rereleases killing the fun

No? It's nothing new. It's been happening since the BCA era. What's killing the fun is Mattel's case packing and distribution.

I hate that every Cena that used to come out in a color scheme had different shorts and different shoes every time. Now, starting with red and continuing through camo and Green, we get the same f-ing figure over and over:

Cena in Red that were the exact same:

WM XXVII
BO2011
Battle Packs 13
Signature Series

Additionally, even though the mold was different, these had the same colored jhorts and shoes

B15
Extreme Rules
Target Champions pack
BOPPV Elite Cena

Camo John Cena:

B18
B20 Revision
Target Champions pack
Battle Packs 17 (maybe 18?)
Wal-Mart Ringside Battle Playset

Only the 1st run of Basic 20 and Elite 17 were different.

Green Cena:

B24
Battle Packs 19
Wal-Mart box-set
Signature Series
K-mart Champions

And although it was a different mold
B22
Signature Series (spotted at Kohl's)

We never used to get reissued to death like this except with the Best Of line. Making things even a little different makes the millions of Cena figures a little more justifiable, but reissues? Boil it down to trying to make the same money with less output of effort. I hate it, but I'm surprised it didn't happen more.

yes if ur talking about people like cena rey show and orton also taker

I say, if it is a different color attire or something is significantly different about the figure, then it's fine.

What pisses me off more than anything is when I see a figure being released 3 or 4 times in the same color scheme with little to no changes.


Take for example the Sin Cara Basic. He was in BP15, B18, Sig Series and the Superstar Matchups. Granted, 2 figures had the Hunico Masks and the other 2 had the Sin Cara Masks, but it makes me angry when we could be seeing figures of other people getting figures.


plus, how many Cenas in Red did we actually wind up with in the Basic line? 6-9 of them? To me, that's over kill. Even now when they released the one in green, B22 was his first, but now we have B22, B24, BP19, BOPPV Basic & Sig Series.

Since i really dont go out hunting figures, i buy online. I have no problem with re releases floating around.

Nope it doesn't bother me. This is nothing new. Jakks was doing this since the BCA days. If anything at least Mattel's re-releases are different attires the majority of the time. Sure they have released Cena in green more times than I want to see and Sin Cara in blue but I wouldn't say it's killing the fun.

Buy the ones that you like. If you can't do that then you are killing the fun for yourself.

Latest Kane is another example. His basic and battle pack are identical.

Basic 22 John Cena
Basic 24 John Cena
Signature Series John Cena
Battle Pack 19 John Cena/Kane

We are starting to have the same problem with the GREEN John Cena that we had with the RED John Cena......there are just too many green John Cena's currently on store shelves at the same time.

Also, a series like Basic 25 can be a real killer for stores because the Randy Orton, Big Show, and Miz figures just don't sell. Once your store sells out of Eve, Lesnar and Otunga....the Orton, Miz and Big Show figures are going to be there for a loooooong time.