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Originally Posted by pud333

I've posted before on this site as to how terrible I thought these figures were... until I bought one. Now I'm hooked. If you're an articulation or accessory junkie, these are not for you. Me, I like them because they remind me of those Kenner figures. I think they're well made and pretty sturdy, compared to my MU figures which feel like they're gonna break whenever I move their limbs. Honestly, I love both DCIH and MU lines, but for some reason DCIH just screams "fun!" to me. It must be the character selection and the fact that they look very cartoon-like, which I enjoy. I dunno. Definitely not for everyone though.

I will say both lines have plusses and minuses. The packaging with character specific Frank Cho art and enclosed Fury files on the Marvel toys is great. DC's packaging has a hand "grabbing" that doesn't really fit the line(it seems to fit more in with Mattel's M.U.S.C.L.E. line from the 80's) and is easily confused with the JLU line packaging. They also don't really have consistant bios;only some packaging has them and they aren't really informative. On the other hand, Hasbro's toys look like brittle little pieces of plastic(unfortunately that's something that Mattel has said it's going to emulate). I don't really like the choices used for initial characters in either line. While Hasbro is using less obscure characters than Mattel(Adam Strange, Zoom, and Guy Gardner before Superman, Batman, Flash, or Hal?), I hate that X-Force Wolverine, Ronin, and Ultimate Cap are released before yellow & blue/brown & tan Wolverine, Rogers or Bucky Cap, and Hawkeye. Even though I usually like Mattel and DC more than Hasbro(their only decent line is the 25th Anniversary G.I. Joe) and Marvel, Hasbro seems to have definitely gained the upper hand in this size of toys(Mattel rules when it comes to 6" toys). Mattel has a lot to do in order for their lil' DC line not to die.