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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

Funco Pops have more of that Collect'em All mentality to them. And probably cost less to make than these figures.

DC merch anymore seems to be just Batman, Batman, Batman, Batman, some Wonder Woman (because the movie), some Superman, more Batman villains and allies, and maybe an occasional somebody else NOT Batman related because they were in one of the movies.

They haven't made any effort to make Cheetah or Maxwell Lord, you can count on one finger the non-Batman villains made or in the works (IJ2 Grodd), and even popular characters like Supergirl, Raven, Green Lantern, etc. seem to be no shows.

Maybe it's because it's so easy to just keep reusing Superman and Batman parts?

There was a now deleted video interview with a member of the brand team who discussed this. He very strongly implied a lot of the character selection comes down to retailers and the WB/AT&T execs wanting more Batman and Trinity stuff because those are the ones perceived as the big DC moneymakers.

IE, it's not like Marvel Legends, where the Marvel brand is so red hot that retailers will order a bunch of characters most people have never heard of as long as there's a Marvel logo on the box. DC doesn't have that same level of trust or brand positivity right now, so what gets made is mostly the A-listers and maybe whoever has a movie or TV show out at the time.