Should Mattel Do a regular flashbacks only line like Jakks ?

The HOF series is that and that previously mentioned Flashback elite lineup didn't set retail on fire. It might had been the reason why Mattel throttled back on making mostly Flashback series.

Sadly, I think this is a dead horse that we’ve beaten far into the ground. Just an opinion, but it appears over the past 2 years that Bill and company have tried to incorporate more legends into different series that aren’t their own to satisfy us, the minority, and I don’t believe sales have shown his bosses that a stand alone set would be worth trying a second time.

They did twice and it failed twice. Once at mass retail the other on their site.
I don't want to hear the crap of the attire choices were bad because other than Snuka they weren't. The reason the Legends line failed at mass retail was overproduction. Not only did they release Series 1&2 at the same time, but they also released KMarts HOF set at the same time which were the exact same figures as series 1&2 but with an added cardboard plaque. So they competed with each other's sales because if you found the regular series you didn't need the HoF and vise versa. Add to that the TRU exclusive Legends 2-Packs. My TRU had shipmemt of over 100 cases of the Legends tag team sets. Then another shipment of 30 cases. There was no way to sell 260 of each set in one store. I don't think this store got 130 cases total of Jakks CSTT line. They had about 3 cases tops of each series. So retailers were scared away.

Then they tried it on Matty Collectors, but they never promoted/advertised them being sold there. They should have put a pamphlet in the Basic/BP/Elite packages or the very least printed it on the card/boxes saying "Look for these figures at Matty Collectors.com" but they didn't. I bet the 70-80% of their targeted market had no idea that Matty Collector or those Legends figures existed. You can have the best product out there, but if nobody knows about it you aren't going to sell any and fail.

So as much as I would love a full scaled line of Legends/Flashbacks retailers and Mattel have decided they aren't a good investment. Best we can do now is the 1-2 Flashbacks in the Elite line, the "HOF" line, RSC Exclusives and some of the "Then, Now & Forever" but I highly doubt we will ever get a regular mass retail Legends line again from Mattel.

I would be happy if say, after every Third release of current Superstars - the next wave is a Flashback only series.

I'm so sick of seeing "can we have a legends line?" threads

I'm no expert but to say attire choice were fine is not 100% accurate in my opinion. An AWA slaughter before a green Wwf version and nwa road warriors before the highly sought after red Wwf version are two obvious ones.

I wish they would just keep with the 1 to 2 flashbacks per elite wave at least + a regular hall of fame and then now forever line that stays consitant

Alot of wrestlers are off limits now because of the concussion lawsuit.

Only name they haven't completely milked is Hogan. If he wasn't deep sixed by WWE, he would had been overused like Warrior and Savage. And Snuka is still tainted even after death for a barefoot version to be made.