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Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 05-01-2006 02:04
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I've been accepted, among others, to chat with Mattel on their Batman and Superman lines that LoG will be havign tomorrow. Now, I have only 1-2 questions on my mind, I wanna know if you have anything.

If you have questions for Mattel, tell me before I go and chat with them which will be around 2:00pm on 1/5/06. Which is 12 hours from now as I write.

So tell me now, QUICK!


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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 05-01-2006 10:32
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when the batgirl figure is cummin out from the batman series


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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 05-01-2006 10:53
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If you are attached to futher Batman figure projects, will you put more effort into making more moulds?


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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 05-01-2006 12:01
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Can we please have greater variety of characters and less variety of Batman?
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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 05-01-2006 14:54
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Bad News. I and many like me couldn't talk to Mattel due to computer problems on Mattel's side. So its still on, just that we'll talk to them sometime later.


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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 05-01-2006 15:12
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batboy99 wrote:
when the batgirl figure is cummin out from the batman series


It comes out this spring. As I said in the DC Superheroes thread, we should have all of the figure by Summer.



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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 05-01-2006 16:07
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oh ok so i will ask............hmmmmm....let me think.....wat new jl toys they r planning to realease


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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 05-01-2006 20:28
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I want to know when they will do a Chat with BYTB. Afterall LoG does not even have the figures from the original four Batman films on thier site, while BYTB has just about every figure released on ours.:bigrazz:

I also want to know if they will ever ship 3 whole waves of figures overseas again, or have they sorted out the U.S. distribution problems?


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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 07-01-2006 01:20
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Um, what happened to the display stands that were shown with the new DC Superhereos line!? These are a $1 more than Marvel Legends, cheaper plastics, reused parts, less joints, fewer colors, and details....And why do they have to use such the cheap,rubber,unstabled plastics for joints and structural parts. My Justice League figures are all bending forward or backward, even when I have put reinforcement pegs into their legs.

Maybe they could ask Toybiz some questions later after this session?


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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 08-01-2006 11:47
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I love the Marvel Legends, but lets face it some of them are even bad. Take Elektra for example. The articulation especially on the legs is horrible.

My guess is that the softer plastic is cheaper to use than the harder plastic and that?s why they use it. The thinner legs in the JL/JLU figures makes them prone to bending forward and falling over.

Mattel can make great figure that are similar to the Marvel Legends, Attack Armor Batman and Bat Signal Batman are proof of that, but for some reason they often fall short.


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RE: Want to ask questiosn to Mattel? Tell me. - Posted on 09-01-2006 22:53
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I know that the soft plastic must be cheaper, but come on...I took a look around at some cheap toys at walmart and they use better plastics and are still cheaper, so even after the DC lisense they should be roughly the same price one would think. A three pack of those figs for 10 bucks...theres not even 2 dollars worth of materials in the whole thing including the packaging...Im just dissapointed in the quality Mattel uses, they have some great sculpts and ideas sometimes but cutting corners hurts them the most like reusing molds


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