Hard Plastic Coats/Robes?

I personally like them. They are able to capture a LOT more detail, along with the fact that Mattel has said that soft materials are more expensive to produce, thus it would inherently raise the price of Elites, and people would throw a fit about that on here.

Aside from that, as I pointed out in another post, a lot of people here complained about plastic staining from Steamboat, Kozlov, and Christian's jackets. I am sure people would still complain if say, Regal had purple staining from dye.


Luckily, Defining Moments is a higher priced collector based line, with higher quality (read: more expensive) materials.... and dye leaching into plastic (to my knowledge) is yet to be an issue.

I like the mix of cloth and plastic going on, but it'll always be a battle between detail, mobility and budget.

I just hate it when an Elite gets the short end of the stick, and it ends up having minimal accessories like S4 Jericho or S6 Batista.



Maybe someday Mattel could work something out where the sleeves are separate parts that somehow plug into the torso portion of the jacket and allow us to rotate the arms up and down.

I love the look of them, and they have so much detail. But for posing reason's it kinda sucks, as you can't really pose them. I believe if something is fabric in real life, then the figure should have fabric as well. But if its a leather jacket then it should be plastic. I just wish it had some flexibility in it.

That Goldust robe should have been made of fabric.

It'd be great if the plastic was also easier to take off and could move around more...well, at all, haha. But if the choice is how the coats are as plastic versus big baggy looking limited-in-detail cloth, I'd choose the plastic ones. At $15, I don't expect a whole lot in terms of cloth goods. For Defining Moments? That's where we should get that perfect John Morrison, Goldust, etc. But for the pricepoint, and in terms of what they can do, I'm fine with it.

Looking at Regal, they probably could have made that one as cloth. His coat is pretty baggy anyhow, and it's not super detailed. But Edge and Taker? Less actual fine details, but Jakks did them in soft good form and they just looked off. The couldn't do the little things like the studs in Edge's jacket or Taker's collar. The buckles were painted on instead of molded, stitches couldn't be done, their coats weren't fit properly, etc. I much prefer the less "poofy" coats and things like that to be plastic at this scale.

Hard plastic all the way. Fabric coats, and most fabric clothing on figures at this size apart from t-shirts, sucks giant balls. Defining Moments Shawn Michaels is a great figure, but the oversized poofy white coat makes it look so... Jakksy. Entrance Greats Undertaker's coat is terrible too. Million Dollar Man's suit, EG Rock's pants, Elite Swagger's extra singlet, DM Triple H's "jeans," etc etc... Fabric items are just plain bad, usually, because of the sizing issue. They look way too big for the figure, which makes the whole thing look stupid.

Plus the level of detail on fabric robes is never going to match what they can do with the plastic. Compare the Jakks Goldust robes with the elite one and it's plain to see the advantage of having a robe that looks decent.


Do you think figure trunks should be made of spandex?

I prefer fabric. The singular complaint I have with the fabric so far is the red rubbing off on Ricky Steamboat. I really hate Goldust's coat. Not only is it extremely difficult to get off, but it also makes it hard to even pose the figure because the legs have limited movement inside the coat. I was really disappointed to see Regal's coat end up being the plastic molding. I may actually pass all together because of it.

I understand it is more expensive so I will take the plastic over nothing at all 9 times out of 10 but if I had a choice I would go with fabric every time.

i like plastic, but i think mattel has made the right coats and robes cloth and/or plastic.

I think they are useless. The fact that you can't move the guys arms within the coat really takes away from the effect. Also the difficulty of removing and putting them back on is just a nightmare.

Of course I would rather fabric but understand that this isn't always an affordable option. I would much rather they spend their money on something other than the rubber coat to make the figure more desirable.

I will say this in defense of Mattel. That unlike Jakks, at least Mattel makes their rubber coats 100% removable. Much better than having an Edge or Taker with a sleeves permanently on their arms.