Pros: Love the Aquaman sculpt. There's going to be a lot of playable pieces in this set. The Flash and Batman sculpts are beautiful too. Bizarro = Cool...I'll use his Superfriends voice from the 80s whenever I play him. Love Steel - totally going to try to mod a Shaq version. Overall, they gave the iconic characters some good-looking figs.

Cons: Hate the Doomsday sculpt...that character deserved better. Hate the Wonder Woman sculpt, but then again, I'm not a DC fan and only know WW as the iconic bikinied Amazon.

WTF: Between Earth Man, Invisible Kid, Element Woman, Sun Boy, Star Boy and Starman, Superboy, Supergirl, and even Superman, you can field an entire team of figures with totally unoriginal names. Matter-Eater Lad is on the bubble...Matter-Eating isn't very generic, but his name's just one step away from being Butt-Kicking Dude.

We don't have a complete picture to be able to say whether Marvel nixes as many as DC. We just have more DC examples, is all, and now that we don't have Seth or BroMags dropping those tidbits to us. Notably, Morbius was initially proposed for Monsters and Mutations by WK, but Marvel said no. But in a year where we get both Matter-Eater Lad and Squirrel Girl, I'd give 'em credit for being pretty open.


It's a popular story he was in, and it's supposed to be made into an animated DVD.

I had not heard this! That's outstanding news. DC animated movies have consistently blown me away.

Question to anyone out there. who is superman beyond? did he came out from any comic book? or was he just shown in any tv series related to dc characters like batman beyond? thanks for enlightening me with your answers to my questions. Have a nice day.

@Tim Drake

Thanks for the info regarding how DC controls wizkids about the distribution of their characters per set.

@JayThor

I totally agree with you a 100x

Sweeeeet... old school Superboy and Manchester Black!

Considering these characters have had these names since the 50's (or earlier with Superman), before MARVEL existed (pre-FF #1), I'd say these are original.

thanks....

Seconded!

Along with Eradicator and the new Lobo, Steel & Cyborg Superman, I'm really excited about this new set.

Getting a new Parasite as well as Live Wire, Silver Banshee and Bruno Mannheim is pretty cool as well.

Seeing all of this ranting I dont feel so bad about mine. Flash point pieces and no Captain Thunder........grumble grumble

Ok... I'll change my mind one last time about this set.

The Legion pieces are not bad as they fit with the theme of the set because they were inspired by Sups legacy.

But... I think that the Flashpoint pieces should NOT have been in this set at all. They should have been their own separate set like the Bightest Day or Blackest Night sets were. This would have allowed for more Superman related characters. Jimmy Olsen(any version!), Resistance Lois, Atomic Skull, Krypto, a new Mxyzptlk, other Superman Revenge Squad members, another Female Fury or even another Intergang related character.

The separate set would have been perfect. I would have gladly paid the $25~30 like the Brightest/Blackest sets. This would have allowed for a good set of Flashpoint pieces: CYBORG, Wonderwoman, Aquaman, Thomas Wayne Bats, Flash, Element Girl and another one or two other characters unique to Flashpoint.

WizKids, I know you are limited by the contract you have w/ DC to only do so many sets a year by the copyright. But, please, please, please, get it right with tighter themed sets!!! I bet many DC and clix fans would gladly see the mini-sets like we had with Brightest Day to get the smaller sub-themed pieces we want so that we may have less filler in the ONE yearly DC set we get.

Grifter. You forgot Grifter.

Does anyone have Human Target in hand? I'd like to know if it's actually Christopher Chance.

If not, I only want Black Adam, and a Batman LE if it's Bruce Wayne.

It's Christopher Chance, 70s hair and all.

I wouldn't have minded a few more Superman-related pieces, but I think the issue is less "not tight enough theme" and more "too small a set". Only 54 CURSR pieces means there are 6 spots right there that could have gone to more Superman-y goodness (personally I'd have liked to see the Female Furies, Mr. Mxy, and Atomic Skull make an appearance, but I'm sure they would have frittered away three spots with unpowered Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane and Perry White ).

In the set I see 11 pieces that aren't Superman related:

Seven Deadly Brothers
Element Woman
Human Target
Wonder Woman (arguable)
The Bat-Man (arguable)
The Flash (arguable)
Aquaman (arguable)
Swamp Thing
Black Adam

9 characters out of 54, so 1/6. That's not bad. There have to be SOME characters that aren't directly related to a set theme to encourage those who aren't fans of the central theme to buy at least SOME of the set.

The thing I find most irksome is that they included these Flashpoint characters but no Cyborg (we STILL don't have a playable, accurate Cyborg), and no Reverse Flash (I was REALLY expecting him to be an LE repaint in the OP kit, instead of, say, Zibarro...that to me is a real missed opportunity). No Red Son Superman still surprises me a bit, as does no Ultraman.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the set. There could be changes that would improve it for me, but I'm sure my "improvements" would be cause for someone else to complain ("Reverse-Flash in the OP kit? What does this have to do with Superman? Should have been Zibarro, because he is SOOO AWESOME!!!").

Excellent.


Now I want the most rare SR and a common no one wants lol