>>10063610>I wonder why that is. Perhaps it's entirely just the result of obscurity or something.As someone with vague memories from going on forums around then, I think its because at that point collectors could start buying more collector oriented toys by then. I remember the attitude with a lot of stuff back then was that they wanted the accurate look and everything else was filler. So while everyone was buying up the Zipline Batmans and Toy Biz Legends/Classics figures, these were just bought by kids.
For example, when this Knightshadow Batman came out I thought it was cool as fuck, but everyone online thought it was just a cheap cash-in or Black Panther ripoff. Even these less strange non-canon redecoes were shunned.