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Post by marklud on Jul 20, 2023 16:40:45 GMT -5
Love the middle age men getting butt hurt about probably the biggest woman star in pro wrestling being in a toy set. Also that Austin is perfect and I can’t wait to own it. I'm not a current WWE guy at all (prefer NJPW/AEW/etc.) but my god the whining has been out of control about her. People are really telling on themselves. Becky is and has been a star, I'm quite honestly dumbfounded at the annoying internet backlash to it. If anything, "Rocky Maivia" and not "The Rock" is the one that sticks out like a sore thumb in that set.
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Post by marklud on Jul 19, 2023 16:14:08 GMT -5
I don't like the Razor head either (I'll probably be doing a head swap) but I do think it's pretty clear that they were going for his face from the iconic image of him holding both belts on the ladder. Face definitely looks like they were going for that.
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Post by marklud on Jul 13, 2023 17:52:42 GMT -5
This is a joke, right? Please tell me you know there's way more to wrestling than just WWE. Sorry if I offended anyone. Im Just curious. Im Always tempted to purchase figures from Turtles, Connan - but I have never justified in my head a reason to buy a figure from these other wrestling toy companies. Also im assuming that they are higher priced than WWE Mattel figures, am I right? It's all good, I'm not offended, and I don't mean to be abrupt. But this is like the golden age of wrestling figures PRECISELY because we have so many options at the moment. It rules. That comparison is not exactly the right comparison, in my opinion. There is way more to wrestling than just WWE, both then and now. I think the point that could be made is if other companies were making, say, Ahmed Johnson, without the rights to the wrestler himself. That would suck and be unethical. But these companies are paying the wrestlers for their likeness so they have every right to make them. These aren't bootlegs we're talking about here. (Also, to your point ... I don't display any modern retro figures (Mattels, Zombie Sailor, etc.) alongside Hasbros, or Powertown next to Mattels. I treat them as their own separate things.) WWE itself had a ton of different companies over the years. Hasbro, Jakks, now Mattel. I had Hasbros as a kid, and it would be weird if I refused to buy Mattels because I had to remain loyal to Hasbro for some odd reason. I love AEW and New Japan. So I buy AEW and New Japan figures, as well as Mattels. Powertown is making figures of guys from the 70s and 80s; back then there were tons of promotions around the world, not just WWF. A lot of those wrestlers never really were in WWF in the first place. Mid-Atlantic/Crockett (eventually became WCW), Mid-South, World Class, Stampede, etc. You can watch a lot of these promotions on the Network actually if you're not familiar; they were awesome. Embrace the variety! I've been collecting these things forever and this time is wild and fun.
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Post by marklud on Jul 13, 2023 11:07:41 GMT -5
This is a joke, right? Please tell me you know there's way more to wrestling than just WWE.
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Post by marklud on Jul 3, 2023 22:09:37 GMT -5
Mattels: I buy pretty much all elite/ultimate versions of legends up to around 2004 ish. I display by sections: 80s, early 90s, new gen, attitude era, all loose. I also get some figs signed MOC. Stopped doing modern WWE figs cause I don't really watch these days.
AEW: At least one of every guy/girl loose on display, and I basically buy any one that I think looks cool lol. Also some MOC autographed.
I also collect any Japan stuff that comes out + Powertown. And am slowly picking away at classic superstars that I'm missing.
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Post by marklud on Jun 28, 2023 16:45:41 GMT -5
Share a pic of it?
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Post by marklud on Jun 11, 2023 21:48:11 GMT -5
Facebook wrestling figure groups is the way to go these days, just try to do your research on who you're buying/selling from in there. It's where I do all of my buying and selling these days but every so often a scam comes along that get some people/etc. (I've had only good experiences myself.)
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Post by marklud on May 5, 2023 20:14:24 GMT -5
I'm very bummed right now. Hoping there's some late miracle surge (I think there's like a 15 percent chance we get a late one, otherwise we're cooked lol)
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Post by marklud on Apr 25, 2023 15:55:18 GMT -5
To everyone saying things are getting worse -- I honestly think this latest set is pretty par for the course. Jamie and Private Party absolutely rule, but then the bad ones (FTR! my god lol) are REALLY bad. This has always been the thing with this line, for me. The good ones are really good ones, but the floor for the bad ones is really, really low.
Luckily for me, I'm a pick and choose guy (I stick to one look per character for my display) so I think if you pick and choose with this line you're golden. Just avoid the really bad ones lol.
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Post by marklud on Apr 16, 2023 16:36:34 GMT -5
One of the best things this has illustrated is online is a microcosm of a niche and you can’t take either or any opinion as gospel or literal “Wcw stage, take my money” - doesn’t mean put out a stage and I’ll buy it. It means if a stage is out out at s price which makes sense to me and I’m personally in a position where it’s possible snd I like the figure(s) bundled I’ll buy it “Hogan sucks, no one wants it” means “I personally don’t like the hogan or need it” not that anyone doesn’t want it “We need more wcw figures” doesn’t mean we necessarily want big playsets but more wcw figures. However it also doesn’t mean another section don’t want big play sets As a “community” the ages, likes, collections, finances, home situation etc are vastly different. If this crowdfund has illustrated anything is that there’s a hundred different pockets who each want, can afford, dislike etc as many different things as the other groups like. A lot of arguing and division around it is ‘worth’ it, it isn’t ‘worth it’ etc but ultimately the only person who can decide if it’s worth it for them (for them being key) is the individual themselves. I think it's also shown that a ton of wrestling figure collectors are just not ready to spend this much on a premium item/aren't used to this type of price bracket. I'm the opposite -- this was a Day 1 immediate purchase for me, and honestly I would pay more for it. These are exactly the type of premium items I want as an adult wrestling figure collector. I also have experience buying Hot Toys in the past in this $300-400 price point; so much of the discussion/debate that I've seen on the forum and the various Facebook groups leads to me to believe that a lot of wrestling fig collectors don't have much experience with that price point. This is not a criticism of them, and at the same time I'm not trying to prop myself up either. I just didn't have the same type of sticker shock that it seems like a lot of others have had because I've bought Hot Toys before. I also wish just in general that the payment plan option was stressed so much louder by both Mattel and by fans. There's a reason why for those of us who buy Hot Toys, it is loud and clear from the start that various payment plans are available and welcomed and embraced. Most of us who buy those could never, ever afford them otherwise, but the payment plan option is a big piece of the puzzle. A couple payments of $100 for me (or even $30/month for a year) are so much more doable than $400 straight up imo for this item. I do think that concept needs to be learned/accepted/gotten used to by a good chunk of the wrestling fig community.
