Post by hitman1072 on Jan 14, 2011 9:06:47 GMT -5
Jan 14, 2011 2:47:20 GMT -5 @odbjbg said:
OK...tell me who you think would have sold. I think are are about as wrong as one person could be in your assessment. This is a Legends line...how is SCSA, Ricky Steamboat, Sgt. Slaughter, Dusty Rhodes & the LOD a bad line-up? I also think you're ridiculous by saying terrible headscans. Which ones? If you say Rhodes...I have no more time for you. The others were fantastic as well.
Like I said before...I question if there is really a huge demand for the Legends line most of us want. I hope there is...I really do. I just think the people buying them (collectors), have really curtailed their purchasing of action figures the last few years. I think the character selection for a wrestling legends line so far has been outstanding. Unfortunately...I just don't think there are enough people like me out there that will support a Legends line in this economic climate. I don't wanna push the panic button quite yet, but this line would not be going down to 4 figures per wave if the line was selling well.
I'm not talking about the lineup for the regular line, this is a thread about the LEGENDS TAG TEAM PACKS, which is what I was discussing.
Everything I said is absolutely true about the tag packs. Sheik/Volkoff is a moderate draw, but remember that Sheik already has had a ton of figures in the past (so there's no wow factor there) and the one cool new outfit of the Sheik's is on a single card.
While I like Volkoff, he's never been a highly requested figure. His scan is horrible (however if you put Iron Sheik's doo-rag on him he looks like Original Sheik) and he's just an average figure.
The Bushwhackers are a reasonably popular team, but because they were mostly a "joke" team in the WWF, their appeal is limited to people getting them for giggles. Both figures are the exact same and they have almost no accessories. Scans are decent, but not great.
Piper and Orton is the best set in the sense that the Bob Orton figure is great (although his hat is stupid) but they screwed the pooch by making Piper have this horrible buck-toothed scan. In order to get a decent Piper you have to buy this set, then the EG set. If this set would have had the EG gear and head, it would have sold like hotcakes. Without it, it's a Bob Orton figure and again, he's not very popular.
So most of the tag team Wave 1 figures had issues or needed to be fixed. At $30 a pop, that's too much. Whackers lack of accessories really cuts down on their value and most people are picking up the better single Sheik and skipping the Piper/Orton set to wait for a better Piper.
Everything I said was categorically correct.
Since you asked, though, there were a few problems with the singles Wave 1 lineup, but it was mostly outfit selection. I liked the alternate outfits, but it certainly makes a lot of them less priority when the figures cost so much. Tons of people basically said, "I'll wait for them to come out in their iconic attire".
Is everything you're telling me correct? In your mind maybe, but that doesn't make it a fact. You're giving opinions. I think you're wrong on just about every point. I don't see how you can say Volkoff & Piper had bad scans. They look just like who they are supposed to represent. Orton's hat is perfect. Also...what more did you want the Bushwackers to come with? I really think this is an age thing. Most of the complaints about the character selection are coming from people with very little to no knowledge of this era. No...watching it on tape/DVD or downloading torrents is not the same as growing up with it or watching it as it happened.
Who would you have put in Series 1 to make them sell more? Seriously...if you can't include 2 packs of Sheik & Volkoff, and the Bushwackers in a wrestling Legends line...what kind of life can this line possibly have?