Mattel DC Figures

I'm really interested and excited to see what they do at Mattel with the DC license. For adult collectors and kid lines. DC Classics is my all-time favorite DC line, and one of my top 5 favorite toy lines ever. Will what Mattel offers for adult collectors go with the DC Classics collection? Or will it stand out on it's own?

If it goes with the DCUC's collection, blending in seamlessly to pretty seamlessly with what we already have, I will almost certainly buy them.

If it stands out all on its own, thus basically making it we're starting over from scratch with an all-new DC toy line, it will just depend on how good they are.

I have so many DC figures! From so many different companies. I can't believe I'm even toying with the notion of buying MORE DC figures lol. But still, I feel excited to see what Mattel offers.

Now, doesn't McFarlane still get to make DC figures for a few months into 2026? Or is he finished January 2026?
 
I too am curious how these shape up. I remember the tail end of the DC Line before mcfarlane picked it up and from what I remember it was orettt poor compared to the marvel legends of the time.

However I feel like Mattel has really stepped it up with MOTU stuff lately, especially Masterverse to where I can at least say they CAN make a solid figure now
 
It really is Masterverse that has me at all interested in Mattel again. If they just pick up where the left off before Todd got the license, forget it, but if they take some of the work they've done with Masterverse and do that with DC, there could be some really excellent, consistently good figures in this line.
 
Masterverse is excellent. For the price especially. The Masterverse figures are just very well done. The articulation, designs, paint apps, accessories. For the price, they are really incredible. Do that with DC, and I feel you'd have a win.

If they made the DC figures like Masterverse, I'd have to buy them.
 
Super Camel said:
Masterverse is excellent. For the price especially. The Masterverse figures are just very well done. The articulation, designs, paint apps, accessories. For the price, they are really incredible. Do that with DC, and I feel you'd have a win.

If they made the DC figures like Masterverse, I'd have to buy them.
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I haven't bought Mastervers or Mattel's wrestling figures but both look pretty well done. Certainly no worse than what Hasbro is doing with ML. I guess I would prefer to not have another licensing flip-flip but I can't jump on the Mattel hate bandwagon until I see what they do.
 
Super Camel said:
Masterverse is excellent. For the price especially. The Masterverse figures are just very well done. The articulation, designs, paint apps, accessories. For the price, they are really incredible. Do that with DC, and I feel you'd have a win.

If they made the DC figures like Masterverse, I'd have to buy them.
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It's little things, like the QC consistency (I've seen enough off prints or hair/helmets glued wrong), But specifically for me, one thing that really holds it back, as they walk to the elbow articulation back to single.

That cannot stand.

But that said. I love my Evil Lyn and Skeletor on my desk, and I welcome what they would do with open arms.
 
There's not a lot of figures I would want from Mattel, but the ones I do want, I want them done good. I want good superhero proportions, good anatomy, great facesculpts and great face prints.

I want real good, modern articulation. Jada style or better; toe articulation, barbell ab joint and ball waist, full bend of course; no ab-crunch or reverse ab-crunch like hasbro likes. No paper-thin hollow torsos and hollow legs like they used to do before. No weird, bulky articulation points with almost no range. Buttefly shoulders, or even better yet, mafex style ballpeg butterflies. It's not like they cost more to make, they just need a good designer. Someone who has seen what Mcfarlane did, what Sh Figuarts does, what Mafex does, and understands what to do and how to do it best. Cloth capes too, preferably wired, since we've seen that a comparably small company do it decently well.

Their Masterverse figures honestly leave me wanting; I don't think they've done a great He-Man since the MOTUC line. Right now Mattel has the chance to do something special, do something great, if they hire the right people for the job and give the line the proper budget.

We've now seen multiple companies step-up and do amazing work in their first outing, so there's no reason why one of the biggest toy makers in the world with decades of experience can't do a brand new, fantastic line of modern DC figures. Even Hasbro's stepping up their game, so there's no excuses.
 
One thing I'm really hopeful are themed lines, like Hasbro does with Marvel Legends. For example, I'd love an all-Batman-themed BAF wave. Maybe something like...

1. Batman (Bronze Age) with alternate Hugo Strange head
2. Zebra Batman
3. Ventriloquist and Scarface
4. Catwoman (Jim Balent)
5. Batgirl (Classic Yellow and black costume)
6. Riddler (classic jumpsuit)
7. Two-Face (Bronze Age suit color)
BAF: Bane (Knightfall)

Keep the BAF concept. With Hasbro phasing it out, Mattel should offer it to entice those who miss the concept when it was more prevalent at Hasbro.

If the character selection, paint, and articulation is there, Mattel might just get my money again.
 
Billium3 said:
Hugo Strange
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Can I just say that whatever company FINALLY makes a just plain Hugo Strange FROM THE COMICS and not just a head to go on a Batman body, I will absolutely buy at least 5. Golden Age formal wear preferred, but I’ll take a business suit, a lab coat, whatever.
Just damn, man, gimme Hugo Strange.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Can I just say that whatever company FINALLY makes a just plain Hugo Strange FROM THE COMICS and not just a head to go on a Batman body, I will absolutely buy at least 5. Golden Age formal wear preferred, but I’ll take a business suit, a lab coat, whatever.
Just damn, man, gimme Hugo Strange.
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DC Direct made a labcoat version from the game Arkham City. It's the one I use. I also use the Talia from that game. Might be the best we ever get of either character.
 
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I love Build A Figures. It's so much fun and feels so good when you lock in that final piece completing a character. Be it Legends or DC Classics, I just have always loved the BAF feature.

It's no deal breaker if there isn't a BAF, but I'd love to see Mattel do it once again like they did with DCUC's
 
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