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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 19, 2024 20:18:58 GMT -5
Coming in 2025 for McFarlane Super Powers:  I wish the line would grow a little bigger than this--more female figures and villains, more vehicles, a Hall of Justice--but right now I'm just grateful it's still going. Enough Supermans and Batmans already, though. Superman and Batman are what sell best in brick and mortar retail outlets, so there will be a Superman and Batman to anchor every wave. This was pretty much dictated by the retail partners who do not want to buy waves and bring them out to the toy aisle unless there is a Superman and/or Batman figure as part of the wave so casual customers might recognize and buy them. Collector's may be sick of them and the variants, but the retailer partners want them in every wave. -M |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 20, 2024 0:39:14 GMT -5
Coming in 2025 for McFarlane Super Powers: I wish the line would grow a little bigger than this--more female figures and villains, more vehicles, a Hall of Justice--but right now I'm just grateful it's still going. Enough Supermans and Batmans already, though. Superman and Batman are what sell best in brick and mortar retail outlets, so there will be a Superman and Batman to anchor every wave. This was pretty much dictated by the retail partners who do not want to buy waves and bring them out to the toy aisle unless there is a Superman and/or Batman figure as part of the wave so casual customers might recognize and buy them. Collector's may be sick of them and the variants, but the retailer partners want them in every wave. -M Well I keep seeing Batman variants warming pegs at Wal-Mart, so I'm not sure you/they are correct about that. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 20, 2024 0:47:59 GMT -5
Superman and Batman are what sell best in brick and mortar retail outlets, so there will be a Superman and Batman to anchor every wave. This was pretty much dictated by the retail partners who do not want to buy waves and bring them out to the toy aisle unless there is a Superman and/or Batman figure as part of the wave so casual customers might recognize and buy them. Collector's may be sick of them and the variants, but the retailer partners want them in every wave. -M Well I keep seeing Batman variants warming pegs at Wal-Mart, so I'm not sure you/they are correct about that. The Batmanga variant is definitely a peg warmer, but Todd himself has said the reason they include a Batman/Superman in every wave is because Walmart & Target want them in each wave to anchor the line with familiar characters. There's also more Batman/Superman on pegs because there's often more of each in the cases than most of the other figures. so even if they sell as well as the other figs in a wave, there will still be some on the pegs. Edit to add: The Super Powers Supes/Bats figures also have competition on the pegs from the SpinMasters DC figs on the pegs near the Super Powers, often in more traditional costumes than Super Powers Supes/Bats and a buck or two less MSRP, but the Supes and Bats Super Powers continue to mostly move, at least since McFarlane corrected the over-production issues that plagued the first two waves resulting John Stewarts everywhere and lingering forever. -M |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 20, 2024 18:01:49 GMT -5
Agreed. Have they done Catman? Will they do so? I know, I know, niche, but I like him. There's been a couple of Catman figures in the 7 inch scale (at least one by Mattel and one by McFarlane), but not for the Super Powers 4 inch scale. -M |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Nov 8, 2024 1:38:37 GMT -5
Here's an unboxing vid of those Mego Atlas figures done by Brian Heiler of the Mego Museum...
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