When DC's last round of solicitations didn't include any action figures, many of us were wondering what the future held for DC Direct. This speculation was added to by news that Georg Brewer appears to no longer be at the helm of the company - based on reports of changes to his Linkedin profile.
Concerns about DCD's impending end seem to have been allayed by the release of a preview of a series of figures based on DC's upcoming FLASHPOINT event at the DC Blog. Since this isn't a common method of premiering new DC Direct products, one could certainly be forgiven for thinking this is a response to internet speculation of DCD's future. No word of who's in charge, but it seems that there is a plan for more DC Direct products in the "new" DC. While not everything the company puts out is to my liking, this is still good news in my view.
As for the FLASHPOINT figures themselves, whatever you might think of these particular toys (I for one am certainly hoping for Aquaman should a second wave happen), I think we have to give DCD full marks for great improvements in having merchandise related to a specific event coming in a timely manner in relation to the event itself. This is a darn sight better than the 52 wave of figures that were quite good in themselves but came out well after the event. DCD has done a brilliant job of capitalising on BLACKEST NIGHT, but even its BRIGHTEST DAY lines are coming out after the steam behind the event has weakened. The timing for these toys seems perfect.
All up - this is good news in my book. The more DC based toys and statues, the better as far as I'm concerned. I'd just like to find out who's running the shop now so that we can have a word about scale. And ankle articulation. And...
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Until next time!
10 comments:
I like the looks of Wonder Woman and Batman better here than what they're currently wearing.
This is great news.
Embiggened picture here on the DCU blog site:
http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/files/2011/02/ww_cyb_bm_flashv4.jpg
Wonder Women looks awesome and am digging Batman too.
None of these do anything for me. But then none of them are my favourite characters. Lets hope DCD manage to still do some waves that arn't story specific.
Awesome. I really like Wonder Woman and Batman, probably definitely get them.
as the classic figures r not my cup of tea (& the market is infested with them, so many variations of the same, too boring, so i don’t know why somebody would complain...) these r good news for me =)
All four are sweet figures. I would pick them all. Very nice designs and sculpts!
those are cool- i hope DC Direct keeps moving forward with their product and their fans.
That's wonder woman!? crazy. Like the black knight, but with woman bits.
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