The "Yet To Get A Figure" Checklist

[thep1]

VAMPIRO VAMPIRO VAMPIRO (said in exuberant Ed Ferrera voice)

[Crossfit Jesus]

Apr 24, 2024 14:01:39 GMT -5 personagamer said:

Apr 23, 2024 21:58:26 GMT -5 Crossfit Jesus said:

Great khaki elite

I remember they were asked before about this early in the start and they said it wasn't a possibility due to fear of how sales would do, im wondering if anything has changed

big men always sell well. Also bill said he didn’t want to make it bc khali didn’t require elite articulation since he wasn’t very good in the ring however we have an elite of omos 🤷‍♂️

[nomorexclusives]

Of that list these are priorities (for me at least):


Golden Era

Beverly Brothers
Harvey Wippleman
Haku
Jack Tunney
The Killer Bees
Koko B Ware
Dynamite Kid
The Genius
Dino Bravo
Hercules
Jesse Ventura
The Barbarian

1950-1985

Bobo Brazil
Ivan Koloff
Ivan Putski
Johnny Valiant
Jimmy Valiant
Nick Bockwinkel
Arnold Skaaland
Fabulous Moolah
The Grand Wizard
Tony Atlas

New Gen Era

Jeff Jarrett
Owen Hart
Adam Bomb
Ahmed Johnson
Bart Gunn
Bob Holly
Giant Gonzalez
Jim Cornette
Ludvig Borga
Marc Mero
Marlena
Savio Vega
Great Kabuki

Attitude Era

Al Snow
Dan Severn
Crash Holly
Luna Vachon
Sable
Test

Ruthless Aggression Era

Chris Benoit
Perry Saturn
Maven
Mr. Kennedy
Val Venis

WCW

Buff Bagwell
Ultimo Dragon
Abdullah The Butcher
Billy Kidman
Midnight Express
Nikita Koloff
Jimmy Garvin
Ole Anderson
Rock n Roll Express
Scott Norton
Tank Abbott
Chris Kanyon
Konnan


ECW

Sabu
Raven
Lance Storm
Justin Credible
Mike Awesome
Shane Douglas
Taz


Gimmicks Not Made:

Crush (Kona, Evil)
El Matador
Repo Man
Steiner Brothers (Tag Team)
Billy Gunn (Smoking Gunns, Billy & Chuck)
The Godfather (The Goodfather)
Viscera (Big Daddy V, Love Machine)
Gregory Helms
One Man Gang

[negan]

Thanks for your suggestions guys.

I have put the list in alphabetical order. I will update it with your suggestions tonight.

I'm also thinking of adding a "likelihood" meter.

For example, we know guys like Benoit and Nailz are basically impossible. But there's a lot of people on this list that just weren't relevant or memorable enough to get a figure.

For example, I HIGHLY doubt we will see a Mattel Luther Reigns or Nathan Jones figure. But guys like Eugene and Mr. Kennedy made enough of an impact to get one.

There's also the toyetic effect. For example, Phantasio or The Yeti could easily get figures based on the fact that the figure looks cool. See The Executioner and The Goon.

[@Chair.Shot]

Apr 24, 2024 1:19:28 GMT -5 JimRiga said:

I love deep cuts!
Skimming through the list, I would add:


The American Males
Bastion Booger
Berlyn
Big Daddy V
The Blade Runners
Boris Zhukov
American Males
American Males
Carlos Colon
The Cat Ernest Miller
Chavo Classic
Deuce and Domino
Droz
The Fabulous Freebirds
Ice Train
Jean-Pierre LaFitte
Lenny Lane
American Males
American Males
Lodi
Mantaur
Mideon
MNM
The New Blackjacks
The New Midnight Express
The New Rockers
Norman Smiley
Orient Express (Mr Fuji, Kato, Sato and Tanaka)
P.N News
Psicosis
Super Crazy
T.L Hopper
Wahoo McDaniel
The Wall
American Males
American Males
The Yeti

[stargasm]

Wrestlemania 19 Shawn Michaels to go with my RSE Jericho. What's the hold up?

[BoneCrunchingCustoms]

[rkmo: Autonomous Meat Shield]

Slapjack

[The Assassin]

Apr 24, 2024 20:13:55 GMT -5 negan said:

I'm also thinking of adding a "likelihood" meter.

For example, we know guys like Benoit and Nailz are basically impossible. But there's a lot of people on this list that just weren't relevant or memorable enough to get a figure.

For example, I HIGHLY doubt we will see a Mattel Luther Reigns or Nathan Jones figure. But guys like Eugene and Mr. Kennedy made enough of an impact to get one.

