McFarlane DC Multiverse

SalemCrow said:
Again, the preorders NOT on the the MTS site are up to the other retailers. If there were issues, go after GameStop for not putting them up at the announced time or making it easy to find on the site/app.
YES, all the rainbow platinum garbage is annoying as hell, but we've ALL dealt with Walmart and Target screwing up announced preorder launches due to the ineptitude of their online teams.
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McFarlane absolutely holds some blame for making a highly sought after figure a platinum/exclusive, and for releasing multiple exclusives at the same time on different websites. Regardless of who gets the blame, what I know for sure is that I’ll have to pay more than retail price from a 3rd party seller to get the figure I want, and that’s a really bad customer experience.
 
I've really cherry-picked the McF stuff, and have a modest JL and villains collection that I used to display in my office. I've since changed jobs, and now have a small cubicle with only a few of my toys on display, so all my DC Multiverse figures are now in a tote (I display mostly DCUC stuff in my home). At this point, with no real place to display them, and some big gaps in core members, I'm not sure I'm going to be buying any more of Todd's figures. I never was able to get classic Wonder Woman for a reasonable price, and now the current look for her is packed in with a Godzilla statue, and with characters like Black Canary never getting made, I have to wonder what would the point be to continue collecting these at all? I would have bought the Silver Age Superman, but never once saw him in stores (and he sold out pretty fast online), and there are a few others I can think of that I would have liked had Todd made them easier to get. Sorry, but I ain't paying scalpers for the "privilege" of being able to have a Jim Gordon in my collection. If McFarlane had made core characters easier to get, I can honestly say I'd be a lot more interested in continuing to snag his DC figures up until the end. Now, I just have to shrug my shoulders and resign myself to not getting everything I wanted from this line. I mean, I have a huge 1:12 collection, but I was persuaded by some of these to ALSO have a 1:10 collection (albeit, a much smaller set of characters).

I get many folks reservations about Mattel, truly. They also made some massive blunders, but for the most part they got to the key characters I wanted, and most of them scale pretty well. Todd's stuff is all over the place...some really amazing figures and some real head scratchers. The scale is probably my biggest complaint, and I don't mean the fact it was 1:10. I'm referring to the fact that it has probably the most inconsistent scale of ANY line I've ever collected. When Batman doesn't even scale with another Batman, that's just some sloppy, stupid work. At this point, I don't know if I will get any of the new Mattel stuff, but having some consistency with the scaling would definitely go a long way towards convincing me one way or another.
 
Yep, the James Gordon thing is a very good example of what's wrong with trying to collect this line. Yes, he's a non-powered character but he's also one of the Top 10 most important characters in DC Comics. Why is it so hard to get a figure of him? I've never seen the colored version for less than $45 on ebay. I've had 9 different orders with Walmart when he showed in stocked over a period of months and they cancelled each and every one of them due to being out of stock even though he showed in stock when the orders were placed. It's always the same, one "delayed" email, then another - and then on Day 3 or 4 they cancel. It's so stupid. It was the exact same thing with both Jade and Silver Age Bizarro. Meanwhile the only DC figures that my local Walmart has stocked during that time are Adam Strange, Deadshot and the Batman with the gun holster. Those have been sitting there for what seems like forever.
 
Yeah. Too often this line feels like it's collecting scarcity-based art. They're toys. It shouldn't be so hard to give them money that you just assume you've gotta find the guy in Kansas City who HAPPENED to find a box of Jim Gordon figures and give that guy twice retail.
 
Reno said:
Here's something that we definitely agree upon.

Although, unlike Marvel Legends where I still have hundreds of characters that I want after 20+ years of collecting - I have most of the characters that I really want from DC. Unfortunately, just because I have figures of the characters doesn't mean that they look good together on a shelf. 20+ years of figures from DCD, Mattel and McFarlane make for an ugly collection when intermixed. I'd really prefer them to look more standardized across the collection in terms of both scale and style. Even a lot of the stuff from DCD doesn't look good with other DCD.

The characters that I don't already have figures of that I want the most are primarily civilians (Ma & Pa Kent, Amanda Waller, Iris Allen-West, Martha Wayne, Lara Lor-Von, Etta Candy, Morgan Edge, Maggie Sawyer, Vicki Vale, Joe Chill, Steve Lombard, Linda Park West, Cat Grant, etc) or unmade Legion of Super Heroes characters (Phantom Girl, Lightning Lass, Duplicate Girl, Shadow Lass, etc). There are others like Jesse Chambers, Weather Wizard, Congorilla, Johnny Thunder and Zatara though also.
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I don’t buy any other lines. I don’t have any other figures outside of DC Multiverse at this point. And that’s just comic figures. My particular version of OCD doesn’t allow for the mixing of action figure lines. Just can’t do it.

My problem is that I could be much younger, much richer, and Todd could sign a contract with DC to produce figures for the next 30 years and still not get to everything I’d like to see. I’m not remotely playing the victim card. It’s just how I am. Outside of the alien Lanterns, there’s frankly not much I wouldn’t buy in the DCU. Comics specifically.

Will Payton/Starman would’ve been awesome in a 2-pack with Prince Gavyn/Starman.
 
I got Collectors Edition Deathstroke today from BBTS. Great figure and this one looks exactly like what I want. I think I have all the other Deathstroke's Todd has let out too, but this one just feels right. I like all his weapons too.

I'm glad to finally have it in hand. I have actually seen this figure out a couple times and had the willpower not to buy it knowing I had it coming at some point from BBTS. And I wanted to give BBTS my business. I like them.
 
Saw this in Ross yesterday for $6.99 and decided to take the risk:
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I don't hate it. I haven't touched a Bendy fig in decades and this reminds me why, but I think if I can shave her boots down a bit a glue her back together, this looks better than the McF version (and was the non-grayscale version a Plat? She's rare).
 
altcunningham said:
That figure was rare because when Todd barely gives us women, he gave us one who was dragging a wagon. I'm talking dump truck with a broken axle. Absolute batmobile. She be thicc, though. Batman could put Batcave trophies on that thing.
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I have never heard dragging a wagon and I swear that phrase will now haunt me for days. It's going to be my new intrusive thought.
 
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