I really would have invested in the ICONS line except for the fact DC seems to be really giving up on this right out of the gate. My local comic shop has almost all Harleys. No Batman or Superman figures.

I totally would have been onboard since the beginning if their scale wasn't so wack.

Therein lies their original problem. If they would have just scaled them with DCUC and ML, I have no doubt that they would have had better sales.

They would have gotten my money. *shrugs*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxkWwtGEuuE

Good interview with Jim Fletcher, though the sound isn't great. He asks about (starting around 11 minutes for Icons specifically):
-ICONS delays
-price hike
-articulation
-Iconic moments
among other things. No mention of Icons single figures ending which given the context of the conversation seemed odd to me if it's really happening.

is that you in the video?

Sorry for digging up an old post, was just reading through the beginnings of this thread. But seriously!!! I agree!!!

LMAO, this is great.

I don't care what the laywers say. For me, this is and always will be the Marvel Family, and that guy standing in front is Captain Marvel. :D

Nope.

Saw the part where the "price hike" was brought up, but I'll just take your word for the rest of that being in that "interview". I made it to the part where the "interviewer" pulled out his phone to show off photos somehow pertaining to collector displays... or something like that. Like you said, it's really dificult to hear anything they're saying, and by that point I also didn't care (it was just after the rep started talking about the Death of Superman set).

And here I thought Pixel Dan's so-cheery-I-want-to-punch-him-in-the-face interviews were bad...

i thought the same thing, that guy needs to improve his interview skills big time. that interview was horrible. he even shaked the camera guys hand first at the end of the video instead of the guy he was actually interviewing, smh.

Fair enough, but he actually asks questions of DCC that people have been wanting answers to unlike most of the others. The thing about showing collector photos to him was in the context of greater engagement between DCC and collectors which I thought was reasonable enough. But yes the sound is bad, not the sort of interview you can just listen to while doing something else.
He got more info out of DCC than Shartimus and Pixel Dan combined so sound issue aside I think it's a bit rough to question his interviewing skills.

There was a lot of info in that interview. I thought he did quite well.

So far I've only seen or heard about DCC canceling the single carded Icons from that one source that Dr. Kain shared the link to. Maybe it's not true and we will continue
to get individually carded figures. I hope that's the case because I love how the Icons Harley blends in with my DCUC figures and I'd love to have that Jim Balent era Catwoman that was solicited a when back.

Holy shit. Jay C has reviewed the Superman and Green Lantern figures from the 7 pack and GL is not just a repaint. Both figures are taller than the previous Icon versions.

What about the Batman from that multipack?

He hasn't reviewed him yet. He is doing 1 figure a day.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...Z/IMG_2131.jpg

Been waiting for this, definitely excited!

Jay C just put up a new video talking about Icons. The short of is that he emailed DCC's PR team who will talk to the people over Icons to see if the single carded figures are canceled. He's waiting on their reply. He also emailed several online retailers about the single carded figures that we didnt see at NYTF like Catwoman, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, Etrigan, and Sinestro. Right now they're still expecting these figures but I guess that could change when Jay C gets his reply from DCC.

I saw this too. It is a little encouraging that only one source has reported on Icons being canceled. Hopefully Jay C will hear back soon and it will be good news.

I usually like to buy my DCC figures at my LCS so I can pick out the ones with the best paint but I went ahead and pre-ordered the supposedly upcoming Icons figures that I want at BBTS. There's really no drawback to pre-ordering considering BBTS doesn't charge you until they receive the products. So if the line is canceled it won't cost you anything and maybe it will help Icons stay afloat if DCC receives a lot of pre-orders.

Just saw a review of the Rebirth pack. The sizing is definitely improved A LOT. I never bought these figures because they were stupid tiny, but now that the sizing seems to be getting fixed, and as long as this line does not collapse, I may start collecting. They may have a shot at competing with Marvel Legends now. They just need to give good accessories and perhaps get in on the BAF craze.

I don't think the line is going to collapse just yet but I thought we heard that DCC said that after Nightwing and Supergirl (I may be wrong on the figures there) they wouldn't be doing any more individual figure releases and that the line would instead become some "greatest moments" multipack-oriented line (the first taste of this being the Death of Superman pack). It wouldn't surprise me since DCC seems to love ending lines before they've fulfilled their potential, they're basically doing the same thing with the animated figure line.
Icons are the closest we'll get to Marvel Legends for DC, because Mattel's offerings tend to be less than great, but I don't think they'll ever do a BAF feature. DCC has never done any kind of gimmicks or incentive features like that before (except for little stuff like where each figure's base connects) and honestly it's one of my favorite things about them. When I want the big figures I don't have to buy all the other figures too. It's especially cool when the big figures only cost as much as the normal sized figures but even when they're "deluxe" in price it beats having to buy five other toys I maybe didn't want.

Mattel is just awful anymore. I don't know how all this stuff works, but DC should just fire them.

I can't help but wonder if Jakks Pacific would do any good with the license. I will never forget the amazing stuff they gave us with WWF/WWE. But then again, they also did the Dragon Ball Z stuff which was heavy on re-use and were very lazy 80% of the time. But....when they did put in effort it was always extraordinary. So who knows.

Mattel's blatant refusal of using modern articulation is beyond annoying!

Completely agree. There were able to get away with it until Man of Steel hit. But now they are almost 10 years past when Marvel Legends articulation became the norm. Mattel's toys are archaic, and what's worse is their sculpts and paint suck now too. So there's no reason to buy their stuff.

What's worse is that Mattel has used modern articulation on certain figures, proving they could do it if they wanted to. We got double jointed elbows on DCUC Captain Boomerang, and double jointed knees on Arkham Origins Batman.

Frustrating...

Mattel once said they under articulated their figures so they would look nicer. And truthfully, that made a lot of sense because Toybiz and Hasbro kept using that fugly Bullseye body for just about every male figure they could. However, Mattel was screwed when Hasbro came out with Bucky Cap and it became the standard base body they used.