Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Mattel: LSH action figures!

It would've made sense to put a Duo Damsel in each pack.

A neat idea would be to release Lu as a three-pack... The orange and the purple-clad Lu's splitting off from Lu "prime"... kinda fulfilling Duo Damsel *and* Triplicate girl in one fell swoop.

You are correct sir!

How'd I forget that -- Cockrum era TWolf is my most wanted action figure of all time. Cockrum Phantom Girl is number 2.

That is my thinking as well. They could do it at matty.com. I think it would be huge! Even though DD is not at the top of my list for female Legionnires -- I still want her and this would help balance the ratio. Then they could include other ladies in the next boxed set -- or whatever they have planned.

What were those MEGO-looking figures in the earlier link???

I LOVE MEGO.

I'd buy that 3-pack! Good idea there Pov.

I hope the figures are the same size as the 4-pack that Mattycollector put out last year (with LL/CB/SG/B5) because I hate starting one collection then having to start yet another just for the sake of owning everything Legion.
Hopefully last year's Matty 4-packs will continue with more characters regardless of this new 12 or 24 pack they're currently working on.

That 4-pack was for the Justice League Unlimited tv show line and that line was in a totally different (much smaller) scale. The just announced 12-pack is part of the DCUC line and will be in the 6"-7" scale. While Mattel continues to release a few new figures for the JLU line each year, I've not heard them indicate they have any plans to release more Legion-related figures for that line.

Actually, with prices likely to go up each year, we'd all pay well over $180 for 12 figures if they came out periodically over the long haul.

$180 seems like a huge amount on the surface, but it's actually reasonable when you get down to it. Shipping has me a little worried, but I can deal with it.

I'm more worried about ordering it through matty.com. I've heard horror stories about that site.

Oh yea, stuff sells out on matty fast like hot concerts sell out on ticketmaster. It wouldn't surprise me if the 12-pack sells out the same day it goes on sale. I just hope they limit the number of packs per buyer so the scalpers don't buy everything up.

Shipping shouldn't be too bad as long as they don't try packaging the figures in long single row box or a 3 rows of 4 box, etc. Ideally the 12 figures would come in a couple of boxes so they
can easily fit into a standard shipping box. But the odds of that happening are probably slim.

If by "worried" you mean their shipping costs, well I have ordered from them 3 times now and I've always found their prices to be quite fair (and I'm in Canada remember so that is a factor). If you're worried about the condition of the package being shipped, again they are pretty good when it comes to wrapping the boxes tightly enough that they survive the trip. They even open them at customs first before they arrive to me in Canada, and the toys and packaging have always arrived in mint condition.

This has been my experience with Mattycollector in the past and I will be using them again in the future. Hope this info helps you.

Won't they presolicit the Legion box via Previews like everything else? That's the way for me over here in germany to get stuff, my comic book shop sends me the Previews catalogue every month, I tellthem what to get for me and they do so.

Do things work different with Mattel?

These will not be available through Previews only at www.mattycollector.com

Do we have any idea of when they'll be available? I'll start rerouting my discretionary spending to save up for these.

There's a link on the matty site to sign up for their newsletter. With luck, that will give some indication when these figs go on sale.

Oh my, why do they have to make it so complicated? Wouldn't they reach a much bigger audience if they would use Previews?

That's really a bummer. Guess I'll have to ask my comic book shop if they can support me on this one.

I think in this instance it's more about trying to drive traffic to the Matty Collector Web site. From their perspective, the more people they bring to the site, the more merchandise they stand to move, based on customers seeing something on the site they didn't know was available. Also, the more they sell direct, the more direct profit they make on the sets. A set like this is also likely a limited run, so they have more control over orders if they do it directly. For the Legion, they're probably assuming that the audience isn't that big to begin with, so why go through the effort and expense to solicit the set with Diamond?

It's rather interesting in that the $180 for 12-pack (or $360 for a 24pack) works out to $15
a figure, which is the average retail price you would pay for DCUC in stores (assuming you can find them). So you would be spending the same amount of money on average over time if you were to buy the figures individually (if they were made available that way). But by putting them into a single pack, Mattel has created sticker shock by making people go wow I spend a lot of money on this hobby and do I really want to spend that much on on a Legion sub-line.

It wouldn't surprise if down the road that certain figures (ie Brainy, Saturn Girl, etc) get re-released as All-Star singles in part of a future DCUC wave. But for figures like M-E Lad, likely the only place to get him will be this 12-pack.

Someone who talked with Mattel at SDCC posted that these wouldn't be out until April/May.

So, plenty of time to save!

Birthday GIFT!!!!

My parents will buy this for me!

It would be a cool early Christmas gift ... I think I'll start dropping hints to friends and family ... not to mention Matty's e-mail address!

If you mean early -- as in 2011! Won't be available this year -- unfortunately.

Actually, it's pretty easy to buy through MattyCollector, even from abroad. I've bought from them a number of times. Very simple.

In Germany, we have a saying: "Your word be in God's ear" meaning that I hope you're right

Let's hope the Euro will have stabilized til spring 2011, might be a major price factor...

I don't think it's been mentioned here yet, but I saw on eBay that someone is taking preorders for a Tyr figure, which is supposed to be part of Mattel's DC Heroes Wave 14 line. This figure seems much more detailed than the one offered by Kenner in the mid-eighties.

Well...yeah.

DCUC figures are much more sophisticated than the Super-Powers line of the 80s.

Most, if not all, of the figures from the 80s Super Powers line are finding their way into the DCUC waves.

I just wish Tyr had his original ball-shaped gun that Dave Cockrum designed as opposed to the clunky bazooka arm Jack Kirby added.