What a great news .........! for scalpers of course !?!?!
I got almost all of the Batman Forever wave, I don't care for the bat BAF creature. I don't think they needed to make this a BAF wave unless you'd have a Chase Meridian! I do like these figures, they are spot on and remind me of the childhood days when I would collect the kenner forever line. I got them all except the Batman as I already have him from the movie 6 pack set, which I think is way better and more accurate.
10 hours ago, Atlantis said:I'm not big on collecting McFarlane's line, but I hear what you're saying. I've seen similar reactions from other collectors and on other forums. I think no one's happy to see ANY company doing this, but fans are especially disappointed with Todd, because they think of him as a professional and "one of US". He came from nothing, got into the biz, and took his fortune to storm. You gotta love a self-made story like that. You'd think that if anybody "got it", got the comics world, etc, HE would.
He also practically invented chase figures. He loves that s---.
On 6/5/2024 at 8:46 AM, jwheeler0805 said:I am getting really tired of Todd and his decisions on chases, where he essentially locks a character's entire availability (Blackfire) or the far more desirable version of a core character (Hawkman, Knights End Batman)behind a @!#$%/$# chase label or, in the case of Anne Hathaway's Catwoman, makes you pay through the nose to get her with a vehicle (and as an exclusive) AND releases the more desirable single as a bleeping chase. He's always done stuff like this, and I put up with it for years when I had time to chase and lived where there was a decent product supply. Now...I just want to get the figs I like without having it be a second job or costing a couple body parts. Does Todd assume every collector either has endless time and/or endless funds? Sorry for the rant, but the WTF element has gotten deep in the last few months with some of these figs.
I'm not big on collecting McFarlane's line, but I hear what you're saying. I've seen similar reactions from other collectors and on other forums. I think no one's happy to see ANY company doing this, but fans are especially disappointed with Todd, because they think of him as a professional and "one of US". He came from nothing, got into the biz, and took his fortune to storm. You gotta love a self-made story like that. You'd think that if anybody "got it", got the comics world, etc, HE would.
13 minutes ago, Atlantis said:Bloody $40.00 for these? That is going to get nowhere with that! He should know. Bloody hell! That's well bad! I bet he can't hear me.???
Those are the harder to find Platinum Figures sold by BBTS, not the regular release which was $29.99 each.
Bloody $40.00 for these? That is going to get nowhere with that! He should know. Bloody hell! That's well bad! I bet he can't hear me.???
What made Hathaway Catwoman even stranger was that McFarlane apparently made enough of her to put the figure up on his site and sell it individually (limit one) on some random evening. That's how I got my one. If I want another one, I guess I'm stuck with eBay or Aliexpress.
1 minute ago, Jscott991 said:McFarlane has frequently said he thinks that collectors find the chase concept "fun." Until someone disabuses him of this notion (like with the side eyes thing), this is unlikely to change.
I think it's about the dumbest thing in the toy world. I've never liked chase variants, short packings, or whatever. Most of the time, I'm worried I will get a chase instead of the version I want, but then he started doing stuff like the Hathaway Catwoman, which I still don't understand (what was she even packed with? how would I have found her in the stores if I had wanted to "chase"?).
Yeah, the Hathaway thing was a unique thing, and incredibly weird. I think they were just packed in with whatever wave Skydive Batman was in (which I don't remember. Was he on his own?) since I found her and his Platinum side-by-side at Target (twice!).
Speaking of getting chases one doesn't want, around two weeks ago I finally bought Abyss from Amazon when it dropped to about half price. What arrived was a platinum that I didn't know even existed. Ok, cool, but I wanted the original, so I bought another (which had dropped even cheaper, momentarily). What came in? Exactly the same thing, though amusingly, someone had peeled off the Platinum sticker.
I stopped trying after that.
McFarlane has frequently said he thinks that collectors find the chase concept "fun." Until someone disabuses him of this notion (like with the side eyes thing), this is unlikely to change.
I think it's about the dumbest thing in the toy world. I've never liked chase variants, short packings, or whatever. Most of the time, I'm worried I will get a chase instead of the version I want, but then he started doing stuff like the Hathaway Catwoman, which I still don't understand (what was she even packed with? how would I have found her in the stores if I had wanted to "chase"?).
10 minutes ago, Jscott991 said:I'm sorry you guys missed the black variant if you really wanted it. But it doesn't look like Blackfire to me. It's just a black Starfire.
Eh, it's close enough for me, especially with a character that I don't think McFarlane will do anytime soon, if ever. Regardless, I think the black, silver and purple really pop on that figure, looks way better than the standard Starfire, to me.
9 minutes ago, jwheeler0805 said:or, in the case of Anne Hathaway's Catwoman, makes you pay through the nose to get her with a vehicle (and as an exclusive) AND releases the more desirable single as a bleeping chase.
YUP. These antics are frustrating as hell, and (along with every other release being some gimmicky repaint) have led to me hugely scaling back on what I buy from him. I mean, I used to be a near-completest, and not out of a collecting compulsion, but because I genuinely dug the majority of the output. Those days are long gone. But the things that I still wind up wanting are usually things I REALLY want, which is what makes all this gold label/platinum nonsense annoying AF.
