In Honor of the new Man of Steel movie coming out, I thought I would take a look back and revisit Kenner's Superman The Animated Series action figure line. Let's get cracking. While the Superman The Animated Series action figures were never as popular as the Batman The Animated Series action figures, they didn't have a successful run in Europe more than they did in the USA.
Superman The Animated Series was the counterpart to Batman The Animated Series and also ran on the former WB network and was later merged with the New Batman Adventures to be called The New Batman/Superman Adventures which aired from 1998 to 2000. A majority of the Superman episodes were not new ones.
Now onto the action figures. The Superman The Animated Series action figure line had a lot of faults with it. The number one fault with it was the lack of villains. There was a huge Superman to villain ratio in this line. Only 4 villain figures were made. They were Lex Luthor, Metallo, Brainiac, Darkseid, and Bizarro. Kenner had a lot of potential with this line when it came to villains but somehow messed it up by making only 4. They had a lot of villains that could have been made such as Livewire, Granny Goodness, Lobo, Toyman, and Mr. Mxyzptlk,
Now onto the heroes, Superman has been released in this series a whopping 20 times if you don't count some of them with eye variants. Supergirl has been released 3 times with the same accessories each time give or take. She basically has been a straight up repaint with the only minor change to the sleeves and waist of her baby tee which are sometimes black and sometimes white. The only non superhero or villain to get a figure was Lois Lane who came in a 4pack, Battle For Metropolis. Lois Lane fetches a pretty penny on eBay.
There weren't really any playsets in the Superman The Animated Series line at all. However there was one vehicle though, the Clark Kent Conversion Coupe which came with an exclusive Clark Kent figure.
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