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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 22, 2024 20:20:18 GMT -5
No one ever said that it HAD to be a 3-pack. You were treating it like a 3-pack or nothing. We are getting Imperium on Mattel Creations. You didn't think that was possible because they didn't have a "historical moment." Well... it's happening. And that's great news! It's really surprising to see Mattel not releasing an Imperium-3-Pack in Elite form. I've said it several times before, with the upcoming European PLEs and popularity clearly on the rise again, Mattel is missing a huge opportunity here. There used to be at least some basic 3-packs, I'd be happy with even that. It's not like Gunther and Kaiser are warming the stores. Seriously, do you just not read full posts on the forum? It’s what me and the other member were discussing. The likelihood of a Imperium 3-pack. I said no likely, then LWO was brought up as a comparison. Hence the “historical moment”. Because highly doubt we’d ever see Del Toro/Wilde Elites if this 5-pack wasn’t created. LWO wasn’t made because of some historical moment though. LWO was made because Mattel Creations is able to offer us these characters and sets that may not be possible to offer in stores. Hence an elite Imperium 2 pack. This elite Imperium 2-pack proves that a moment isn’t what drives their decisions. They could have easily made this a 3-pack, but they decided to make it a 2-pack. If anything, that even further proves the point that we can get more characters without some additional significance because it probably would have sold better with a matching Gunther and they still chose to make it a 2-pack(just to note, I don’t actually consider Imperium to be lesser character like some others here do).
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 22, 2024 19:53:09 GMT -5
Interesting. I see no Imperium 3-pack anywhere. Care to point me in the direction of this pack? Steve mentioned more tag teams coming to MC. So obviously they plan to do Elite 2-packs on MC, as they claim retail isn’t an option. No one ever said that it HAD to be a 3-pack. You were treating it like a 3-pack or nothing. We are getting Imperium on Mattel Creations. You didn't think that was possible because they didn't have a "historical moment." Well... it's happening. And that's great news!
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 22, 2024 19:50:35 GMT -5
lwo has done jack sh¡t besides rey’s not even 3 month us title reign Proves my point even more. You don't need to be in a prominent position to get a Mattel Creations exclusive. That should actually be a good thing. I like that we have a way to get more characters out there. I bought the LWO 5-pack and I will surely buy the Imperium figures. Can't wait!
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 22, 2024 17:03:37 GMT -5
What an ignorant comment. I'm not sure if you even follow WWE, because if you did you would know that Gunther is the longest reigning IC champ. For all German speaking countries, he's probably the greatest champion of all time. Also, I had written that it would make sense marketing-wise, as there are several PLEs coming up in Europe. Vinci and Kaiser should have been announced in the Elite Lines a long time ago. The reunion at Clash of the Castle would have been a fitting moment. I would argue that the LWO multipack should never have been produced now in your view. Nah. LWO pack was made after a historical night for the faction. It wasn’t just a pack made because they exist. Gunther has had his reign, but Imperium have done squat on the main roster. Maybe if something monumental happens with them at Backlash (doubtful), we could see a pack commemorating it. The point is that Mattel go after special moments. Not putting out factions for the sake of it. This aged well…
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 19, 2024 18:34:22 GMT -5
That is an anomaly for sure. Dark Order was everywhere and it got so bad that they needed to do a reset and remove them from shelves. anna jay maybe but the biggest problem that caused the reset was the dreaded Nyla rose the worst peg warmer in the history of the line hands down Anna Jay was nowhere near as bad as Evil Uno (at least around me), but Nyla Rose is an all timer. That is the #1 peg warmer of all Jazwares figures!
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 18, 2024 19:49:52 GMT -5
Evil Uno and Silver were new character and part of a faction (the same faction as Reynolds mind you) and they warmed like crazy. They warmed so hard that it forced Jazwares to do resets. New characters are not guaranteed to sell well… especially the dork order. warmed where? On RSC? All AEW figures are collecting dust there. CM Punk ice cream bar is still available. But in store? I’ve never seen them like that. The resets are Jazwares own fault. They got that idiot Jeremy running the show and they don’t know how to move product or keep fans interested. If you did a whole dark order set why not do 6 figures. Brody, Silver, Uno, Stu, Reynolds, Anna Jay & make 10 the build-a-figure. That whole set is flying especially around the time when they were hot. Instead Jazwares and goofy Jeremy did 5 figures with zero accessories and they sat on RSC for 2-3 years. They absolutely were not "flying." Evil Uno and Silver were at every Target in NY for well over a year. It is not speculation that they warmed so hard that Jazwares needed to do a reset. Even Brodie Lee was plentiful. I don;t know if they made too much of that set, but Dark Order was around for a loooooong time.
