Mattel DC Figures

So just to confirm the Mera stuff, I found this blog post commenting on a ToyGuru post from the old Matty Collector Facebook page. This looks to be what he said verbatim, although I can't find the original FB post.

And to answer the inevitable question, we did look into Red Lantern Mera. The only way to do her right is with a 100% tool and for that cost we can do 4 other figures. So while she did not make the cut this time around, we do know fans want complete sets and we are committed to one day getting her out there!
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Oh, looks like Fwoosh actually discussed it too, available here. You know, while the site is still up. I can't find anything about what the original lineup was supposed to be, but if she was scrapped for tooling concerns, it seems probable that the figures we got were the earliest practical plan for the wave. That's how Neitlich is making it sound, anyway. If what he's saying is accurate, identifying her as a 100% new tool probably would've happened not long after the name came up, I would think. (Unless they had a period where they were considering painted-on scales, but that seems unlikely.)
 
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OG Starfire, Claw, Stalker Space Ranger, Dolphin, Beowulf, Warlord, Kamandi, OMAC, Hercules Unbound, Captain Comet, Phantom Stranger, Tommy Tomorrow (heh), Freedom Fighters, Arak, Arion, Richard Dragon, and I could go on.
 
I'm kinda content in that case. While I want her, if her only figure was the modern basic and scaly bodysuit, I just would not want to display it alongside a line where every single figure otherwise is 60s-80s. Need the white collar halter top and seaweed pattern for her! If the pattern isn't sculpted (and I'd love if it was, but it's not necessary), that would be just a new chest and feet.
 
I'm pretty much always on the side of doing texture where an outfit suggests a texture. DCUC bucks were already way too featureless for me; one of the great things about something like that Wave 1 Etrigan was that it had all the skin striations sculpted into his legs.

I guess one of the funny things is that they ended up making that fully-sculpted scaly green bodysuit Mera, just the movie version. It always feels like a lot of stuff Neitlich claimed couldn't be done was somehow done by Mattel DC Multiverse.
 
Atomic Knight said:
I never saw the shipping box picture either. I do remember talk about a GA Hawkgirl and apparently there were pictures. But I never saw those either. Supposed to have been in a 2-pack with GA Hawkman. Which did come out in wave 19.
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I don't remember if their were pictures, but this one was an actual offering by Mattel that didn't make it. I was really hoping for this pack, and eventually ended up with a custom GA Hawkgirl instead.

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If I'm to guess, there may be exceptions for unique molds for main characters from movies. But Neitlich is also a lying idiot.

I will always prefer textured bodies for the most part, but in the case of classic Mera (and Aquaman, for that matter) there's a sort of subtlety to the texture that I'd want just to preserve the silhouette. Most Aquaman figures go too hardcore and just look a bit nasty. Or they go too tiny with the scales and it just feels a bit busy. My favorite sculpt for him is probably ArtFX Superpowers.

In the case of classic Mera, I could see it as an inset texture pattern with a shiny finish and maybe wash working, but if they go even slightly too extreme, her silhouette would just look terrible. I'd be content with just paint if that's the route they went, her costume always felt like a fabric with a printed pattern anyways.
 
tenzilkem said:
  • The Actual Figure: While Mattel never released a Red Lantern Mera, DC Direct (now DC Collectibles) did release a popular, highly detailed 7-inch Red Lantern Mera figure in 2011 as part of their Blackest Night Series 7 line.
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That DC Direct Mera is absolutely gorgeous. (They released both the Red Lantern and standard versions of her). I still have her. If only she had more than a few points of articulation.

I would love to see these obscure characters you folks are throwing out there, but I expect this line to play it fairly safe.

While it’s only natural to compare the DC license to the WWE license, I think Marvel is more comparable to WWE and DC is more comparable to AEW…except DC didn’t fumble Superman (Cody Rhodes) and Batman (CM Punk) over to Marvel.
 
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