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Post by poindizzle on Feb 15, 2023 13:25:16 GMT -5
Every Walmart around here has different stock and the resets never help. The shelves sat empty for over a month. Then between the 3 Walmarts in my city, one has a solid case of Top Picks Randy Orton, one got Elite 99, and one got Elite 96.
I haven't seen Elite 95, 97, or 98 at box stores. There's a toy and hobby store the next city over and I just follow their social media and drive over when they stock new stuff. It's only 30 minutes and they carry a ton of each so I can pick the best paint. It's worth it to me.
No offense to online retailers because its not their fault Mattel has dodgy quality control. Nothing sours my mood like the last time I blind bought an elite which was Elite 83 Edge and I get him and he has a blotch of brown paint the length of most of his face running down it and through his beard and eyebrows.
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Post by poindizzle on Feb 15, 2023 13:14:28 GMT -5
Possible ones: Elite 4 Kane, Either the mailaway Mankind or Elite 51, Hall of Fame (or was it Champions?) Yokozuna in white, Giant Machine Andre, Retrofest Mr. Perfect.
Ones I'm not sure about status: The Von Erichs and Texas Tornado, LOD or Road Warriors, Demolition (including Crush).
Ones who are now at AEW and most likely off limits: Elite 16 CM Punk, Ringside Wolfpac Sting, Network Spotlight Big Show, BAF Jim Ross.
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Post by poindizzle on Feb 10, 2023 12:07:22 GMT -5
I’ve yet to see a blue Shamrock in any Texas store. Same here in NC. I also checked often, I mean maybe a little sad how often, and never once saw a Molly Holly chase either. I don't know how my luck was that bad.
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Post by poindizzle on Feb 8, 2023 18:39:06 GMT -5
It's a shame he had so many good Titan Tron Live attires and a way better headscan but worse bodies.
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Post by poindizzle on Feb 8, 2023 18:36:07 GMT -5
Nice score with the Danielson Chase!
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Post by poindizzle on Feb 8, 2023 18:34:52 GMT -5
Every upcoming Ultimate looks amazing as well as the next 2 Legends sets. Ruthless Stone Cold, Eric Bischoff, and John Cena are also must haves.
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Post by poindizzle on Feb 8, 2023 7:33:13 GMT -5
I think probably over half the Mattel figures are too thin to accurately represent the person but then don't actually look bad and still maintain a scale so people give it a pass. I certainly do. Daniel Bryan having those skinny little thighs and torso aren't accurate all but he's smaller than the other figures in height and build and that can honestly negate the fact he's stout because at least it isn't like the AEW line where his newest figure is taller than Wardlow.
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Post by poindizzle on Feb 8, 2023 7:26:20 GMT -5
Am I remembering this correctly, the timeline for this was that it dropped on Mattel Creations after Ringside SDCC preorders took half the people's entire budget up and then you only had one week to pull the trigger roughly?
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Post by poindizzle on Feb 7, 2023 18:16:44 GMT -5
At retail the line is so dead. They cleared some room at Christmas at the Walmart near my house with the exception of two pegs of only Unmatched 1 Britt Baker and the Walmart Hangman Page. I went in last week and they had a fresh case of AEW......... Unmatched series 1, again. This Walmart has only had Unmatched 1 for over a year with constant restocks because I'll see Darby and Omega who are usually the only ones that sell and then a month passes and there's more. I think they've had 20+ cases of that one wave.
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Post by poindizzle on Feb 7, 2023 18:11:18 GMT -5
Just like every other Walmart line, I'm probably going to go to ebay and overpay a little so it isn't like the King Harley Race situation (also a Walmart exclusive) of paying a lot later.
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Post by poindizzle on Jan 23, 2023 11:51:37 GMT -5
Series 1 disappeared in the weeks before Christmas around here and now nothing has been replenished at all. Every time Walmart gets a exclusive line I feel like the only people who benefit are the ebay guys who somehow secure pallets of them and flip em.
