I did the same so hopefully when my two arrive next week I will received one of each. I did receive Guy and Snart today and both were the regular versions. I guess I should have purchased two of each to even the odds. I guess I will have to eat the shipping cost and return them directly back to GameStop. I don't like if you return items to the store, it counts against the store. If you even do a swap it still counts against the store.Gamestop.com delivered!!! 👏🥳😁
@jayjonah Seen quite a few others on Reddit post they also got the reg+plat combo. Hope you get yours! 🤞
Got Power Girl today from Gamestop. Standard edition, which was the only one I wanted.
Credit where credit's due - probably the smoothest, least clunky ROM and joints I've had from a McFarlane figure in a while. Head in particular is better than usual. I wish the head sculpt looked ANYTHING like the art on the included card, but it does look like her in many iterations so that's fine. Streaky, even being a tiny statue, is really well done. For some reason the cat being non-posable doesn't bother me nearly as much as Krypto or Ace being in static poses. Kara's left fist won't lock into place, but the right one will, and I like the one punching hand, one open hand thing. Shipping her with trigger fingers makes no sense but it's just extra pieces, so no harm.
But. The diaper thing on her is the worst I've seen in terms of gaps - it's like she's wearing someone else's pants.I wish I was confident enough to cut some of the excess plastic away. (Weirdly, the extra plastic means she's got better ROM in her legs than most of the McFarlane line! But it also looks like her pants are falling off.) And the scale is crazy - I don't have a ton of Superman figures but had #1000 handy and she's a full head taller than him, half a head taller than Wildcat and the handful of Batman and Nightwing figures I happened to have handy, taller than Martian Manhunter.
Out of context I actually like the figure! She just doesn't look like she belongs with anyone else in the line. And if she were cheaper I might try to mod the legs to make the bottom of her costume look less weird, but I don't want to go tinkering with a figure that I don't know will be easy to replace.
I'm a bit bummed out because my assumption was that the single release Keaton Batman had a wired cape. He doesn't. He just has those rods you insert even though a wired cape can give you the exact same effect. Yes he has accessories but Todd flipped a coin and decided to give us the fat, clunky style accessories that look like bricks. Given the fact that he put in zero effort reworking the nonexistent Keaton likeness, I don't know how much I even need this guy now since I have the one from the Batmobile. How much do I want those fat, clunky accessories?
I finally got around to opening Guy Gardner (standard version) this morning.
I’ve been more critical of McFarlane’s DC Multiverse over the last four years than the rest of the contemporary mainstream lines put together, and for good reason. It’s the most consistently perplexing and disappointing line I can remember in nearly 30 years as an adult collector.
However, if Guy Gardner was the first McFarlane DC Multiverse figure I had ever laid eyes on…virtually or physically…I would be gushing over how McFarlane DC Multiverse has the potential to be the best line I’ve ever collected.
If there’s re-use here, my admittedly untrained eyes don’t see it. All of the costume details appear to be accurately sculpted You get three truly unique face plates that capture Gardner’s personality traits beautifully. You get two different hair pieces. You get the lantern. You get two extra pairs of hands. I can look at this figure and say that to me, it’s definitive. It’s the only Guy Gardner figure I’ll ever need.
Maybe that’s why I’m so critical of this line. The potential for greatness has always been there. I’d go so far as to say that it’s been there in nearly every figure. However, that potential is rarely realized due to laziness and cost cutting measures…and it’s a damn shame.
@xavion2023 I have to agree that Guy Gardner is totally awesome and one of the best figures in the line. The same can also be said of Captain Cold. I have Power Girl as well, but I haven't opened her up yet because of the scaling issue. But I've heard other people gushing over how good she is too.
Heck this may be one of the best McFarlane DC waves yet. (If not the best).
@ninjak It’s easily my favorite McFarlane wave yet. I’m very happy with Captain Cold. Being on the Page Punchers body, he doesn’t have the level of accuracy to the source material that Gardner does, but somehow it works. Power Girl is great outside of the scale issue, but unfortunately, scale issues are part of collecting action figures. I just wish it had happened with one of the dozens of releases I couldn't care less about. I’m going to need to track down the standard version since I got the platinum with my GameStop order. The platinum is really growing on me though.
