All hail Bruce Wayne's Custom Coupe! The most incredibly bland toy you'll ever recieve, second only to April O'Neils boss! Yes, in case you ever want to stop your crime fighting ways and live out the rest of your days driving your Coupe, this is the right toy for you. On one hand, I can understand "I was driving one day when suddenly Catwoman attacked, so I needed to get into the batsuit!". What I can't understand is the switch-immediately-to-batmobile feature. Bruce Wayne, who will go to great lengths to keep his double identity a secret, had a lapse in reason one day and decided that totally decking out his car with Batman-esque everything, and then deploying said feature on a busy highway with plenty of witnesses was the best idea he ever had in his entire life. "Is that Batman in Bruce Wayne's car?".
Penguin. Commandos. PENGUIN. COMMANDOS. Yknow, the one aspect of Batman Returns that nobody was really fond of? It's a toy. One that comes with mind control gear! (The package actually says that). Of all Batman Returns toys you would ever hope to get as a child, Penguin Commandos is not it. It's the exact opposite. I collect Batman figures and I don't even really want this one. If there's one redeeming quality of this toy it's once again the art on the box card. Check out that penguin. "Hail Cobblepot!"
Rather than an actual character, let's make them feel more like Batman with an accessory! Like...yknow, Batman's....Spiral Shooter...? Out of every gadget Batmans ever carried his most famous just HAS to be the fabled spiral shooter. A classic if there ever was one. I don't know of any instance where Batman has needed or wanted to shoot a spiral at anything. Ever. Of course, the plastic ring around the "spiral" itself is for the safety of the kiddos, but...why have Batman use it in the box card art? "The Joker can't STAND plastic rings!"
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