Mattel DC Figures

I just received Bats, Joker and DG Robin from BBTS. I haven't opened them yet. It was a very busy morning dealing with FedEx, lol.

I place them on my coffee table for now and my daughter came out of her room and looked and said whoa, that's a kids line Batman, dang that looks good.
 
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I'm really hoping they show something soon at SDCC so I can get excited about DC figures again. Unlike most of you guys, I'm not excited about this line yet, as they look too much like Spin Master's offerings.

I think I'm just burnt out on collecting the same characters over and over. Even when McFarlane gave us a new character (Geo-Force in his classic suit, Ragman, Kite Man!), I'd open the thing up and be underwhelmed from the lack of articulation (they're highly articulated, but still can't get into any good poses) and/or cost-cutting inaccurate details.

But if Mattel shows some figures that are compatible with DCUC and are first time in plastic characters, I'm hoping my enthusiasm comes back. Collecting DCUC was the most fun I've had collecting as an adult, and I'd love to revive those glory days.

In the meantime, I'm more interested in the occasional retro toy. I'm currently picking up the 1990 Dick Tracy movie figures when I see them at comic shows or collector shops. Trying to rebuild that collecting I had as a kid, and get that same fun from ripping those weird little guys off their card.
 
I got Flash today, and without ankles, there's not much posing to be had here. I like how the figure feels in hand. Sturdy, well built. I was worried it would feel like the jazwares Avatar figures. Loose and cheap.

I gladly would've sacrificed double knees for ankles, but then I suppose that would make these TOO good of a value.

I like it, and it makes me excited about what they do with the collector line. They already do dumbbell necks better than most hasbro figures.
 
These looking a bit like the Spinmaster figures is part of the draw for me, I LOVED how those figures were early on. Lots of fun. But I only grabbed Captain Marvel, especially because it included Billy as an accessory. I'm very, very weak to impulse purchases of anything (namely, toys and games) under 15 dollars, but I talked myself out of most Spinmaster due to the scale and focus on Rebirth. None of this is the case with Mattel's new line, and the figures themselves are a lot better on top of that.

I already have Robin and two Jokers incoming. Robin should be here Tuesday, but for some damn reason Amazon is giving me an estimate for the fucking 24th for the Jokers. But that's fine enough, I'll be trying to customize both and gotta lock in on more sculpting learning, and actually *make* the parts I intend to for Joker in particular.

Deep cut first timers like Ragman, Kite Man, Nightmaster, etc are the only thing I will miss in theory. But just in theory. Because they all sucked poop from a butt. And quite frankly, I could do 1000x better on all of those characters if you gave me a week in Nomad Sculpt, a base body sculpt, and joints.
 
I think the collector's line is going to have suitable space for deep-cut first-timers, but also in the Gunn DC era there might be more room than we think for wacky crap even in the baseline. It might not be totally crazy to see a Frankenstein or Bride or Dr. Phosphorus or G.I. Robot in here, and Swamp Thing and King Shark both seem crazy possible. If anything, the figures they've shown off so far have made me think the biggest winners out of this line are going to be the monster type characters and I think there's going to be at least some room for that kind of toyetic weirdness.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Yeah, “hero(es) vs a monstrous villain” seems to be a setup for this whole line out of the gate.
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Yeah, I like that the waves and multi-packs seem to have some kind of implied story details to them. I expect based on who they've shown off already we'll see robot suit Lex, Brainiac, Grundy, Mongul, Cyborg Superman, Metallo, Parasite, Sinestro, Scarecrow...not really unexpected names, but those feel like the kinds of villain designs at a premium here.
 
Niko (protozoalord) said:
Well I hope they have Batman
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Must we ask the impossible of them.

AceofKnaves said:
Mattel still owes me a Super Powers-looking version, like their prototype from over 20 years ago before they were forced to make the DC Signature version more “generic”.
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It's crazy that there was an instance when Mattel DC made a figure look LESS like its Super Powers equivalent.
 
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