Mattel DC Classic Movieverse 4" line shown at NYCC!

[DiFabio]

Yeah. It went from one of the best looking in the wave to a complete turd in no time flat. Looks like most of the detail was wiped out completely.

I wonder what it's like to be the sculptors of these things. You make a great prototype like the one on the left. Sharp sculpt, awesome paint apps. Then you hand it over to Mattel, Mattel takes it to the factory, and the final product comes out looking like that.

 

[GasparZizou]

Must feel like a thankless job knowing that most customers are gonna judge your work from the mass produced piece.

I was under the impression these were digitally sculpted, I had hopes that they would turn up as well as the breaking bad ones that pretty much look like the prototype.

Batman looks pretty much the same but Superman also lost a little something in the headsculpt.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Man, looks like not even that great Penguin managed to survive the China Factory mass production/Final product stage. Happens everytime.

Looks like a turd holding an Umbrella. I can pass on this line.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

78 Superman looks pretty bad with that giant bulge

 

[GasparZizou]

So they added some articulation, and screwed up everything else

 

[buzzybean]

That's the problem I have with the Reeve Superman films. They aren't bad movies...

Yes, they are bad movies. Especially three and four. Nothing redeeming about those movies at all.

 

[buzzybean]

So they give Superman a plastic cape (yeah!!) but give Batman a cloth cape??

 

[TheFiend]

Man, looks like not even that great Penguin managed to survive the China Factory mass production/Final product stage. Happens everytime.

Ouch. Thats bad. Such a pity. That was one great Penguin.

And it could be distortion but he even looks thinner .

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[CSEvans]

Ouch. Thats bad. Such a pity. That was one great Penguin.

And it could be distortion but he even looks thinner .

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That's what I was thinking too, he apparently lost a few pounds on the way to the factory or something.

I was really excited for this figure but I'd say it's a definite pass now.


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[Batfreak]

still goods good to me, as far as having a proper BR penguin in this scale its never been done so this is certainly better then nothing at all. is this starting to his shelves?

 

[DiFabio]

Ugh man, what happened Mattel?

Those look horrible. There's no hope for that incredible Penguin sculpt now.

 

[GasparZizou]

Ugh man, what happened?... Mattel.

Fixed.

 

[TheFiend]

What will these go for?

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[Animal Mother.]

Saw them today at tru express at the mall. They wanted 14.99. Lol.

 

[TheFiend]

Ridiculous. Even these small figures are becoming expensive.

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[Bustajesse]

What happened? The Keaton looks awful!

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Nice Shepard Smith head sculpt Mattel

 

[Otomofan]

Well even the prototype Keaton face looked pretty bad....but the factory took bad and made it sooo much worse.

Masked Batman looks all right though.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Ugh man, what happened Mattel?

 

[jrice73]

What happened is what always happens with Mattel's mass produced lines--sometime after the painted prototypes are revealed, they start cutting corners to make the figures cheaper. Once they get to China and go into mass production, they become pieces of ****. Sad really.