[AlanThCollector]

I’m actually glad that McFarlane toys has the license now. Part of me kind of wishes the license went to NECA, but McFarlane definitely takes more risks when it comes to varying figure sculpts.

Currently outside of Predator and Alien, every time NECA releases a new line of figures with really unique sculpts per figure, the line either ends early or the figures are heavily delayed and I are at risk if never being released at all.

Well-made DC super heroes from NECA would definitely do far better than some of their other shortlived licenses, but my fear is that within the three-year license agreement, NECA would probably only hit the big seven or eight characters reuse them to death and then mix that with inevitable delays and there current business model of straying away from standard releases and moving towards marked up Ultimate realesse, they would lose the license, before they ever got deep in to it.

As of late McFarlane has shown time and time again that they are willing to take risks with releasing figures with little to no reuse possibilities and keep a solid release schedules. NECA may still have superior articulation, but McFarlane figures as of late are right on par with NECA’s sculpting and they are quickly catching up to to the rest of the toy collector world articulation-wise. We’ll have to wait and see how this develops, but if they keep making the leaps and bounds they are DC collectors are going to be very happy in 2020.

Besides this new development of Mattel losing the master toy license is probably the reason why NECA will be releasing those DC/ Alien/ Predator 2-packs now. So while collectors get a more classic figure line from McFarlane NECA can get away with releasing the more niche DC figures that crossover with their current licenses. And maybe jus maybe they could even get back to shrinking their 18-inch DC figures to 7-inch scale again without issue.