So it’s a bit of a fraught topic amongst collectors: do they fit? Can the new DC Collectible Icons, with all their pre-release hype and fan interaction, fit with the definitive comic-figure line of our generation, Marvel Legends? And to a lesser extent, with DC Universe Collectibles? And to an even lesser extent, Star Wars the Black Series?
The answer is: kind of!
It was at least very exciting and refreshing to be able to turn up to the local comics store (Heroes For Sale on “K” Road, Auckland city) and pick up all the figures I wanted in one go; from online revelation, to ETA, to getting these four guys
For the skinny (a good pun, as you will see) on each of these fellas, check the tags below. The long and short (I’m on a roll) is that they’re all great figures.
Apart from one white exception, I now have my ideal of a Justice League Animated line-up:
and I think it works.
I have plenty to say about DCUC…but to stay on topic, their scale has never been in keeping well with 1:12/6 inch scale, with the chronic reusing of bucks throwing all sorts of spanners in the works.
But there is reasoning that makes the DC Icons I have fudge in
See? Easy. Superman should NOT be like the normal-size, male-model derp-wad he is in the New 52. Lex is suitably smaller, and Hal and Flash don’t need the extra bulk.
Why shouldn’t WW be a Wonder Woman size? In the DCAU “Crisis On Two Earths” she’s easily this big next to non-super men. DCUC is just too big if 6 inches=6 feet, and so I’m not going to fault the Flash, with his super-metabolism, especially when next to a Batman that is a Supes body-clone.
And J’onn is a shapeshifter. He looks like a real dough-boy to me now, next to what are superior figures in basically every way. I was never happy with the toyishness of his head-sculpt, but the DCUC lack of texture and finer detail is really shown up next to the Icons. Opinion: the Icons are to DCUC as what Toybiz Marvel Legends are to Hasbro Marvel Legends. Discuss.
The main event.
Flash is almost always drawn buff without good reason, so here, next to the 2002-ish movie Spider-Man (Toybiz) he looks really good. Next to the Heroic Age Iron Man (Hasbro) he’s at perfect scale. The smaller proportions of the Icon upper-body suits a runner like Flash.
Head size has proven the biggest giveaway of the smaller scale against my Legends, Hal in particular. But here, he fits in way better with my armored Avengers than my Legends do, seeing as War Machine is too skinny for a guy in a suit of armor next to them.
Eh…Not the worst. Comic height for Natasha is at 5’7″ (and my Black Widow movie figure matches the comics) and Olli is listed at 5’11” (thank-you, internet). I don’t think much of DC’s continuity or consistency, so it’s not so bad for me. The slight, fleet footed-archer.
Hasbro has long since failed the scale test in my book, so even with an original mould, movie Ant-Man is made too big for ‘6 inches equalling 6 feet’.
Next to the X-Men Classics Tiger Stripe Wolverine (best Wolverine in the world, bub) and the Hasbro Cyke, it’s a bit of a fudge, particularly with the Icons’ heads. Hal, like Flash, shouldn’t really be buff, so there’s perhaps something to be said for his size next to Cyclops, who trains pretty hard.
And so, I’m happy. My collection has become a mixed bag anyway, since I ‘accidentally’ bought the Arrow TV series Deathstroke. Since then, I have a sub-collection of 7 inch and 6 inch/7 inch-fudgeable figures, and am a bit less of a tight-ass about scale (only a bit). Seeing as the Icons releases I picked up are non-powered characters (in Flash’s case, non-buff), the axe hasn’t dropped. How Black Adam turned out would be a better deal-breaker for some of you guys, but for me it will depend on the Supes release coming up in Wave 3.
I’m suitably impressed with the photos that I’m 98% sure I’ll be getting him anyway, and just hope that as a bonus, he can fully replace my turd-face DCUC Superman.
Hope this has helped and happy collecting!
FigureTrigger 
All the DC Universe collection have the same scale.
The solution was to do a bigger Superman, Martian Manhunter, Starfire, Big Barda …(the tall champs) as they did with Diana. No smaller DC Icons. Because altough they look like now in the correct scale with Superman you see they are in uncorrect scale with Hawkgirl.
The DC Icons figures are too small. Tehy arent in the same scale than Universe ones.
They have good quality but I dont would recomend them except to people who havent others figures.
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