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Originally Posted by Specter

Arkham City sold 2 million first week, and you have to account for
Arkham games sell well despite being $60
movie tickets are around $10
Arrow is basically free TV

The line needs a base, you can't just do niche wave after niche wave.
This past wave was a risk, not only do they have to rely on a niche of Batman fans but Superman as well just to clear a wave.
So with the Knight hype building thats the logical thing to make(especially replacing the 6' line)
Arkham is a core line that would likely be around anyway and has the depth to keep a line going so it works.

Best direction after Knight would be Arrow, Arrow directly following Superman/Batman wave would destroy the line with being too random.
At that point your target audience is only the most hardcore of DC fans.

Movies can't really be a base because they are too varried and you would basically have no cohesion.
You can do a current movie series as the base but then the line gets screwed over after the movie runs it course.
Burton Batman is popular enough to anchor yet its basically complete with 2 more figures(Returns Batman, Joker)

Arkham waves will allow them to do a wave with Batman and 2 villains from 20 years ago once in a while.
It keeps them with a core audience that they can directly bring back the next wave.
Some of the Arkham guys will pick up a few of the "random wave" because their is some basic cross appeal then you have him hooked for a full wave after that.
Even with all these reveals Arkham could carry another two or three whole waves.

Otherwise its
An Arkham niche who want this small random selection of Arkham characters at 4'
Batman 89 niche
Superman the movie niche(though less so than Batman 89 because its nearly the definitive version, but still much older target audience)
Arrow niche
Etc

DCUC and DCIH were comics as a base
Arrow should become the base after the Arkham roster has been completed.

-the figures are he same price so I'm not sure what your point is on the difference between free tv and video game prices?
-That was my whole point. They said all of the dc multiverse is the base. Not Arkham.
-Superman sold the wave? I haven't even SEEN a superman yet. 1 penguin, no maskless Batman.
-I agree the next wave was going always going to be Arkham. but Its a series with a year of life left, two years from now it will juts be a used bargain bin memory. They've said its the last game.

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Originally Posted by Specter

Best direction after Knight would be Arrow, Arrow directly following Superman/Batman wave would destroy the line with being too random.
At that point your target audience is only the most hardcore of DC fans.

-But you think there is enough fan base for Arkham for SEVEN waves of figures? If they follow up wave four with another wave of Arkham figures all you will have left is diehard Arkham fans left. There are more dc fans than Arkham fans, sorry but its true.

-so the only options are batman 89, superman 78, arrow and arkham?
you forgot Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Gotham, Flash 90, Flash 14, Aquaman, Smallville, Nolan trilogy, Infinite Crisis, DC Universe online, Superfriends, Adam west batman, Shazam, Isis, Swamp Thing, etc.

-You will never see a 4 inch 89 joker. They wont pay likness rights to Nicholson for a head that small. That's why Keaton looks like it was sculpted by a blind chipmunk

I get it they want tie the marketing into the game. groovy. After that take the license for a spin. They only made one mistake so far and I understand it. There is no way that Zod was intended to come before Reeves. Some exec said they wanted a hero in the chase figures and zod got moved to the front of the line and Superman is a chase figure.

Otherwise everything is just fine.