[Crazy Jetty]

I've never found DCD to be too overly fragile. Yeah, they're definately more delicate than Mattel's, but they're not intended to be handled by kids.
Posibility is also improving, but inconsistant. I've been filling in holes in my lantern collection for a few years now, and some have really impressed me compaired to older DCD figs.
Black Lanterns Terra and Scar are great. Both are appropriate sizes to go with DCD, and both have a lot more articulation than I ever thought.
Scar has wrist swivles, neck, balljoint shoulders, standard T-crotch, and knees. (Compaired to Mattel's guardians that don't even have bodies), and Terra has the same.Be nice for them to have elbows, but I got them for $10, so I ain't gonna knock that.
Orange Lantern Luthor has the exact same articulation points as the DCUC version, save for the hips. DCD is the standard T-Crotch. That blew my mind that he has almost the same articulation as the mattel version.All that and a nicer sculpt, and funner head.
Then you got youy beautiful statues, like SC Mongul, which has the same articulation as a 4" mattel figure, but is so much more accurate than Mattel's SC Mongul. (Mattel didn't even get his colors right), and Walker, Indigo, and Sapphire Wonderwoman, who have balljoint shoulders, elbows, t-crotch, and knees, and that's pretty much it.

So, the sad thing about DCD is inconsistancy with their articulation. Sometimes they're equal footing to Mattel, sometimes not. Best advice is before ruling one out, is to actually examine the figure, and research it a little. Also, DCD tends to be a bit taller.
Great for characters like Wonder Woman (She should be taller than Superman), not so much with carol ferris or hal jordan. Unless a little scale inconsistancy doesn't bother you like it does me.

DCD isn't as bad a stand in, as people think.