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Post by jt on Jan 31, 2024 2:31:25 GMT -5
Probably worth it honestly, you know you're never gonna get one from Mattel and if Chella ever does one it's not gonna be quite as good Exactly my reasoning. Him and Owen are probably the only 2 I’d ever consider getting commissioned… maybe Dynamite. The Chella Dynamite isn't too bad but a custom would definitely be better. I hadn't given it to much thought since I have the initial AEW release but I probably am due for a custom Owen figure |
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Post by jt on Jan 31, 2024 2:33:51 GMT -5
As someone else mentioned, it blows me away that we don't have a perfect WM12 HBK. The entrance great is just OK, and the elite had zero entrance gear at all. I find it bizarre that we haven't gotten Bam Bam in his most traditional WWF look (purple flames). And while you can easily make the definitive Hulk Hogan (Elite 96 minus the goofy hat/license plate, add a Hulk Rules shirt) it's wild that that definite Hulk isn't readily available MOC. That elite Michaels is also missing his kneepads and has his hair up, it'd be nice to have an ultimate with the entrance gear and a head with the ponytail and a head with messy post match hair. I'd buy two just to display him both ways. |
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Post by nomorexclusives on Jan 31, 2024 6:43:15 GMT -5
Its definitely up there and I can see an argument for it being #1 but to me this is the look I most identify with Bobby Heenan.  IMO, If you’re going to do Heenan, you’ve got to do the sequin jacket, the Hollywood star jacket, and the tan sport coat with the jewels on the lapel from when he managed Flair. It’s like Savage, you’ve got to do the star trunks, the Macho King look and the neon cowboy, or it’s incomplete. Yeah i would agree with this. It's like doing mick foley with all of his diff characters. Ah you gave me a great idea for the superstars line. The fact that we're 14 years into this line, he's had many figures, and we still don't have a blue trunks/blue boots Andre the Giant is utterly baffling. Yeah only for the newly released superstars line (underneath his black singlet) |
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Post by Warriah' on Jan 31, 2024 8:02:12 GMT -5
The fact we never got a proper 93 Neon Cowboy Macho Man with those crazy jackets is bonkers.
The new gen arena one is cool but more reflective of his WCW gear than the new gen neon cowboy era.
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on Jan 31, 2024 9:19:49 GMT -5
The fact we never got a proper 93 Neon Cowboy Macho Man with those crazy jackets is bonkers. The new gen arena one is cool but more reflective of his WCW gear than the new gen neon cowboy era. New Gen was WMX and we got this too  |
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Post by nomorexclusives on Jan 31, 2024 9:33:24 GMT -5
The fact we never got a proper 93 Neon Cowboy Macho Man with those crazy jackets is bonkers. The new gen arena one is cool but more reflective of his WCW gear than the new gen neon cowboy era. New Gen was WMX and we got this too God he would be perfect as a superstar nd retro. Why won't the wwe of today put more focus on glitz and glanour instead of trying to be like the ufc. We just want unpredictable matchups and winners with humor, some eye candy like elizabeth and great intros and side personalities (managers). The scripts can even be redone. Wwe needs to take itself less serious and just focus on entertaining us while bringing down the shock factor violence so parents can bring their kids again. Sigh i just have to accept machoman is unreplaceable. |
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Post by ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕋𝕠 𝕂𝕚𝕝𝕝 on Jan 31, 2024 10:40:13 GMT -5
I feel like they never got a definitive Jeff Hardy Elite down.
