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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 22:14:30 GMT -5
I just want to get the opinions of people on which they think is better the Jakks Deluxe Aggression line or Mattel Elite line. I know for some it's a no brainier and right away their gonna say Mattel Elite. Honestly tho, think back to it the Jakks line was great in the early stages. Never in a million years could you get an announcers table from a Mattel Elite. I got a breakable announcers table from a Mr.Kennedy back in some of the early stages of the Jakks line so for awhile that was all that I got. Another favorite was the casket that came with the first Undertaker in that line. Along the way I think the Deluxe Aggression just got brutal and it was the same guys with the same silly weapons( I mean a boombox that shoots out speakers with a Kenny Dykstra Really?) I gave up hope on the line and quit buying them, but they still kept going strong. Now on the other hand we have the Mattel Elite line. I wasn't a full believer of the hype early on until I held a series 1 CM Punk in my hands and it just got me hooked on the Elite line. I really think the build a figures are neat and something that should've been done a long time ago with wrestling figures. I do hate the scalping that goes on with Mattel, but that's no reason to pick Jakks over them. At the end of the day I'm going to have to give it to Mattel Elite's, but nothing can take away the memories I had with the Jakks Deluxe Aggression line......I just wish they would've made a ring for it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 22:15:45 GMT -5
Mattel by hills and valleys
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Post by "Deadman"13tazz13 on Mar 6, 2013 22:22:01 GMT -5
I honestly did not like the Jakks Deluxe line - I bought two intentionally (Carlito just to see if I wanted to collect the line, and Undertaker just because it was the Undertaker) and just simply didn't like them as much as the RA line! They were great for the articulation, but they never felt right in the hand and the scale difference between them and RA was annoying.
In my opinion, Mattel has absolutely nailed the "superpose" articulation in their Elite line - they offer great possibility yet retain the stiffness/rigidity to pose well without being so stiff that those who play with the figures are going to struggle!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 22:23:51 GMT -5
Elites > DA's
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Post by onleeone643 on Mar 6, 2013 22:24:19 GMT -5
Lol, how can you even try to compare.
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Post by Nivro™ on Mar 6, 2013 22:25:36 GMT -5
The Jakks Deluxe line was the biggest joke of a figure line Ive ever seen. There's a reason the figures didnt sell as well as RA style and that TNA figures as well as Jakks figures clogged shelves. Giant heads, oversized arms, everyone had a perfectly ripped torso....Terrible...Just terrible.
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Post by onleeone643 on Mar 6, 2013 22:26:13 GMT -5
By the way, the legs on the DA figures were long, lanky, and very wobbly.
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Post by slappy on Mar 6, 2013 22:30:09 GMT -5
Hated and refused to buy Jakks DA. I even said if Jakks changed the Classics line to DA only that I'd stop collecting.
I now only collect Mattel Elite (and Basic if Elite is not an option). So much better. It's in scale and no balloon arms. They are great.
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Post by flea on Mar 6, 2013 22:41:58 GMT -5
Gotta go with Jakks. Unique design choices and more detail where it counts. Mattel on the othter hand? I love the scale and I Love the details on figures like Kane. But Jakks hit the ground running when they launched. The figures were incredible. Where as Mattel has all this spam all over the place. Can't walk down an isle without seeing a 'Flexforce' figure.
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Post by slappy on Mar 6, 2013 22:46:02 GMT -5
Gotta go with Jakks. Unique design choices and more detail where it counts. Mattel on the othter hand? I love the scale and I Love the details on figures like Kane. But Jakks hit the ground running when they launched. The figures were incredible. Where as Mattel has all this spam all over the place. Can't walk down an isle without seeing a 'Flexforce' figure. Jakks never had ridiculous lines of figures that took up space. Ever. |
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Mar 6, 2013 22:49:49 GMT -5
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Post by poindizzle on Mar 6, 2013 22:55:17 GMT -5
I collect the TNA figures because I like the company and their roster. And I will say that the figures are very easy to play with. If I were a kid, while I think the Mattel figures look incredible, I would have chosen the figures that were easy to play with.
