McFarlane Toys 7" Gold Label Wave 2 First Look - Warhammer, DC Multiverse And Spawn

I saw someone scalping it on ebay so thought it was in the stores already.

^ Good ol' Walmart.

On 1/15/2021 at 7:55 PM, Blurr86 said:

I frown on that sword thing. When the latest McFarlane's Mortal Kombat Spawn showed up on BBTS, I placed a preorder on it and it was advertised with a sword. Then they emailed me saying that the sword is being replaced by that spiky thing. I had to turn it down and withdrew my preorder. is it too wrong to re-issue a Spawn with a sword?

Was the figure already out and they were getting a second wave of the sword coming in? All I remember is the first wave of sword got sold out really fast and then went to replenish and instead included the mace as the new substitute. That whole spawn figure set up was weird because the next wave had the Axe instead. And all of them sold out fast. You can't really even find them at retail anymore. BBTS has the mace for $25 which is still over msrp which is annoying af.

1 hour ago, hainrs said:

I'm sure there's a reason the sword went away. It could be a licensing issue with the game company which would flat out prohibit him from selling the figure with the sword or something else we wouldn't be privvy to.

Im pretty sure it had nothing to do with licenses. The character uses all 3 weapons in the game. It is most likely a weird running change that happened twice on the same figure. The odd thing is I think all 3 are 3 separate skus. That stuff sold out fast everywhere every time they re-released him. Also due to the joint collaboration with WB and the fact that Todd owns Spawns everything, he can do whatever he wants with the character. Judginghow McF does variants that shouldve just been extra parts packed in with the original figure, he wanted to milk tf out of it due to it being a hot item.

On 1/15/2021 at 6:55 PM, Blurr86 said:

I frown on that sword thing. When the latest McFarlane's Mortal Kombat Spawn showed up on BBTS, I placed a preorder on it and it was advertised with a sword. Then they emailed me saying that the sword is being replaced by that spiky thing. I had to turn it down and withdrew my preorder. is it too wrong to re-issue a Spawn with a sword?

I'm sure there's a reason the sword went away. It could be a licensing issue with the game company which would flat out prohibit him from selling the figure with the sword or something else we wouldn't be privvy to.

On 1/9/2021 at 7:00 PM, Belmont13 said:

So is the whole Gold label thing repaints of figures?

The Batman figure from the Gold label wasn't a repaint. It is getting a repaint, but the Gold version was the first. Everything else is a variant and based on the color gold. I have no issue with it. One doesn't have to buy it which is the beauty of repaints.

Looks really awesome, I keep thinking should I collect this line? and I keep just ending up on No, I flip flop a lot thought whenever I see these figures. I think I need to continue to stay away I don't need another line to collect.

Heck!, I'll never be able to get into the McFarlane's 40K stuff.

Speedster Batman makes sense, because it's actuallyfrom comics and actually not Bruce Wayne, from what I understand anyway. Spawn is based on MK Skin at least. This kinda makes me think how long will we see weird variant, I think at this point it would be easier if Todd mimicked ML and DCUC with more accent on reuse.