NS - Mattel's "DC Super Hero Girls" toys revealed

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I've mentioned this series in posts in the past, but it still seems relevant to the group, and to those looking for some actual female focussed superhero items for younger family members, or even for yourselves (I'm in no position to judge another person's toy collection heaven knows). The dolls and action figures have now been shown in packaging.



Here are the fashion dolls (Click to embiggen)





And here are the slightly smaller action figures (Don't click to embiggen because they're not linked)



And the High School playset



Oh, and a full length version of the theme song

"Get Your Cape On Lyric Video | DC Super Hero Girls" (Watch on YouTube)

 

Comments

[chalicother]

When thinking about it...yeah...I see it to. Though looking at Scansdaily, many members don't even see Harley even pre-New 52 as a villain for some reason.Popularity trumps history.

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IIRC Bruce Timm and Paul Dini created her to be the funny one, so the Joker could get nastier and creepier whilst she did the comedy schtick that Joker episodes usually call for.

[chalicother]

Then explain Harley in Return of the Joker?

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The commentary track on that movie actually goes into some detail about that. This was to be the last continuity appearance of Harley as a character, so they knew they could do things with the character that they couldn't/wouldn't before. They could make her actually evil and not have to worry about what that would do to her "rep" long term.

Even allowing what she did to Tim was hideous, Paul Dini desperately wanted to keep her alive (since he viewed her creation as being one of his biggest contributions to the Batman mythos), but Bruce Timm and everyone else involved viewed her involvement in the scheme as being fundamentally unforgiveable (Far more cruel than anything else we'd seen her do directly) and felt she had to be killed off.

This is why she DOES die at the end of the flashback, adding her in at the end of the movie was Dini making his displeasure manifest, and it was left in because it added a moment of comic relief.