Some of you may remember these from a couple of years ago, before I got hired on at Funko.
They were a cool idea, but never really caught on, despite our pushing them as hard as we could at SDCC 2012. Oh well. They led to me landing my dream job, so all's well that ends well, I guess.
In total, we released 4 different DC superheroes...
And 2 Masters of the Universe figures...
But what I thought would be a hoot is to look at the ones that got designed, but never put into production! So here we go...
For the DC series, we had planned to start getting into villains and I actually designed a Joker and Riddler...
For MOTU, Beastman and Teela were next on the list...
We were planning a foray into the world of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers...
And for you music fans, we even looked into having KISS figures made, as seen here in my hand-built mock-ups...
And I olny got as far as making a John Lennon one for our Beatles Yellow Submarine pitch...
And that's about as far as we got.
Looking back, this was a trying time for me, but also very exciting as I daily faced a new adventure in the worlds of licensing and design.
I sort of wish these had taken off better, but if that had happened, I may not have ended up where I am now, so it's probably all for the best.
Given the choice between paper or plastic, I'll take plastic any day. :)
Check back soon, when I'll take a look back at our Boxos line of mini stylized papercraft figures that almost were!
