For those on the fence about subscribing to DC Infinite Earths...
...please read the article I just wrote for the Fwoosh and consider subscribing!
Sorry, can't do it.
I'm a 2012 subscriber and the character choices have been good, not great, to me. I'm very glad to have Jay Garrick (who should never have been pulled from DCUC 19), and I'm really looking forward to Poison Ivy (who never should have been pulled from Batman Legacy), but other than that, eh. I kept Metron. I'll keep Black Mask, but everything else is headed for eBay.
As for next year, there's nothing announced I care about, particularly all the rainbow lantern stuff. I also think, while I know some fans want him, Wally West Flash breaks Mattel's promise there wouldn't be variants in the club. Monsieur Mallah would be cool, but I'm not subscribing just for him. Granny Goodness might have gotten me back in, but Mattel is essentially asking for two years worth of subs to even consider that possibility and I'm not willing to do that.
This is all moot, anyway. The thermometer hasn't budged in a week, it barely moved to begin with, and Scott and crew have forsaken the DC club for MOTU.
I think it's over.
-JJJ
I appreciate your reasons for not subbing, and I agree that the sub is probably going to die. But I want to do anything I can to keep it going. If it fails, at least I'll know I've tried. DCUC is (and probably always will be) my favorite action figure line. I want it to go on as long as possible.
I REALLY want Saint Walker and Larfleeze, but I'm not willing to subscribe based on what's been shown. I could not possibly care any less about Monsieur Mallah--certainly not for what he costs--and Matty has made it quite clear we won't be seeing any new tooling in 2013. If there's no chance of getting the characters I really want like Ragdoll, Mera, Indigo-1, Scandal Savage, Granny Goodness and so forth, then I'd be crazy to sign up for 7 months of "mystery" figures. The fact that they did away with oversized figures for 2013 entirely is the nail in the coffin--maybe they could have swayed me with Doomsday. As it is, I'm just not feeling it.
But hey, at least we got a (horribly out of scale) Rocket Red out of those oversized figs this year, right? 
But hey, at least we got a (horribly out of scale) Rocket Red out of those oversized figs this year, right?
Heh, or in my case, some guy in Massachusetts got...
-JJJ
I subscribed in 2012, I haven't yet in 2013 but plan to soon (mainly because I am lazy).
I've actually really liked the 2012 line, I think the packaging and presentation of these figures are awesome, and overall they just look cool. I admit that Rocket Red is pretty lame, and even more inexcusable is how Mattel just dodges every question about it. Just because of DC or the 4HM check off on a figure, doesn't mean it's okay for you to make it.
What bugs me even more is that I'm pretty indifferent on the Watchmen line, $25 + shipping a figure is in my mind way too much, but if it's just $25 and it ships along with my DC subscription...I'll probably get it.
What happens if I order Watchmen + DCIE and the IE club drops? I imagine I'll just be on the hook for Watchmen... which isn't that bad, but makes me a bit nervous.
I'm out. I can't keep up with these inflated prices. In this economy I am worse off then I was back in 2007, and simply can't justify buying a toy that has increased from $14.99 to nearly $30.00 in less than 5 years.
Yeah, I still can't believe how much the costs for these figures has risen. I fully expect stuff to be higher for collectors items sold directly (hey, I order a fair bit of tamashii nations stuff, and I don't think they've ever disappointed me), but even at retail the price for this and Marvel legends is astonishing to me. I remember back when I couldn't find that early wave Aquaman, I scoffed at paying 20 bucks from the scalpers, now that's retail price.