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 18, 2024 11:43:23 GMT -5
This is a "waiting for clearance" set for me!! Good luck with that. I can’t find Walmart exclusives in stores, let alone find them on clearance.
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 17, 2024 18:55:07 GMT -5
Evil Uno and Silver were new character and part of a faction (the same faction as Reynolds mind you) and they warmed like crazy. They warmed so hard that it forced Jazwares to do resets. New characters are not guaranteed to sell well… especially the dork order. Dark Order didn't warm in my area at all. Even Greyson moved. Only one that sat a while was Anna Jay That is an anomaly for sure. Dark Order was everywhere and it got so bad that they needed to do a reset and remove them from shelves.
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 17, 2024 15:08:23 GMT -5
Not understanding why they didn’t give us Jeff in his ring gear but whatever. Alex Reynolds wouldn’t reg warm. I don’t know what y’all talking about. He’s a new character and apart of a faction. This RSC is random and nobody asked for it but I will get one and head swap it so I can have a more recent gear (2022) of the Ocho. Evil Uno and Silver were new character and part of a faction (the same faction as Reynolds mind you) and they warmed like crazy. They warmed so hard that it forced Jazwares to do resets. New characters are not guaranteed to sell well… especially the dork order.
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 16, 2024 20:31:23 GMT -5
Hey Guys, I've spent the last day looking at the teaser for next week's Mattel Creations Reveal and I don't see one hint of The Steiner Brothers. I honestly think that this is our only chance for WM 9 Ultimate Steiners because where else are you going to release the Ultimate Steiner Brothers?? I guess they could be an Amazon exclusive and that would be cool. Honestly I would be happy with elites of The Steiners at this point, maybe they could be in Legend Series 24 with the WWE Tag Titles Around Their Waist and 91 Hulk Hogan could be in series 23 with The WWE World Title Around his waist. I get the love for CM Punk but I've spoke with several people regarding the upcoming reveal season and The Steiners are priority number one. Didn't you say you were going to cool it on that Hogan for awhile? Guess not...
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 16, 2024 18:26:11 GMT -5
If people are complaining about completing BAFs with 4 figures, what do you think the reaction would be if they needed to buy 6? they could keep the build-a-figure as 4 pieces and put those with the figures that wouldn't sell "as well", and then the anchor and/or chase figures would just have no piece since they would be the better selling figures in a series. i'm pretty sure hasbro does something like that with marvel legends(the one or two figures not having a baf piece aspect). its not a perfect idea, but it would be one way to get baf's into a 6 figure mainline series or if they really wanted to anger people, they could go the route of the diamond select ghostbusters figures from several years back and have a build-a-set spread across a few series. with those, if you bought all the figures you'd end up with the rooftop scene from the first movie. imagine if that's how mattel got us the nitro stage(no lights or anything)? there would be riots lol You could still limit it to 4 out of 6 having a BAF. If comparing to Marvel Legends though, they generally more than four have the BAF pieces. The Mindless One wave had six pieces and then the 7th figure (DareDevil) didn't have one. But, yeah. Like you said, I think it could work if they kept it to 4 pieces. We'd hope to hope that they don't short pack those 4 figures though!
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 15, 2024 22:45:11 GMT -5
Ringside had them though. So someone had them and you could have bought them. Before that set was gone, you could have gotten the entire set for retail through Ringside. I know because that is how I got them. So why did you wait for Target or Walmart to get them when you knew Ringside had them? Hey make no mistake - if it's something I REALLY want I do buy from Ringside. That's how I got the Mean Gene BAF set (Wrestlemania 39 I think)? I wasn't willing to risk not getting Okerlund and I spent a few extra bucks, saved myself the complete headache of searching & just bought it from Ringside. It was a huge relief.... I'm not stupid! But.... I've missed out on a few PPV figures that I assumed I would be able to find at retail (Royal Rumble Macho Man, Canadian Earthquake) because I figured - no sense paying the extra shipping I'll just pick these up at retail. Then they never show up. Shame on me, I guess? For hoping to find SOME of these things without paying extra for shipping? To reference one of your other posts, I waited.... but I waited too long and they were gone. Now I'm at the mercy of the secondary market. Where figures like this are generally $45+ and then add $7-$10 more for shipping. Forget it. Makes sense. Distribution is definitely a problem and if it were better then we probably wouldn't even be having this conversation. But, I've wasted too much time early on looking for figures in stores that I have learned my lesson enough to just go straight to RSC. If I wait just a bit, the prices are fair enough that I don't have to waste time in stores, or be screwed by the secondary market.
