Noisy can regale you with in his review<\/a>. The gist is that even though Mr. Dent turned out to be a pretty good figure of a guy in a suit, he would have made an even better figure of a guy in a suit if he fit in with the rest of the 6 inch DC Universe Classics. As it is, he\u2019s some sort of weird amalgamation of almost fitting in and being just short enough to make him look like a large midget. <\/p>\n![](\"rant\/rantharv.JPG\")
This got me thinking. For some reason, Mattel seems to think that the DC movie figures need to be in a separate scale as the DC Universe figures. Why? I don\u2019t know, but it needs to stop before Green Lantern merchandise hits the shelves. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m not really in the market for a Ryan Reynolds in green spandex figure, but I recognize the possibility that the line could fill out an entire Corps of Green Lanterns (or how about some Blackest Night in that line). It might be the best place to fit as many of the obscure ones as possible. <\/p>\n
Back in the day, the Marvel Legends line ran congruent with the Spiderman and Fantastic Four lines. Sure, they were technically different lines on paper, but all the figures were in the same scale and same style for the most part. So why isn\u2019t Mattel taking advantage of this? Why put out a Movie Masters scale that can\u2019t fit in with anything else? I know I\u2019d be more apt to buy those Dark Knight figures if they actually fit in with my DC Classics. And, I know for a fact that making a ton of unique or obscure movie versions of Green Lantern Corps members in the movie line would be great as long as they fit in with the other 6 inch figures. The greatest thing that these in scale movie figures would do is open up slots for more non-Green Lantern DC figures while still getting us our GL fix. <\/p>\n
So, Mattel, Toy Guru. Don\u2019t stop making the Ghostbusters figures in their established scale, it\u2019s already too late for them. And the Dark Knight figures are already done, so they may as well continue that scale if there are ever any more. But this new Green Lantern movie, and any other DC movie going forward that they plan on doing, they all need to be in scale with DCUC from now on. Trust me, it\u2019ll increase your sales. Little kids and grandmas don\u2019t care about scale, but collectors go crazy for it. I know I would find it difficult to resist figures that fit in seamlessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Toy Guru recently announced his promotion to brand manager of the action figure line based on the upcoming Green Lantern movie. First, congratulations. Second, there\u2019s an issue I wanted to address before it\u2019s too late. Mattel, Toy Guru, I want you to stop doing 5 inch Movie Masters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[6,31,10],"tags":[41,199,378,2561,40,20,30,198,2560],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pObc6-W2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9730,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=9730","url_meta":{"origin":3598,"position":0},"title":"Mattel Non-NYCC Coverage: MOTU & DC Classics Updates","date":"October 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Even though Mattel couldn't make it NYCC this weekend, that didn't stop them from making a splash in the headlines. 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Toy Guru recently announced his promotion to brand manager of the action figure line based on the upcoming Green Lantern movie. First, congratulations. Second, there\u2019s an issue I wanted to address before it\u2019s too late. <\/p>\n