Mattel's New Dc Unlimited Line .. The Horror

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A person I follow on twitter posted this pic in a tweet he sent to @Mattel this morning.



took me a bit to find where it came from but it was posted on http://www.actionfigureinsider.com

Their from Wave 3 of the Unlimited line.

Superman - (Injustice Gods Among Us)



Aquaman - (New 52)



Darkseid - (New 52)



I have to agree with the twitter guy's complaints here. Their not proportionate at all. Darkseid is sculpted more like a gorilla especially with the over large head. These look like worse sculpts than Young Justice had for its 6 inch line.




Darth_Andrea

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These are obvious prototypes that look like unfinished customs. They don't even appear to be fully assembled. There's no way they would produce something to the masses that looks so poor in quality... and Aquaman's freakishly small head is quite disturbing. It looks like he took powered Alum.

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Those are awfull. Simple. The design for superman is bad anyway, but the figure ust makes it worse, and that's the best out of the bunch. Aquaman look like one of those action figures you get in a goodie bag for 99P, and Darkseid looks like one of those cheap 80s action figures. And why is supermans head so small?

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I saw these on the Critical Mess last night. There are no words to describe how utterly shitty this wave of figures is. I really want to see the Joker figure for the sheer morbid curiosity of it all. I'm not even worried about paint because they're just prototypes, but those sculpts are horrid. I can't imagine the 4H putting their names on these. I honestly can't believe they sculpted them.

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Clark looks like the husbands from 50s sitcoms.

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Lets compare shall we...

DC Collectibles Darkseid Vs Mattel's Darkseid

Mattel



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Now which one actually looks like the right off the page figure collectors are looking for, and which one looks like it should be listed as a bad Mexican rip-off.





Darth_Andrea

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Hey Hey HEY!!!!

"mexican rip-off"

more like "made in taiwan"

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Looking at the 2 pics Darth Andrea posted, I'm thinking that Mattel Darkseid is on a MOTU buck.

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These are obvious prototypes that look like unfinished customs. They don't even appear to be fully assembled. There's no way they would produce something to the masses that looks so poor in quality... and Aquaman's freakishly small head is quite disturbing. It looks like he took powered Alum.

I was just thinking the same thing. Everything about those figs is out of scale. And don't even get me started on Aquaman's waist articulation--it looks like a Terminator torso. Those have to be rough drafts of the eventual product.

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Superman just needs assless chaps to make THAT ensemble complete. Oh, and a nice red boa too.

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Lets compare shall we...

DC Collectibles Darkseid Vs Mattel's Darkseid

Mattel



DC Collectibles



Now which one actually looks like the right off the page figure collectors are looking for, and which one looks like it should be listed as a bad Mexican rip-off.





Darth_Andrea

Well, the Mattel one certainly looks like he had Bad Mexican Food and is suffering the consequences

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Lets compare shall we...

DC Collectibles Darkseid Vs Mattel's Darkseid

Mattel



DC Collectibles



Now which one actually looks like the right off the page figure collectors are looking for, and which one looks like it should be listed as a bad Mexican rip-off.





Darth_Andrea

It just occoured to me that the top one has a few errors as well as being made badly! Scale, the boots are all just wrong, the red horse shoe type thing is far too big, there is no detail on the gloves, and the detailing on the chest pice is all just so wrong.

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Yeesh. Make the cute little DC Super Friends Fisher-Price toys look good by comparison.

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This is Kenner's Super Powers Darkseid







Darth_Andrea

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And this is his JLU equivalent