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Originally Posted by behindthemask

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.

Obviously all you did real really was "blah blah blah" because your entire post has absolutely nothing to do with anything I said.
I never badmouthed anyone's collecting or toys. I never said anything negative about MU. And in fact, my very first post was a statement like yours, "To each their own, buy what you like."

The only thing that had any realavence to my post: the "Hasbro Subscription Figure" part. Hasbro doesn't offer a subscription service. Mattel does though, and Hasbro's been talking about ripping it off, through the Joe and TF collector clubs.
I will admit the Star Wars part of Hasbro caters heavily and insanely to the fans. But then I tend to forget Star Wars even exists at times.
As for varients, there's usually a varient or two in each DCUC wave. But MU varients tend to be insanely rare (Not Hasbro's fault I'll admit. That's probably more to scalpers), and it doesn't seem like Hasbro makes them very often.
Like I'd said, Mattel has a few lines that exists exclusively for the collector market, and are marketed exclusively to the collector market.
Right off the top of my head? Ghostbusters, Heman, Voltron Classics. There are probably others when you get around brands none of us follow, like Barbi.
Hell, they've even gone out of their way to make one for DCUC so they can continue to produce the really obscure characters the collector market craves. (I can't see Hasbro doing that for Marvel Legends, or even MU if that took a sharp downturn).
Hasbro does nothing like this. If they can't sell a line at retail, they won't do it at all. They have the same resources and capabilities as Mattel. In fact, they have more resources than they do. So they could if they wanted to.
But Mattel has been catering directly to the Adult Collector market for decades, where as Hasbro has only really started to acknowledge there is one over the last fifteen years or so. (Oldschool Joe and SW not withstanding. But like I admitted, Star Wars has always been insanely geared towards fandom.)