When the news of Raven winning the DC Universe Classics fan poll, guaranteeing her a spot in wave 15 next year, here were my initial thoughts:
The more I think about it, fan polls in which toy companies guarantee they’ll make the winner(s) don’t serve any purpose other than generating hype. When the companies pick who goes on the poll, they only pick guys that they would make anyways – otherwise, what happens if a character who can’t be made wins?
Then, fans of the ones who don’t win get disappointed because they know that their choices can’t get made before the winner, since that would negate the overall fan choice. And then there’s always the risk that the losers will never get made, based on how they did in the poll, when the poll is already stacked with the companies’ choices.
Of course, I’d feel differently if Catman won the first poll and Toyman won the second. 😀
After posting the ToyFare and Hasbro Star Wars fan poll news earlier, I was glad to see a poll where the majority of choices ended up getting made. Let’s hope for the same with the recent polls from Mattel and Hasbro.
DC Universe Fan Choice Announced
And the winner is…
My friends at ToyFare magazine ran a poll asking fans to help decide which character Mattel should add to the DC Universe Classics line. The votes have been tallied and the reader choice is:
Raven
Fans chose between Raven, Freddy Freeman, Toyman, Geo-Force, Libra, and Uncle Sam. Raven won by a landslide, so she joins DCUC Wave 15 in Winter 2010. To find out which competitor Raven beat by a two-to-one margin, pick up issue #148 on newsstands now!
—Matty
Well, it looks like we are going to at least wave 15. From grumblings across the web, I was thinking that DCUC would be ending sooner than that. Guess we have to wait and see if there are any more Wave 5/Wave 9 mishaps. That dropped a bunch of people I think. As long as I can get my hands on Power Girl, I will be good to go!