black and white smiling thing
- Killer Croc completely changing, from voice to look to characterization
- the abomination that is Mr. Freeze, they totally ruined his character in my opinion, his story should have ended
- spider Freeze
- BDSM fetish gimp Bane
- Clayface, he should have stayed dead after that fantastic, dramatic BTAS Mudslide episode
- emphasis on the "Bat-family" (I prefer Batman solo and/or Batman and Robin)
- Bruce and Barbara having a "thing"
- how drab the characters and city had become, liked they sucked the color and life out of it
- no more graphic Title card illustrations
- every one looked the same with angular bodies, small eyes, and less details
It also came at a time where I was losing interest in Batman and cartoon stuff. I wasn't fond of the revamp and it didn't feel like "my" Batman anymore like the Burton and Animated Series incarnations did in the early-mid 90s. It was a shift where I just wasn't interested. I followed the episodes, but was turned off by it mostly. It felt like they changed it for budget reasons so it would be cheaper to produce. I prefer the classic 92'-95' by far. I have no real personal attachment to TNBA, one of the reasons I haven't been buying any of these TNBA figures.
