As we start the new year and stores start re-setting their post-holiday aisles, more new products are hitting stores now.  As we saw at SDCC last year Mattel is thinking small when it comes to retail.  Smaller figures that is.   The “evergreen’ Batman line is shrinking from 5″ to 3.75″ and Batman is bringing along all of his super friends to a pretty extensive first wave of members of the Justice League and more villains! These figures are still kind of chunky and stylized even in their smaller form.   They seem to by a combination of New 52 costumes and new designs created by Mattel.

There’s a wave of single carded figures, 2 five figure multi-packs and a 3-pack with Robo Joker.   As of this writing I have only seen these figures at Target stores.

I haven’t had a chance to open any of them yet, so you’re going to have to admire them carded/boxed first.

First we’ll look at some of the single carded figures.   There are single carded figures of “regular” Batman and Robin, but I didn’t grab those since they are also in the multi-packs.

Superman

The Flash

Az Bats (Blue version.  The red repaint is in a multi-pack)

The Joker

Target Exclusive Gotham City All-Stars 5 Pack. (this set was available on Target.com in late 2013)

 Gotham City Showdown Multi-pack

The Joker Robo Rampage set

And finally one tail-end 5″ figure I had never seen before – Robin!