What the?!
From this guy's unboxing vid: Unboxing DC Multiverse Collector's Edition Power Girl from Mcfarlane Toys
Oh come on Todd.
Very disappointed but I don’t know why I’m surprised.
Well, at least they can reuse the Power Girl parts for Giganta and Elasti-Girl.
My Power Girl > McF
I had that one for a long time. The SCULTP on it is phenomenal. But unfortunately, even worse than the lacking articulation, those clear plastic ball joints and knee/elbow pins used on all DC Direct figure will eventually crumble and your figure will fall apart. It happened to a half dozen of my DCD figures, I got rid of the rest before they all turned into junk. It's too bad.
Where's that Cavill head from?
Unfortunately I've had that same issue with many of my DC Direct / DC Collectibles figures. They tend to look good but become extremely brittle.
@yojoebro82 I still have tons of DC Direct & only one broken right arm for the Alex Ross Justice line Joker. The custom Cavill head can be found from feebay.
Remembering Todd's comments on not caring about scale I gotta say, there's something almost admirable about being so successful while not giving a solitary dang about your potential customer base. I mean the man's worked in or around comics for decades where people complain about everything but keep buying it, so he knows the audience. I kinda picture him wiping his face with money like the Zombieland/Woody Harrelson gif whenever a reasonable complaint comes up. It's why I wish we had a second option for DC figures side by side with Todd (he keeps the 7 inch scale, give someone else a true 1/12), but I can't fault the guy for using his fame and money to just do whatever he wants considering he's just making action figures and not doing more destructive stuff with it.
"This line scaled weird, Todd, PG is too tall"
"That's too bad, didn't the preorders sell out? Boy I'll have to take that scale thing into zero consideration, thanks for bringing it up, anyway here's a preview of some heavy plastic painted in a costume variation nobody asked for with a digital collector's NFT download attached to it"
*hops on sports car barefoot and drives away*
Remembering Todd's comments on not caring about scale I gotta say, there's something almost admirable about being so successful while not giving a solitary dang about your potential customer base. I mean the man's worked in or around comics for decades where people complain about everything but keep buying it, so he knows the audience. I kinda picture him wiping his face with money like the Zombieland/Woody Harrelson gif whenever a reasonable complaint comes up. It's why I wish we had a second option for DC figures side by side with Todd (he keeps the 7 inch scale, give someone else a true 1/12), but I can't fault the guy for using his fame and money to just do whatever he wants considering he's just making action figures and not doing more destructive stuff with it.
"This line scaled weird, Todd, PG is too tall"
"That's too bad, didn't the preorders sell out? Boy I'll have to take that scale thing into zero consideration, thanks for bringing it up, anyway here's a preview of some heavy plastic painted in a costume variation nobody asked for with a digital collector's NFT download attached to it"
*hops on sports car barefoot and drives away*
I don’t find it admirable at all. If you’re supposedly a friend to collectors and your customers, why would you deliberately try to piss them off? It would take zero extra resources to get it right. To me he seems like a raging egomaniac. I’m seriously considering dropping this preorder. She won’t scale with anything. Making her that tall was completely unnecessary and completely avoidable.
I hate that Power Girl is that tall. She seems so out of place. I know Todd has been all over with some of the size and heights of these figures, but this is the first one that really bothers me.
I'll probably keep my pre order, but it's annoying to think of her as tall or taller than everyone in the collection
I missed out on her, but wasn't all that wow-ed by the head portrait as her head looks rather broad to me, maybe it's the "I'd like to speak to a manager" hair. I would think heating and popping the torso and legs could provide for some wiggle room for customizers who might want to shorten either at various points. My assumption is that that would be harder on McF than Marvel Legends though. Perhaps finding similar boots/legs on another female figure and repainting to drawn down the height somewhat.
Either way, between the meh face and now the height thing, I'm not even feeling like I need to bother hunting for this one. She'll sell well on the secondary market at least! Thanks Todd!
Ugh, that diaper on Catwoman, a character known for being sleek. Hoping that character in particular gets revisited very soon.
Power Girl's height is baffling. All-new sculpt, all now wasted.
The diaper (and the potato confined in the front of it) were the reasons I passed on this Catwoman. Must everything be the diaper? As much as I complain about Marvel Legends, I feel like this "unique" engineering" just makes for new problems not found in other lines. Like added bulk to a character whose costume is known for being skin-tight for cat burglar purposes. There's been a few I would have bought but for the obvious glaring aesthetics.
On the WildCats topic, I would like at least a 90s Grifter. I dunno that I'd want any of the others really. Maybe Zealot or Voodoo id they look good. Can't imagine either looking great with the rubber diaper though.
If Jada can get their Cammy to be visibly shorter than their Chunners, there is no excuse for Power Girl to be as tall as Big Barda. I understand reuse but not when it is inappropriate. Smacks of lazy and cheap. He’s been in the game this long and can’t find someone to use a ruler. This type of continued attitude and decision making has turned me off even more this year.
How many lines get scale right consistently? Hasbro just released a Secret Wars Wolverine that is clearly not 5ft3. I have a Mafex Thor who seems smaller than their Iron Man. The idea of scale in Marvel Select is laughable. I still have my Leia in Boushh disguise from Star Wars black that is the same height as Han Solo, Mezco gave us an undersized Cable, Mattel screwed up Pumyra.
There are obviously some lines that get scaling right, but most main lines have got it as wrong as often as McFarlane.
Yup. And people call those other companies out too. Nobody said this was a Mac exclusive problem. We just want companies to learn to use a ruler in the case one day an ML Puck becomes larger than ML Wolverine.
So, it's funny, because the improper height issue is almost more forgiveable in a line with a lot of body re-use where you understand the reason that a character's size is slightly off from canon sources is that it is sharing a body with other characters that are supposed to be that size. It's not great, but it's sort of understandable...
But in a line where the figure is all new parts there is basically no reason not to make it a size that makes sense relative to other figures in the line. You aren't forced, because of re-use of existing molds, to make it bigger than it had to be... you chose to make it that way.
I ordered 2 Collector Edition Superman 1978 figures from Gamestop, hoping one would be the platinum, and both were regular edition. It worked for others, but not for me. I'll return them tomorrow.
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