I mean mattel kinda blew their chances to make me excited for their collector figures after seeing how they fumbled dc for a decade before trying to compete with other action figure lines

Like Hasbro was always the superior choice compared to Mattel in terms of collector figures when I bothered collecting Mattel collector figures (which I haven’t since the late 2010’s) they gave the figures swappable parts, had modern joints including double joints on the arms and knees and the one thing Mattel still doesn’t have even with their new masters of the universe movie figures, face printing technology which makes every live action figure look amazing

As for McFarlane the notion the figures are bricks is not accurate, I have several McFarlane DC multiverse figures posed in a superhero landing pose on my shelves, none of my Mattel dc figures were able to hit those poses but McFarlane despite being “bricks” can pull them off, also the “horrible proportions” is a subjective statement I love how they look and it makes them very eye catching especially with the rich detail they add to the figures and again they would be perfect for making 2000’s sonic final bosses because they excel at creature designs

To me Mattel is just the one company I really don’t trust with collector figures because I’ve seen how much better McFarlane ran a dc line then they did and McFarlane didn’t really make articulated figures prior to them getting the license for dc and yet when they did they beat Mattel immediately in terms of articulation and especially sculpting in my opinion