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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 18, 2024 8:19:23 GMT -5
Is there anyone with the same skintone as Ali that has taped fists? Wanna recreate this when his legends comes out or if I can get another UE cheap. Maybe Kama the supreme fighter?
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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 11, 2024 10:07:08 GMT -5
I'm watching WWF shows in 2000, and noticed that since the Royal Rumble that year, they really de-emphasised Chyna's career as an in-ring performer and dialed her back to just appearances or accompanying Eddie to the ring. When she did wrestle, she wrestled most frequently in tag matches, presumably to hide her weaknesses.
But it was surprising to me how little she wrestled after her push in mid-late 1999. I didn't know/watch back then as much as I do now, so I had assumed she continued wrestling on the regular. But clearly they wanted to reduce her match frequency and I can only assume she was training behind the scenes.
Jericho and Bob Holly have both said she was green as goose **** and needed carrying completely through the match. Yet she still had experience under KK and was able to work in some capacity.
Did she improve by the time she left? I haven't watched her matches beyond mid-2000 and she didn't seem to improve all that much since the year prior, but she also didn't get a lot of match time.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 8, 2024 12:11:36 GMT -5
TheXtremisT I don’t think the skintones would match brother. This Eddie looks to be lighter in complexion. Also, I really hope we could get a phantom Rey as an ultimate. Three heads, one neutral, one with teeth gritting and a ripped one. Accessories include open hands, gripping hands, fists, removable entrance belt, extra mask and cruiser weight belt. Would be interesting if they made a paler shade for Eddie, we'll find out eventually. But I can live with the black tape I guess. A HH97 Rey would go down so well. They need to make one and forget that they made an elite.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 8, 2024 7:53:38 GMT -5
That Eddie looks great. Zero reason that torso shouldn't have been used for the RA He was slimmer in WCW, and didn't really look super bulky until 2002. So this torso would have still looked out of place. We basically need a new ripped torso for smaller guys. And larger and more defined arms than the smaller double jointed elbow arms, but smaller than the ones used for Warrior, Cena.... currently.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 8, 2024 7:47:00 GMT -5
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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 7, 2024 13:02:53 GMT -5
I wrote in my post that that couldn't have been the reason because he was applying the elevated version on guys right up until about 2009. Regardless of their size (not counting superheavyweights). And yet he still applied the Boston Crab to smaller guys even after 2009. So that argument doesn't hold weight. It must be something else. brother, have you ever been at the receiving end of either move? imagine taking it after years of abuse to your back, come on bro there is no conspiracy here Yes I have actually, and can honestly say that the Walls of Jericho is a lot less painful. I can't remember exactly how it felt on my neck, but in terms of the lower back - Boston Crab really packs on the pressure. So unless it f***s up your neck, I can't see the Boston Crab being gentler.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 6, 2024 12:54:51 GMT -5
I think it all came down to his opponents getting bigger as he climbed the ranks in the WWF. The old school Lion Tamer was more doable and worked with lighter cruiserweights when he was in WCW, but I'm sure a classic Boston Crab was easier to take for most opponents especially in the WWF. because the Lion Tamer is for cruiserweights who can bend the crab is for the big fellas I wrote in my post that that couldn't have been the reason because he was applying the elevated version on guys right up until about 2009. Regardless of their size (not counting superheavyweights). And yet he still applied the Boston Crab to smaller guys even after 2009. So that argument doesn't hold weight. It must be something else.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 4, 2024 18:04:47 GMT -5
As the title says. Always bothers me how he switched from the elevated version we knew and loved for the first 10 years or so in his WWE run, to just a standard Boston Crab. He even occasionally did a half/half Liontamer/Walls of Jericho in 2000 where he wouldn't place the knee on the head of the opponent, but would stand tilted at an angle to the opponent and not standing fully over the opponent's back. He would then switch to the elevated Boston Crab for the remainder of his WWE run until about 2010? He claimed that he stopped doing the Liontamer upon joining the WWE because of the larger opponents. So this excuse doesn't hold weight as to why he switched to the standard Boston Crab much much later.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 2, 2024 12:26:55 GMT -5
Have we seen that vest from Hall before? Wondering if I could get one from another figure to paint black for a 2000 F.U.N.B. Hulk Hogan custom
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 26, 2024 8:04:15 GMT -5
I'd like the ring itself, but don't really need the figure or the mat or aprons, or ropes and pads for that matter. I just want to frame and planks, support pieces, posts, and steps. I can't justify the price tag for that. It is a cool look, but not something I am interested in as pictured. That's interesting as I only want those parts you don't want. But I'm in the UK so it would probably price me out to ship the ring/Bischoff over here then ship the stuff I don't need back to the US.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 24, 2024 18:44:31 GMT -5
Repaint wave is a little pessimistic. It's featured new head sculpts for Luger, Taker, Hogan, Nash, Fake Diesel, Teddy Long.... And either upper or lower body sculpts for Teddy Long ref (although it is split between this wave and the SSlam one) and the Disciple...
