[CMIII]

they almost have to. The market wants them (us), The Licensor wants them (DC), only Mattel seems to not want them. We should see something at Toyfair in Feb or SDCC in July thats 9 - 14 months before the movie

[305Batman]

I really hope so!

[CMIII]

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Originally Posted by Phantomcrow

Here is my theory on how Doomsday fit inside the Burial Suit. After he was defeated on Calaton, they "disarmed" him. They were binding his body to contain his "Spirit", so why not alter his physical body?? I believe they removed all his bone protrusions to complete the binding and burial process. This is why he is so smooth and contained. BUT, Doomsday is an evolving creature, once something defeats him he evolves from it to not be beaten the same way twice. When Doomsday first breaks free on earth his bone spurs are only on his free hand that had been pounding against his containment cell underground. As he fights his way to Metropolis, he is attacked more and more and his body regenerates his bone spurs as a defense mechanism where he is hit and his containment suit is ripped and destroyed. It is not until his containment suit is nearly gone that he regenerates to his full previous state before he was defeated on Calaton. Just my theory since they have never given a reason officially.

Since we really do not know how The Radient defeated Doomsday (It's never actually shown. We do know that during the Battle with Superman, Superman started going at the boney spines and that that's how Superman hurt Doomsday. So it is entirely possible that Radient blasted Doomsday to a point that the Boney Spines fall off or the Calatrons cut them off figuring that his Spirit would need the spines to fight. We do know Radient's Blast destroyed 1/5 of Calatron so all that might have been left of Doomsday was the Body and no spines. I doubt that the Calatrons expected Doomsday to rise again.

[CMIII]

Has anyone else noticed that the glue that holds the spines on Doomsday's back is all over the place. On mine it is going from his right side up to the spines on the left side

[Dr Kain]

No, but then I stopped looking for defects in the Mattel figures as sometimes ignorance is bliss.

[CMIII]

I can live with the bliss but it looks like a snails trail of glue going across the beasts back

[RKillian]

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Originally Posted by CMIII

I have a question for you all. What are you planning next? With me I still have a lot of Gaps waves 2, 3, 6, 9, and Public Enemies. Plus the Multipack gaps.

Well, I never had much of a DCUC collection to start with, so there's only a handful I'd like to go back and pick up.

1. Flash (Jay Garrick)
2. Black Canary
3. Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)
4. Lex Luthor (Superfriends)
5. Reverse Flash

But at the same time, I just don't feel like paying an arm and a leg for them. For what DCUC figures went for, even when the line was still going, another couple of bucks usually buys an MP TransFormer.

[CMIII]

Sounds like Damien Wayne Robin sold out. Cannot confirm though

[Phantomcrow]

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Originally Posted by CMIII

Sounds like Damien Wayne Robin sold out. Cannot confirm though

He is still shown for the sale tomorrow and I checked before early access ended and he had never sold out. I did not use early access cause I did not want to pay 35$ for a character I hate. I only want Damian to finish the line. I was peeved that Gwildor was not part of EA or I would have gotten him and Damian in EA. But I need a Gwildor for a gift.

[CMIII]

I saw a post on the Mattycollector.com facebook page that said he was pulled.

[ludovicotek]

^ He's available to buy as of now.

[Phantomcrow]

And with Damien purchased, My DC Classics comes to a close. I have gotten this line since the start many years ago and now that I have Doomsday proper, I am content with the line. Over the years this line had some ups and downs. Some characters I wanted and other I did not, but as a whole line I can not complain. And I am counting the pre DC Classic stuff with this from the S3 era and the 4 horsemen, the Batman Legacy and such. Only Marvel Legends has a longer and more diverse collection and maybe the MOTU Classics.

[ludovicotek]

^ This line has indeed given us an incredible range of characters. Sad to see it end. I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I really like these figures more than Marvel Legends (and I don't even really care for DC that much).

