Knightfall Batman - Gold Label SDCC Exclusive - Comparison & Why Mcfarlane SUCKS
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Great figure imho. Probably tied with the DC Essentials Knightfall Batman as my favorite silver age Batman.
150.00!!?? Eye paid 63.00 on Amazon. Brand new.
I actually prefer the version without the shading overall, but I do prefer the shade of grey on the SDCC one, I will admit.
The colors on this are definitely much better
Cool, darker gray still in their next version (I guess that's part of the strategy again X-D)
It's sad it's limited and will be expensive.
If money is not and object and brand is not an object, what is the best Batman action figure by far old and new?
Yup McFarlane knowing most are completionist, and most will keep buying it: they'll most likely darken and put shadings on the Joker versions of all the DC characters :-) create a Joker Ninja version, first it's light colored then the more serious darker color which is illustration accurate (illustration on the blister pack).
God bless, Rev. 21:4
McFarlane fans are in an even worse abusive relationship than Marvel Legends fans
I totally agree
I hope they release the exclusive without the "comic shading" but I'm not holding my breath. What an infuriating line. I wish Mattel had gotten the license back given how they're killing it with MOTU.
I honestly have started getting rid of a lot of my Mcfarlane DC figures and started picking up older DCUC stuff
In my opinion, yes it's annoying, but at the end of the day that's the business of it. The molds are expensive, and they aren't in the reuse game as much as other lines like ML, so they've gotta do what they've gotta do.
Ask yourself this: In the Tim Drake example, if you owned the company, what would you HONESTLY do? Release the paint scheme everyone wants first and then do the all red variant later down the line knowing full well it's not going to sell as well as it could have because everyone already has the fan favorite red and green suit, or would you release the less popular one first to milk it as much as you can and maximize the use of that mold before you give the people what they want? Ngl, I'd definitely be doing the second option if i owned the company because I'd want to be making that money.
No other companies, even Hasbro, does this, and many of these other companies are far bigger than Mcfarlane. Hasbro didn't release a Plain clothes Wolverine, or Spidey in FF suit with bag on head, or Captain America in US Agent costume first, before offering the classic versions of these characters ....... Just like Mattel and He Man or Hasbro with Star Wars ..... Other companies don't do this, they always release the desired version of a character first, then release variants or alternate costumes ...... And Hasbro has sold about 200 versions of Spiderman at this point and still keep selling them and are the largest and most successful toy company on the planet ..... and I don't even like Hasbro as a company, but they don't do this and are far more successful and make far more money than Mcfarlane
@@GeekFusion_TV The comparisson is just stupid. McFarlane has brought up the game of mid-low tier figures, which are the ones that make the most sales (like Marvel Legends). They've also incouraged better quality on them and made Hasbro focus more on his Legends brand so they could fight off the new competition. Ofcourse McFarlane is going to have to limit production and find other ways to still capitalize (like releasing more "niche exclusive" figures and especulate on prices). Truth is, most of Legends stuff look cheap in comparisson to McFarlane. It's silly to compare Hasbro as a company, and on sales, to McFarlane. One's a multinational conglomerate holding company with 100 years of history. The other one is McFarlane Toys.
@@DarkkEndz I get what you're saying, but I disagree ....... Mcfarlane has been in business for almost 30 years and have never done this with their other lines, and yet have become the 3rd (arguably 2nd) most popular action figure company in the US and have gained market share, value as a brand and sales consistently since their inception ..... So there are no excuses for them at this point, they do what they do to bilk their customers ..... and Mcfarlane didn't bring up any game ..... They got to the 20 POA & up game more than 10 years after most other companies were doing it, all while for most of that time, charging the same and in some cases more, than what other companies were charging for superior POA figures ...... Even when the rest of the industry has admitted that the "Marvel Legends" style of articulation is the industry standard from an engineering and build quality standpoint, Mcfarlane insisted on going with a lesser POA style of articulation which offers far less range and build quality when compared to many other companies ...... How many times has a Mcfarlane figure had an arm or leg fall off fresh out of the box compared to Hasbro? The answer is a lot more often ..... and this is due to the cheaper engineering of joints and internal components ...... Yet here we are paying the same for their products as we do for other better engineered products