Will Mattel ever give us Secret Six or Royal Flush Gang figures ??
Will Mattel ever give us Secret Six or Royal Flush Gang figures ??
I don't know about you guys but I see Mattel say there trying, to please us but just still not happy, I want the rest of the Secret Six , and the Royal Flush Gang but my question does any one else want them ?? Just how popular are they to us ??
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We have Catman, Deadshot, Silver Banshee and Bane. I used The Shark as a standin for King Shark. There was also a Parademon figure. We were really only lacking Scandal Savage, Ragdoll and maybe Knockout if you are really digging deep. But I'd be first in line for any of those three.
And I'd love to see some Royal Flush Gang figures as long as it wasn't an overpriced box set.
After the Metal Men and the Doom Patrol (two teams I'm fairly certain will be completed through the sub), the Secret Six and the RFG are the two teams I would most love to see in DCUC.
The Six have had several line-ups, but to me the ones that are most necessary t this point are Scandal, Ragdoll, and Jannette. I really would love to get those, but have little hope of ever getting them, honestly. Maybe Ragdoll, but they're all a longshot. Honestly, I think the SSxer with the best chance of being made is King Shark, who could fill an oversized slot in the 2013 sub.
As for RFG, they would've made a perfect Walmart 5-pack or a great Matty Collector offering. But none of the feedback from Mattel lately concerning RFG has been very promising.
To be honest, with their latest line of Batman 4" Happy Meal toys, I would not be surpirsed to see them pull out of boy based action figure lines completely. Whether or not you bought the Speed Racer or Green Lantern Movie Toys, every retailer couldn't give that garbage away no matter how low the clearance % went. Becasue guess what Mattel, your customers are not stupid. Quik Tech Batman = Instant Clearance.
I will never forget going into a TRU last summer and seeing 60, yes 60, cases of GL Movie Masters Wave 1 on risers collecting dust at buy 1 get 2 free. Look at DCU, where is the rest of the Metal Men? Buy a subscription to get them...get bent. The upcoming SDCC Mattel exclusives are just further proof, Mattel is clueless...more garbage.
Best most popular I think is
Bane dcuc baf
Catman dcu legacy
Ragdoll
Chesire
Savage
Deadshot Dcuc
Just to add dcuc of the reamanimg three would be a dream come true !!!
I don't think Mattel will ever give them to us. They would definitely charge for them.
I hate to be a pessimist, but I will be pleasantly surprised if Mattel even manages to finish out the Doom Patrol and the Metal Men.
I would have loved a Royal Flush Gang 5-pack, but I think that ship has sailed away forever.
Mattel finishing out The Six would be great too, but I just don't see them ever making Scandal and what is The Six without Scandal?
I hate to say that I want figures to not be made. Sure, it might not be my thing, but if someone else wants it, then why not?
But I *HATE* the Royal Flush Gang. They were featured pretty prominently in JLA and JLA Classified a few years ago, in stories by Len Wein, no less, and those stories made me despise them as characters. For like nine months, DC tried to convince me that a fat man in a spandex bodysuit knocking off banks before being punched by a man dressed as a Dracula was worth caring about. They were pushing the RFG like freaking Poochie, and it was about as effective.
So yeah, if someone wants the RFG, then bundle them up into a 5-pack so I can avoid them all in one fell swoop. If they show up in the sub, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
But I'd love a Scandal, Jeanette, and Ragdoll. Knockout, King Shark ("Hi! I'm a shark!"), and Black Alice would be cool, too. They seemed like something DCDirect would have done back in the day, especially Scandal and Ragdoll.
(I really tried to like nu52 Suicide Squad, but just couldn't get into it. I sorely miss Secret Six. Alas.)
Yeah, Secret Six was amazing, I totally agree. All over now, though. Maybe they will all be cleaned up and worked into a relaunched "52" Stormwatch or something. 
Not to threadjack, but I got bored at work today and made a list just off the top of my head of all the Batman Beyond figures they could make. It could have supported a years worth of DCUC waves easily. Man I hope we get some out of the sub. Though it's sad that it'd be hard to make a Shriek, I just can't see a way to effectively sculpt his armor onto a DCUC frame without a LOT of compromises.
DCUC is dead. Give it time. The rainbow Lanterns really did kill the line. The only sales they made for the sub were people who want to make cash on ebay.
I do...
When the collectors are bored with the product, whether it's getting poor character selection, can't find the latest assortment, or feel that the price is too high, who is going to pick up the sales and save the line..parents? Not going to happen. Most "real" kids in TRU that go through the action figure alises stop and look at Star Wars, Transformers, Hot Wheels, maybe Batman but are parents going to drop $18 on an Indigo Atom sitting next to a Dead Space Figure with arms where his intestines should be, no, instead they spend $10 or less on some Legos or Bakugan.
Mattel prevented DCUC from being the great line it could have been. Poor distribution, repacking Superman and Batman to death, and continuously raising prices, I mean come on how many headless Giganta's are there out there? I was buying every wave until the Rainbow Lanterns starting showing up to where last Wave I only bought Green Arrow.
But I *HATE* the Royal Flush Gang. They were featured pretty prominently in JLA and JLA Classified a few years ago, in stories by Len Wein, no less, and those stories made me despise them as characters. For like nine months, DC tried to convince me that a fat man in a spandex bodysuit knocking off banks before being punched by a man dressed as a Dracula was worth caring about. They were pushing the RFG like freaking Poochie, and it was about as effective.
Folks need to remember that there were comics before the turn of the century.
The Royal flush gang has been around for decades, in multiple forms. They are a classic group of baddies that even made their way into the Super Powers Team show back in the 80's, and there are many, many times more people who would recognize them than the Secret Six team mentioned here. Me, I'd want the classic versions that originally went up against the League back in the days when comics were actually fun to read...
See? That's what I mean. Someone else has a genuine appreciation for characters that I *HATE*. Just because I hate them, that doesn't mean I don't want them to be made. There are literally hundreds of other DC characters I'd rather have, and I would be very sad if they were included in the sub. But just because I don't want them, that doesn't mean I don't want someone else to get them. If someone wants the RFG, then I would be genuinely happy for them. Likewise, I'd hope they would be happy for me if I were to ever get a Ma Hunkel Red Tornado. 
Just dump the RFG into a five-pack, outside of the sub, and everyone wins. Huzzah!
And that's a most healthy and refreshing attitude to have, my friend. And, trust me, I'd be right there with you cheering for a Ma Hunkel figure!
CP, Shriek wouldn't be too hard if they're willing to sculpt new arms. Beyond that, it'd just be a chest armor piece and a new head (of course). But, if they're trying to not sculpt new arms, I agree with you that it wouldn't really work. I also can't conceive of how his armor pieces would fit over the standard DCUC arms and not look like crap.
I would literally kill for some good DCUC Batman Beyond figures! Blight, Spellbinder, Inque, Curare, Mr. Freeze, Joker, Mad Stan, The RFG, not to mention the dozens of one-off villains! I would be in toy heaven!