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Originally Posted by SpasticPlastic

I guess I don't see a problem with this. They want people to subscribe to their new thing, so they are trying to entice people to do just that. Streaming services aren't that expensive. If this ends up being $50 a month, I'll eat crow, but I'm guessing it'll be between $15 and $20. A lot of you peoples spend that much a week in gas driving around trying to find that Hasbro stuff. So, when you find that 27th variant of Deadpool, do you take it up to the counter at Walmart and tell the cashier you want it for $10 to offset the cost of fuel?

Lastly, I highly doubt these won't be available anywhere else ever again. Especially if all of you "hardcore" DC fans, that absolutely have to have these figures, but aren't willing to pony up a few bucks a month for an all-inclusive DC Comics experience, don't subscribe.

I don't really see a problem with this either. Major retailers weren't going to carry it anyway. Ebay will still get them. And these were destined for specialty shops anyway, which will likely still find ways to get them. Specialty shops do ungodly markups to begin with, so nothing changes there either.

As the service grows and this gets responded to positively, they'll probably find a way to get it into worldwide distro somehow. So that's a non-issue, and foreign distro is usually handled by other companies. If this causes a decent surge in subscribers as well as sells a decent amount, it could also make getting them more lucrative for non-domestic companies to license for their areas. Whereas right now they face the same issue as normal retail in not having a presence.

Plus this isn't Mattel either. DC Direct has very rarely ever been mainline stores and has always had a specialty shop approach. This centralizes that and makes it easier to handle besides also being an incentive to circumvent content piracy that's going to happen anyway.

So very cool and a great way to think outside the box. And if I don't end up subscribing, anything that's a figure I'd want I'll look on ebay for much later.

And this isn't stopping Mattel from doing that material at some point either, but it will force mattel to approach the material in ways that are guaranteed to sell since they will indirectly be competing with the service and its premium format releases. So this means Mattel can't half-ass their Multiverse releases anymore, and need to feed better into wider audience demands. Which really bodes well for future releases from them as they now have to make wider released content that can hold in the market and doesn't shelf-warm. Especially if they want to make the most of the DC license. Unless this starts to force them out of that market because the subscriber incentive sells better than Mattel does at retail.

Not really seeing any problems here whatsoever. And instead, am glad DC direct has found a wider home and way to offer this material to audiences that may not have had any avenues of release otherwise, as well as having a means to directly access the content that can help push sales forward stronger. Gotta admit this is a great strategy for lesser known figures that may not have moved otherwise. You can come right off of the amazing Martian Manhunter JL/JLU episodes and impulse buy the figure. It's rather genius tbh.