Hogan and Hardy Ultimate Edition Fan TakeOver Megathread

[Picks]

its bad enough the majority of us could not get any of the 3 exclusives. Wait for the people who did to start having their orders canceled orders. Which is not uncommon. I have had orders canceled from Walmart, amazon and just recently Target.

[bitw]

Hogan sold out faster than he did at Bash at the Beach ‘96

[marino13]

Guess I'm lucky for once. Who knew?

[aggressiveperfector]

Jul 23, 2021 12:05:41 GMT -5 marino13 said:

Guess I'm lucky for once. Who knew?

Your .gif kind of fits actually haha…the shrug…

[boz1515]

Jul 23, 2021 11:33:48 GMT -5 @twistedone22388 said:

All in all, these are still toys.

Are we sure lol?  Toys had always been something you could go to the store and purchase.  To many of us these are becoming almost mythological, maybe complete fiction, or urban legend.  I'm starting to doubt that some of them physically exist and are just images on my screen, or like part of a dream sequence or something lol.  It seems like I can't obtain any of the ones I actually want.

[skogen]

I just can't understand why they'd seemingly produce so few of Hulk Hogan. Don't they know people get into bidding wars over the mere mention of his name?

[kutzheels]

Would be nice if someone could let us know if these are sold out or I have to spend the rest of the day hitting refresh

[Picks]

Jul 23, 2021 12:07:44 GMT -5 boz1515 said:

Jul 23, 2021 11:33:48 GMT -5 @twistedone22388 said:

All in all, these are still toys.

Are we sure lol?  Toys had always been something you could go to the store and purchase.  To many of us these are becoming almost mythological, maybe complete fiction, or urban legend.  I'm starting to doubt that some of them physically exist and are just images on my screen, or like part of a dream sequence or something lol.  It seems like I can't obtain any of the ones I actually want.

They are called Adult Collectibles lol. Last I checked my child does not have their own amazon account and credit card. These are clearly not marketed to children or even available to children really. 

[aggressiveperfector]

Jul 23, 2021 12:08:59 GMT -5 skogen said:

I just can't understand why they'd seemingly produce so few of Hulk Hogan. Don't they know people get into bidding wars over the mere mention of his name?

To be fair when selling all my current figures, I sold his Elite 34 (?) loose for $55

[gentlemanjohnny]

I was pissed about Sgt. Slaughter, but I get it. It was a comic con exclusive- I can see why they are limited, I guess. But this Hogan thing has me ready to hulk up dude. Whatcha gonna do when the exclusives don’t make it to you???

[gentlemanjohnny]

Jul 23, 2021 12:08:59 GMT -5 skogen said:

I just can't understand why they'd seemingly produce so few of Hulk Hogan. Don't they know people get into bidding wars over the mere mention of his name?

Imagine the truck driving uncle laughing as he drive off with all of them. 

[Warriah']

Considering these hogans went up for all of a couple of minutes at a previously undisclosed time I feel like they will pop back up intermittently. They can't have sold through their whole supply in such a short time.

[tdoggpsu]

When did it become expected that Mattel owes detailed information such as the exact minute a preorder will go live on a third party site like Amazon? And how does one know that Amazon even provided this info to Mattel? Or even if they do, that they execute flawlessly as planned, which Mattel has no control over?

And where is it written that just because you have the money to buy something that you’re entitled to get one, and Mattel owes you one, and should just “take your money”? Limited production run items exist in every collectible market and format. Not everybody that wants one of everything can get one of everything. #1/1 sports cards anyone?

And for those that say they hate exclusives and Mattel should stop making them...if the alternative is that this particular character or look never gets made if not for exclusives, are you proposing you’d rather not see it get made at all? Since you have $30 in your pocket and couldn’t get one, then nobody should have it? It just shouldn’t exist?

Steve has said that exclusives help support the line. That means retailers want exclusives in order to keep carrying the regular issue product. So since you couldn’t get an exclusive the day it went on sale, Mattel shouldn’t give exclusives to Amazon, and in turn it would be ok if I Amazon stopped carrying Mattel WWE figures entirely?

[aggressiveperfector]

Jul 23, 2021 12:17:33 GMT -5 tdoggpsu said:

When did it become expected that Mattel owes detailed information such as the exact minute a preorder will go live on a third party site like Amazon? And how does one know that Amazon even provided this info to Mattel? Or even if they do, that they execute flawlessly as planned, which Mattel has no control over?

And where is it written that just because you have the money to buy something that you’re entitled to get one, and Mattel owes you one, and should just “take your money”? Limited production run items exist in every collectible market and format. Not everybody that wants one of everything can get one of everything. #1/1 sports cards anyone?

And for those that say they hate exclusives and Mattel should stop making them...if the alternative is that this particular character or look never gets made if not for exclusives, are you proposing you’d rather not see it get made at all? Since you have $30 in your pocket and couldn’t get one, then nobody should have it? It just shouldn’t exist?

Steve has said that exclusives help support the line. That means retailers want exclusives in order to keep carrying the regular issue product. So since you couldn’t get an exclusive the day it went on sale, Mattel shouldn’t give exclusives to Amazon, and in turn it would be ok if Mattel stopped carrying Mattel WWE figures entirely?

If MATTEL didn’t carry Mattel WWE, then I think we’d ALL be in for big trouble.

[Chip]

i will say this, everyone freaked out with fan takeover series 2 "pre-orders" selling out in minutes, and right now you can go on amazon and order anyone from the set

its just the general impatience of collectors that cause these issues at the beginning. then eventually stock evens out. this is amazon we're talking about, they didn't order 1000 ultimate edition hulk hogan figures.

