#4073: Robi

ROBIN DC PREMIER (MATTEL) At last, nature is healing. Or, something like that. See, back at the end of 2019, Mattel, who had held the DC license for 17 years at that point, lost said license. It was a choice on their own part, rather than DC’s, as they felt they needed to regroup. Given the state of things, that was honestly pretty fair. But also, I’m not gonna say Mattel giving up the DC license broke the world, but….can I convey a vague gesture around me in the text here? Anyway, Mattel’s had pretty decent run of years here (helped by coincidentally scaling back their operations *just* before the pandemic that broke every major manufacturer’s supply chains for over a year), and with the DC license up for renewal again last year, they were able to successfully get it back. We’re just now starting to get the very first of their new product, a basic 6-inch line of heavy hitters. As there’s neither a Superman nor a Nightwing at the start, I’ve gone for the next best option: Robin! THE…