There's also the toyetic effect. For example, Phantasio or The Yeti could easily get figures based on the fact that the figure looks cool. See The Executioner and The Goon.

While likelyhood is difficult to judge, I do think adding a "likelyhood estimate" or similar would be a MUCH better approach than the alternative of trying to gatekeep who is "worthy" to be on the lists based on opinion of importance/relevance, popularity, or any other metric. The latter approach would just cause arguments and make the list too opinion based to be useful. I would suggest adding every suggested name to the lists regardless of how worthy or likely they may seem, in order to be unbiased.

That said, grandmasterPRA did some great work ranking missing names by number of PPV appearances and split into eras, which was really interesting because it was based purely on fact (not opinion), click the spoiler to see his results:

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May 23, 2023 9:45:15 GMT -5 grandmasterPRA said:

Just thought it would be fun to see a list of the top 25 wrestlers from the Golden Era, New Gen Era and Attitude Era that have not had a Mattel figure yet. I'm still working on the numbers for the RA and PG Era. I defined the Golden Era by basically 1992 and earlier. The New Gen as 1993-1997, and the Attitude Era as 1998-2002. It's not perfect obviously but still close enough. I sorted them by PPV appearances. Here are the biggest names missing from each era in terms of Mattel figures made of them:

Golden Era: Percentage of the top 100 Made by Mattel (65%)

Top 25 Missing:

1. Hercules Hernandez
2. Mr. Fuji
3. Dino Bravo
4. Slick
5. Haku
6. The Barbarian
7. Koko B. Ware
8&9. The Rougeaus
10. Bad News Brown
11. Paul Roma
12. The Dynamite Kid
13. Boris Zhukov
14. Jim Brunzell
15. The Genius/Lanny Poffo
16. The Mountie
17. Ron Bass
18. Brian Blair
19. Frenchy Martin
20. Tanaka
21. Harvey Whippleman
22. Johnny Valiant
23. Ken Patera
24. Repo Man
25. The Fabulous Moolah

New Gen Era: Percentage of the top 100 made by Mattel (49%)

Top 25 Missing:

1. Owen Hart
2. Jim Cornette
3. Savio Vega
4. Henry O. Godwinn
5. Bart Gunn
6. Billy Gunn (In his Smoking Gunns look)
7. Crush (non-Demolition)
8. Mr. Fuji
9. Marlena
10. Phineas Godwinn
11. Marty Jannetty (solo)
12. Ahmed Johnson
13. Marc Mero
14. Sable
15. Clarence Mason
16. Jeff Jarrett
17. Mo
18. Sunny
19. Jose Lothario
20. Justin Bradshaw (hawk or blackjack looks)
21. Flash Funk
22. Skip
23. Harvey Whippleman
24. Luna Vachon
25. Leif Cassidy

Attitude Era: Percentage of the top 100 Made by Mattel (55%)

Top 25 Missing:

1. Val Venis
2. Chris Benoit
3. Test
4. Al Snow
5. Albert
6. Jeff Jarrett
7. Steve Blackman
8. William Regal (They've never quite made his attitude era look)
9. Hardcore Holly
10. Perry Saturn
11. Crash Holly
12. Ivory
13. Jacqueline
14. Owen Hart
15. Terri Runnels
16. Tazz
17. Tori
18. Grandmaster Sexay
19. Bull Buchanan
20. Gangrel
21. Mosh
22. Debra
23. Lance Storm
24. Luna
25. Spike Dudley

NWA/WCW 1988-1994 Era: Percentage of the Top 100 Made by Mattel (38%)

Top 25 Missing:

1. Dustin Rhodes
2. Harley Race (I don't believe he ever had the King Gimmick there)
3. Bobby Eaton
4. Rick Steiner (hopefully soon)
5. Jimmy Garvin
6. Scott Steiner (hopefully soon)
7. Ricky Morton
8. Johnny B. Badd
9. Col. Robert Parker
10. Marcus Alexander Bagwell
11. The Z-Man
12. Kevin Sullivan
13. Terry Taylor (one that doesn't look like a rooster)
14. Stan Lane
15. Steve Williams
16. Jim Cornette
17. Sir William
18. 2 Cold Scorpio
19. Butch Reed
20. Mike Rotunda
21. The Great Muta
22. Tommy Rich
23. Dan Spivey
24. Missy Hyatt
25. Tracy Smothers


WCW 1995-2001 Era: Percentage of the top 100 made by Mattel (33%) (That's even with taking some liberties like saying a Mr. Perfect figure can basically pass off as a Curt Hennig)

Top 25 Missing:

