>>7796613>Fucking Mattel, hogging the DC license for 20 years producing nothing but oversized mediocre shitPerspective is key. Before Mattel, Hasbro had the entire DC license and it was an absolute joke, they squandered it for the last 5 years they had it. They just stuck to making animated batman variants, and not even using all the great designs in batman Beyond to the fullest and instead opting for toyline original variants that lacked the fun flare of the old Kenner stuff and just felt by the numbers. They weren't even producing comic based figures for the last 4 years or so and the few we did get were just repaints of Kenner's Total Justice stuff. Seriously once they dissolved Kenner, Hasbro just couldn't produce the same quality. remember, they had the license for the ENTIRE DC UNIVERSE and they used that to crank out repaints of The NEw batman Adventures figures, which had ended in '98, all the way into 2003.
Meanwhile Mattel gave the license to four Horsemen, who created some great sculpts that quickly became then-definitive figures for a lot fo characters. They put a lot of effort into a variety of lines initially and covered multiple animated series as well as classic comic versions from superman and Batman's cast. DCUC was great, even if it was niche with character selection for a lot of waves and that probably hurt it in the end. Their comic stuff was below Toy Biz, sure, but in the DCUC days their stuff looked better than Hasbro's ML, even if they lacked articulation.
I do admit, I'm glad other companies that reach modern standards better can handle the license since they have been downhill since DCUC ended, but they were respectable once.
