>>10800262>premium paint apps, multiple heads/hands/accessories. premium tailored wired capes/ no cheap rubber diapers/torsos.fix the ugly articulation in the knees/elbows.
>charge $40 per figureYou realize McFarlane Toys doesn't have the expertise to do premium tailored wired capes or fix the ugly articulation currently, right? I'm doubtful they even know how to do a good paint job for the most part anymore, although there are a scant few examples they have put out that might qualify, but still others where they used paint liberally and it still looked terrible (look at Disruptor from their Spawn line or their first Mister Freeze). This isn't 2000s era McFarlane Toys, who had expertise in making high detail, well painted figures.
It wouldn't cost anything extra to fix the ugly articulation, they'd just have to have people who know what they're doing, but they don't have those people anymore.
McFarlane Toys isn't the Four Horsemen or NECA. They can't just raise prices to FH or NECA prices and suddenly start making great products. That's why the Collector Editions have the same issues as the regular figures.
Not to mention even if they could produce that kind of quality in a figure, it wouldn't even sell if it wasn't the right character/look. They could make a Death Metal WW that looked great; it would pegwarm and people would still complain there's no "real" Wonder Woman. They could've done the Infinite Frontier Scarecrow correctly with lots of paint and it would've peg warmed, because it's a "weird" look.
Most of the 'right' characters/looks are ones who have very bare bones costumes from an earlier era, and don't need immaculate paint jobs to work. In the super hero plastic addict space, where DCMV is, characters are what sells figures and will get people to pay outrageous sums, not a quality figure. It's why people are paying up to quadruple MSRP for the AC1000 Superman even though its mediocre at best and why Mullet Supes and classic WW sold so quickly.
