[ScottyHawkeye]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

^If we're being completely honest, the juxtapositioning of MacFar and Mattel isn't a straight line comparison as they're different scales. It's tantamount to comparing Marvel Legends to Marvel Select. You can do it, but the exploration from an exacting standpoint loses value and meaning. A better comparison might be MacFar and DC Direct. MacFar loses aesthetically there too, IMO, for many of the same reasons and heap on top superior sculpts for the older line.

I see your points regarding Mattel's longevity, but would counter with recency bias for figs that benefit from modern advances in articulation.

True. The big reason I went for this question is that McFarlane picked up Mattel's Tab on DC Multiverse, as Hasbro did with Marvel Legends from Toybiz. Whereas DC Direct has been making DC lines concurrently with Mattel and McFarlane. Also, DC Direct figures aren't as widely accessible as McFarlane and Mattel. The only places I see DC Direct figures on shelf for are comic book stores and Vintage Stocks/EntertainMARTs. While Mattel and McFarlane have figures available at Target, Walmart, and Gamestop. So I think that's largely why I posed this question. Aside from that, DC Direct also makes figures based exclusively on particular comics and sculpts their figures to be perfect replicas of the artists' illustration of the characters from the particular comic they based the figure on. McFarlane has done that to some extent, but not to the degree of DC Direct. The Three Jokers figures aren't perfect replicas of Jason Fabok's artwork in the same way DC Direct's Hush figures are Jim Lee's art or their Public Enemies figures are Ed McGinnis' art.