Jakks Deluxe figures have so very few molds to choose from, often have large heads, and everyone has the same arms, but Jakks ratio of good scans to bad is narrower.
Mattel has good approximate scale, tons of body parts including multiple arms (at least 14-15 in the Elite line I can think of off hand), but the figures seem more prone to snapping at the hips and often are very stiff. It would take 2 hands to pose one figure, whereas with Jakks I can pull off finishers with a figure in each hand. Also, up until last year (which, to me, was a homerun for scans) Mattel has had a pretty even ratio of good and bad scans. Seriously half of the scans ranged from 'okay' to 'jeez that's awful'.
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Post by hbchris on Mar 6, 2013 23:01:31 GMT -5
By the way, the legs on the DA figures were long, lanky, and very wobbly. This. The disproportioned DA legs were terrible, and I don't know why they don't bother more people. Except for the price and distribution, Elites are as good as it gets. With Jakks I collected almost exclusively RAs, but with Mattel I collect almost exclusively Elites. |
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Post by Nivro™ on Mar 6, 2013 23:06:49 GMT -5
Gotta go with Jakks. Unique design choices and more detail where it counts. Mattel on the othter hand? I love the scale and I Love the details on figures like Kane. But Jakks hit the ground running when they launched. The figures were incredible. Where as Mattel has all this spam all over the place. Can't walk down an isle without seeing a 'Flexforce' figure. Uhh what? Have you forgot about Unmatched Fury, Vinyl Aggression, Build n Brawl, Ring Giants, Havoc Unleashed, and the ever not so popular Micro Aggression. The ONLY detail that Jakks had over Mattel is with their head scans/sculpts and that's because Jakks heads were 3 times as large as Mattel heads. |
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Post by skribbel24 on Mar 6, 2013 23:48:47 GMT -5
The plus factors you mentioned pertained to DA accessories, not the figures themselves.
Elites > DAs any day of the week
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Mar 7, 2013 0:09:19 GMT -5
Mattel Elites are way better looking, much more detailed, they have Superstar specific body parts, and are in scale.
Deluxe Aggression were inhumanly proportioned, everyone was the same height, and they pretty much had 3 body parts that they used for EVERYONE.
However, the Jakks DA felt a little sturdier in the hand, and when I played with them I didn't feel like I was going to break them. Mattel Elite figures seem a little fragile and because of that, I don't really choose to play with them hardly ever out of fear of breaking them. Jakks legs also had much more articulation. Mattel Elites legs are incapable of moving backward because the big asses on the Elites prevent the legs from going backward.
So in my opinion:
Mattel Elites: Better to look at.
Jakks Deluxe: Better to play with.
If I had to choose, I'd clearly pick Mattel Elites because they visually capture the look of the WWE Superstars MUCH better than Jakks Deluxe....I just sometimes miss being able to have really good matches with lots of moves.
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Post by xsailor on Mar 7, 2013 0:26:49 GMT -5
Mattel Elite, far superior IMO.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Mar 7, 2013 0:43:44 GMT -5
I hated everything about the Jakks DA line. The figures were even more muscular than RA's, nobody ever had the right parts and the figures always came with useless accessories nobody ever had any use for. The Elite line from Mattel is so much better it's not even close. I think a fairer comparison would be Flex Force to DA, and even then I would still probably go with Mattel.
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Post by ¡Twist Of Cinnamon! on Mar 7, 2013 0:44:00 GMT -5
Playability goes with Jakks, the joints were so much easier to move around without feeling too loose. Mattel wins at everything else though.
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Post by spookytuesday on Mar 7, 2013 1:16:20 GMT -5
Definitely Mattel. But when it comes to Mattel Basics vs Jakks Ruthless Aggression/ Classic Superstars, I gotta go Jakks.
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