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I've come to believe it's all cyclical. Bear with me, in 2008 marvel legends died, giving us marvel universe, and gi joe 25th was in full swing again. It was 3.75 heaven. Over the next four years 3.75 was king, to the point where we were starting to get inundated with repacks, repaints, and over saturation, culminating in the IM 2 line that is still findable in some clearance stores. So most companies reached a point where they felt they sold all the 375 merchandise they could to this generation... Solution go 6" for a few years until everyone buys up their fill in that scale, by then you have a whole new crop of consumers to start off on 3.75 again. Mantle, with the DC stuff though, I feel, are always playing catch up. Multiverse was an attempt at compatibility with MU, when that slumped ( I feel mostly due to the fact that most of the main characters had definitive versions made so there was no where to go and people were getting sick of repacks) an legends became hasbros main focus again they went to 6" to fit in with marvel legends. The coin will flip again... Last time it was four years (08-12) and here we are in 2016, next year may be the revival.
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Good theory and as much as I'd like to be hopeful sadly I'm not holding my breath. But at least we had a hell of a run though. No shame in that.
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Also, I kinda view DCM as a different kind of line than MU. MU is mostly comic based, and DCM is mostly based on the Arkham games. We had a few cool variants, sure, but the only truly non-Arkham related figures we got were the Batman and Superman movie figures. |
Yeah even though the back of the box still says the line is specifically for stuff outside of comics, back in the 3.75 days it actually was true. There were zero comic based Multiverse figures.
These days the blurb is still there but there's many Multiverse comics figs. |
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I don't mind non-posable figs for certain characters. Better than getting nothing in scale. That Robin looks great.
For me though non-posable characters would be characters like Zatanna(i.e. spellcasters who don't need to move about much), or characters that have a particular signature pose you're probably going to just leave them in anyway, though nothing comes to mind right now(i guess flying characters like Hawkgirl). |
I just picked up a Black Mask on clearance for $3 at Walgreens.
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By that time most have moved on to other pursuits. The kids who bought whiplash and crimson dynamo in 2010 arent the ones buting professor zoom or aquaman now. Hence the fact Mattel has two lines, a kids line and a collector line. The scale change is based on two factors profit and miscalculation. the major companies went to 3.75 scale when gas went up. Now that gas is way down the cost of materials has dropped but the cost of labor has increased. Thus it now makes more sense to produce and sell less of a larger scale figure with a higher profit margin that multiple smaller scale figures. The miscalculation is that the collectors of one scale will jump on board with a new scale. . I have several thousand 3.75 inch figures. I have a few 6 inch scale figures, 1 of whixh doesnt fit as a 1/18th scale representative of that character. |
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Ok good to know. Wasn't 100% if it was but now we all know for sure.
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I just saw a blue costume Multiverse figure at Books-a-Million(BAM) for $11.99. So just another place to check.
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I really need an unmasked Ryan renalds green lantern head.
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Is this what kids these days call "squad goals"? |
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