McFarlane DC Multiverse

[joshsquash729]

I wanna see parents get pissy about it while there's a figure of, like, Sub-Zero with a decapitated head on the next peg over.

At the end of the day, they're both figures of a guy getting head, so what's really the difference?!

 

[spinc]

I could see them getting the Lord of the rings license, which would honestly be pretty sad since they would not really do it justice. But I could see Todd grabbing that, especially with the upcoming movie and game(s) that are in the works. A full line of LotR would be cool, even if the individual figures weren't great. It is a pretty big IP, especially since we haven't had many figures of these characters (let alone good figures of them) since maybe Toybiz, Inart and third parties notwithstanding.

Apart from that, well they could do Disney, sure, but I'm not sure if Mattel still has the license. They could do Fromsoft games, Ghostbusters, do a movie maniacs line of articulated figures from many movies (I could see that one working). A few anime licenses could be cool as well.

But I don't see any of these working, with those higher prices they're doing now, without significantly improving the figures and their designs. A new, modern articulation system should be in order, and a focus on great, proportional sculpts and poseability.

 

[Poe Ghostal]

Lord of the Rings is tough because of all the robes and fabric. It really needs the Mezco/modern Mythic Legions treatment to do it justice.

I do have this dream where the Horseman do a line of literature-based Lord of the Rings figures using their Mythic Legions bases. Toy Vault’s LOTR figures are what got me back into collecting in 1997 after a Magic the Gathering-based caesura in the mid-‘90s.

These days my favorite Gandalf figure is the recent third-party 1/12 one by Hellcat.

 

[spinc]

Lord of the Rings is tough because of all the robes and fabric. It really needs the Mezco/modern Mythic Legions treatment to do it justice.

I do have this dream where the Horseman do a line of literature-based Lord of the Rings figures using their Mythic Legions bases. Toy Vault’s LOTR figures are what got me back into collecting in 1997 after a Magic the Gathering-based caesura in the mid-‘90s.

These days my favorite Gandalf figure is the recent third-party 1/12 one by Hellcat.

I would honestly love to see 4H do a "book series" of figures with their own takes and designs, as long as they're faithful to the character's descriptions in the books. But I don't see that happening any time soon, the 4H are in too deep with ML/CL and the others. They can barely church out a few figures a year already.