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Warriah'
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Post by Warriah' on Jan 31, 2024 10:49:31 GMT -5
The fact we never got a proper 93 Neon Cowboy Macho Man with those crazy jackets is bonkers. The new gen arena one is cool but more reflective of his WCW gear than the new gen neon cowboy era. New Gen was WMX and we got this too That was an attire worn in 92. The jacket is very plain. Not quite the new gen Monday night raw era macho man. Wrestlemania X is from that era but the tassel tights aren’t really typical of the era (moreso what he adopted in wcw). These sorts of attires are probably what most people think of when they think of Savage and we never got one complete with all the bells and whistles.   |
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Post by Flair Forever on Jan 31, 2024 11:37:11 GMT -5
There are several Ric Flairs we should have gotten but never did; This is one of his key WWE looks that Mattel overlooked (they did a Basic but no robe)....  Also, Flair's 2nd (last) WWE run was pretty much defined by THIS robe..... we never got it, either....  Never understood why we didn't get THIS Jim Ross when they had rights to him:  This is a custom I found in a Google search, but we SHOULD still get the standard Lex Luger black trunks/white boots!  I also echo the Vince comments, I know we'll never get him now ("No Chance") but why didn't they do one ALL THOSE YEARS? And of course, not to beat a dead horse, but we need 90's Steiner Brothers.... and I'm sure Mattel won't let us down, I'm sure they're working on it! |
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Post by stratusfaction23 on Feb 5, 2024 19:17:52 GMT -5
Mattel has had the rights for several years now and still no definitive Chyna figure, which would be her 1999 and 2000 era looks.
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Post by shanieomaniac on Feb 5, 2024 21:09:21 GMT -5
Shane. I'm guessing it won't happen now but there was never a suited corporation Shane figure from Mattel. Seems like a huge oversight.
Vince. Definitely not happening now but the way they never got around to making a suited corporation version of him either is absurd.
Chyna. As stated above we've yet to get Chyna from her most dominant period, between 1999 and 2000. Where is Chyna from her initial IC title run? Should be a no brainer. Instead, we get Wrestlemania X7.
Sensational Sherri. Neither of her figures comes close to a definitive look for her. They aren't even something that would resemble one, as stated, they are both one off PPV attires. Neither work as a 'general managerial' look.
There are tons of people who Mattel missed their chance on but these are the first four that come to mind as glaring examples.
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Post by punksnotdead on Feb 5, 2024 21:52:12 GMT -5
1998 DDP
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Post by gentlemanjohnny on Feb 6, 2024 0:03:38 GMT -5
Vince should have gotten more figures.
The 80’s Vince they made was 7 ft tall, we never got a good one from that time period.
Never got a Vince in the Raw is War jacket.
1999 Vince in suit - maybe the best heel they ever had and to not have a suited Vince from the Corporation days is ridiculous.
An 80’s Vince retro would have ruled. I bought a second Mean Gene retro and put the Vince head from that jakks level bad 80’s Vince they gave us in the elite line.
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Post by Ministry of Darkness on Feb 6, 2024 6:14:01 GMT -5
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on Feb 6, 2024 8:32:37 GMT -5
I believe Vince had final say in all of his figures. I can see how that could really slow down the process and make Mattel hesitant on doing figs of him. Probably also why whenever we did get figs of him they all came out relatively around the same time and were all pretty similar looks and timeframes.
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Post by TheHitmanKid on Feb 6, 2024 12:50:05 GMT -5
Heenan - mostly for his head scan to me. It was so plain and had no expression. This guy was the most expressive manager and all we got for all his figures had no emotion. No smirk or evil smile.
Warrior - green, pink promo attire is a shocker to me. That could be put in any Elite line and it would sell. Since every kid probably had that attire on a poster in their wall.
Shane Mcmahon - I don't think they got any of is attires right because of the pants. Those Mankind sweat pants was never right on any of his attires.
Jimmy Snuka - not getting the trunks with bare feet is still a huge miss. The tights with the boots is not a bad look but it's not iconic.
