For sure. But something that hit hard when I moved as often as I did was the realization that so many of those shows never hit other regions to catch on.
I was the weird kid that only ever wanted the figures of how they looked on screen. Especially in a line like Batman, where there's God knows how many variants of different bat suits with different gimmicks- that's like a gold mine for kids. But if Batman didn't wear it on screen, I didn't want a figure of it.
Tell your family there are grown men who say the same thing when a super hero movie comes out and they slightly alter the hero's look.
Iron Winch was THE BEST. I remember carrying that Batman around EVERYWHERE, and doing mental exercises to accept him as “comic Batman” even though he looked like Keaton.
I could (can) only go so deep with the Kenner Batman variants, to me the villains were (are) where it is at. My tenses are confused because I still have this stuff on full display.
I have Iron Winch Batman, one of my favorite Batmans of all time and a better blue/gray Keaton Batman than the recent $300 Hot Toys abomination, and arctic(?) Batman because it's a necessity in early November with the heavy snow hits. Otherwise I have 4 variants in standard black. The kind of thing your wife looks at as says, "Why do you have Four of the same one?"
