Re: DC Collectibles doing Batman The Animated Series figures!!!!!
Looking DC Collectibles from outside I see a lot of confusion during last 2 years.
This line was under
Kevin Kiniry supervision, then he left DC in Sept 2017.
After that there was a clear empty space that Jim Fletches tried to partially fill it.
So for months customers were left alone (no one answered anymore to
[email protected]. Time ago was Kevin Kiniry himself to hear customers request/suggestions).
There was a lot of confusion internally in DC, and
Jim Flecther saying that DC would quit from figures an
stay only on statues.
After few months they finally announced few new figures for Batman TAS line.
As you remember this line was full of troubles from the beginning:
- The first 4 figures had visible pegs on legs, and they got broken easily (fixed with a reissue on year later)
- A lot of delay, release date was never respected.
- Batman eyes too small (Fixed with expressions pack)
- Penguin really not similar (Eyeglass, face, no cigarette)
- Batmobile (scratches on poor finish surface, and wheels rubber will got damaged in few weeks)
- Joker (really not similar) (fixed with Expressions pack)
- Christmas Joker (face not similar)
- Zatanna (not removable hat)
- Man bat (too dark)
- Bruce Wayne head from Expressions Pack (really horrible)
- Talia really not similar (Face, suit color, holster placed wrongly, different from solicits pic)
- Clayface (out of scale)
- Joker Expressions pack (missing Joker cards)
- Mad Love Pack (they showed solicits pic for Mad Love pack with a BLACK TUXEDO Joker,then solicited again but with METALLIC Purple suit, and finally released it as the regular Joker, with people basically preordered a different looking item from what they got in hand)
- Batgirl (ridicoulus hair, missing her typical accessories as Grappling Gun and Bolas)
- Poison Ivy really not similar (Face, wrong color of the suit, and green arm cuff instead of grey)
- Mr Freeze (Wrong colors for cylinders and gun, missing color on Nora snowglobe as shown in preorders pic)
- To get Livewire and Supergirl you have to buy a 5-Pack with 3 figures you already have bought (Batgirl, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn)
- They raised the prices of single release (from 24.95 to 28$ per each figure), and cut back on accessories and ankle articulation
Cancelled items after solicits like:
- Batman MOTP cape
- Joker's car
Masterpiece with Batmobile:
They released the regular Batmobile, then after
just 3 months from the original release, DC announced the Deluxe version: with shiny finish + 2 characters with soft clothes and the bat signal (In January).
So everyone who had the regular Batmobile had to sell it to get the new one with extras.
So we all go with the preorders of the Deluxe Batmobile. Is it ended? Obviously not. So after people preordered the Deluxe one, DC announced 3 months later (in May) that the extras (batsignal + 2 chars) will be sold even separately.
So customers made an "useless" preorder in January thinking that the Deluxe Batmobile set
was the only way to get the Batsignal and Soft clothes characters.
So no respect at all for customers.
Figures from Animated JL only avaiable via DC Universe subscription, only in US, and came with
ANY accessories at all!
Last but not the least the
GCPD set! It was sold out really in about 3 months, when almost all items of this line were avaiable for years.
Even the expensive sets (Batmobile Deluxe, Batwings, Batcave) are almost all still avaiable after years from original release.
This set was released in really few units, but
it wasn't announced like extra limited, or as a special edition. People thought it would be avaiable, or reissued for at least 1 year from original release. A lot of collectors have all the characters of this line and
just miss this set.
No one from DC Collectibles was really
in touch with customers. On FB page
you CAN'T send a message. Via email
no one will answer.
This is really sad
in 2019.
We are in the sea with DC leading the boat, but no one knows where we are going.
As a loyal collectors of DC Animated line, I feel really abandoned. It's not fair for customers which spent a lot of money for this line (about 1300/1400 $ just for the TAS line, excluding TNBA). We deserve respect. We still don't know if there will be a plan for a re release of GCPD set, if the line will continue after August releases. Nothing and nothing.
Sorry for the outburst.
