Between 2013 and 2016, a big trend in DC Comics publishing was Batman '66 comics featuring the likenesses of Adam West and Burt Ward. It started with a core title of 30 issues and was followed by a wacky assortment of various 6-issue team-up mini-series like Archie, Green Hornet, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Steed and Mrs. Peel, and Legion of Super-Heroes. These stories effectively added a ton of non-canonical characters to the wider Batman '66 universe (like Two-Face, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn, among many others). An additional source of characters came from a variant cover theme in the Summer of 2014 where eighteen DC titles had Batman '66 variants drawn by Mike Allred. This cover series is where we saw Wonder Woman in Batman '66 style for the first time. (The later Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77 comic series doesn't count because it was drawn to resemble Lynda Carter). It's amazing that those covers inspired a toy ten years later. Let's check out Wonder Woman '66 below!
When I look as this face sculpt, all I see is Rosario Dawson. Which is a funny coincidence because she has voiced Wonder Woman in eight animated movies so far. But the art that this toy is based on was drawn at least a year before her first Wonder Woman gig. Here is the movie list I assembled when trying to establish the timelines: Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015), Justice League vs Teen Titans (2016), Justice League Dark (2017), The Death of Superman (2018), Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019), Reign of the Supermen (2019), Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020), Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021).
((She also voiced Artemis in Wonder Woman (2009))).
Confession time. All the photos above have a slight modification. I view this as the correction of a production error. For a long time I couldn't figure out why this figure looked so odd to me in the packaging. I just didn't like her hair sculpt (it looked like a bad wig to me). But then I realized her temple and sideburn hair was errantly painted gold (it's the same plastic piece as the tiara). Once I painted it black, the toy looked so much better. Below I circled the gold hair portions, with the blackened versions at the bottom.
Wonder Woman comes with a soft goods lasso.
There is a hook on her belt to hold the lasso at her side, but I failed to take any pictures of that.
Time for some Group and Comparison Pics!
Here is Wonder Woman with the BTAS Batgirl figure, also from Series 11.
Cheers!
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