What a weird place the line is in. Picture perfect Plastic Man and yet two different Green Lantern body molds revealed within two weeks of each other for basically the same costume. Maybe an AI is reviewing the sculpts at this point, who knows.
I’m searching for an era to latch onto but it’s tough when half your figures are the textured or the wrong scale and the other half uses smooth, mostly comic accurate sculpts. It feels like we are close to a 90s JLA but they botched Young Justice, mullet Supes and Wally. 70s/80s have those awful Crisis figures…argh. Just give me 7 Justice League members that look the same, please!
I wonder if with this particular wave, Plasticman should have been a separate figure with his limbs easy to pull apart, while all the pack ins for the other figures in the wave are shape shifted Plastcman parts. Like spring legs or enlarged fists. That way people can get the core Plas figure without having to buy the other unwanted figures.
Ah, but there's the rub....
Todd McFarlane WANTS people like you to buy the figures you don't want, in order to get the one figure you DO want.
Oh man, what a missed opportunity to use that cape from Spawn/Bats 2 pack. Would have been perfect for Porter Batman. As for the costume colors, for the most time it appeared to me as dark blue on very dark grey. Didn't see concept and notes for the Troika suit, so not sure what the intented colors are.
@simonat Oh I know his tactics. I’m just thinking out loud what would be good for the actual customers. It’s why I’m being really picky with what I buy from this company now. Even this wave is not enticing me. Too much “oh this looks good, but why is this one like this?” for me with his offerings lately.
I wonder if with this particular wave, Plasticman should have been a separate figure with his limbs easy to pull apart, while all the pack ins for the other figures in the wave are shape shifted Plastcman parts. Like spring legs or enlarged fists. That way people can get the core Plas figure without having to buy the other unwanted figures.
Ah, but there's the rub....
Todd McFarlane WANTS people like you to buy the figures you don't want, in order to get the one figure you DO want.
It's not just Todd, that's BAF wave 101.
To be fair, I don’t think anyone puts figures in a wave that they specifically think collectors/fans *won’t* want. I’m incredibly corporate-critical, but even I don’t think there’s some conspiracy to make us buy things we hate on purpose like some weird psy-op. I *do* think the strategy for a BAF wave is (or should be) to make the BAF so cool that we’ll buy all the figures to complete it even if we might be less excited about the individual figures themselves (or, at its best, when certain individual figures might be more obscure characters that might not be confident sellers without the incentive). Obviously my parenthetical is not at play here, but I do think the “effort” for this wave was clearly sunk into Plas, and to a lesser extent Blueperman and Arthur, with “sure thing” Batman getting the least amount of effort but still a logical and (to many) desirable deco. John Stewart is literally the “existing body with a new head” figure that so often pops up in Marvel Legends BAF waves, and in this case either succeeds or fails based on one’s interest in this particular look and/or how one feels about texturing on the costume.
The bottom line when you use a lot resources to make the BAF great, some figures in that wave are going to be hit or miss with new sculpts/parts and just plain reuse. They all can't be new. I agree though Batman should have been the one in the Spawn 2-pack and if it were possible to just switch the head neck joint. That's probably what I'm going to try to do since I have a few of the 3J bodies. I'm guessing by looking at the promo images ole Plas doesn't get a normal left arm. However he does look good though. I still feel bad for Todd sometimes for if he would've been allowed to do this line in six inch scale to Marvel Legends he would've owned the action figure aisle.
It's not even the lack of new parts, it's the constant reuse of "wrong" parts that turn off most people. Like Kid Flash, there's no way *those* were the best parts to use. His hands are child-sized, for starters. It's kind of like how Hasbro gets flak for still using the Bucky Cap mold, we're past the 3J Batman mold, tired of it, wasn't great to begin with. (sorry if this comes off as argumentative, I think we agree overall, just ranting a bit)
I still feel bad for Todd sometimes for if he would've been allowed to do this line in six inch scale to Marvel Legends he would've owned the action figure aisle.
JJ, feel bad for Todd if you want - but the choice to go to 7" was his because he didn't want to compete with the DC figures that came before. He WANTED everyone to have to start over at a new scale. He didn't want people to pass on his stuff because they already had figures in the same scale. I certainly get it from a business standpoint but as a collector I detest him and his company for it. Watch, if Hasbro loses the license for Legends (or gives it up, which is seeming increasingly likely) then it very likely will do the same thing for the same reason wherever it ends up. Hasbro tried to do it themselves (with the 3.75" figs), but it didn't work out for them.
Oh, didn't know this, I thought he said he was asked to not do the 6" to not compete with that other company who had a part of the DC license and who was supposed to do a 6" line themselves.I still feel bad for Todd sometimes for if he would've been allowed to do this line in six inch scale to Marvel Legends he would've owned the action figure aisle.
JJ, feel bad for Todd if you want - but the choice to go to 7" was his because he didn't want to compete with the DC figures that came before. He WANTED everyone to have to start over at a new scale. He didn't want people to pass on his stuff because they already had figures in the same scale.
Yeah, I received the COIE wave yesterday and your eyes automatically for me go straight to those small hands and fists on Kid Flash but the fists being small and a different size is just crazy. It's the same with the BAF, small fists.It's not even the lack of new parts, it's the constant reuse of "wrong" parts that turn off most people. Like Kid Flash, there's no way *those* were the best parts to use. His hands are child-sized, for starters. It's kind of like how Hasbro gets flak for still using the Bucky Cap mold, we're past the 3J Batman mold, tired of it, wasn't great to begin with.
Target is having a sale, 40% of some dc multiverse figures
red tornado
animal man
b/g hush Batman
gordon batman
knight fall batman
Batwing
all are $11.99
also if you happen to find them, the Arkham city baf figures are $11.03
happy hunting
Thanks new batman, at that price that's fodder right there.
I still feel bad for Todd sometimes for if he would've been allowed to do this line in six inch scale to Marvel Legends he would've owned the action figure aisle.
JJ, feel bad for Todd if you want - but the choice to go to 7" was his because he didn't want to compete with the DC figures that came before. He WANTED everyone to have to start over at a new scale. He didn't want people to pass on his stuff because they already had figures in the same scale. I certainly get it from a business standpoint but as a collector I detest him and his company for it. Watch, if Hasbro loses the license for Legends (or gives it up, which is seeming increasingly likely) then it very likely will do the same thing for the same reason wherever it ends up. Hasbro tried to do it themselves (with the 3.75" figs), but it didn't work out for them.
Partly true, but there's also a ton of 1:10 collectors including his entire fanbase that had been screaming for a DC line for years. So for each 6" fan that curses Todd for making his line at the same scale as his other lines, there's a NECA/McFarlane/DST/DCC collector that was ready to start a whole new line of DC figures in their preferred scale. DC figures at 7" scale were 100% blue sky.
It's not even the lack of new parts, it's the constant reuse of "wrong" parts that turn off most people. Like Kid Flash, there's no way *those* were the best parts to use. His hands are child-sized, for starters. It's kind of like how Hasbro gets flak for still using the Bucky Cap mold, we're past the 3J Batman mold, tired of it, wasn't great to begin with.
Most of the time they’ve actually got the parts to make a really solid version of a character but instead we get what we get. Seeing fans like Brad the DCU Geek make near perfect kitbashes on Instagram confirms this point.
For example, Hal Jordan…you’ve got a Riddler that uses all the same parts except has forearms with properly molded gloves. It’s not like we’re asking for new sculpt all the time, just think about the parts you use.
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