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Post by marklud on Apr 1, 2023 16:37:23 GMT -5
I'm in the minority in that I both want as many Angles as humanly possible AND I'm perfectly OK with this. As the post above me from No Way Out shows, in that 2000-early 2001 era he had the straps all the way down way more than you'd think (I recently binge-watched all of that era). So I'm cool with it as is. If it comes with the crappy rubber singlet top I just won't use it and it will look like the picture above anyways.
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Post by marklud on Mar 31, 2023 23:33:28 GMT -5
I want exactly the type of eye-catching display pieces that they've offered us so far. They give us a billion figures and anybody they have signed they'll find a way to put out in a set, we don't need Kickstarter for that. The whole point of the kickstarter is for premium, high-priced options like display pieces imo.
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Post by marklud on Mar 30, 2023 16:22:10 GMT -5
Nitro ring would require different posts/turnbuckles/etc. to be accurate. If we're gonna go for it with these big-ticket items, I'd much rather prefer them to be accurate than just slapping some old WWF turnbuckles onto a Nitro ring They couldn’t include that in a tier for this ring? I’d rather have that than another rey or another hogan. Then you're cannibalizing your market, though. It may be frustrating but I 1000 percent get releasing a separate New Gen Ring, a separate Attitude Era Ring, and a separate Nitro ring. They need more rings out there as a baseline to get people more into the add-ons/supplemental stuff. I believe Steve even said as much after I had that line of thought.
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Post by marklud on Mar 30, 2023 16:17:20 GMT -5
So I have to buy another ring to collect dust for the ring mats and posts but they couldn’t include them in the crowd fund which would have driven sales? Lol mattel is getting too money hungry. Getting kind of fed up. Nitro ring would require different posts/turnbuckles/etc. to be accurate. If we're gonna go for it with these big-ticket items, I'd much rather prefer them to be accurate than just slapping some old WWF turnbuckles onto a Nitro ring
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Post by marklud on Mar 30, 2023 14:33:45 GMT -5
I cannot believe that they somehow took the greatest wrestling figure of all-time (DM Macho Mania 7) and somehow made it BETTER. Incredible
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Post by marklud on Mar 30, 2023 14:31:48 GMT -5
The JBL figure makes me so mad. Haven't released a proper 2004-05 heel champion version in almost 10 years. Nobody asked for that attire. My friend who buys like 2 figures a year saw that attire and said it's an instant buy for him because it's that attire, just saying lol
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Post by marklud on Mar 29, 2023 18:58:27 GMT -5
ShopPay offers pay in 4, I literally just paid that way. Can shop pay take the payments from PayPal? Ive never used it before. Only way I can back this is if I use my PayPal money. I don't think so, I believe credit cards only. Can't you transfer paypal money back to your bank and use that to pay your card? I do that all the time
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Post by marklud on Mar 29, 2023 18:57:24 GMT -5
Yeah I think this is DOA and maybe unsalvageable. Mattel killed the international market and the winds gone out the sales. And there’s no ace up the sleeve lol what? Bro, we're eight hours in lol If the last time taught us anything, there was an enormous surge ahead of the deadline for Macho. This time there will probably be a surge ahead of the Hogan 5K deadline. I'm happy that we're off to a much higher Day 1 start than we were with the New Gen set.
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Post by marklud on Mar 29, 2023 14:42:51 GMT -5
No PayPal pay in 4?! Wtf. there’s no way I can find this sort of money. This is doomed to fail, what are they doing ShopPay offers pay in 4, I literally just paid that way.
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Post by marklud on Mar 28, 2023 1:23:13 GMT -5
All the complaints that I'm reading across all social media, about the figures in this set, moreso than the price, really make me sad. I'm genuinely excited for this offering and I hope it goes all the way to 11k. Imma definitely throw down asap on Wednesday, but... I dunno... I'm not hopeful... there's more negativity than anything. =( At the very beginning I was so optimistic because I was pumped and the early indications I saw across all the figure Facebook groups was positive. It felt better than the initial reactions to the New Gen set. Then I waited an hour and the backlash began, people complaining everywhere (and honestly more of it was on this board than the groups ... I was pretty stunned by just how big the backlash is around here). Just the way Wrestling Internet is these days, I guess. Some people are always fighting about promotions, now figures too, lol. I hope this gets fully backed just for the sheer purpose of keeping mattel wanting to keep on putting out unique awesome stuff As much as I'm in the "this is awesome" camp, this point is my biggest belief with all of these premium items. Items like this and the New Gen entrance are EXACTLY the type of showcase/premium items I want as an adult wrestling figure collector. Any company can make figures, any company can make a steel cage, etc. Give me stuff like this that is of super high quality and really stands out. To me, these items feel special. I'm happy to pay more (thanks to the payment plans!) for premium items. This is the kinda stuff that I want to add to my collection, and I really, really, REALLY want it to continue.
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