McFarlane/DC Direct Super Powers

I wandered into a Gamestop yesterday simply because it was right next to where I parked to run into Target.  I was surprised to find they had the Peacemaker 3-pack in there.

Brainiac ship has been found in the US at Walmart (I think it was AZ...)

I reached out to Dan via his Instagram account and he says this will not be Walmart exclusive but I haven't found it on Amazon or McFarlane's own site yet.  When I do I will post links.

And I spoke to soon.

Pre-orders for the full wave are up on Amazon, Entertainment Earth, and McFarlane toys.  If you pre-order the full wave you will get an exclusive Sinestro Corp Sinestro (not available to order individually as the moment).  Also, there is a "Gold Label" variant of Brainiac's skull ship (Purple, Gold, and Green) that includes a Variant Brainiac figure as well.

The wave is Kilowog, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Manga Batman, and Brainiac, with 2 variants for the Brainiac skull ship and Blue Beetle's Bug ship, plus the variant Sinestro and Gold Superman.

I gotta say, seeing the figures in package, I am so excited to get these.  Places my order last night and now just need to patiently wait for April for them to ship.  I am so happy that McFarlane Toys is selling them direct and making it so easy to ensure I don't miss out on the figures I want (unlike the Walmart exclusive Black Manta and Reverse Flash that still haven't made it out to any stores in my area)

I've given up on this line.  I love the figures, but I just don't have the drive in me for the action figure hunt that I had 10+ years ago.  I've probably visited 50+ Walmarts in Indiana (I drive all over the state for work) and I've only even seen the wave with Batman/Robin/Aquaman in one walmart.  Every other walmart is still sitting on the GL/Nightwing/Deathstroke wave.  I've never seen Reverse Flash or Black Manta.  Normally by now these things trickle, but nothing yet.   Gamestop has some of the newer...but bleh.

If anyone is interested, I'm getting rid of what I have.  I have 2X sets of the first 3 waves (less RV and BM) and 2X of the Peacemaker 3 pack.  I also have one of the display toppers from the first wave.  

Found this on a Facebook group for this line

Wave 8:

Booster Gold

Metamorpho

Guy Gardner

Batman (Dark Knight Returns)

Black Manta (Black suit variant)

Superman (Fleischer variant)

Such a great wave. Both the Superman and Batman variants make sense and will be appreciated in the collection. Also happy to be getting another chance at Manta (albeit a variant) as I have given up on ever getting a chance at one in my local store at this point.

**there is also new wave announcements for Multiverse and New Batman Adventures which I'll add in those threads**

The Fleischer Superman has my interest, hopefully it turns out looking good.  I just got the Mego variant of that and it's amazing how much of a difference that "S" makes along with the red belt.

Amazon has pre-order up for a pack with a black Batwing, black Whirlybat and Toy Biz inspired black Batman...

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(probably just easier to do a search on Amazon than to de-space that link though there are no added spaces past the <dot>com)

I thought this was originally announced as an SDCC exclusive.  Glad to see a retailer picked it up and is making it available to the public.

Clearly I haven't been keeping up around here. I'm really impressed with the current wave. Beetle, Kilowog, and Brainiac are all top-notch, and the Bug Ship is really well-done. I actually really like the Manga Batman repaint, too. It's a good repaint that makes sense. I did screw up on one thing, though. I ordered through McFarlane, and then found the Bug and Brainiac ship at GameStop. I didn't want to take a chance on missing them, so I bought them, figuring when McFarlane shipped I'd just return those to GameStop. And then I lost the receipt. Trying to figure out a way to unload them now. 

I'm also hesitant to pick up the black Batman set. Like a jillion other people, my Batplane's canopy broke. I bought a second on clearance and carefully disassembled it and before I could get the spring loose it broke too. I don't want to pay for another Batplane that's just going to have a busted canopy. Anybody get one yet? 

@Bryan L. Unload on eBay.  You'll get your money back at least if not a nice profit besides.

Eagerly waiting for the next wave to go up for pre-sale

Not real toys (but they should be!), check out DC's variant action figure covers...

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They are beautifully done and I second the nomination to make them actual toys!

I found Gold Superman, Batman, Flash and the yellow Sinestro at a GameStop. I actually found the entire wave, including Blue Beetle and Kilowog, but I already had all the others so I just bought the first four, which I wasn't able to order from McFarlane. The gold costumes look better than I thought. I really wanted Gold Superman because that was one that was considered for the original line. Gold Batman reminded me of other gold Batmen in previous lines, and honestly, I just like the look of Gold Flash.