1. Chris Benoit
2. Konnan
3. Scott Steiner (Technically there isn't an official one yet, but we are pretty confident we are getting one)
4. Billy Kidman
5. Disco Inferno
6. Buff Bagwell
7. Jeff Jarrett
8. Chris Jericho (Sucks Mattel never made a WCW style Jericho)
9. Meng
10. Perry Saturn
11. Juventud Guerrera
12. Alex Wright
13. Hugh Morris
14. Ernest "The Cat" Miller
15. Steve McMichael
16. Wrath/Bryan Clarke
17. Kevin Sullivan
18. Kimberly
19. The Franchise Shane Douglas
20. Kanyon
21. Norman Smiley
22. Scott Norton
23. Sister Sherri (I think her look in WCW was different enough?)
24. Vampiro
25. Madusa




Just thought it was interesting to look at. I want to do WCW as well. I'm not sure what the point of sharing it is other than it was just fun to put together and I want to do something with it so do what you want with it lol. To be clear, this is not a ranking in terms of opinion. This is strictly by most PPV appearances without a figure

Edit: Added NWA/WCW 1988-1994 Era

[darkprophet]

Looking at the missing figures by PPV appearances is really interesting, and makes the holes even more glaring to me. As a golden era collector, where’s Hercules?! He was a staple for SO long! Also, I know One Man Gang wasn’t around for all that long as that character, but was surprised to see him not crack the top 25 of missing legends from the era (unless getting an Akeem disqualified him?).

[Flair Forever]

Mmm.... I forgot about Jack Tunney. That would rock.

I'm sure it'd be a BAF Walmart Exclusive LOL.

[RavenRulz]

Repo Man is one of my main wants

[Dr. Frasier Crane]

Andy Kaufman
David Von Erich
Fritz Von Erich
Mike Von Erich
Chris Von Erich
The Missing Link
Bruiser Brody

[Mr. Yellow]

I like the idea of this thread...but this list could almost literally be endless. What are the criteria?

Reminds me of the Classic Superstars Ringside survey:

www.ringsidecollectibles.com/ClassicSurvey2007.html

[heelturn]

1950-1985 needs the original Sheik.

[personagamer]

Now the Yokozuna is out i realize we never got Mr. Fuji

[ChuckPOORis55 Cody Gang 4 Lyfe]

Apr 25, 2024 7:16:56 GMT -5 darkprophet said:

Looking at the missing figures by PPV appearances is really interesting, and makes the holes even more glaring to me. As a golden era collector, where’s Hercules?! He was a staple for SO long! Also, I know One Man Gang wasn’t around for all that long as that character, but was surprised to see him not crack the top 25 of missing legends from the era (unless getting an Akeem disqualified him?).

IMO characters shouldn't equal people. Tensai should not count as Albert/A-Train having a figure. If it's a different name, in most cases it should count as different. Hell, there are even people going under the same name who should count as different, like DX Billy Gunn shouldn't count as Smoking Gunn's Billy.

[darkprophet]

Apr 30, 2024 8:34:29 GMT -5 ChuckPOORis55 Cody Gang 4 Lyfe said:

Apr 25, 2024 7:16:56 GMT -5 darkprophet said:

Looking at the missing figures by PPV appearances is really interesting, and makes the holes even more glaring to me. As a golden era collector, where’s Hercules?! He was a staple for SO long! Also, I know One Man Gang wasn’t around for all that long as that character, but was surprised to see him not crack the top 25 of missing legends from the era (unless getting an Akeem disqualified him?).

IMO characters shouldn't equal people. Tensai should not count as Albert/A-Train having a figure. If it's a different name, in most cases it should count as different. Hell, there are even people going under the same name who should count as different, like DX Billy Gunn shouldn't count as Smoking Gunn's Billy.

Agreed completely! So let’s get to that One Man Gang figure already!

[TheHitmanKid]

Owen Hart (King of Harts) 🤞

Buff Bagwell (Raw)

Too Cool (Wrestlemania 2000)

Victoria (Black Widow)

Luna (Wrestlemania 9)

[negan]

Bumping this as I have updated the list with everybody's suggestions.

I have also added a few new sections for the PG Era, Network Era and Current Era WWE.

Instead of removing names, I have instead striked some out. Just so we can keep track of the figures that have been made since this list was created.

I still feel like I should add a Probability to each name. I am trying to be unbiased but I know there's a 0% chance some of these names would ever get made. Most are extremely forgettable but I figured I would add them in regardless.

If you notice anyone missing, write them down below and also, let me know how I should do this probability meter. I'm thinking I should just put in brackets what percentage I think and give an explanation. Purely my own opinion.