[CMIII]

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Originally Posted by ludovicotek

^ This line has indeed given us an incredible range of characters. Sad to see it end. I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I really like these figures more than Marvel Legends (and I don't even really care for DC that much).

I am with you 100% the Marvel Legends has weak jointing. Many 4H figures do not need a base. The same cannot be said for Marvel Legends

I will say as I fill the gaps in 2015 I give it a few months before Mattel registers the losses of not having DC Figures people want. Honestly I am glad we no longer have to deal with a "No, No, No, No," Manager. Any Way we can look forward to Movie Masters Batman V. Superman; Dawn of Justice about this time next year.

[CMIII]

here are the Images of Stel and STRIPE.

As requested there are images of the Range of Motion of STRIPE

Photo #1 is his Arms up as high as they can go.
Photo #2 is Stel and STRIPE as you can see STRIPE can go slightly higher
Photo #3 Just STRIPE arms up
Photo #4 Just STRIPE arms up closer
Photo #5 same without the Flash
Photo #6 is STRIPE arms down
Photo #7 Stel in same position

and yes that is a portion of my Collection in the Back ground and I use Christmas Lights and hooks to light my collection.

[TheBlueMarvel]

@CMIII

Thanks a lot man. I see that there really isn't any limitation in the articulation. I still have thinking to do, but this helps a great deal!

[En Sabah Nerd]

So far I've gotten nothing but Arkham figures in my DC collection, so they're all in 7" scale to this point. Today though I decided to get the Two-Face from the animated line because he was my favorite villain from that show and the toy looked so neat, it's also technically my first actual 6" scale DC figure. Overall I like it, though the $25 price will make getting any other figures in the line a limited and special purchase, favorites only type of deal.

[CMIII]

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@CMIII

Thanks a lot man. I see that there really isn't any limitation in the articulation. I still have thinking to do, but this helps a great deal!

The only "limit" Is some hand movement on STRIPE. The larger portions make the moving difficult. I know the object over the arms looks stiff but its very soft plastic. Not nearly as soft as Doomsday's tubes or Spines but, I would say similar to a cape, but not stiff like Hawkman/Hawkgirls wings

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by ludovicotek

^ This line has indeed given us an incredible range of characters. Sad to see it end. I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I really like these figures more than Marvel Legends (and I don't even really care for DC that much).

We still could have used a few more Legionaires, especially in the villains department and a few more New Teen Titans members. Terra and Jericho should have been made before the morons like Golden Pharaoh, Cyclotron, Samurai, and Black Vulcan.

[Frank Richards]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

We still could have used a few more Legionaires, especially in the villains department and a few more New Teen Titans members. Terra and Jericho should have been made before the morons like Golden Pharaoh, Cyclotron, Samurai, and Black Vulcan.

I was begrudgingly tolerant of Mattel's fixation on the Super Powers line and the Super Friends cartoons, because I thought that surely, SURELY they would eventually come up with some cool ideas, but nope, instead we got stuff like the Wonder Twins and Gleek, lol

Since Mattel was intent on mining peripheral aspects of DC's history, such as earlier action figure lines and older DC animation for inspiration, personally, I was wishing for an homage to the 1989 Lex Luthor from Toy Biz's short-lived Super Powers knock-off series.
I LOVE my armored Lex from the pre-DCUC Superman series, but I really wanted a figure of Lex in a suit, and an updated homage to that figure could have looked amazing.
But, no... we never got ANY version of Lex in a suit. Instead, we got yet ANOTHER Super Friends homage with the Lex in his "popped collar" costume.

Despite all of the poor choices Mattel made with their selection of DC animated figures, I still have to commend them for the Batman Beyond figure(s). If memory serves, at that point, Terry hadn't been featured in the DCU, and had only appeared in comics based on his show, so that was the one example Mattel actually gave us a figure of a DC animated character that some of us actually wanted, lol !