So there is at least some new tooling despite clearly a lower budget than even PPV series'. Although they could have looked at sculpting new heads for at least 1 first time in the line figure per wave and using pre-existing body parts because that is essentially what they've done in each wave anyway but for guys who've had multiple figures released already. Keep the budget low by choosing less deco on other figures like they've done for Nash, Austin, Hogan.... but at least use this as an opportunity to give us never before had wrestlers FFS....
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 23, 2024 16:53:25 GMT -5
Yeah this is a major letdown.
Not only have they replaced it and probably will never see the light of day - we get ANOTHER release of a guy who's had a couple already from the same era, but Mattel have gone back on their word to release one of the Nitro stage exclusives in elite form - when they said they'd never do it. And it's not even one of the figures like Scott Steiner that we actually wanted....
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 22, 2024 12:23:19 GMT -5
I find it funny that this time a year ago and ever since we got more pictures of Bret (display shots, official shots, in packaging shots all prior to mass release) - overwhelmingly on here, facebook, IG - the majority were saying how much they liked the Bret heads.
I was baffled because they looked beyond ridiculous to me. Glad pretty much everyone commenting here say the same but this is poor from Mattel. They just can't stop from messing with Bret's likeness and not taking the good and sticking with it. The elite 94 head looked great. Why couldn't they do what they've done for so many other sculpts and alter the file to fit the era and put the correct hair from the time on? They could have just used E94 as a base and built on it.
Piper's heads look ok, apart from the hair. He had that bryl-creamed, brushed to one side hair on what, ONE occasion in WCW? The rest of the time it was just a tiny bit messy.
I just don't get their choices sometimes....
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 13, 2024 9:35:28 GMT -5
They've messed up the lightning on every single non-Wolfpac Hogan figure. The UE's is too blue and thick surrounding the white. Needs to either be muted and smaller or take out the blue entirely. The WM18 is literally just the same as the UE which is completely lazy and ridiculous. How the hell does this look like the UE?: Then the 3 pack HH is so disappointing. Wrong font on the Hollywood, ridiculously over-exaggerated lightning and that bandana and shirt would have been a slam dunk but they f'd it up royally....
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 9, 2024 5:15:00 GMT -5
If it's an exclusive, then they have every right to do so and have done this before, let's not forget. Regarding the arms - the UE Mankind model may have new ones. Although they do look like the common single-jointed Austin-style arms just updated in the render with cuts to make it look double jointed. :
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 6, 2024 7:22:40 GMT -5
What's the story behind this? Was it some sort of rib on someone/himself....? Either way it looks ridiculous, and we'll never (thankfully) get a figure of it from Mattel. But those Terminator and crossbones boots are perfection. Those would go down well in figure form (they'd need to alter the Terminator head enough to avoid CR).
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 4, 2024 17:39:41 GMT -5
Hey all, I'm thinking of subscribing to this eventually.
Is it pretty complete? Anything censored/removed? Wondering what the overall concensus is for it.
Also - TNA had a lot of "rip-off" themes, so I was wondering if they dubbed over them like they do on WWE Network/Peacock?
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Post by TheXtremisT on Jan 31, 2024 18:18:16 GMT -5
We need WCW Sid with the white socks, black trunks, vest, short curly hair and new body mold. He could include a leg as an accessory. Although, I can’t remember if he snapped his leg before or after he wore trunks. And chest hair. I'd settle for Cesaro/Hogan upper legs, Sid lower legs/boots and Mean Mark Callous upper body.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Jan 30, 2024 9:27:42 GMT -5
The arms look ridiculous. I said the same when the DM Mankind was released.
Lazy AF. It's Kurt Angle syndrome. They should be making more unique parts rather than shoving square pegs in round holes...
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Post by TheXtremisT on Jan 27, 2024 17:50:35 GMT -5
His UE torso is fine. To make it thicker would make it look ridiculous.
I've written multiple times in AFA Q&A thread that we need more double jointed elbow arms because guys like Austin, RVD.... have the ones that are too skinny. They even gave them to D'Lo Brown and they look ridiculous.
The legs thing would be so simple - just give him Stunning Steve Austin/Ringmaster upper legs. I don't get why they have to give the same lower half molds for every Stone Cold Steve Austin figure, but they can give Stunning Steve the thicker ones.
They change the parts for some guys when we've asked (eg AJ Styles E105) but refuse to on others....
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