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 15, 2024 19:57:20 GMT -5
I can't in my gut believe that you are 25 years old and actually think that online shopping is difficult Clearly the answer is you are too simpleminded to be having any sort of conversation with if you read all that and still think that's what I'm talking about. Remember folks, wrestling figures are stocks. Short Jazwares, buy Dominik elite options, this is financial advice. "Because it's easier to justify spending 25 dollars on a figure I have in my hand than it is to put in my card information and go through the check out process online." Did you not type this? "Fun fact if the check out process has 3 or more steps people tend to just decide it's not worth it and buy nothing. 44% of people will decide it's not worth it if they have to re-enter any information, 42% will drop it if they have to re-login for any reason." Or this? Yeah, that's what I thought... You are spelling out with "fun facts" how people find the process of buying things online to be "difficult." No one was talking about the statistics of buying more things when shopping in person. We were talking strictly about how to buy figures you are interested in, not that you're already food shopping and happen to peruse the toy aisle. It's "I want figure A." Should you try the store or get it online. Enjoy your Peppermint Patty though. Also, no reason to bring up a completely different argument in this thread.
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 15, 2024 19:17:24 GMT -5
Obviously you would need to go in the store for store exclusives, but there is no reason to stress over trying to find a main line elite in stores. But how is it easier to have to go in person than buy something online? You make it sound like buying something online is a long and grueling process. Are you like 80 years old and allergic to technology? Buying things online is quick and easy. Most websites allow you to save your credit card information to make future checkouts even easier. The amount of time you have to spend driving to the store is already longer than the two seconds it would take to checkout online. And, you don't know where I get the idea that things are usually cheaper on RSC? I clearly stated that you have to be patient, but eventually, you can get almost everything for retail or less as the prices drop or when there's a sale. I have never seen Elite 107 in stores (I always make a stop through the toy aisles when I am regularly shopping at Walmart and Target), but Ringside currently has 3 of them for $19.99 (which is less than retail), and 2 of them for $24.99 (which is only $2 more than retail). I think the extra two dollars is well worth it to save yourself the time and the gas money (and that is not even considering any of their discounts). There is absolutely no reason to stress about finding anything in the main elite line in stores when you have RSC and plenty of other websites that have these figures for retail prices. I can't name the other websites on here, but there are at least two that can get you Elite 107 right now for retail. I don't see why the stress is necessary. Save yourself the headache and the time (even though you somehow think online shopping is a difficult process). A: I have 5 Walmarts on my area, the last main line elite I saw was 106 Sami, not any of the others in the set, just Sami. Now what was the last elite set I saw before that? Elite 101 and was a it a complete set? No. Before that? Elite 92, once again not even a complete set. 5 Walmarts, I frequent all of them, still don't see anything. So bullcrap I don't have to worry about finding mainline elites. B: I'm younger than most people on this board at 25. There have been countless studies on the difference between buying things in person and online. You are 2x more like to spend more money in a store vs online. 3x more likely to impulse purchase. Fun fact if the check out process has 3 or more steps people tend to just decide it's not worth it and buy nothing. 44% of people will decide it's not worth it if they have to re-enter any information, 42% will drop it if they have to re-login for any reason. If you can't figure out the psychological difference between seeing something in store and impulsively chucking it in with the essential groceries you are already there to get and the process of browsing luxuries online, adding them to cart, logging in, putting in your address, putting in your billing information and then ordering it and still think that the issue is that "it's too difficult" then you are far too simpleminded to be having this conversation. C: You completely ignored the issue of RSC constantly shipping me items that are either damaged before sending or get damaged in the process of shipping due to their incompetence. Secondly a 2 dollar discount plus 8 dollars in shipping isn't a 2 dollar discount and that's not talking about how RSC jacks up the prices on in demand figures. "Just