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Hey if Todd articulated these Marvel statues, and they were action figures, Wow, that would be gold, with Diamond possibly being bye byee, Maybe Todd can take on the select line, I mean the guy is gonna need some sort of Cash Cow, with him losing the DC license.

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On 3/12/2025 at 7:24 AM, MvCfan said:

Not a huge Mcfarlane fan but very much disagree with this part. Multiverse figures are just about as articulated as a marvel legend or anything else being produced by Hasbro, Mattel, Neca, etc. Also they frequently use wired capes. If anything i think they need to work more on their joint designs and cuts...and scale lol.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he ends up taking over from Diamond Select.

I guess we can kind of agree to disagree on this and that's fine because you are right about his joints and their design. But that's kind of my point. Fact is though they are dependent on each other articulation and poseability are two different things. True McFarlane figures tend to have as much and in some cases more articulation than your average ML figure such as with toe articulation. But the ability to actually put good use to that articulation is severely impeded by McFarlane's desire to "keep the spirit of the art in tact". Many times the joints are there but the fact that he is unwilling to either delete or tweak details to make the joint serviceable many times make the joint pointless. And I'll put it quite simply and full disclosure I stole this from other people online but I use it quite often because it holds true. Take a McFarlane Batman figure and put him in a pose swinging from a line. Cool right? Take a McFarlane Superman and put him in the standard SM flying pose. Okay that's good too. But basically they're the same pose right? Hand above the head a little angle on the legs to give the perception of some inertia. Great that's the way it should be. Now take a Flash figure and put him into a proper pose of him full on running as he's typically shown in the comics. Actually go by McFarlane's own resource. Look at McFarlane's own Flash statue and try to just put the Flash figure in that pose. Can't be done. You can get him in kind of a take off pose but not full on running. Of course you can get the movie figure in that weird leg out hand down pose that was so ridiculous looking in the movies. But what's that worth? Try putting a Green Arrow in a proper archer pose. Not justs the gangster sideways grip with the arrow pointing down which seems to be the default. Can't be done without having to do the side eye John McClain pose. Of course I don't think McF has done any figures that require the kind of articulation as say a Spider-Man but I would hold firm that there's no figure in the existing line up that has the poseability of even the worst Spider-Man figure. Not saying he can't. Just saying he won't simply based on the fact that he has not. Will not. Probably never will sacrifice any more amount of detail to accommodate that kind of movement. Good thing? Bad thing? I guess it's all subjective. To me articulation and the ability to put figures in their associated poses is of high importance. Maybe it's just me. Maybe again it's all just subjective. And another statement I stole from someone else just to drive another point. If you're looking to just stand your figures side by side and shoulder to shoulder as an Alex Ross Kingdom Come cover art class picture style display then McFarlane has it nailed. But even then you have to be very mindful of which figures you stand next to each other because McF cares less about scale for characters even within their own line than the worst in the business. No Catwoman figure ever should stand taller than any Batman figure ever. Yet she does.

On 3/11/2025 at 11:15 PM, AndyL said:

They were/are essentially just statues with some joints built into them to qualify them in the simplest sense as action figures. But still very light on the action.

Not a huge Mcfarlane fan but very much disagree with this part. Multiverse figures are just about as articulated as a marvel legend or anything else being produced by Hasbro, Mattel, Neca, etc. Also they frequently use wired capes. If anything i think they need to work more on their joint designs and cuts...and scale lol.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he ends up taking over from Diamond Select.

Not a statue person and certainly not a McFarlane person but I must say this is where McFarlane shines. And this is the lane he really needs to stay in. Whatever the heck he was doing with the DC license it sure wasn't action figures. They were/are essentially just statues with some joints built into them to qualify them in the simplest sense as action figures. But still very light on the action. Thank goodness that nightmare is almost over. This is his zone. These look good and he has the potential to make statue collectors very happy at a very reasonable price. Now all that's left is to stop pretending and just stop calling them "toys" and just call the company McFarlane Studios or something. He could easily land a statue license with DC and possibly end up in the design field for legit toy companies similar to what Iron Studios does. Just take the plunge Todd. The charade is wearing thin.