>>8730429Also Big Barda was short because the only way to reasonably do her was as a Collect and Connect figure and she was low priority, because the same exact year DC Direct did a New Gods line with a Big Barda that worked and scaled better. Both figures came out in 2009, so you had options and Mattel had no real reason revisit the character.
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