Guy and Captain Cold are both still available at Best Buy:
I was able to get all 3 pre ordered on BBTS. I can't believe how fast Power Girl is selling out. It is a really nice-looking figure though. Hopefully, her pre orders selling out so quickly inspires Todd to do more females more often.
There are so many great female characters to make. I don't know if Todd would ever do it, but I know in the DCUC's line I always wanted Manhunter Kate Spencer.
I would like to see Miss Martian. Still frosty that Mattel or DCD never made one.
And here's the thing... he did it "our way" with lower priced, readily available at retail assortments and the bottom fell out of that market a little bit - such that retailers were rejecting waves. So now he pivoted to something he was comfortable with from his comic days. Deliberate scarcity driving demand, creating more speculators, creating more initial frenzy, creating more speculators buying to take advantage...
Character selection is/was a huge part of this. How many years did it take for us to get classic Wonder Woman while we got Endless Winter, Metal, and 2 versions of Last Knight on Earth WW.
I would contend that they are now releasing figures that customers actually want. Plus reduced order numbers on more popular figures. Plus the aforementioned platinum craze and people buying multiples (saw one guy in a Facebook group that bought a combined 18 figures between 2 retailers just going for a plat. That’s $540 plus tax/shipping for a silly variant).
Todd was selling cool designs for 9 year olds when his audience was adult collector. They should have been marketing to this audience the entire time. I don’t really think they ever needed a gimmick, just good figures, which these 3 objectively are.
Picked up Mr. Terrific & Simon Baz recently, and they are noticeably smaller than other figures in the line.
I know scale has always been an issue, but are the male figures with swappable faceplates all smaller?
Huntress seems fine compared to other female figures in the line.
And here's the thing... he did it "our way" with lower priced, readily available at retail assortments and the bottom fell out of that market a little bit - such that retailers were rejecting waves. So now he pivoted to something he was comfortable with from his comic days. Deliberate scarcity driving demand, creating more speculators, creating more initial frenzy, creating more speculators buying to take advantage...
Character selection is/was a huge part of this. How many years did it take for us to get classic Wonder Woman while we got Endless Winter, Metal, and 2 versions of Last Knight on Earth WW.
I would contend that they are now releasing figures that customers actually want. Plus reduced order numbers on more popular figures. Plus the aforementioned platinum craze and people buying multiples (saw one guy in a Facebook group that bought a combined 18 figures between 2 retailers just going for a plat. That’s $540 plus tax/shipping for a silly variant).
Todd was selling cool designs for 9 year olds when his audience was adult collector. They should have been marketing to this audience the entire time. I don’t really think they ever needed a gimmick, just good figures, which these 3 objectively are.
Definitely agree.
When Marvel legends returned it was a real slog, Dwight Stall was obsessed with iterations from recent comics/media and assumed that fans didn't want to but versions of characters they already had in their collections. By the time they did start to release versions the fans were interested in, they could only get into mass retail by movie tie ins.
Nowadays, they just release the more identifiable versions much more regularly and easily available. The quality of the actual product itself is another matter. But Todd, just give the people what they want. It's great to get versions of comic characters, new and old, but let the market dictate what you make and the numbers rather than trying to manufacture desirability.
And here's the thing... he did it "our way" with lower priced, readily available at retail assortments and the bottom fell out of that market a little bit - such that retailers were rejecting waves. So now he pivoted to something he was comfortable with from his comic days. Deliberate scarcity driving demand, creating more speculators, creating more initial frenzy, creating more speculators buying to take advantage...
I think you hit the nail on the head with this. Observationally, it looks like the ones that have sold fastest are good, clean, beloved designs. The audience is starving for consistent standard versions of these characters. The number of times I had that over-designed version of Snart in my Amazon cart and wasn't willing to pay more than twelve bucks for it and held off hoping he'd make THIS version is more than I can count, but I blocked off 15 minutes in my work calendar to preorder this one yesterday! I wonder if he'd started with the designs like these we wouldn't have seen so many of this line's figures going for single-digit prices on discount.
Sounds like a lot of us are super quick to preorder figures like these three but will drag our feet on the random, over-designed stuff. Thinking back, the only ones I've preordered myself were like, Constantine, Huntress, Abin Sur, Longbow Hunter Green Arrow, etc. This is the first "wave" I've tried to go all-in preordering with no hesitation.
I think one of the things that helped with this wave especially was that the Platinums were true variants and the regular versions were the more well known, more desired figures - unlike some of the others (Mr. Terrific, Lightning Lad) where the Plat is the one people actually want.
Not really McFarlane, but I just got a shipping notice for the AMC Bat Signal (popcorn tub that lights up). Really happy to get this.
Gamestop's mysterious "buy two, get one chase" thing happened to me for Reeves Superman even though they shipped separately from two different locations! I wonder if it's an unnamed policy or if it's some subversive act of geeky joy on the part of the folks working there. I hope it's the latter. I really do hope there's some quiet revolution at Gamestop where the staff are like "chases are BS, let's hook these guys up" going on.
Is there any word yet when the Batman Begins figure will be released?
Not really McFarlane, but I just got a shipping notice for the AMC Bat Signal (popcorn tub that lights up). Really happy to get this.
Met too! I had completely forgotten about it but am excited that it's finally shipping! It's just a little larger than I'd like, but I'm stoked.
Gamestop's mysterious "buy two, get one chase" thing happened to me for Reeves Superman even though they shipped separately from two different locations! I wonder if it's an unnamed policy or if it's some subversive act of geeky joy on the part of the folks working there. I hope it's the latter. I really do hope there's some quiet revolution at Gamestop where the staff are like "chases are BS, let's hook these guys up" going on.
The legend continues! 🤣 that's awesome, I'm really happy to hear that it worked. I ordered 2 Power Girls from there hoping for it to happen again.
@therealsmallville I only ordered one PG but maybe I'll take a flyer on a second one. I really don't want the chase so I'm more thinking of ordering an extra to make sure I get the standard one for sure.
Another Target with double plat Shazams. Something definitely wrong with these cases & distribution.
https://www.reddit.com/r/McFarlaneFigures/comments/1i95429/2_of_eachtarget_inglewoodca/
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