Quote from: Mike's Monsters on May 11, 2023, 09:42:01 PMBut hearing the praise for McFarlane makes me wonder if those praising actually collect his lines.
I do, and as I said earlier mcFarlane's sculpts are quite good, their paint can be quite good, the price point beats the hell out of NECA, and their figures are loaded with good articulation and often come with decent accessories. I just cracked open three McF DC figures this morning,
a Wonder Woman (different from the one in your post),
'The Flash' Supergirl, and that Catwoman in your post, and they're all great. I have all of the Dark Batmen, a couple Wonder Womans,
Cyborg, The Flash, and
Steppenwolf from Snyder's Justice League, and
comic book Bane, and they're all great.
I've also got some of their Witcher and Mortal Kombat figures, and they're all great. Even their 40K Necron Warrior and Battle Sister are good.
I'd love to see McFarlane do AvP at the price point they're pulling off for DC stuff. I don't buy everything McF makes, but the stuff I have bought I've been very satisfied with at the price point.
I'm not saying McFarlane is perfect (their recent unmasked Michael Keaton head for The Flash movie toyline is, uh, real f**king bad), but I'd definitely trust their output on an AvP line and their ability to keep the cost low compared to NECA and deliver on quality sculpts and articulation.
Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on May 11, 2023, 10:09:32 PMPeople married to the oversized NECA scale will seethe and mald but it is the truth, the Black Series and Marvel Legends team generally have the best sculpts and articulation at an affordable price.
"Affordable price" has been shifting quite a bit lately with Marvel Legends (and I'm speaking as someone who buys them fairly regularly, I just got the ML comic book Yelena Belova). $25 a pop is pushing it a little when you compare it to McF's product at $20, and the price on ML big figures is getting a little out of hand - they want $60 for the new Spider-Verse Cyborg Spider-Woman, when like last year they were selling the Hydra Stomper (who is like 1.5x the size of Cyborg Spider-Woman) for $55 or less.