[thechris]

I don't think it could have been saved, it's DC. DC stuff pretty much always fails at retail not always because it puts out crappy products but because it's DC. I'm a huge DC fan, more so than Marvel now that I've matured and have read more comics and gave all lines more of a chance. I collect primarily DC and think the sculpts look great. The problem is that it's DC and there are just way more casual Marvel fans than there are DC fans.

Nobody got excited about any of the new DC movies except Batman. And I'm talking about BEFORE it was at theatres, not after. Yes, GL was a stinkfest and so was Superman Returns, but Marvel just has broader appeal than DC. I think they've made the right choice in making it a collector's subscription line. Batman has decent appeal, but none of the other big 7 do and even putting in one or two Batman's in every way isn't going to save the line and sell Cyclotron and Wondergirl and that would just piss off genuine collectors.

NOW in Club Infinite Earths, we're getting toys we wouldn't necessarily always get like Metron, Black Mask, Starman and Platinum and Tin. Not to mention these are figures that would've been left at on the shelves. You get fans like me who are HARDCORE DC collectors and own EVERY single DCUC figure in the line. I love them, I love the way they look, their articulation to me is just right and I love the characters and the ones that I don't know much about, I love finding out about them but we are few.

DC was rarely available in stores here anyways and even when they ARE like Wave 20 and Legacy, it doesn't really move. Sometimes I think there's only 3 or 4 DC fans in my city because hardly any of the stuff sells, including the GOOD stuff. Yeah, there are maybe a handful of Arkers who do NOT collect DCUC and say that they will if they change over to the Hasbro style. Well come on, one thing I'm big on is consistency and if they started doing totally different looking DC figures, my DCUC collection will be obsolete. There are TONS of DCUC fans who already exist and buy the toys and enjoy them just the way that they are.

I'll summarize, I'm GLAD that this has become a Matty exclusive item even if I have to wait 2 months for this crap because at least I don't have to buy 5 or 6 more Hal Jordan figures to make one oversized figure. At least I'll still get my toys. Yeah it's nice to be able to just go to Walmart and buy them but it's selfish for me to expect them to put that line in the store just for me because that's what it feels like since no one else buys them and let's face it, I'm not going to buy more than one of each figure. Rocket Red, Black Mask, Platinum, come on guys, these were never going to sell in stores even if they had finger, wrist and toe swivels and double jointed gorilla arms and ball jointed legs and it's silly for us to blame Mattel for distribution problems and not giving us good enough sculpts as a reason why these won't sell.