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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

I am, because the online stores have had them for a while, and I found the first wave of DC Unlimited (New 52s Superman, Flash, and Hawkman) at TRU.

When I said "That's the theory," I mean that they're probably going to be so poorly carried that sightings will be rare. I never found the Allstar wave at all. Never found the Batman Unlimited wave, either.

I did see 1 New 52 Batman from Batman Unlimited wave 1 at Target last night, picked it up. NEVER saw the All Star wave. Some TRU's here still had that Captain Cold guy from DCUC and several Walmarts had their Super Powers themed wave clogging their shelves.

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Originally Posted by Ravenxl7

I guess I can appreciate the fact that the figure is actually a reference to something...That said, I still don't really see the point. All I see is another Batman figure taking up the spot of what could have been another character entirely. I get it that Batman is popular, but COME ON Mattel...you can't justify this many Batman figures...

As for the articulation, the lack of double jointed knees actually doesn't bother me. Really, with Mattel, anything above their standard five swivel joints is a win in my book.

Thing is, with Mattel we know at this point that there is always going to be a Batman and Superman in any of their DC lines, as they are the heavy hitters and Mattel is hell bent on stating that Batman outsells everyone despite Batman being the only character per specific line usually clogging shelves with no one else to find until they hit TJ Maxx/ROSS or so by which point Mattel blames older fans by not supporting the brand hence why later waves end up at discount stores.

If we are going to get a Batman, which..we will, I would rather see it being a unique version from the comic/cartoon/movie lore as opposed to a random action gimmick one from their evergreen line. With pointless use of plastic like the latter it is no WONDER kids these days would rather get an iPad or game system! Cheap toys are cheap toys.

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Originally Posted by hrothgars

One of the Ask Matty's (either here or elsewhere) included some specific discussion of the Signature Series Larfleeze which features the same 2-jointed elbows, but single-jointed knees. The response talked about the additional cost needed to provide two joints in each knee being too great to deliver the figure at current retail prices.

I can only presume this is the same thinking for Red Rain Bats.

Weird; I would rather have double jointed knees and single jointed elbows then.

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

Except that Saitn Walker has both double jointed elbows AND knees.
So Matty really has no concept of what they're talking about, somewhere along the line.

WTF