The state of the AEW line- let's discuss

You’re talking about UR11 but 10 never hit in full force, same with UM5. Just a case or 2 in my area. Kenny Supreme exclusive is nowhere to be found same with Supreme 2 at retail. I know certain people gonna come in here and say oh they talked to the company and they said it’s fine but as a consumer, not seeing any new product in store for 6 months kinda sucks. Every Walmart and Target near me is sitting on UM4 and UR8 leftovers

The Dark Order wave killed this line around me. They're everywhere.

The Supreme Baker is clogging my area Targets. As is Nyla Rose(?) and Lance Archer. The last set I have seen at any area Target or Walmart is the set with the old school Jericho. Seriously Cody left AEW and it seems like this line hasn’t been the same since. Wasn’t Brandi heavily involved in merchandise? If so it seems like there’s been a major drop in that department for AEW.

And it seems like the quality of Jazwares product has dropped from material used to sculpts. The figures seem very rubbery and sculpts have lacked. I didn’t have any figures break until the Supreme Cody which I had three break when trying to turn the boots. One regular and two of the WalMart exclusive. Christian and Kingston were two figures I was really anticipating when announced and when I bought them the sculpts were so bad I was embarrassed for them and myself for actually buying them.

And to top it off now with the delays for getting new product out I am pretty much done with this line at this point. I have purchased three new AEW figures this year 1/14 I found the Target Darby, 1/31 I found a DB then on 3/4 I found a chase Cody. Other than that I haven’t seen any new product from them. I will still get that Pac if it ever sees the light of day as well as any Sting or Hangman they make but other than that I really don’t care in the line anymore.

This is the perspective of a Canadian collector:

Buying wrestling figures in retail here has been terrible for a very long time. Ringside has been a very expensive 'go-to' for quite a number of years with Mattel Elites. I'd wager in my city I would only see every 4th wave of elites actually hit retail. When they did, they show up in big #'s, and then shelf-warm for a few months before finally disappearing and new ones show up.

Jazwares has been on a similar track, but if I'm being 100 it's actually better than Mattel in my area. Yeah the Dark Order wave still shelf-warms a bit, but we've had every 2nd unrivalled set hit, compared to every 4th elite wave hit. I've seen 5 different unmatched lines in person.

Currently on unmatched 5 and unrivalled 8 in retail, which compared to ringside released dates, tracks pretty concurrently with where we often have been at for Mattel elites compared to ringside releases. There have been exceptions for mattel for sure, but they're rare. Our stores seem to basically buy up wrestling figures quarterly and whatever comes, comes. TRU is better than Walmart by far for getting newer waves, but it's still really inconsistent. Like, at TRU I found a million NXT Aleister Blacks and we got full cases of the exclusive Liv Morgan and Paiges. But, then we'll randomly miss 3 waves of elites. It's just a gong show and online has been the way for a long time.

So in Canada at least, I have zero red flags for this line, just the continuous disappointment of retail stores and wrestling figures. The last time I was able to find anything in good time was the Jakks classic superstars line lol. So, it's been a hot minute.