>>10997426Yeah, no.
Here's another figure from 2022 that came with a gun.
There's also Dceased Red Hood that came with his guns in 2022 or 2023.
What do all these figures have in common? Collector market aimed at adults. So it's likely WB/DC changed their gun ban for just children toys in 2022.
We also know that Constanstine was supposed to be released earlier, so maybe Mezco delayed the figure until they could release it complete.
NEvermind we saw McFarlane release figuers trigger fingers (back when they were uniquely molded), so figures that were planned to come with guns were cut. No reason they couldn't have cut guns from other planned figures. If McFarlane did announcements like Hasbro/Mezco/Bandai, where they show off figures about year before release, it's likely we would have seen those guns. See McFarlane's Cyborg Superman, where we saw the prototype over a year ago and it barely got officially announced.
Look up "running changes," which are pretty common, where shit that gets announced needs to be cut right at the last minute, because that's the licensor's right.
In addition, figures like Flashpoint Batman can't have been changed, because it takes almost a year and a half to produce a figure. An announcement in February is too late to make changes for something to be released in August. Shit's already finished production and just being packaged at that point.
