Did Matty Legends happen too soon?

I just wished Mattel would of put more thought into the legends line. I guess once they got the license they were on cloud nine. They pretty much released figures that the design team liked not thinking about the consequences. Mattel should of waited a year or two giving them time to sign some big names. As of right now Flashbacks is the only thing that works. I still have hopes that in a few years from now the legends line will be back and this time around Mattel will get it right and blow us all away

I really think it was the lineups. They didn't put the right guys up for sale.

They had the chance to start strong! Andre should have been series one! Their other mistake was attire choice.
It should have gone like this:
Series 1:
Andre the Giant
Stone Cold in wrestling attire
Bret Hart (DM version)
Jimmy Snuka bare foot version
The Rock series 4 version
Diesel

2 pack series 1:
LOD red attire
Macho Man vs Ultimate Warrior
The Rockers with WWF tag titles

The first few sets are the way tou get cemented in the stores. Mattel should have remembered how JAKKS were treated towards their final run. So the stores were going to be skeptical with these products on their shelves. Along with winning buyers who were skeptical on switching to a new style/design/ price margine/an company!!!
Their downfall was they wanted to be different. But they didnt realize their product was already far supirior to JAKKS! So keeping those attires that link to memory was key, they just chose to be different, whiched turned out to be a mistake. I feel that Mattel could bring the series back, with better superstars and attire. But at that time we had so many series. Signature, DM, EG, Basic, PPV, Basic 2pack, legends, legends 2 pack , and elite!!! Look how many failed. They flooded the market with tons of repaints to stay fresh with the stars instead shoild have waited o make a mark on the figures an then went back with repaints.

I have to agree I feel if you mixed the popular stars with the not well known stars it would have worked. But I am glad that once in a while we get a flashback now. I don't like it, but it is hat it is.

I could see it working with baf managers that would sell to a lot of people.
it would get me to buy the figure....god imagine the brain, jimmy hart, slick. it would be sweet

I will agree with that! It's 2012, so a legend line now, would have to thrive off of stars from the 90's and early 00's. Hell, i don't even remember guys from the early 90's!!! Other than the main eventers. Attitude era would be the home runners right now! With WWE 13' coming out, that would give an insight on superstars from that era, as well a DVD releases and youtube!
Now, would be a good choice on Mattels end, to release a WWE 13' style 2pack similiar to the elite style 2 pack for the All Stars game, to see what the demographic would purchase. Say we get: Rock vs Austin and Undertaker vs Mankind. For starters, these would fly off shelves, and by Mattel standards are repaints, so the coat of retooling aren't there! Based off the sales, they would get that the game helped boost sales from knowladge gained from the video game to the consumers!
There fore, bringing life back to the Legends Line, of 90's and 00's stars. Which would bring in WWF attitude era, WCW, and ECW all to the table!

Jakks CS and poor lineups killed it.

You gotta come strong before you start releasing garbage like Volkoff.

Although I agree that there is a less demand for legends, if they started the line off strong from the get go the line definitely would have lasted longer than it did.

This is discussed at least once a month and I'll say the same thing I've said every other time. The reason it failed was over production. Series 1 & 2 were released at the same time as the HOF line which was nothing more than series 1 & 2 rereleases with gold based and got cardboard plaques. So they flooded retail with those. Would have been better to make the hot repaints instead of straight rereleases. Series 1 & 2 were already overproduced before the hof was factored in. So they competed with each other, meaning if you found series 1 or 2 you didn't need the hof and vise versa.

And the 2-Packs were grossly over produced. My local TRU's first shipment was 30+ cases. (they also received at least 10 more cases since then) The first shipment alone equaled 90 of each set...with Jakks they never received more than 4 cases of any CSTT series. That equals only 12 of any set. So with Mattel tru had to sell 90+ of the same 3 sets. Where with Jakks the same number of cases equaled 7 different CSTT waves or 12 each of 21 teams. That's a huge difference. And that is why it failed.