I finally got around to opening Guy Gardner (standard version) this morning.
I’ve been more critical of McFarlane’s DC Multiverse over the last four years than the rest of the contemporary mainstream lines put together, and for good reason. It’s the most consistently perplexing and disappointing line I can remember in nearly 30 years as an adult collector.
I was thinking about this as I scoped out Power Girl (My Guy and Captain Cold will be here tomorrow I think). My read is that McFarlane sees every figure as an individual collector's item. Plastic art. So each one is kind of starting from zero. Every other action figure line I collect has sense of continuity (they screw things up of course, but there's a desire for uniformity and how they compare and interact with each other). He's had some truly stellar figures. I'd even say Power Girl is, alone and objectively, the best Power Girl figure I've seen made. But they all feel designed in a vacuum. If as a collector someone wants cohesion, it just doesn't exist in this line. Cohesion is important to me so I struggle with the line, but I do get if someone is looking at each figure as an individual creation, when McF nails a figure, they really do a spectacular job... but it often has no company on the shelf of the same style and quality.
So, I know the Killing Joke Joker goes up on Amazon on Feb. 20th. But does anyone know what time?
I scored a Walmart Max Mercury for $2 at a local store on final clearance. For that price, I'm willing to buy him as the young man and not the older version he should have been.
So, I know the Killing Joke Joker goes up on Amazon on Feb. 20th. But does anyone know what time?
McFarlane stuff is typically 10am PST in my experience, but it could be different if it's Amazon. Thankfully I'm happier with the all purple Comedian Joker version of this figure once I saw this comic accurate version is perpetually squinting for the camera. Likely going to let this one slide.
Loving METAMORPHO! Fits right in with my loose Kenner/McFarlane set up (need to find a new Riddler to replace that shoddy ToyBiz)
Loving METAMORPHO! Fits right in with my loose Kenner/McFarlane set up (need to find a new Riddler to replace that shoddy ToyBiz)
A McFarlane Super Powers Riddler? Amazon has sent me THREE instead of the DC Multiverse Riddler! If you buy that figure on Amazon Warehouse, the odds are in your favor they'll send you the Super Powers.
I was thinking about this as I scoped out Power Girl (My Guy and Captain Cold will be here tomorrow I think). My read is that McFarlane sees every figure as an individual collector's item. Plastic art. So each one is kind of starting from zero. Every other action figure line I collect has sense of continuity (they screw things up of course, but there's a desire for uniformity and how they compare and interact with each other). He's had some truly stellar figures. I'd even say Power Girl is, alone and objectively, the best Power Girl figure I've seen made. But they all feel designed in a vacuum. If as a collector someone wants cohesion, it just doesn't exist in this line. Cohesion is important to me so I struggle with the line, but I do get if someone is looking at each figure as an individual creation, when McF nails a figure, they really do a spectacular job... but it often has no company on the shelf of the same style and quality.
Personally, I don't think its that much of an issue so long as you do not want vanilla posed figures that broadly look identical except for paint and some minor differences in accessories. I'm guilty of it at times myself, but I'd much rather have McFarlane's approach than the homogenised look of ML. My best displays have figures in more dynamic poses, and some height differences can be fudged so long as the figures aren't just lined up in standing poses and staring in the same direction. (I have no interest in Power Girl by the way, so maybe that helps, but I've managed to get over some otherwise difficult scale discrepancies for other figures/lines).
@dave-o I gete it, and that's why this line is one we'll never have complete agreement on among collectors. It's a subjective value. For me, give me a line with smooth ROM that i can put into a ton of poses, and that I can arrange in scenes on the shelf that doesn't require me to use forced perspective to make them look like they belong together. It's of all the lines I collect, McFarlane is always dead last for how I assess a collection - I love DC so I keep getting pulled back in, but it's the line I buy a lot of that is the least successful at giving what I look for. But I respect that people prefer what he's doing here because it's certainly very collector-forward vs. toy-forward. (But call me crazy--my favorite deceased DC line was s tossup between Icons and Essentials. I liked the clean, low-key simplicity of those lines. I absolutely have a bias.)
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