McFarlane DC Multiverse

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.
 
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.
 
Poe Ghostal said:
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.
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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.
 
Doors at Toy Fair open at 10:00 AM EST. Doesn’t mean the McFarlane room is open or that photography is allowed if it is. Nothing leaked so far, DC or otherwise. The usually aggressive McFarlane social media team is virtually radio silent.

WTF is going on?
 
Ha! Ironically, they “fixed” the Routh costume here: his briefs are no longer the tiny bikini-bottoms they are in the film.
 
Poe Ghostal said:
I didn't see the Injustice aspect of the Hellboy rumor - I wonder if that's just speculation? It seems to be aligned with the other creator-owned figures like Savage Dragon and Shadowhawk, so it was my assumption he'd be a regular Hellboy.

Yeah, Spawn has never really had the cultural penetration of other superheroes - even indies like Hellboy or Invincible. I think it's partly because his origin is weird, gory, based in overly-complex religious mythology, and very '90s. But also, to some degree, I've always felt like Spawn, as a franchise, primarily existed as an excuse for Todd to make other things he thought were cool - toys, posters, cartoons, movies. Spawn has never really felt like a living, breathing character to me, for whatever reason.
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Yup, straight-up normal Hellboy!
 
Really happy to see Clock King from BTAS, and over the moon that Super Powers is starting up again this summer! Super Powers is my favorite line/scale to collect, so here's hoping they continue their recent move to retro costumes, even if I have to pay more due to the EE exclusive.
 
Shinigami Customs said:
Looks to be reusing the Reeve body, which makes sense if you gotta reuse something.
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AceofKnaves said:
Ha! Ironically, they “fixed” the Routh costume here: his briefs are no longer the tiny bikini-bottoms they are in the film.
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Thanks, Todd! I hate it! Collar is too low, the briefs are too high, the shield is too large...it has all the accuracy of his Batman Begins figure (which is to say, not much). Then again, I do have that one and it's fine, I guess. So while this figure lacks the 2006 suit's weird idiosyncratic charms, I'll be in for one anyway because...

yojoebro82 said:
Not an incredible Routh likeness but probably the only figure you will ever see of this version.
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I’ll be interested to see what McFarlane does with the Dandadan license. The import versions haven’t been anything to write home about.
 
OK. Been out most of the day. Encouraging signs for everything DC not DCM. But there’s three days left and displays can be changed out. I imagine Todd is letting Mattel shoot their shot and staying out of the way of direct comparisons of non competing products.

Hellboy, Savage Dragon, and Shadowhawk are on my radar now. Was hoping for Spartan to show up. Not thrilled about the $60.00 price tag. Any continuing line would need much cheaper pricing. But as one-offs, I think I might be interested.

Good to see Spawn isn’t completely dead in the water. Yet I’ve no interest in any of it anymore. Ironic since Spawn was my entry point for adult collecting.
 
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