[CMIII]

I think it was said in the Godfather "Everytime I try to get out, They pull me back in." my 3 year old cousin is into Monster/Ever After High. At least I can justify it as not Action Figure side. BACK ON TOPIC I was in Target no sign of Total Heroes maybe my local stores won't order them. If thats the case the Fat Lady better start warming up.

[Morzilla]

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Originally Posted by CMIII

I think it was said in the Godfather "Everytime I try to get out, They pull me back in." my 3 year old cousin is into Monster/Ever After High. At least I can justify it as not Action Figure side. BACK ON TOPIC I was in Target no sign of Total Heroes maybe my local stores won't order them. If thats the case the Fat Lady better start warming up.

Yes, it was. And I believe it was in the last godfather.....

[snake5289]

There was a space for them the last time I was at Target but there weren't any on the shelves.

[3233rafael]

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Originally Posted by CMIII

I think it was said in the Godfather "Everytime I try to get out, They pull me back in." my 3 year old cousin is into Monster/Ever After High. At least I can justify it as not Action Figure side. BACK ON TOPIC I was in Target no sign of Total Heroes maybe my local stores won't order them. If thats the case the Fat Lady better start warming up.

Over the weekend I saw Total Heroes Batman & Superman figs at TRU. I wasn't looking for them but they were plenty of them and my son really liked them so I purchased both for him. They were 10 bucks each. I also went to Target and Wal-Mart but I didn't see them anywhere else other than TRU.

[RKillian]

I'll be really surprised if Total Heroes breaks the 20-figure mark even with Batman variants.

[Morzilla]

Showing a little DC love....

[Dr Kain]

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I'll be really surprised if Total Heroes breaks the 20-figure mark even with Batman variants.

I'd be surprised if Mattel even shows off anything DC related at SDCC this year. Well, outside of their upcoming cheaply made quarterly figures and Doomsday.

[RKillian]

I think even 10 is optimistic but they've got 7 or 8 out already so it's not entirely out of reach.

Speaking of cheaply made, does anybody think the last 4 non-Doomsday figures are going to have some stupid problem like blastic?

[Dr Kain]

Someone on another board made an improvement on their SUperboy:

[kenm2474]

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Someone on another board made an improvement on their SUperboy:

Looks Good.

[CMIII]

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I think even 10 is optimistic but they've got 7 or 8 out already so it's not entirely out of reach.

Speaking of cheaply made, does anybody think the last 4 non-Doomsday figures are going to have some stupid problem like blastic?

I've always said by SDCC the series will be dead. and by the time Superman/Batman comes out Matty won't have the rights. You might see 4 Horsemen do them direct (which would be cool) or Hasbro eventually end up with them

[trebleshot]

If you really think one toy line is going to make or break Mattel's relationship with DC Comics, you really haven't thought things through.

Mattel doesn't use their DC master license just to make action figures.

[ludovicotek]

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If you really think one toy line is going to make or break Mattel's relationship with DC Comics, you really haven't thought things through.

He's still crying over the sub not going through. Nothing he says has much logic to it.

[CMIII]

The end of the License I think it's going to be a Mutual split Mattel has basically cancelled every DC Line there are only so many times that can happen before the Parent company gets tired of it.

[Rattrap Primal]

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I've always said by SDCC the series will be dead. and by the time Superman/Batman comes out Matty won't have the rights. You might see 4 Horsemen do them direct (which would be cool) or Hasbro eventually end up with them

I doubt Hasbro would pick up DC by then since they have Marvel until I think 2017 or 2020 or something like that (as well as Star Wars)

[Iceman]

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I doubt Hasbro would pick up DC by then since they have Marvel until I think 2017 or 2020 or something like that (as well as Star Wars)

I don't feel a company's going to want to make more figures like DCUC for a number of years. If Mattel doesn't keep the licence someone will for the movies, at least, but maybe more if Justice League blows up.

[RKillian]

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Mattel doesn't use their DC master license just to make action figures.

Alright, what else do they use it for?

[CMIII]

I picked up Classics Kid Flash does any one else version have a weird bulge on the Tricep?

[Rattrap Primal]

why can't Mattel make the DCUC figures using either bucks similar to MOTUC or the WWE Elite bucks (WWE Elite figures are far more poseable than DCUC)

[CMIII]

from what Scott said "To expensive" to simply recycle the same bucks over and over as they have done since 2006 because he claims you need to spend over $300 a person to make 13 figures. Believe me man it's just a Load of B/S.

[trebleshot]

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Alright, what else do they use it for?

Hot Wheels, Barbie, Little People, Geo-Trax, Doodle Pro, Rev 'n Go!, Shake 'n Go!, Power Wheels, Apptivity, and all kinds of role-play toys.

I'd also add Imaginext, even though technically they are action figures (but certainly not at the DCUC "Adult Collectible" level).

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from what Scott said "To expensive" to simply recycle the same bucks over and over as they have done since 2006 because he claims you need to spend over $300 a person to make 13 figures. Believe me man it's just a Load of B/S.

So how many toys have you made and how much did it cost you to do it? Aside from that question, your entire post makes no sense. Not only did you misunderstand Scott's explanation of the costs for the CIE sub, but you didn't even answer Rattrap Primal's question.

[CMIII]

It's to expensive thats his go to answer

[CMIII]

It's to expensive. The short version.

[RKillian]

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So how many toys have you made and how much did it cost you to do it?

Not fair to compare one person to a billion dollar international corporation. I have been working on doing it and so far it looks like the bulk of the cost is in the tooling. The figures themselves are actually pretty cheap to produce. What's difficult, for a person, is having enough money to order enough figures to overcome the tooling costs without pricing the figures out of reach. You may get them for a buck each but you have to buy 50K of them...in a country where the median pre-tax salary is $50K. Again, though, you're talking one person making one fully-tooled figure. If you reuse tooling on the scale that Mattel does, sharing 3 bodies across 10+ figures, the explanations that they throw out at us start to fall apart. But you'd have to dig a little deeper than 99.99% of people hanging out on forums do. I used to think maybe licensing was a big cost but there's so much licensed garbage and so many wasted licenses out there that some of them must cost 5 box tops and a self-addressed stamped envelope...

[Tiberius]

I think Mattel is just paying to much for their goods. Somehow Hasbro is able to give us great Marvel Lines, and charge a fair price, but Mattel just can't seem to figure it out.

So they are either

A: Greedy motherf*ckers
B: Paying to much for mediocrity [designers, plastic, whatever else]
C: Big stupid doo doo heads