>>11292368>do you know how well toybiz's ML showdown figures scale with MU?They're 3.75" scale, but they fit in really well. Spiderman is usually 4" in the MU line, so the Showdown figure being 3.75" actually means he's 1:18 scale, since Spiderman is 5'10".
That showdown figure is my definitive SpiderMan figure, even out of larger scales.
That Thing is also the best 1:18 Thing. Better articulation than the Hasbro figures, better paint, and might be the best sculpt too.
Anyway, you really need to take a good look at the Showodown figures though. Their sculpts can be overly thin, so it might be bothersoem with some characters. I'm not a fan of a lot of them because of that. Cyclops and Captain America look like they spent a few years at Auschwitz.
Also, the line suffers from floppy joints, because Toy Biz couldn't figure out the tolerances when moving to a smaller scale. The later figures fixed that though.
If you want DC figures in 1:18, check out Hiya's Injustice line, but that means you have to put up with the lame injustice designs. Fantastic figures though. DC Direct made 1:18 figures too, but they're actually 3.75" AND on the short side of it too. They get absolutely dwarfed by the Hasbro 1:18 figures, which is a shame, since the sculpts and paint were top-tier. I would recommend the larger characters though, like Kilowog and Solomon Grundy.
Mattel's 1:18 lines were shit. Bad sculpts, inappropiate bodies, bad paint, bad articulation, everything bad. So even when their sculpts and paint look nice, the articulation is shit. Mattel having the DC license for so long was nearly 2 decades of waste.
