Issues with Elite 33

The most recent Big E basic has a sticker over his signature on the back of the card, it was revealed to have Big Show's signature. Titus O'Neal's latest basic doesn't even have a signature on the back. The Summer Slam Heritage Undertaker from this past Summer had a sticker that covered up a WWF logo. Ringside Exclusive Edge has a sticker on the back correcting information. These seem to be pretty common lately, but packaging errors aren't really a concern (personally speaking) given how often (especially lately) they've been happening.

Tell me about it. I bought the entire E32 wave at Target last night, two of them have bad paint jobs that I must exchange and one of them potentially has a bad one. If I can find a replacement for the third one, I'll exchange it too.

I was so bummed after I got home. Its not often I walk into a store when a new wave hits and get all 6 in one shot.

That's what I'm saying, it has become a regular thing around here its ridiculous, most of the time we pay $20 for a figure that looks like its been played with. My E31 Vader has scuff marks all over his back, legs don't want to bend forward. I understand they all won't be perfect but this has become Russian roulette. Now the packages are going to have many errors.

Absolutely. My girlfriend will often buy me figures and now it's to the point I can't even order online or have her check in the store without having to sift through multiple of each figures. This is just a SMALL number of figures Ive had to return and exchange because of bs paint apps and sloppy/poor quality control in the last month

Basic 42 Nattie - no lipstick on bottom lip
basic 42 Cena- entire inner portion of wristband left unpainted.
Battle packs 30 jake AND ambrose. Ambrose had black paint streaks covering his left arm and shoulder .. Jake has the entire bottom left leg missing the detail / design on tights
Basic 44 kane - no left eye. Yes. He literally just had a white eye. Ordered from mattelshop.
Elite 30 brock .. Opened and right arm was disconnected from torso.
Elite 31 jimmy Uso. Entire left side of goatee unpainted and black streaks down his right leg and shorts.
Basic 44 big e - right side of logo missing from rights
B42 show and BATISTA -both with broken wrists

And those are just small complaints. Not even bringing up the countless amount of unforgivable issues ive seen in stores causing me to pass up or miss out on figures I wanted badly aka
- misplaced eyebrows and pupils (no.. Not anal nitpicking. Literally look mentally challenged)
-unfinished or completely missing logos or designs on tights
- hairlines completely butchered and way below or above their placement.
-scuffs covering figures that look played with by a toddler
- wrists bent inside bubble permanently damaging or disfiguring the joints from the wrist
-unnecessarily loose wrist knee and elbow joints .. Sometimes even so much so that the wrist or lower leg dangles or snaps right off.

Those are just to name a few. People say these toys are made for kids. And at this point they also look made BY them. When collectors such as myself spend thousands upon thousands on these I deserve to get something that looks better than incomplete , broken, or botched figures. It's literally 9 out of 10 figures on the shelf now that are imperfect. Just a joke honestly.

Used to buy all my figs online but now I find myself checking through figures in shops and picking the best one in stock. This helps but it's impossible to see what the back of the figure looks like. I'd happily lose one set a year if the others were brought out to a better standard.

I understand that its a buisness and at an all time high of production but quality has been dropping in my opinion

Buisness is money but quality shouldn't be overlooked

My Rollins and Reigns both seem fine. I did see a couple of Usos with badly smudged face paint at one of my local Wal-Marts recently though, so I know that this stuff does happen.

There are issues with every wave but like idiots we keep buying ieverything and Mattel is making lots of money so why would they change their ways?

Im just glad most of the time, they are easy fixes except for messed up tats like the one ln Batista's right shoulder.