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<\/td>\nThis week, ToyFare Magazine put up its second DC Universe Classics Fan Poll.\u00a0 While Mattel is doing the right thing by getting fans involved, I have some serious reservations about the way it’s being handled.<\/p>\n
In this poll, fans can choose from Captain Marvel Jr., Geo-Force, Raven, Uncle Sam, Toyman, and Libra.\u00a0 Although everyone has their favorite character, I didn\u2019t need a ToyFare poll to tell me Raven was going to win in a popularity contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
Not only is she the best known of these characters, not only was she featured on the Teen Titans cartoon , but she is also a key character in making the Wolfman\/Perez Titans team complete. <\/p>\n
This is what I don\u2019t understand.\u00a0 Did Mattel really need a fan poll to tell them to make Raven?\u00a0 Even in last year’s poll, didn\u2019t they already realize the Question was a popular character?\u00a0 And what about the rest of the characters in that poll?\u00a0 Because we chose Question, and Raven (yes I\u2019m predicting it now), does that mean we won\u2019t be getting the losers?\u00a0 No Huntress?\u00a0 No Toyman?<\/p>\n
I doubt it.<\/p>\n
In both polls it wasn\u2019t only obvious who the winners were going to be, but it was almost blatant that the other characters were also on the \u201cto-be-made-eventually\u201d list.\u00a0 None of the characters are overly complicated, just modifications to the male\/female \u201cbuck\u201d body.\u00a0 Also, none of the characters on either list are very obscure. Why is Mattel asking us to choose one character from a list of characters that will probably be made anyway?<\/p>\n
Wouldn\u2019t it be more interesting if we were given a list of obscure characters?\u00a0 Wild Dog, Neptune Perkins, Prince Ra-Man, Shade the Changing Man, Fireman Farrell, Bullet Girl, Cave Carson, Brother Power the Geek, the Golden Age Tarantula, Firebrand (any of them), the Red Bee, the Manhattan Guardian.\u00a0 I could go on forever, there\u2019s too many to mention.\u00a0 These are the characters we should be choosing from.\u00a0 E or F-listers that would probably never be made unless they were put into a fan poll.\u00a0 And to those who don\u2019t think these characters would sell, I only have three words for you: Collect and Connect.\u00a0 As long as there is only one per case, and it comes with a C&C piece, there won\u2019t be a problem with peg warming.<\/p>\n
-Mr. Rant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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