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Ultimately I think Marvel is doing a better job of getting their 6 inch figures into stores. If you can't find the toy it's hard to collect it.

Agreed. I was determined to be a completist with the DCUC line, but with wave 2 becoming like a Big Foot sighting, and me having rarely seen wave 3 and others, I gave up. The figures are great, I love them, the 4H make great figures, but now I just buy some if I see them.

Both Marvel and DC toys are almost even at this point. How so? When one does a great line, the other does a poor one, and vice versa. For example, at this point, Marvel Universe dominates DC Infinite Heroes, and DCIH won't start catching up with more articulation until later this year. Marvel Legends was at it's strongest when Toy Biz launched it, but since Hasbro got the license, it had growing pains and is just now starting to become revitalized. Whereas DC Universe Classics has been consistently strong but suffers from the same problem that plagued Toy Biz' Marvel Legends line; they are hard to find with inconsistent distribution.

Marvel tends to have better movie and cartoon figures, giving a broad range of toys to collect, be it for kids, collectors, or both. Their Marvel Crossovers Transformers are far superior to that of Mattel's transforming Batman robots as well.