[chaz]

Jul 23, 2021 12:17:33 GMT -5 tdoggpsu said:

When did it become expected that Mattel owes detailed information such as the exact minute a preorder will go live on a third party site like Amazon? And how does one know that Amazon even provided this info to Mattel? Or even if they do, that they execute flawlessly as planned, which Mattel has no control over?

And where is it written that just because you have the money to buy something that you’re entitled to get one, and Mattel owes you one, and should just “take your money”? Limited production run items exist in every collectible market and format. Not everybody that wants one of everything can get one of everything. #1/1 sports cards anyone?

And for those that say they hate exclusives and Mattel should stop making them...if the alternative is that this particular character or look never gets made if not for exclusives, are you proposing you’d rather not see it get made at all? Since you have $30 in your pocket and couldn’t get one, then nobody should have it? It just shouldn’t exist?

Steve has said that exclusives help support the line. That means retailers want exclusives in order to keep carrying the regular issue product. So since you couldn’t get an exclusive the day it went on sale, Mattel shouldn’t give exclusives to Amazon, and in turn it would be ok if Mattel stopped carrying Mattel WWE figures entirely?

I agree, however digressing slightly, the exclusives absolutely do support the line but they have to make them something unique and collectable in order to justify the collectability of the figure. Don't make hard-to-obtain, limited exclusives of characters that you know are in huge demand such as Hogan.

We're supposedly getting The Goon as a main line figure - why? A jobber from the 90s, an obscure character, not a huge name. He'd be perfect for a limited exclusive. Hulk Hogan, however, remains elusive in main figure assortments.

It's started to feel like a middle finger by Mattel to us as consumers.

[BoJack Hogan]

Jul 23, 2021 12:21:53 GMT -5 Chip said:

i will say this, everyone freaked out with fan takeover series 2 "pre-orders" selling out in minutes, and right now you can go on amazon and order anyone from the set

its just the general impatience of collectors that cause these issues at the beginning. then eventually stock evens out. this is amazon we're talking about, they didn't order 1000 ultimate edition hulk hogan figures.

I sure hope you're right. The Ultimate Rock debacle has me pretty concerned though.

[tdoggpsu]

Jul 23, 2021 12:24:58 GMT -5 chaz said:

Jul 23, 2021 12:17:33 GMT -5 tdoggpsu said:

When did it become expected that Mattel owes detailed information such as the exact minute a preorder will go live on a third party site like Amazon? And how does one know that Amazon even provided this info to Mattel? Or even if they do, that they execute flawlessly as planned, which Mattel has no control over?

And where is it written that just because you have the money to buy something that you’re entitled to get one, and Mattel owes you one, and should just “take your money”? Limited production run items exist in every collectible market and format. Not everybody that wants one of everything can get one of everything. #1/1 sports cards anyone?

And for those that say they hate exclusives and Mattel should stop making them...if the alternative is that this particular character or look never gets made if not for exclusives, are you proposing you’d rather not see it get made at all? Since you have $30 in your pocket and couldn’t get one, then nobody should have it? It just shouldn’t exist?

Steve has said that exclusives help support the line. That means retailers want exclusives in order to keep carrying the regular issue product. So since you couldn’t get an exclusive the day it went on sale, Mattel shouldn’t give exclusives to Amazon, and in turn it would be ok if Mattel stopped carrying Mattel WWE figures entirely?

I agree, however digressing slightly, the exclusives absolutely do support the line but they have to make them something unique and collectable in order to justify the collectability of the figure. Don't make hard-to-obtain, limited exclusives of characters that you know are in huge demand such as Hogan.

We're supposedly getting The Goon as a main line figure - why? A jobber from the 90s, an obscure character, not a huge name. He'd be perfect for a limited exclusive. Hulk Hogan, however, remains elusive in main figure assortments.

It's started to feel like a middle finger by Mattel to us as consumers.

Fair point, although I’m not sure Amazon would have been on board for an Ultimate Edition Goon...

[zen411]

Jul 23, 2021 12:17:33 GMT -5 tdoggpsu said:

When did it become expected that Mattel owes detailed information such as the exact minute a preorder will go live on a third party site like Amazon? And how does one know that Amazon even provided this info to Mattel? Or even if they do, that they execute flawlessly as planned, which Mattel has no control over?

And where is it written that just because you have the money to buy something that you’re entitled to get one, and Mattel owes you one, and should just “take your money”? Limited production run items exist in every collectible market and format. Not everybody that wants one of everything can get one of everything. #1/1 sports cards anyone?

And for those that say they hate exclusives and Mattel should stop making them...if the alternative is that this particular character or look never gets made if not for exclusives, are you proposing you’d rather not see it get made at all? Since you have $30 in your pocket and couldn’t get one, then nobody should have it? It just shouldn’t exist?

Steve has said that exclusives help support the line. That means retailers want exclusives in order to keep carrying the regular issue product. So since you couldn’t get an exclusive the day it went on sale, Mattel shouldn’t give exclusives to Amazon, and in turn it would be ok if I Amazon stopped carrying Mattel WWE figures entirely?

Oh cool. Your second post and its in response to something I posted. I feel so honored.

I stand by what I said.

[ckretro74]

Hope this sorts out and everyone who eants a Hogan and/or Hardy will be able to get them

If not, can you imagine the CusterF Warrior and HBK will be ?? SMH