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I feel like especially for DC I'd want an Acrobat equivalent for the women to cover all the female martial artists and thief types, assuming that base would allow for a greater range of posing.

Wait, there was a fan vote? I totally missed that. Who else was in it?

Well, the reason wrestling and superheroes are the two most perennial action figure concepts is the parts reuse. It's not like any Mattel DC line is going to be lacking that. A lot of superheroes are just dudes in form-fitting bodysuits. Reuse is going to happen no matter what, that's how...

No problem! And actually, the WWE chases are super easy to get, honestly. Most of them you can preorder through Ringside Collectibles, and I've found plenty of them in store. They're also just gear repaints, not like totally different characters like you might get in a superhero line (which I...

It's an absurd amount of figures, yeah. But wrestling moves extremely fast, WWE maintains multiple shows that all have their own rosters, and there's also a portion of the audience that's mainly concerned with retro and classic product, so you have to serve that too. It's a very demanding...

Yeah, I probably made it seem way more complicated than it is by throwing everything out there. Because they do have a ton of SKUs and sub-lines, which also contributes to line health by ensuring faster sell thru (while also having the Top Picks waves to ensure popular wrestlers are perennially...

That's very possible. I'd love to see Superman and Batman get more weird, surrealist indie comics like Tom Neely did with Doppelganger for Popeye.

I'm no IP expert, but I'm under the impression it would be like with Mickey, where Steamboat Willie the work is now in public domain and the early design of Mickey is, so you can release things with that very specific original design or release your own copies of expired works like the Steamboat...

I've absolutely bought Main Event figures just for a new head sculpt I can put on an Elite figure, definitely. And I think this format applied to DC would fundamentally work, although obviously we're already seeing way more accessories for the kids' line than Main Event gets, but that's also an...

Yeah, the Main Event, Elite, and Ultimate lines are all in the same basic style and scale. There's even some parts sharing between the lines, like hands or head sculpts. They've even updated and improved the Main Event articulation scheme in the past year or so, although it's still more limited...

Some more on WWE, regarding wave structure. WWE Main Event: The basic template is 3 main eventers, 1 Legend, 1 female wrestler, with some variation. (Like, there's room for a midcarder in there if it's a really popular female wrestler like a Rhea Ripley or Becky Lynch or if the Legend is a Hogan...

They produce A LOT of stuff, but here's a quick overview. WWE Main Event: the lowest-tier line. About $10-12. 5 figures a wave plus a chase variant, and they release...God, I don't know. 8 waves or so a year? More? They're up to wave 165 of this thing in preorders. Main Event Showdown: The Main...

Arkham sub-line means the chances of me owning a second Lady Shiva figure go way up, so I'm all for it.

There's got to be a reason why Mattel keeps licensing a property that demands endless variations of a central hero with an almost equally popular creepy/campy lead villain played at one point by Jared Leto, but damned if I can figure out what it is.

It still makes me laugh that at a time when female figures were still mega-sparse in the line as opposed to pretty sparse, he managed to make room for one from a team book he drew. It's almost kinda sweet; even DCUC never got around to Jade.

Yeah, that's one of the questions I have - are they going to integrate media figures into standard waves like McFarlane tried early on, or have waves or even sub-lines with new SKUs specifically built around media properties? The release schedule for the upcoming movies seems like it's meant to...

I very much expect the lineups to be more: A lister A or B+ lister (B+ lister is the Martian Manhunter line - too big for the B-list, not big enough where you'd rely on them alone to anchor) Corresponding villain Team builder from A-list team (ie, JLA/JSA/Titans, not like the Metal Men) Cult...

I tend to agree with this as a general principle. But I think it's pretty well established at this point that 4HM does both those things, so in this case I think it's less Robin Hood shit and more them doing whatever they want without regard for anything else. And there are companies in their...

So apparently that Statlander is replacing a Deonna Purrazzo, which I'm hoping manages to get released even if it's just through Ringside or something. But Stat's easily the best figure in this truncated wave. Curious how much more product gets out there for the line.

Wait, if Thraice is from Africa, why is she white? (This deeply explains why she's one of the only Legions figures I've never had it in me to sell off. Millennial nostalgia is a powerful curse.)

Lol, good Lord, that's such a disingenuous argument they're making. Merida is a Scottish princess archer in a green dress. Kim Possible is a spy action hero from a modern school setting who usually wears a black shirt and olive cargo pants. The 4HM are releasing a barbarian-style warrior woman...

So I've never brought this up in 4HM threads, but as long as we're complaining about them: a long time back I had an order from them where I received the wrong item - I think I had ordered the second Artemyss and they sent me that horse with the A name instead. No big deal, I emailed to arrange...

If anything, DCUC did way fewer A and B+ tier figures than you would expect, especially considering they shied away from a lot of stuff that had been in DC Superheroes before it. Counting Batman Beyond, there were only 5 Batmen in the 20 regular waves of the main line - that's NEVER happening...

Mattel WWE gets a reasonable amount of leaks, but they tend to come from German retailers or the Walmart system. But most stuff just gets announced way before leaks are even conceivable. The Mattel WWE team is actually super forthcoming with new product way before it's even up for preorder, but...

I guess when you have as many perennial lines as they do, you don't need to convince retailers of all that much. "Here is a Super Mario. You will buy the Super Mario."