Alfred batman dark knight rises12/29/2023 I just remembered that I made a custom Alfred out of a Lex Luthor figure to go with my BTAS shelf back when that stuff started coming out. I wasn’t even aware of the sets they released with Commissioner Gordon and Alfred until they hit the secondary market and were prohibitively expensive. Also, the line mostly consisted of Neon Mountain Sled Batmans at that time so I stopped looking. It’s just that they had switched to the new animation style and I didn’t care for it at the time (why the heck was Catwoman green all of a sudden?). By the time they made one in the Batman: The Animated Series line I wasn’t collecting that anymore, which I still regret. I’ve been wanting a figure of Alfred for a long time. Luckily for me, my buddy Evil hit a Walmart right after they put a case out and grabbed Mr. He was packing out at one per case in both assortments he was scheduled to be included in, so I thought unless I happened to show up at a store the second they put a case out I would be one part short of a Bat Signal (it takes all six figures Mattel is releasing from The Dark Knight Rises to construct a light-up Bat Signal). I didn’t think my chances of finding Alfred were very good. Making a figure of a character that literally does nothing but stand around and talk is pretty risky, so kudos to Mattel for doing it. Looking at it from that latter perspective, it’s actually pretty amazing that this figure exists at all. On the other hand, Mattel just released a figure of a frigging butler. On the one hand it is ridiculous that it has taken this long for Mattel to get around to making an action figure of the second-most-important living character in the Batman mythos.
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