Scott Steiner - the recent long red tights is a nice attire but the iconic Big Poppa Pump has to be when he rocked the shorts in WCW. He moved away from his singlet attire as a Steiner Brothers; and started his own singles run. "When Big Poppa Pump comes to town. All my Hoochies come around" lol
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Post by shanieomaniac on Feb 6, 2024 13:50:38 GMT -5
Heenan - mostly for his head scan to me. It was so plain and had no expression. This guy was the most expressive manager and all we got for all his figures had no emotion. No smirk or evil smile. Warrior - green, pink promo attire is a shocker to me. That could be put in any Elite line and it would sell. Since every kid probably had that attire on a poster in their wall. Shane Mcmahon - I don't think they got any of is attires right because of the pants. Those Mankind sweat pants was never right on any of his attires.Jimmy Snuka - not getting the trunks with bare feet is still a huge miss. The tights with the boots is not a bad look but it's not iconic. Scott Steiner - the recent long red tights is a nice attire but the iconic Big Poppa Pump has to be when he rocked the shorts in WCW. He moved away from his singlet attire as a Steiner Brothers; and started his own singles run. "When Big Poppa Pump comes to town. All my Hoochies come around" lol They couldn't even get his pants right on the one lone street attire figure they did. They gave him the Firefly Funhouse treatment when, for the entirety of his return run, he was wearing jeans that I'm pretty sure someone was pouring him into before every show. Which, for the record, the fact that we never got anyone ever with the skinny jeans and sneakers look EVER seems horrible. The closest thing I think we ever got was a single Edge basic. Outside of that, I'm pretty sure we have never gotten any skinny jeans w/sneakers elites. Out of any number of people who have worn that combination, some of them even as ring attire, you'd think we'd have gotten at least one. |
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Post by TheHitmanKid on Feb 6, 2024 14:09:03 GMT -5
Heenan - mostly for his head scan to me. It was so plain and had no expression. This guy was the most expressive manager and all we got for all his figures had no emotion. No smirk or evil smile. Warrior - green, pink promo attire is a shocker to me. That could be put in any Elite line and it would sell. Since every kid probably had that attire on a poster in their wall. Shane Mcmahon - I don't think they got any of is attires right because of the pants. Those Mankind sweat pants was never right on any of his attires.Jimmy Snuka - not getting the trunks with bare feet is still a huge miss. The tights with the boots is not a bad look but it's not iconic. Scott Steiner - the recent long red tights is a nice attire but the iconic Big Poppa Pump has to be when he rocked the shorts in WCW. He moved away from his singlet attire as a Steiner Brothers; and started his own singles run. "When Big Poppa Pump comes to town. All my Hoochies come around" lol They couldn't even get his pants right on the one lone street attire figure they did. They gave him the Firefly Funhouse treatment when, for the entirety of his return run, he was wearing jeans that I'm pretty sure someone was pouring him into before every show. Which, for the record, the fact that we never got anyone ever with the skinny jeans and sneakers look EVER seems horrible. The closest thing I think we ever got was a single Edge basic. Outside of that, I'm pretty sure we have never gotten any skinny jeans w/sneakers elites. Out of any number of people who have worn that combination, some of them even as ring attire, you'd think we'd have gotten at least one. I'm shocked they couldn't just give Shane the long pants mold they used for DDP and that one Edge Elite. They had it, and it fit better for his wrestling attire. Give him one of John Cena's sneaker mold and that would have been so much better look. They can somehow create a new skinny jeans mold (lower leg). They could profit from it by using it with multiple wrestlers promo attires like Shane, Kofi, McIntyre, Brekker, Carmello, Trick ect ect. |
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Post by GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy on Feb 6, 2024 14:15:43 GMT -5
Kind of strange, but I don’t think we’ve ever gotten survivor series ‘97 Bret Hart. I think it’s his most iconic look. Hope we could get an ultimate some day.
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on Feb 6, 2024 15:37:16 GMT -5
Kind of strange, but I don’t think we’ve ever gotten survivor series ‘97 Bret Hart. I think it’s his most iconic look. Hope we could get an ultimate some day. isn’t the DM and MNW UE the same look? If not, what would the differences be? |
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