WCW-era Sting

[2sweeeeet]

Searched for threads related to this, but none of the ones I found had the answer to this question. Apologies if I missed it somewhere.

Has there been any official word on if Jazwares can make "Surfer" Sting and WCW-era "Crow" Sting?

Thanks in advance

[viper412]

I don’t think they can make anything based on attires owned by WWE

maybe they can get away with a New Japan look

[stc13]

What they can do and what they're willing to do may not be the same thing. We'll see - I wouldn't be shocked if we see a Surfer Sting in the reveals later this month.

[Xæro #FakeCollector]

May 11, 2022 23:34:44 GMT -5 viper412 said:

I don’t think they can make anything based on attires owned by WWE

maybe they can get away with a New Japan look

Jakks made surfer Sting while they had the TNA license, so i don't see why Jazwares won't be able to

[doubled]

Man I hope they make some dang Surfer Stings and they don’t suck.

[2sweeeeet]

May 12, 2022 20:28:55 GMT -5 doubled said:

Man I hope they make some dang Surfer Stings and they don’t suck.

I know this may not be true for all collectors, but if they pumped out well made WCW-era Stings (Surfer and Crow), I'd buy every last one.

[WCWThunderRosa]

I’ve gotten the impression that they don’t want to try rocking the boat and aren’t even going to attempt to make anything from WWE owned IP

[PJ]

May 12, 2022 18:22:58 GMT -5 Xæro #FakeCollector said:

May 11, 2022 23:34:44 GMT -5 viper412 said:

I don’t think they can make anything based on attires owned by WWE

maybe they can get away with a New Japan look

Jakks made suffer Sting while they had the TNA license, so i don't see why Jazwares won't be able to

I am pretty sure Trevor said when RSC was designing their American Sting exclusive that it was limited to certain years which Jakks could make a figure based on.

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May 12, 2022 18:22:58 GMT -5 Xæro #FakeCollector said:

May 11, 2022 23:34:44 GMT -5 viper412 said:

I don’t think they can make anything based on attires owned by WWE

maybe they can get away with a New Japan look

Jakks made suffer Sting while they had the TNA license, so i don't see why Jazwares won't be able to

Jakks also had the NJPW license at the time also - so the exclusive US attire was based on an NJPW look he had. There was a "basic" figure, but not sure where that look was from.

[Xæro #FakeCollector]

May 13, 2022 2:06:49 GMT -5 donkiddic said:

May 12, 2022 18:22:58 GMT -5 Xæro #FakeCollector said:

Jakks made suffer Sting while they had the TNA license, so i don't see why Jazwares won't be able to

Jakks also had the NJPW license at the time also - so the exclusive US attire was based on an NJPW look he had. There was a "basic" figure, but not sure where that look was from.

Jakks had the NJPW license? I was today years old...

I completely forgot about the US attire so it's the basic looking surfer Sting I was thinking about

[JokerFC]

I remember this conversation with Jakks & TNA. Im pretty sure they could only make pre 1993 attires for Sting. It was something really random like that because there was a bunch of us trying to figure it out....

[rastlinfigures]

I had thought Sting owns his own rights, but I could be wrong. TNA made retro look figures of him, and AEW already made those little micro brawler (or whatever they are called) versions of him with the retro look.

[WCWThunderRosa]

Yeah they made micro brawlers and they had the AEW packaging, so they can make some Surfer Stings for sure

[qdogg]

ya jakks did do some surfer sting in the the TNA line so possibly. Maybe RSC could do a exclusive

[GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy]

I’m pretty sure they can. At this point I’m sure that the average person probably wouldn’t be able to distinguish Sting’s looks from ‘97-99. That’s basically what I want. A ‘98 Sting with hair past his shoulders, tall accurate boots, padded shoulder singlet and a torso that actually looks proportionate to his legs. From what I can remember Jeremy posted a poll asking what Sting eras we wanted. In that poll were surfer, ‘97 Starrcade, Wolfpac and I can’t remember the rest. I don’t think he’d be putting that up for no reason. What they can’t probably do is include any of the nWo logos on his Wolfpac gear.

[razorrock]

I haven't bought any aew figures yet but id be on board right away if they made some old Stings!

I'd just hope they don't make a great figure a 1 in 3000 or 5000!

[cordless2016]

As long as it’s not from a WWE-owned IP should be fine. They could always make a “generic” version of surfer and crow sting that’s close enough to the classic looks we love.

With AEW’s relationship with Impact, I’m curious if we’d be able to get some TNA looks from Sting. His early appearances with the promotion are close enough to his “crow” WCW look.

[Back to the Codyverse]

If they can do the all the figures from the poll then that would be fantastic

[wheeljack83]

Not sure how Sting attires work. I guess as long as it didn't appear at an event that's currently owned by WWE, I guess it's OK?

[moxicityrko33]

Not sure if it’s even in the realm of possibility, but I’d buy a Bound For Glory 2006 Sting in a heartbeat.