Mattel DC Figures

Atomic Knight said:
I still think Shining Knight I has a chance.
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Yeah, I saw Nightmaster. Got no faith in McFarlane to pull off a Shining Knight I'd give a shit about owning. And it remains to be seen with Mattel. They certainly didn't make him the first time 'round.
 
Damien said:
Yeah, I saw Nightmaster. Got no faith in McFarlane to pull off a Shining Knight I'd give a shit about owning. And it remains to be seen with Mattel. They certainly didn't make him the first time 'round.
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This encapsulates what I’m hoping for from Mattel. When a character I’m interested in is announced or leaked, I want to be fairly confident that the figure will fall within a certain range of acceptability.

With McFarlane, when a character I’m interested in is announced or leaked, it could fall anywhere from exceptionally good (Digital Red Tornado). to completely unacceptable (Gold Label Red Tornado) depending on how the reuse and paint decos are imanaged.

If Mattel’s line is consistently mediocre, I’ll take that consistent mediocrity over McFarlane’s box of chocolates every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Every collector has their pet peeves, and one of mine is inconsistency. Sure, some Marvel Legends are better than others, but there is a ceiling and a floor that you can reasonably expect any given release to fall between.

I love McFarlane’s character selection, but it’s frustrating to know there’s a 50-50 chance that any given figure will be completely half assed.
 
Xavion2025 said:
I love McFarlane’s character selection, but it’s frustrating to know there’s a 50-50 chance that any given figure will be completely half assed.
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Yeah. McFarlane has done awesome things -in theory- that I really like. Batmobiles and giant figures and a pretty damn cool character selection even allowing for entire waves of Death Metal and stuff (I actually like the 'Metal' stuff but I don't like McFarlane's figures so I didn't get them). If you're not into 1000 variations of Batman, I'm not convinced Mattel is going to be any better there.

But yes - consistency. Every so often I see a McFarlane figure where I'm like 'ooh, that looks like a good one.' But it's always bookended by figures that look terrible, and/or the figure I think looks good is some kind of chase variant extra special digital NFT exclusive garbage. McFarlane's line has so many fucking adjectives that I don't even know where or how to buy half the shit I see being revealed. Every part of collecting McFarlane seems like such a complete shitshow.
 
To be fair, since we funnel everything exclusive into EB up here, in Canada it's as simple as keeping up with what's going up for PO and even at launch it's been easy to request things transferred in.

But all the adjectives are stupid because none of them seem to mean anything except for the chase platinum. Red Platinum used to be just brick and mortar, but that collapsed quickly.
 
We definitely get Target exclusives... half the time? They do get fan channel stuff, I believe. But I don't think I've ever seen a Walmart exclusive in EB. But I've also never seen one in a fucking Walmart.
 
I have seen the Walmart gold label Hal Jordan at the least. And it definitely wasn't at Walmart because my Walmart does not even carry anything not transformers or wrestling.
 
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