At the moment. Maybe Mattel's DC line depending on what their plans are.
See, here's the thing about me. I'm not a toy collector. I'm really not. I'm a comic book collector who happens to like 6 inch scale comic accurate figures. That's pretty much it. I started about 25 years ago when DC Direct came on the scene. I was in my mid 40's then so I started late in life. All those toy lines and cartoons from the 80's that most toy collectors love ... GI Joe, MOTU, Star Wars, TMNT ... they mean nothing to me. Again, for clarification so no one loses their shit, those lines and cartoons are fine for people who like them. I get the childhood nostalgia. But I was an adult in the 80's. And that's the difference.
But DC Direct came on the scene and I liked them. They were all about the comic accurate figures and I could order them right through Diamond. And then there was Spider-Man Classics and Marvel Legends. And then Mattel got the DC license. I bought the occasional Marvel Select when I could fudge the scale.
And that's been it. Six inch scale and comic based. That's all I've ever cared about. I have never bought a McFarlane anything. Wrong scale. That was actually a relief. It was money saved. Wait, I did buy a McFarlane Anti-Monitor. Again I could fudge the scale and make it fit in the six inchers. Other than that I really haven't paid too much attention to what he's put out.
I'm curious to see what Mattel does with DC but yeah, right now it's just Marvel Legends.
IF Mattel goes to the six inch scale I'll look at them. History tells us that Mattel loves to go toe to toe with Hasbro to try and take a bite out of their market share so I think that's what they'll do. It'll be a mix of cartoon, movie, video game and comic book figures and I'll certainly be interested in the comic book figs. But that's a little ways off yet.
And I'll only do Mattel if they don't jerk us around with card games and mixing the BAF waves with non-comic figs. If they do that I'm not going to bother.
So yeah, that's where I'm at.
