Mattel DC Figures

Atomic Knight said:
I’m sure this whole thing would fall apart under regulatory scrutiny.
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What regulatory scrutiny?
4% of Mattel's shareholders just wrote them a letter telling them to sell to Hasbro so that the 4% of shareholders can get a quick payout on their stocks. That's it. No regulatory anything is required. Mattel is going to skim the letter and politely tell these people to choke on a sea of dicks. Imagine buying a stock and then telling the company that they should just sell to a different company so your stock will be worth more, ignoring the other 90% of shareholders' opinions on that matter, or the company's profitability, or literally anything about how money or corporations work.

It's just ignorant rich people grandstanding and no one is ever going to take this seriously enough to need to look at it from a regulatory perspective. It's laughable.
 
Damien said:
What regulatory scrutiny?
4% of Mattel's shareholders just wrote them a letter telling them to sell to Hasbro so that the 4% of shareholders can get a quick payout on their stocks. That's it. No regulatory anything is required. Mattel is going to skim the letter and politely tell these people to choke on a sea of dicks. Imagine buying a stock and then telling the company that they should just sell to a different company so your stock will be worth more, ignoring the other 90% of shareholders' opinions on that matter, or the company's profitability, or literally anything about how money or corporations work.

It's just ignorant rich people grandstanding and no one is ever going to take this seriously enough to need to look at it from a regulatory perspective. It's laughable.
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Point taken. But I was referring to the deal moving forward. If this were to actually happen, I believe the SEC would intervene.
 
I wonder if Mattel will do previous movie figures. They probably will do upcoming movie figures, Man of Tomorrow will likely see collector Mattel figures, but will they go back and do Henry Cavill's Superman, Christian Bale's Batman? There's many people who would say we still don't have definitive versions of many of the movie designs, and even if Inart is doing some amazing work with a few of these, they are expensive and take a long time to come. We still don't have a definite Christopher Reeve Superman in 1/12, that's for sure. Or a Keaton Batman.
 
I would be surprised if they go backward and do figures from old movies.

I suppose on a significant anniversary they might justify it... so in 2028 a 20 year anniversary release of Bale Batman and Ledger Joker... maybe Though, honestly, Mattel's original 6 inch figures for that line weren't awful, imo.

But I wouldn't expect it to be a focus for them.
 
I expect it to be a slow burn as well. The newest DC films will definitely get early waves dedicated to them, but much older films will only be sprinkled in maybe every now and then. And even then, I only expect a variety of Batmans, and Reeves.
 
PantherCult said:
I would be surprised if they go backward and do figures from old movies.
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Why? They did it right up to the end of their last time with the license, and McFarlane has consistently done it for his entire tenure. I don't see any good reason why that would change now. Some of those older movie versions are incredibly popular still. McFarlane has managed to sell like.. 3 or 4 Batmans based on the Nolan movies alone.
 
I mean, I guess.

If I thought DC had a say in decisions on character choice they might want to focus on new movies and media content rather than older movies... but its hard to know whats going on with Paramount swooping in to take over Warner Bros who knows where priorities will be.
 
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