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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

They both have their hands in a lot more than you give either company credit for. You forget that Mattel has the Disney lisense, they can make toys of almost anything Disney has. They've currently got Lion King toys, and Cars is their biggest (And has been since day one). Mattel also has a stronger relationship to the direct collector market, where Hasbro has none.

Honestly, hasbro has almost no relations with the fans of it's properties. (I think MU is where they have the strongest hold in putting out collector toys?)
Their relationship with Transformer collecters pretty much no longer exists, and they also never make toys directly for the collector market anymore (If they put out a full collector piece, then it's using something Takara already made for theirs, like the Masterpiece line. Amazon's Unicron, and BBTS' Seacons being the only exceptions to direct market collector pieces).
Mattel has been catering directly to adult collectors for decades now, in almost every line. Ghostbusters and Heman after all exist exclusively for adult collectors.
But, if you're going into simantics as you are, Hasbro has more brands and more lines period. They are the largest toy company in the world, so they can't not. If you're wanting to bring up the amount of stuff hasbro puts out as a blanket company vs mattel, yeah they're gonna dominate. They dominate everyone. So bringing *everything* they do doesn't really say much.
That's like compairing allosaurids to charcarodontosaurids.

But (and this part is an open statement not directed at any one individual), none of this has any real meaning, as everyone *still* ignores, or doesn't understand the true meaning of the thread. Mattel's DC toys currently has the largest presence in the action figure isle. Which is technically true.
It's not stating how much better DC toys are. It's not stating that they outself Marvel toys. It's simply commented that DC toys have the largest presence in the toy isles, vs marvel's presence.

seriously... All I read was blah blah blah, when it comes down to it, you buy what you like, if you like Batman you by dc toys so you typically end up buying Mattel. You like Spidey,Iron man and wolverine you buy Marvel thus buying into Hasbro. Personally you can't say Hasbro doesn't reach out to the collector market, hello SDCC & NYCC and subscription figures, if that doesn't scream collector I don't know what does, or how about the variants from figure stands to repaints, I hardly see shit like that with DC figures. My local walmart has so much DC shit on the pegs you'd think it caused people aids or something, the marvel stuff sells, hell even tech deck sells, I really wish Marvel didn't get shafted in shelf space, but someone has to be the toy isle bitch I guess. Personally Mcfarlane and Neca have better figure sculpts then both these companies and about the same aritculation as DC figures. I wish we got Mcfarlane details with revoltech articulation, at hasbro pricing lol.

Also more DCU figures come with bases then MU/ML so thats why they seem more flimsy, plus it sucks having an awesome sculpt with no to little articulation. I can always repaint a figure hell I can resculpt a figure, but it's hard to add more articulation without the chance of fubaring it.