>>11360353Mattel had the DC license for around 15 years and in those 15 years, every single toyline of theirs got canceled, because Mattel makes shitty toys that even kids learned to avoid. Collectors? There's a reason why DC toys rarely ever got a General on /toy/ until McFarlane got the license.
Almost all the praise Mattel gets amounts to: at least they made something.
So fans of the DCUC line basically only liked it because they got an Justice League Society or Legion of Superheroes character, despite it just being the 177th reuse of the superman body since.
Mattel is hated by most fans because they do not update or upgrade their figures as years go by. So you might say to yourself "Wow, check out all these new figures and molds. This is a great start, but there's various flaws that i hope they fix as time goes on."
Mattel is too cheap to address anything.
They also do an obscene amount of redecos, where the body doesn't fit the character at all. People might bitch about Hasbro and McFarlane overusing certain bodies, but they use 5-10x more body types than Mattel does and are more likely to create new bodies if they don't have that body type yet.
You see people praising Mattel's He Man toys, but most of those characters are re-re-re-re-reusing the same He-Man mold and no one really minds because the premise for HeMan toys is being chintzy in the first place. Nostalgiafags think because the old line did the same shit, it's fun that the new one does too.
But that doesn't prove Mattel will do the same shit with DC?... the fact that they did it with their DC lines for 15 years, you should expect the same again. Yeah, the first year or two will have brand new molds every where, but those molds will be what DC toys will be reusing for the next 15 years.
Also, Mattel is known for "upscaling" prototypes. They put in extra paint work that can make them look great, but production figures always look 2x worse.
