Looking at the pics of prototypes for the 8" Six Million Dollar Man figures at SDCC, something I have wanted since the 70's (I had the 13" figure, but he couldn't team up with my 8" Justice League), I'm seeing the same problem so many of these figures have had: huge melons on top of their shoulders.

I'm completely mystified as to where this came from; the original Mego figures had a grand total of four figures out of all their offerings with huge, out of scale heads, namely the CHiPs figures and Daisy Duke (maybe five if you count Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch, but he's borderline because his head is an odd shape to begin with). The other heads looked normal on the bodies, not macroenchephalic like these.

Some of the retro figures look fine, like the Dark Shadows or the Trek figures. But so many are looking like the awful Space 1999 figures from several years ago, where it seemed they stuck a 12" head on an 8" body.

I saw one picture on an e-tailer site of Steve Austin with a fairly normal head, but that's not what they were showing at SDCC. I was really excited about the bionic figures, but that enthusiasm has waned after seeing Oscar with a head that would make the Leader and Hector Hammond jealous...