play the waiting game and buy them on sale", the last figure I did that for was DM Cody, guess how that turned out. I shouldn't have to play guessing games and hope the crap I want is on sale and cheaper than if I found it in store like they are supposed to be. Quite frankly I don't even understand how this is even a discussion. Main line elites should be in stores and easy to find in person. I should be able to walk into my 5 Walmarts and between them all see even a mostly complete set of them. My area shouldn't skip nearly 10 waves at a time. This is the lifeblood of the line, it's not the MAIN LINE for nothing. Yet if I didn't know any better I'd think Top Picks were the main line of this series and even those are getting tricky to find in person. You confuse stress with frustration, I'm not stressed I can't find them, I'm frustrated that this line is distributed like crap and I have to rely on 3rd parties to get things if I want rather than find it in person like I should be able to. Stress is me needing these and going out of my way to get them, frustration is me saying it I guess I won't buy the crap I want. You're obviously not understanding. You don't have to worry about finding main line elites in stores because you have an alternative. If you are frequenting five Walmarts periodically looking for main line elites then you are literally insane. What's the definition of insanity? Isn't it doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? How many elites series have we been through and how many times have you been burned by not finding them in stores? It is literally on you for not seeking out an alternative. An alterative that quite frankly saves you not just money, but also time. I can't in my gut believe that you are 25 years old and actually think that online shopping is difficult. No one is talking about how you buy more when shopping in person. I don't care about Walmart making more money off of you. I don't care that you might buy an extra York Peppermint Patty since it is near the cash register. I was talking about shopping specifically for wrestling figures. What is easier? Going online and buying the figures in a matter of minutes? Or getting in your car, driving to the store, walking down the aisle, finding nothing, and having to do that on repeat until you either get lucky or never find them? I think that question answers itself. I also chose to not acknowledge the damaged items for a number of reasons. 1. I don't generally have this issue with RSC so it seems more like a you problem. Unfortunately, you might just be unlucky. Have I receive a damaged item from them before? Yes. But not often. 2. Receiving a damaged item in the mail is not a problem exclusive to RSC. I receive damage items from other companies like Amazon, EE, etc. 3. You also can't expect to find mint figures at retail. Between the customers touching everything, to employees not caring about their job, I have come to accept that I might not get the best conditioned boxes at retail. Do you know the number of times I have found a figure with a giant slash on the back of a box due to a boxcutter? Yeah, too many. Lastly, using DM Cody as an example for why you shouldn't wait doesn't work. 1. He's a RSC exclusive so they can literally make up whatever price they want. I can't really place a "retail" price on that since it is their figure. 2. He is one of, if not the most popular wrestler in the company right now so it makes sense that his figure would be in high demand and sellout. And even if this wasn't a RSC exclusive, I would be doubtful that you'd ever have the chance to find it in stores since it would fly off the shelves. I was talking about waiting out an elite wave. I can't think of any figure from the last ten elite waves (other than elite 101 Cody) that you couldn't eventually get off of RSC for retail price or less. So if you want to keep trying retail stores over and over again with no luck, that's your prerogative. I don't work for RSC so it is not my job to sell you on them. If you don't want an easier way to find figures, then that just leaves more stock for the rest of us. Thanks!
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 15, 2024 18:29:00 GMT -5
To back up my earlier point; Never saw the Royal Rumble Elites in any store..... where were they sold? Target, Walmart? Ringside is also sold out of them; So if I wanted to buy the Build-A-Fig Virgil - where would I buy these at? Where are they available? This has been typical for me with these BAF sets. I did see the 'Mania BAF sets on the 1 Shipper I found, so I could PROBABLY have done the "Build-A-Nicholas" fig..... but I have no interest in this one. Ringside had them though. So someone had them and you could have bought them. Before that set was gone, you could have gotten the entire set for retail through Ringside. I know because that is how I got them. So why did you wait for Target or Walmart to get them when you knew Ringside had them?