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[RKillian]

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Originally Posted by Frank Richards

But, no... we never got ANY version of Lex in a suit. Instead, we got yet another Super Friends homage with the Lex (in the Superman/Batman 5-pack) in his "popped collar" costume.

Yeah, that's a pretty inexplicable absence. Kain will run off a mile-long list of missed characters but Luthor is a big one. They certainly used their suit body often enough; there was supposedly even a Clark Kent back in DCSH.

But I liked the Luthor in that 5-pack. In fact, I thought all 3 villains in that set would've sold as individual releases. I just didn't want to pay for another Batman and another Superman to get them. It's one thing to put some C-list team together like that; it's another to do it with A-listers.

[CMIII]

Ultimately we saw a lot of characters that never before got so much as a wink and smile from any other company. Even Hasbro would have over innundated us with Batman and Superman. Did we get them yes but not every wave. Some waves didn't even have one of the DC big 7. Which is more then can be said for Marvel Legends.

[Dr Kain]

The only issue I have with the 70s Lex from the 5 pack is his head that looks like he was out in the sun for too long. Oh, and the bushy looking eyebrows, but moreso the head. I love the paint job they did on his eyes though.

[Colder Soldier]

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Originally Posted by ludovicotek

^ This line has indeed given us an incredible range of characters. Sad to see it end. I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I really like these figures more than Marvel Legends (and I don't even really care for DC that much).

I agree. I buy comics and action figures. When it comes to the big two, DC usually exudes a higher quality across the board, yet somehow, I've always bought more Marvel.

I'm playing catch-up with DCUC now. I actually made the concious decision to not buy the superior DCUC figures because their ML counterparts were always aesthetically janky. Good thing they finally started making Legends decent (after 10+ years).

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Originally Posted by Frank Richards

I was begrudgingly tolerant of Mattel's fixation on the Super Powers line and the Super Friends cartoons, because I thought that surely, SURELY they would eventually come up with some cool ideas, but nope, instead we got stuff like the Wonder Twins and Gleek, lol

Sorry, I have to ask: What cool "Super Friends" ideas were going to come from an action figure line besides action figures of Super Volt, Apache Chief, and the Wonder Twins?

Of course we all know when it comes to toy companies, dress suits come a distant second when it comes to something more "actiony". It would be great to get Lex in a suit, but the purp & green, "strapped & collared" look trumped it being he wore something similiar in the JLU cartoon.

Speaking of the cartoons that heavily influence modern toy lines, remember the DC Direct Super Friends line? The only two I got were Cheetah and WW (loved her hair). But I, and my comic shop friends at the time, were pissed the line faded away before giving us figs we never had before- like Black Vulcan. I wanted him bad if only to do the Harvey Birdman skits over and over. (I do a mean Phil Lamarr). BV and the Wonder Twins had modern cartoon relevancy, so they deserved a chance as action figures. I mean DC Direct made plenty of poor choices and did wave after wave of other shit that didn't sell. Like half of the New Teen Titans Series 2 we couldn't give away. They're still on Amazon for cheap. Good thing Matty didn't make the exact same mistakes.

[CMIII]

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Originally Posted by Colder Soldier

Sorry, I have to ask: What cool "Super Friends" ideas were going to come from an action figure line besides action figures of Super Volt, Apache Chief, and the Wonder Twins?

Of course we all know when it comes to toy companies, dress suits come a distant second when it comes to something more "actiony". It would be great to get Lex in a suit, but the purp & green, "strapped & collared" look trumped it being he wore something similiar in the JLU cartoon.

I personally like having the Wonder Twins they are pop culture DC. As for Suited Bucks I think most of what they are complaining about is we had a Large number of Suited Bucked figures (DCSH Clark Kent - DCSS Ra's Al Ghul) and we never saw Lex Luthor in a Suite and this includes lesser known characters like Black Mask and Uncle Sam or more well Known like Joker and Riddler.