Lack of “RA era” tights HBK figures

There's also this SHREDDED later version of the Bring the Noise/WM19 attire:



And this pre-CS WM red DX attire (though this is obviously based on his '98 gear though it came out in that same early RA era):



I think some of it has to do with timing. RA was based on early-to-mid 2002 when it launched. Shawn came back later on in 2002 for SummerSlam, and they had to play catch-up all throughout 2003. All this was before he changed his look from the bland H-B-K tights back to the traditional Heartbreak Kid tights. So meanwhile, they have a lot of his black H-B-K attires in production, including the one-off RA5 figure from Elimination Chamber 2002 when he won the world heavyweight title. They finally get around to his Wrestlemania 19 look with Bring the Noise, which was nearly impossible to find since that classic Shawn look was so heavily desirable.

After this, you're right, there is definitely a strange lack of Shawn Michaels. He wore the tights for another full year until the Kurt Angle match at WM21. Maybe they were trying to sell more of those Elimination Chamber rings? Not sure. We definitely should've gotten his red tights look around this time, and ideally, that white/red candystripe attire similar to One Night Only that he brought back a few times.

I made a custom of it, but it was a shame we never got the zebra tights he wore In the elimination chamber I believe

I’d just factor it in to the 02/03 HBK didn’t really wear tights outside red or black which we got, most other colours were one offs, we did get a lot of classic HBK in tights but definitely not enough! I was more upset at at the lack of RA era entrance gear for HBK, outside that main event style we only got classic entrance gear for the most part.

they were all repaints mostly, we got a decent amount i guess, the black and green dx, red dx X2 screwjob X2 pretty sure there was two or 3 cs shawns from 19-94 era, plus the ladder match exclusive with razor, then the two dudes with attitude exclusive, im sure theres tons more. the ra line started two years before he started wearing tights and at first the line was putting out lots of guys every line, even lesner didnt get many ra's in his ring gear there was like three and one of them came in a 6 pack