Biff Slamkovich™
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Post by Biff Slamkovich™ on Oct 22, 2019 1:15:21 GMT -5
Would you buy/support them?
For those who are unaware, Jakks' old Titantron Live figures had metal pieces built into the bottom of sole of the feet that would interact electronically with metal strips embedded in other objects and playsets, triggering theme music or sound effects.
In my opinion, TTL figures were ahead of their time but unfortunately suffered from poor body molds, head sculpts and scaling.
With technology farther ahead today and with the quality of Mattels figures, if they found a way to reintroduce TTL style figures into today's market, would you be interested? How would you see them implemented? What would you want them to do?
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Post by WalterF on Oct 22, 2019 1:42:32 GMT -5
It’s interesting and I did enjoy the concept back then but these days in the world of smart phones, smart TVs what I think would be even more effective is to have a stage that connects to a phone app that you can choose to play whatever theme music or effects whenever. It could also be updated constantly with new themes and sounds. This way you don’t have to actually
Press the figure on such a specific part of the stage to activate the music. It would be very easy to do these days but the only question is if Mattel
Would be willing to make such a high priced playset item when their shelf space in major retail seems to be shrinking
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Oct 22, 2019 2:23:11 GMT -5
They had the Tough Talkers line that is now defunct. And the Entrance Greats line in which the whole selling point was a cruddy sounding music box. Not like Mattel hasn't tried. Just feel like technology can provide much better quality than hardware infused directly into figs. A QR code on the packaging to download or link to a site to play the tron vid and music on a device.
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Post by HandsomeHollywood on Oct 22, 2019 6:29:56 GMT -5
Nope. I hated TTL. I actually stopped collecting after the BCAs were done after buying a TTL or 2 out of curiosity. Didn't come back until RAs.
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on Oct 22, 2019 7:13:30 GMT -5
With nearly everyone owning a smartphone and/or tablet with an entire library of entrance songs and titantron videos literally in the palm of their hand I don’t think there is a need for gimmicky action figures that play music.
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Post by CM Poor on Oct 22, 2019 7:21:17 GMT -5
By "style", do you mean in the sense of the music triggering technology, or in the sense of a pool of body molds even more narrow than that of Mattel's, which the user base here laments on a near daily basis?
In either sense, no. I stuck with TTL for some time, but the switch from BCAs to TTLs severely hampered my interest in collecting. I didn't buy in on the TTL line, but for a handful of characters yet to be released, until they introduced the Real Scan technology.
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Post by LA Times on Oct 22, 2019 9:56:55 GMT -5
Nope. I hated TTL. I actually stopped collecting after the BCAs were done after buying a TTL or 2 out of curiosity. Didn't come back until RAs. Same here. The TTL era from 1999-2002 was my dark era of wrestling figure collecting, especially when WCW went out of business so there was also no Toybiz to collect either. I became hooked after RA1. |
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Post by czw4life on Oct 22, 2019 9:59:02 GMT -5
TTL might of been the worst line besides T3, so no. I'd rather play the entrance music off a device. Didn't they make an entrance stage where you could fit a tablet where the titontron was? And they had an app that would play the video and music of the selected superstar? Now that is more of what the world needs today.
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Post by Classic Collector: The Return on Oct 22, 2019 10:20:15 GMT -5
Worst line ever hard no
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Post by popyduggan on Oct 22, 2019 10:20:30 GMT -5
Noo, they dethroned my beloved BCAs, looked worse, cost more, and weren't as fun to bash as the old bone crunchers. Ya pretty much get them in the talking gimmick figures.
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Post by stc13 on Oct 22, 2019 10:27:31 GMT -5
Nope. I hated TTL. I actually stopped collecting after the BCAs were done after buying a TTL or 2 out of curiosity. Didn't come back until RAs. I felt the same way (didn't come back until the Mattel line in 2014), but the terrible bodies and over-expressive head scans were really my biggest issue. The idea is cool, but I think the concept is a little outdated now that we can pull entrance music/videos up on smart phones at any time. I'd still be interested in seeing a Mattel entrance stage that allowed for a phone/tablet to be mounted, but it's been a while since we've heard anything other than "we're trying to figure out how to make it for retail." |
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Post by PVA on Oct 22, 2019 10:48:33 GMT -5
BCA were better then TTL and think have more fond nostalgia for most.
TTL likeness was terrible
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Post by BadGirlRyleigh on Oct 22, 2019 11:28:15 GMT -5
The only good thing about TTLs was that they had more articulation than BCAs
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Post by cldbld on Oct 22, 2019 20:23:54 GMT -5
Mattel should make BCAs.
TTLs and RAs were some of the worst figures.
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Post by RybackV1 on Oct 23, 2019 7:48:41 GMT -5
Yes. TTLs are very nostalgic for me as they were my first wrestling figures I played with as a kid
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Post by D Rock on Oct 23, 2019 8:15:23 GMT -5
I hated the TTL figures so much. I never purchased one of them and it was a long dark period of not being able to purchase figures.
The R3 figures are what brought me back to collecting.
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Post by FUSamBaker on Oct 23, 2019 11:09:51 GMT -5
I’m gonna play Devil’s Advocate again. I loved TTLs. I started seriously collecting on the tail end of BCAs and the starts of TTL. The first few series were rough for sure. Edge and Triple H had terrible faces, Vince and Shane did too. But they started kicking up a bit. The one thing I can say is how awkwardly moveable the women were. The legs were terrible on most of them.
Sure TTLs were out of scale but they were fun pieces of wrestling figure history. I’d take them over LJNs or Hasbros any day. There were some gems but I wish Jakks would have taken more liberties. Ideally, I’d have loved to have a TTL of every person on WWF No Mercy. I think Jakks figured people like Terri, Bearer, Jackie and Viscera has BCAs so they weren’t a priority. But dang I’d have loved to have them plus The Kat...if they could have made her in a child appropriate outfit lol.
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Post by cldbld on Oct 23, 2019 11:24:15 GMT -5
Dont get me wrong, at the time when I was a lil one they were great for the time I suppose, but looking back yeah they weren't that great. Lol
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Post by Thought Collector on Oct 24, 2019 4:45:57 GMT -5
If I didn't already have a ton I would.  I couldn't see Mattel doing it because I don't think they have the same nostalgia factor as the Hasbro and LJN lines. If anything I could see them doing a Superstars/Bone Crunching Action line and redoing early ones like Razor, Diesel, Warrior, Undertaker, Vader, HBK, Triple H, Mankind, Stone Cold, Lawler and Bret |
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Post by bababooey on Oct 24, 2019 7:39:49 GMT -5
I hated the gimmick on them. Often times I’d put them on the stage and the wrong person’s music would play. The metal pieces were ugly and sometimes made it hard for figures to stand. Just seems like an unnecessary gimmick.
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I dont know good luck 
