McFarlane Toys Elite Editions

When Todd was covering the Marvel statues someone brought up wanting to see one of Madureira's covers turned into a statue (I forget which) and then Todd went on a tangent about how influential Madureira was on the comics after Lee left X-Men before he shuffled off to gaming. Back when Campbell was making DangerGirl comics McFarlane was the company to release the 4 figures from that line. So if McFarlane were to (properly) do Madureira's Battle Chasers figures I would definitely be in for those. Along with Humberto Ramos' "Crimson" and Chris Bachalo's "Steampunk." Unfortunately each of those creators has a very distinct style so then the problem becomes whether or not the figures would accurately reflect the property they're from and not just Todd's composite version of them.
 
Battle Chasers, Crimson, Danger Girls, and Steampunk are all well within Todd’s capabilities to produce. I personally would probably buy all of them in 7” articulated DC Multiverse scale. But I think Todd would need something a little more current to grab onto. Invincible would’ve worked. But they have another vendor now.

The one thing that might work although also not current is Astro City. Who should’ve had a comprehensive action figure line a long ago. Todd’s got a giant hole to fill. Astro City could go a long way towards that.
 
Wildcats and Wildstorm are part of DC.

Does this mean Mattel won't be throwing us those characters? Is this proof Todd has a foot in the door still? I wanna know.
 
altcunningham said:
Wildcats and Wildstorm are part of DC.

Does this mean Mattel won't be throwing us those characters? Is this proof Todd has a foot in the door still? I wanna know.
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I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion just yet. By most accounts, Todd still has the DC license until 6/30/26. More ambiguous, he may have it until 12/31/26. In either case, I’m sure he can get Spartan out before the deadline.

But I’m with you. I still want Todd to keep a piece of the DC license.
 
I’ll definitely grab Spawn.

You’d think I’d be all about these guys since I was a teen in the 90s, but honestly I never gravitated towards Image. So the others will be wait-and-see.
 
There was a time in the 90’s where I took a major DC break. Missed a lot of good stuff by doing so. And I primarily replaced it with Image. And some other various indie publishers. Came back to DC in 1999 when James Robinson got the JSA rolling again. I wasn’t a speculator in those days, I genuinely wanted to see what others had to say in comics that weren’t Marvel or DC. It was fun but ultimately didn’t last.

As the speculator boom went bust, a lot of the books I was reading evaporated. Image pivoted away from superheroes and it saved them. Jim Lee jumped ship to DC at about that time too.

I say all that to make the observation that Image may have a nostalgic feeling pregnant with potential where action figures are concerned. Wildstorm may not be a part of it, but there’s still a lot Todd could do with it should he so choose. The rest of the Image founders plus Kirkman can fill out the Image Universe. Astro City, Millarworld, and Ghost Machine can easily fill gaps and round it out.

Thing is, I’m not really in it for six one offs. I’ll buy Spartan for the DCU. The rest would have to be spectacular. But mostly there needs to be something coming behind it. Something not priced at 60 bucks a pop.
 
This is 5th grade-2000 for me. Formative years.

I'm in for all of it. If he builds out the original Cats and gets serious about Spawn (where is Tiffany) and gives us other properties, I'm deep.

End of world midlife crisis dream.
 
The original CATS need to happen fast. They’re all part DC now. Todd needs to get them in under the wire. Loose Collector did some Youngblood figures recently. 1:12 scale. $60.00 a piece. I’ma need the price point to be about half that. And all in 7” Multiverse scale.
 
altcunningham said:
I'm in for all of it. If he builds out the original Cats and gets serious about Spawn (where is Tiffany) and gives us other properties, I'm deep.
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No Tiffany allowed unless we want to live through another 10 years of Neil Gaiman lawsuits and meltdowns. (Granted, we're already getting that currently.)

I was 9 in 2011 and read my first Spawn comics then. Thanks dad. It was Spawn #121, which had a bunch of recap of previous Spawn iirc so it introduced a ton of the mythos to me, and it had an advert for the image 10th anniversary figures Todd was doing at the time. Never really been into WildCATS or Youngblood but I love Savage Dragon, Spawn, and Witchblade (but mostly The Darkness.)
 
altcunningham said:
What does Tiffany have to do with the Angela lawsuit? I found her whole point was to circumvent Angela. Is it Angels in general?
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That's what Gaiman and the court found Tiffany to be as well, and it's why she (and all female angels, really) were only in Spawn material so briefly.

Domina and Tiffany are mere variations of the Angela character: members of the
phalanx of Heaven’s angels, “kick-ass warrior angels,”conceived by plaintiff and defendant.
Like Angela, Domina and Tiffany fight Hellspawns and other demons of Hell. Like her, they
wear provocative and scanty costumes and glamorous hairstyles. Their family resemblance is
evident. They are not identical to Angela, but substantially similar. Certainly they are similar
enough to be infringing if they had been produced and sold by someone other than the
copyright owners. The totality of their attributes and traits, that is, their visual appearance,
their costumes, their manner of speaking, their activities and their common origin (Heaven’s
angelic phalanx), mark them as derivative of Angela. Warner Bros. Inc. v. American
Broadcasting Companies, Inc., 720 F.2d 231, 241 (2d Cir. 1983). Domina and Tiffany
capture the “total concept and feel” of Angela, id. (quoting Sid & Marty Krofft Television
Productions, Inc. v. McDonald’s Corp., 562 F.2d 1157, 1167 (9th Cir. 1977)), and are
recognizable immediately by Spawn fans as warrior angels destined to fight Hellspawn.

In summary, for the same reasons that Dark Ages (McFarlane) Spawn is derivative of
Medieval (Gaiman) Spawn, Domina and Tiffany are derivative of Angela. Therefore, plaintiff
is entitled to an accounting of the profits earned by all three of the derivative characters
Domina, Tiffany and Dark Ages (McFarlane) Spawn.


Source: Case: 3:02-cv-00048-bbc Document #: 323 Page 13

Personally though, I'd kill for a new figure of OG Jessica Priest. Love her Capcom design.
 
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