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Post by poindizzle on Jan 19, 2023 12:06:11 GMT -5
I found the retro card gung ho today at the Monroe Walmart so now I have my mint on card one. There are 10 each Baroness and Lady Jaye at all of my local Walmarts. I fear they will never clear out Don't worry about that too much. I thought the exact same thing because there were so many Lady Jayes that aren't selling but when I checked my Walmart just this morning I saw Destro and Gung Ho and in pretty high numbers too.
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Post by poindizzle on Jan 2, 2023 11:03:44 GMT -5
I felt the same thing about Charlotte’s new attire. It’s hideous. Her previous attire was way better. I felt the same way about Sasha’s attire after the split with Bayley. Sasha’s older sttires were way cooler. The amount of detail is overkill. If I was in charge of that sort of thing in WWE I would tell them all that they have toys to sell, and they need to tone it WAY down. Less deco hits. Less unique sculpting. More actual personality. Who are you under all those embellishments, you know? Alexa was smart to have her attires be the same basic design in multiple colors and has had double digit figures made as a result of it. Liv Morgan looks like she crafted her ring attires using only the raw materials found in a car, and Mattel is not even trying to touch them. I imagine if Asuka wasnt dressed like the scrap bin at Joann's fabrics we might get a robe of some sort for her figures. Legit made me lol on that last sentence.
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Post by poindizzle on Dec 28, 2022 14:13:13 GMT -5
I don't have the Elite 3 anymore but it was on a very skinny buck from what I remember while the Jazwares Christian is pretty stocky. I'm going to guess probably not.
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Post by poindizzle on Dec 23, 2022 13:04:28 GMT -5
Jakks had a box set called WWEast. In addition to Funaki it had Sakoda, and if this counts different gimmicks, Akio (Jimmy Wang Yang).
Also, Kid Kash. He almost had a Toybiz TNA figure. Besides his ruthless figure I don't think he's been done again.
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Post by poindizzle on Dec 14, 2022 19:23:51 GMT -5
I like celebrity figures, I would be down for any one from any era.
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Post by poindizzle on Dec 14, 2022 18:48:08 GMT -5
I decided to make this thread because I have never really thought this hard about it before and I'm suddenly wondering if I am weird for this or not, but I don't ever really make my wrestling figures wrestle.
What I do instead is usually just pose them doing a signature pose from their entrance and then put them up on my shelf. I don't have any rings and that's more due to how small my house is and just not having the space for it and maybe if I did have a wrestling ring I would actually put them in poses where they're wrestling with each other.
For the rest of the loose collectors what do you do? Do you put them in a vanilla pose on your shelf? Do you do like I do and put them in signature entrance poses? Do you play with them? Photography? Animations? I'm very curious now to hear.
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Post by poindizzle on Dec 5, 2022 10:38:10 GMT -5
Arms are too tight. Arms are too loose. Misaligned face prints. Flip a figure over and the back looks like the machine chewed it up. Torso already cracked partially open. Floppy ab crunch. Errant black marks. Glue showing on the outside of the figure or under the hairpiece. Two left or right feet, arms, thighs, etc. Stains. Stains on figures that don't even have soft goods. The sole of the foot is popped out. The boots are bent in half pointing down.
You name it I've had a issue with it. Probably like 80 percent of all my purchases. I try to be zen and say they're just toys but then I buy Hasbro stuff and only have problems like 10 percent of the time. What does Mattel do different to constantly have these problems?
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Post by poindizzle on Nov 30, 2022 11:21:26 GMT -5
I don't know how many more times I, or anyone else, has to say this: we need more arms to choose from with the double jointed ones. For men it is small, huge, enormous, and Gargantuan. No nuance anymore.
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Post by poindizzle on Nov 18, 2022 19:44:36 GMT -5
Since we have the Green attire coming in the 3-Pack, i'm still hoping this one will be his 1993 Royal Rumble attire. Either way, any Razor or Hall is an instant get for me. I'm game. We've gotten pretty good representation now of the other colors.
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