Four New 2-packs Announced (possible)

[ScottA]

Batman Vs. Clayface
Superman Vs. Classic Brainiac
Lex Luthor Vs. Supergirl
Golden Age Hawkman & Golden Age Hawkgirl

Here’s the official word from Mattel’s Toy Guru about these upcoming 2-packs.

So here is the deal with the new DCUC 2 packs and new IH Mallah’s Revenge 6 packs that has shown up on some internet sites.

These are currently “proposed” packs which we would very much like to get to. What are the factors holding them up you say? Well fan interest that is what!

To generate this, we have offered these packs to online retailers in hopes of generating enough pre-sales and support going into production. If we do recieve that and can hit the minimum order quantity we need to go into production, these packs will roll out throughout 2009. Here is the skinny:

Batman vs Clayface

Batman will be in his black and gray costume with “mud splatter” effects. Clayface will be an exact reissue of this hard to find figure.

Superman vs Brianiac

This is proposed as a standard Superman figure (Eradicator head on the Wave 6 Superman body with red heat vision eyes) vs. Classic Brainiac (green head) with an all new head and coller piece. Brainic will come armed with Luthor’s gun from the 2007 figure.

Supergirl vs. Luthor

This will be a reissue of the Blue outfit Kara Supergirl and the power suit Lex, but perhapes with a little surprise in the accessories!

Golden Age Hawk Pack

Two new figures to start your golden age collection.

[ScottA]

I never could find Clayface or the black suit Batman so I'm cool with that one. I have the Supergirl and Luthor so it would depend on the accessory. The new Brainiac would be ok and the Hawks are a must.

[CaptainTrenchcoat]

I preordered the Hawks and the Supes & Brainiac combo. Holding off on the Luthor until I see what he looks like. Already have Clayface, so passed on that set.

[BlackKnight]

So sales for these figures are already so low that they half to see if pre-orders are high enough to produce the figures. Lame. ... Then why spend so much time re-hashing product,.. that might wind up in clearance bins,.. because alot of people have them ?

I wonder if they realized that most retail stores chose to rather stock the Lame DarkKnight toys , Speed Racer & Hulk toys this summer, when these decided to roll out ?

& lets let the retail stores still only buy wave 1,. when wave 5 comes out.

I swear,.. if these are even being stocked here,.. only the Toy Scalpers are getting them.

Without this Board, friends, ebay & online stores,.. I would only have wave 1 & 2 of the two-packs at TRU... There is seriously something wrong with how these are marketed, & with just how much BS Retail stores decided to stock during the Summer Movie toy rush imo.

[thunderbolt]

Wow, these are tanking fast. A big company like Mattel has to resort to what Castaway has to do with preorders?

[BlackKnight]

I gotta Ride to Walmart today... still no Wave 5.

[The Toyroom]

Wow, these are tanking fast. A big company like Mattel has to resort to what Castaway has to do with preorders?

The problem with these as well as the JLU line IMO is the spotty distribution.
We all read about upcoming lines in toy mags and on-line and then wait patiently for them to show up in "our neck of the woods". But they're sooooo slow to arrive that people have lost interest in these very quickly. I personally have been disappointed by the character selection (DC Classics)that I've seen on the pegs lately and as far as the JLU line I couldn't find these for over a year and now Target is flooded with the freakin' things...

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Yeah, I still don't get why Mattel doesn't learn that nobody wants 20 different Superman and or Batmen!

[The Toyroom]

^ DC Direct does the same thing....we need a Superman or a Batman (sometimes BOTH) in every wave of every line they produce...