Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
But as far as I know, all the modern Batman films have had large and successful toylines. I still have dozens of figures from Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns. Apparently, however, they couldn't get the rights to use DeVito's face or maybe they thought it would be too scary, but the figure of The Penguin was the comic-book version.

That's probably part of why filmmakers and toymakers love Batman so much - Batman's vast array of gadgets makes it easy to mass merchandise him. Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Captain Marvel, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter lack those accessories and I wonder if that works against them.

I don't know. Most of the "gadgets" they use in Batman toylines are made up exclusively for the toyline and resemble absolutely nothing ever used in any type of Batman story. As a kid, I'd generally go for the Batman figure that most resembled the one in the movie/cartoon/comic and then expand my collection from there. But, anyway, my point is that they could just as easily make up gadgets or costume variations for other superheroes, and make figures that utilize one of the superpowers. I know they've done this before. I have three Spider-Man action figures from back in the day. One of them has his arms spread out with string emerging from them that he can slide up and down. The second has him in a darker costume that has a button that allows his arms to move in a wall-crawling motion. And the third has detatchable night-vision goggles and Dr. Octopus limbs.

So, yeah, toy developers have a long history of butchering aspects of superheroes.