when did we get...old?

Don't worry dude the 80's will have it's comeback in time. Don't forget too the new WWE 13 video game is going to feature a lot of Attitude Era guys so this is probably why we are seeing more of them. Yes they are old enough now to have "Classic" value, but WWE 13 will serve as a good advertising vehicle, and Mattel would be stupid to not take advantage of exposure like that. Old, Young, and new fans will be playing that game and I am sure there will be a decent amount of kids that will want some figures of some characters. Perhaps even ones that aren't signed to a legends deal.

What guys like you and I need to do is hope for the next game to have a "Classic" Era Mode. Mattel wasn't making WWE figs when Legends of WM came out, and that too was it's own game... which sucked IMHO.

Well first Happy Belated bday! Second as a fan who came to age in the Attitude Era, i still agree we need 80s eea figures. I want a Starrcade 83 Harley Race, a proper NWA World Champion Dusty Rhodes, Windham, Rotundo, Clash of the Champions Sting and of course Flair and Hogan. And yes Magnum. You are completely correct about the 80sheavyweights being considered Jurassic now. Hell even the early 90s are old now. Bob Backlund got 0 reaction when he was on raw. However the collectors now are hearing all these great stories about the attitude Era and so they want figures of the guys theyve been hearing about. Im a tweener, i want 80s legends but im not opposed to 90s and early 00s guys being made.

I'm honestly just thankful for the guys that were really the big stars when I got to be big into wrestling, HBK, Bret, Nash, Yoko, have not been passed over for the more late 90's early 2000's Attitude Era guys. But to be fair, we got Macho Man in excess, we got Piper, we got Dibiase, Boss Man, Akeem, Martel, Steamboat, Dusty, Warrior, and we will eventually get Hogan and Flair, and hopefully Sting. I mean I have Mattel versions of the Bushwackers, which I think is both ridiculous and awesome. LOD, Rude, and a couple Jakes. We got Kerry ING Von Erich, which was a massive want but something I thought I never would see, AND we got two versions of him.

Mattel gave us a nice mix, and definitely gave us some guys that we probably should not have gotten in the early Legends lines imo. I mean what guy that Mattel is able to make do you feel like is definitively missing from your collection? Not Andre, not Bundy, how about Perfect? We got a ton of the big names. Magnum TA? I get it, but he's hardly Ricky Steamboat and definitely not Macho Man imo. I think we got way too caught up in not getting every single guy and missed appreciating what Mattel did make for us.

We are the minority, all it really comes down to at this point. We are the back end of the wrestling demographic.

Oh, and happy belated Birthday! ;D

happy belated, mine is coming up on the 4th.....32. ugh! married, 2 kids...time flies

collecting is fun, i get to share it with my kids, and it keeps the "kid" in me alive! i do wish for more 80s figs, early 90s. Give me that magnum TA!

I love the Legends and Classic Superstars line as much as the next guy in line, but you won't hear me complain about the Legends line being done....95% of the wrestlers that were in the major companies already have a wrestling figure to collect in some line. As much as I would love to see guys like Sid Vicious in my Mattel collection, I can live without him because he has been made in 20 different wrestling figure sets (Toybiz, hasbro, galoob, Jakks, Just Toys, just to name a few). Let's move on be and be happy with what we have got and the few that we will continue to get in the flashbacks. The wrestlers of the past had their time in the plastic form. Let's let the new guys get their chance. I'd much rather see Mattel focus on making the few guys on the roster that haven't got the plastic treatment yet *Caugh Tyler Reks Caugh* then worry about making someone from 1985. That's just me.

Happy Birthday Bandy. To answer your question 34 for me was 10 years ago. lol And I'd get everyone on your list minus Jushin Thunder Liger, el Matador (rather IC Champ Tito) and maybe Ron Garvin (Never a fan of "Hands of Stone" or "Rugged" Ron Garivn).

And I'd get a Van Hammer over Slater, Hawkins, Ricardo, Long, Big Johnny & Hornswaggle.

Here's how I'd rank my Top 10 from your list -

1. Surfer Sting
2. Steiner Brothers
3. The Hart Foundation
4. The British Bulldogs
5. Don Muraco
6. Jimmy Superfly- barefeet and in trunks
7. Tito Santana (IC champ)
8. Magnum TA
9. Barry Windham
10. Harlem Heat

Happy belated. 29, here is what I would get
Surfer Sting
Steiner Brothers
Midnight Express - beautiful Bobby & Sweet Stan
The Rock N Roll Express
Lex Luger
Ronnie Garvin
Greg Valentine
Honky Tonk Man
Tito Santana - El matador
Jimmy Superfly barefeet and in trunks
LOD in red
Sgt. Slaugther in camo
The Hart Foundation
The British Bulldogs
The Powers of Pain
Harlem Heat
Abdullah the Butcher
The Great Muta
Cactus Jack
Dr. Death Steve Williams
Kevin Sullivan
IRS
a Stunning Steve Austin (for another Dangerous Alliance member)
Ron Simmons
The Natural Butch Reed
Sid Vicious
A "Flyin'" Brian Pillman
Jushin Thunder Liger
WMIII Ricky Steamboat
Elite-style M$M
Freebirds - Hayes, Garvin

I don't think collectors are supposed to be anything. They are what they are, and the numbers don't lie. The biggest selling legends, according to Mattel, were Macho Man, Warrior, and the Rock. And obviously the Attitude Era, specifically the WWF guys, is still fondly looked upon by a number of fans who buy action figures.

If 80s doesn't sell well, which I don't think you can truly judge the 80s until they release Hogan and Flair, then those stats above tells us who the collectors truly are. If the 80s get no love, then that must mean the 80s draw few collectors.

New collectors are coming of age, and their golden era was about 1989 to 2002 (based on a lot of what I read people say). Not everyone who collects Mattel legends collected Jakks, btw, which SEEMS to be a major misconception. I think Jakks satisfied a lot of people, but new collectors are always coming along. Those looking to Mattel to polish off their old lines are looking in the wrong place. It was the right place at the beginning, with obscure attires, but that obviously killed the line.

So it's time to begin anew with products geared to the new collector, not the old collectors looking for those last 10 or 20 guys to round off the edges of their Jakks.

Any era is better than the crap that's on tv today. Hb Bandy!