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McFarlane Toys is doing a new toy line with DC Comics, "DC Page Punchers", where the toys come with a reprint of the comic that the toy is based on
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Can someone explain what happened to McFarlane toys? The quality dip has been so immense. I found some old stuff in the attic a few weeks ago and those old sculpts were AMAZING.
The newer figures look like old Kenner dolls in comparison.
The newer figures look like old Kenner dolls in comparison.
guessing they've got a lot of flashpoint #1's leftover in their warehouse.
pretty sure that constanteen.
are these one of those things where these will be super overpriced at like 25 dollars?
edit: oh 10 bucks I guess that's ok.
edit: oh 10 bucks I guess that's ok.
I feel like this isn't an original idea. The old Toybiz Marvel Legends did this, usually giving you a shitload of accessories and a display base to go with it all for like $8.
I don't really collect at all anymore but MacFarlane quality seems to be in a really weird spot compared to the high standards they used to set. Also, is DC still doing that thing where they don't allow toy guns so every toy comes unarmed with no accessories or has to carry a knife or sword instead?
I don't really collect at all anymore but MacFarlane quality seems to be in a really weird spot compared to the high standards they used to set. Also, is DC still doing that thing where they don't allow toy guns so every toy comes unarmed with no accessories or has to carry a knife or sword instead?
Starting Lineup action figures never really got valuable as some hoped. There are a few rare ones worth a few bucks. The sportscards that came with the toy actually ended up being the valuable collectible.
They stopped making them, but yeah, they actually did look really good. Again, a few are worth something, but that's another sports action figure that never really turned into a valuable collectible. You can get bulk lots of several players for a couple hundred bucks. They look a lot better than Starting Lineup so McFarlane figures would actually be a fun thing to collect.
The 3" ones are garbage figures because they are a smaller scale that won't fit with anything people have.
Page Puncher. it's about punching pages, not about paging punches.
McFarlane Toys just aren't up to the level of quality they used to be when they were releasing stuff like the old Spawn figures and the Tortured Souls line.
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I was going to say something similar. I think the sculpts are still pretty decent considering they now have a lot of articulation but the paint jobs seem really basic compared to what they used to do. I thought maybe it was nostalgia, but you checking your old figures reinforces that.
Like I saw they did some Warhammer 40K figures recently and was excited at the idea until I saw the paint jobs and the fact that most of the sculpts were missing a level of detail I expected from them. I thought they were prototypes at first or maybe they were leaning in to the Warhammer custom paint job scene, but these figures suggest otherwise.
I'm not a toy expert, but if I had to guess I'd probably chalk it up to the Four Horsemen leaving. Four of their superstar sculptors leaving in 1999 had to hurt.
No idea why their paint sucks now, though. They tended to overuse washes in the past, but it brought out the detail of the sculpts better than what they're doing now.
Todd is a piece of shit so yeah he'd say they don't sell and stay on the pegs.