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 15, 2024 18:26:16 GMT -5
At one point you were able to get that entire set off RSC for $100. I know because that is how much I bought it for. After the discount, tax, and shipping, it came out to $109. So for $9 extra ($22.99 per figure plus tax times 4 figures is approx $100), I got all four figures early and without any concern of having to find them in store. The amount of time you have spent looking in stores and on eBay has already surpassed that $9. They even dipped lower than that at one point, but I pulled the trigger at $100 to ensure that I got them before they sold out. You have to be can be patient in the sense of not paying the initial over inflated prices, but also know when to pull the trigger when the deal is close enough to retail and may not get any better (in your case waiting too long for Lawler and now he's gone). Yeah honestly I am to the point where I might need to start considering just pre-ordering from Ringside Collectibles from now on when it comes to anything outside of the main Elite line. I never used to cause the prices were inflated so much but, to your point, I think it might be time to just bite the bullet on this one. I just hate to support price inflation like that. But like right now, say I pre-ordered that upcoming Summerslam Elite series with the John Cone BAF. They are charging 109.99 for the set of 4. Plus 9.49 for sales tax. So that comes out to a total of $119.48. So that means I'd be paying $29.87 a figure. I just don't know if I can justify paying the price of an Ultimate for each elite, but then again if I don't I might never see these figures ever. It's just frustrating because none of this ever used to be this hard I wouldn't buy the set at $109.99 though. What I am saying is wait, but don't wait too long. There will be a window where the set of 4 will go down, if even only slightly, and it will be enough to make it worth it. I will be buying the SummerSlam set too... but only when the set of 4 goes down to at least $100. That way after the discount, tax, and shipping, I will only be paying an extra $8-9 total for all four figures. I did the same thing with the SvS set. They weren't originally $100 for the set of 4. I waited and purchased them when it went down. But I didn't wait too long because then I would run into the chance of missing out completely. At one point, I believe they even went a bit below $100, but I was fine with it because I had the piece of mind that I bought them before they were gone. And now look. They are gone. So even though I could have gotten them for maybe a few more dollar cheaper, in the long run it worked out in that I got them before they sold out.
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 15, 2024 18:18:41 GMT -5
I think it’s unreasonable that you can’t be honest and acknowledge this. Why keep the truth from people when it’s the simple truth? Because it should be obvious; ZST is just a tiny company you shouldn't compare it to Mattel, Hasbro, Playmates or even Super7. Anyone who thinks ZST says the ETA is January, so January it is should get their head checked: ZST is your local small store, not a mega corporation. ZST is not even a small fish, ZST is a tadpole. He just shouldn't even say an ETA then. Why should a customer have to take someone's word and automatically add three-six months to it? That sounded silly even as I was writing it..
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 14, 2024 20:33:01 GMT -5
Wasnt i supposed to get Todd in January? My assumption with Zombie is that he's in a good factory, but he's bottom of the barrel in it Don't you dare ask him about it. He'll rip your head off.
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 14, 2024 20:20:00 GMT -5
Maybe we could start getting some REALLY deep cuts if they started doing BAFs in every regular line set like Marvel Legends? If people are complaining about completing BAFs with 4 figures, what do you think the reaction would be if they needed to buy 6?
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Post by voicesinmyhead on Mar 14, 2024 20:12:19 GMT -5
I still don’t know why so many people are bothered by finding something in person anymore. Ringside will eventually have an entire wave for less than retail and probably before the retail store would even get it. Why do people still wait or need to find it in the store? Finding a chase or something I can understand, but why are we waiting for mainline figures to hit retail. Note: I’m not saying buy the figures at the higher price on Ringside. You can easily be patient and get it for less on Ringside and probably still before it’ll hit the stores. That used to be the case, but Ringside's stock has gotten pretty terrible. Take that Survivor Series set for example that builds the british Bulldog. If you go on Ringside now, all they have is Shawn Michaels. I've been waiting forever to see that Jerry Lawler and I never saw him on that site or in stores. If you go on Ebay right now, there are only 5 listed for sale, so clearly they are difficult to find. That set just never appeared anywhere for me and that has become more and more common with these sets. They are just becoming almost impossible to find. Getting figures online has almost become just as difficult as finding them in stores At one point you were able to get that entire set off RSC for $100. I know because that is how much I bought it for. After the discount, tax, and shipping, it came out to $109. So for $9 extra ($22.99 per figure plus tax times 4 figures is approx $100), I got all four figures early and without any concern of having to find them in store. The amount of time you have spent looking in stores and on eBay has already surpassed that $9. They even dipped lower than that at one point, but I pulled the trigger at $100 to ensure that I got them before they sold out. You have to be can be patient in the sense of not paying the initial over inflated prices, but also know when to pull the trigger when the deal is close enough to retail and may not get any better (in your case waiting too long for Lawler and now he's gone).
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