[Raine24]

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Originally Posted by hasbroherofan

In Mattel's defense (God, never thought I'd say that) the fact that the DC shared universe has consistently been the lower performing second banana of the superhero movie world probably didn't help matters either.

True as that is, even when they were handed gold they managed to spin it back into straw

Look at TMNT or MOTU or Joe: a line can survive on nostalgia alone if the product coming out is what the fans want, or good enough to attract new ones. A '66 line should have been killer, but selling bizarre-looking, softly sculpted figures with no accessories for $2-4 more than NECA or McFarlane figures was inexplicable. There was, what, one '89 Batman figure across their entire range, and it's in the 4" scale they didn't seem to want to make? NECA's '89 Batman still goes for crazy enough amounts that most of the ones online are bootlegs. Did they ever make a Reeve Superman? Like, if the new media is underperforming, you can always bank on childhood memories yet they seemed actively opposed to capitalizing on that

They could have done a "History of Superman" wave with Reeves, Reeve, Cain, Routh, Cavill, with a Kirk Alyn BAF or something and B&W chase figures of Reeves. A Batman wave with '66, '89, Returns, Forever, Begins and TDK, with a Sonar Suit Kilmer as the BAF? The Flash on TV blew up under their watch and they did almost nothing with it. For the biggest show outside of the 4 major networks they made, like, four figures. The show should have had four dedicated waves or its own separate sub-line that went until it started to pegwarm and instead they just twiddled their thumbs. And made two Jesse Eisenberg Luthors

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Originally Posted by dukefett

If we didn't already have the pretty great looking Mezco five points set coming, I would say they should've gone for that scale.

Honest question here: what's the appeal of those, or ReAction, to an adult's hands? Even with my dinky hands, a 1:18 figure barely fills my palm and the style isn't poseable at all. Playmates Trek is the smallest I can go without feeling like I've been ripped off or something, my feelings about the aesthetics aside

Is it because I didn't grow up a Star Wars kid?