McFarlane DC Multiverse

The only thing I can figure is that Todd is egotistical and vindictive enough to play these games with collectors. Finally produce figures collectors have been clamoring for and then make theme extremely difficult to obtain as a middle finger to everyone for losing the license. There are more figures I want of his this year than in the last four years combined but I can't actually find half of them. Its super frustrating and helps make me happier he's on his way out.
 
Yeah, I've sought out more figures in the past five or six months than I have in this line since the start and preordering has been such a PITA. I know some folks complained a bit, but the fans didn't impact the license going back to Mattel. Hell if he was doing from day one what he's doing now I'd have been THRILLED.
 
I have a feeling most of this is being driven by target because they always do the limited quantities for preorders. Especially when they are store exclusives. And yes this happens with Mattel’s products too because I ran into this every single release thanks to their Jurassic World line for nearly the last 10 years and it was just as infuriating of an experience. Not to mention Neca and all of their TMNT products. This artificial scarcity bullshit has got to go. It’s bad enough we have to fight scalpers tooth and nail for this stuff but when Targets and Walmarts pretty much create the conditions for these by allocating so few units to be sold at their stores, it’s forcing us to either quit collecting on entire toy lines or deal with the devil to procure them


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No... its more than just the Target exclusives, tho. Jade is a Red Platunum, so in store only but impossible to find - at least around here. And don't get me started on the Green Lantern Platinum... I wanted the Arkiss and Green Man heads so bad but that figure was impossible to track down and is like $80 on ebay. Its so much more frustrating than literally any other figure line I buy.
 
It's more than just just retail exclusives being the problem. Yes, that is part of the issue, specifically that most of the Target retail exclusives never actually go up on the website, So people like me who don't really live by many Targets -- I have a few by me but both aren't well stocked with anything, let alone exclusive action figures -- so that means I can only get Target exclusives online.

But the whole platinum/red platinum/forced scarcity thing is just as big of an issue. I've tried to get around it by just straight up buying cases, but the only retailer I know that sells cases is Entertainment Earth, and the cases sell out in like two minutes. So half the time that doesn't work because I can't always be available during that two-minute window.
 
I figured out where I preordered movie Superman from, it was MTS, it shipped today.

It's highly unlikely, but I would like a Routh Superman before the end. Just so we can have all four theatrical versions of Superman.

Did you order Metamorpho at the same time? Or just Superman? I'm seeing lots of people getting their Superman in from MTS, but mine hasn't shipped yet...I did order him with Metamorpho at the same time, though, so I wonder if that's holding everything up.
 
Did you order Metamorpho at the same time? Or just Superman? I'm seeing lots of people getting their Superman in from MTS, but mine hasn't shipped yet...I did order him with Metamorpho at the same time, though, so I wonder if that's holding everything up.
I ordered the full set, and got a shipping notice.
 
Wow. First leaked list in quite a while. Bat heavy, but expected. Some that caught my eye:

Dr. Mid-Nite. Charles I presume. Repaint Pieter?

Spectre/Atom Smasher deluxe 2-pack.

New 52 Batman Inc.

New 52 Earth 2 Batman.

Hush Riddler.

Classic Scarecrow.

Black Mask as Batman.

Failsafe deluxe figure.

Zero Hour Superman (mullet).

Perez CoIE Joker.

More on Instagram from the usual suspects.
 
If this were a line that you could just buy it if you want it, I'd be pretty excited for classic scarecrow and Zero Hour Superman. But we'll see.
 
Just got in the Superman movie wave, minus #4, Lex Luthor, and Ultraman. All of which are on the way.

Some thoughts:

-Would it have killed Todd to give Clark a second fist? On either of the figures?
-Krypto appears to be a little too small and essentially a statue.
-Rex is easily my favorite of the wave, truly a beautiful figure.
-Mr. Terrific is cool, the jacket/shirt/torso is a soft rubber overlay.
-I will forever hate McFarlane ankles and wrists. Ball joints and ratchet joints in those points of articulation are SO stupid.
-Kaiju is a useless piece of shit. I'm not sure if it's full rotocast, but it is certainly not a solid chunk of plastic. Soft, rubbery, and as expected, no meaningful, usable articulation. Couldn't even give us like...a mini Superman to fight it?

All in all, I like the main wave of figures well enough, sculpts and paints are decent to great. The Kaiju is ass. Likenesses are there. Decent effort, Kaiju aside.

But SUPER bummed (no pun intended) to not see a Guy or Hawkgirl in today's leaks. Makes the excitement of today's receiving a little less enthusiastic.
 
I forgot to add: I ordered directly from McFarlane and did receive a free, albeit damaged package, Nightmare Batman from BVS figure. Pretty cool thing they do from time to time, pack in free figures.
 
Atom Smasher is the only remotely tempting thing on that list for me. And that would depend on execution.

WTF is Black Mask as Batman.... a lazy way not to do Black Mask in his normal gangster look, but instead put a new head on a Batman body?

I didnt recognize Failsafe so looked it up. Definitely not for me... just an oversized unfinished looking BatBot...

The rest of the line-up is equally uninspiring.
 
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