T-Phunk
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Post by T-Phunk on Oct 21, 2008 16:54:35 GMT -5
STILL ANGRY!!! Is there anything they got right in this series?
1. Dynamite kid has Robert Gibson's lazy eye. 2. BRAIDS!!! F'n BRAIDS!!! 3. That's Winston, you just had to give it a little more Brown paint to make it Matilda 4. One GD tag belt. 5. Wrong shade of blue. 6. Are there any two wrestlers in history that require the Regal torso more than the Rock and Roll Express? No just no, there was almost no muscle on their torsos. 7. Those head scans are so bad I am convinced they are actually scans of Jakks' Spring '08 Interns with mullets added. 8. The tights are all black. 9. No accessories with the RNR express. Don't tell me the bandana belts are accessories. 10. Ivan is bigger than Nikita and looks about the same age. 11. Nikita is a straight re-release, at least with the Horsemen sets the Arn Anderson head had a better paint job. 12. Ivan looks more like Boris Zukhov.
There you go, three tag teams with a dozen freaking things wrong with them. Great work Jakks, way to make want to spend money during a recession. Brilliant marketing.
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Post by twinn on Oct 21, 2008 17:41:25 GMT -5
STILL ANGRY!!!Is there anything they got right in this series? 1. Dynamite kid has Robert Gibson's lazy eye. 2. BRAIDS!!! F'n BRAIDS!!! 3. That's Winston, you just had to give it a little more Brown paint to make it Matilda 4. One GD tag belt. 5. Wrong shade of blue. 6. Are there any two wrestlers in history that require the Regal torso more than the Rock and Roll Express? No just no, there was almost no muscle on their torsos. 7. Those head scans are so bad I am convinced they are actually scans of Jakks' Spring '08 Interns with mullets added. 8. The tights are all black. 9. No accessories with the RNR express. Don't tell me the bandana belts are accessories. 10. Ivan is bigger than Nikita and looks about the same age. 11. Nikita is a straight re-release, at least with the Horsemen sets the Arn Anderson head had a better paint job. 12. Ivan looks more like Boris Zukhov. There you go, three tag teams with a dozen freaking things wrong with them. Great work Jakks, way to make want to spend money during a recession. Brilliant marketing. Boom!!!! If only Jakks would read this and fix every single one of those things, this could possibly be the best CSTT set ever...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2008 17:48:08 GMT -5
STILL ANGRY!!!Is there anything they got right in this series? 1. Dynamite kid has Robert Gibson's lazy eye. 2. BRAIDS!!! F'n BRAIDS!!! 3. That's Winston, you just had to give it a little more Brown paint to make it Matilda 4. One GD tag belt. 5. Wrong shade of blue. 6. Are there any two wrestlers in history that require the Regal torso more than the Rock and Roll Express? No just no, there was almost no muscle on their torsos. 7. Those head scans are so bad I am convinced they are actually scans of Jakks' Spring '08 Interns with mullets added. 8. The tights are all black. 9. No accessories with the RNR express. Don't tell me the bandana belts are accessories. 10. Ivan is bigger than Nikita and looks about the same age. 11. Nikita is a straight re-release, at least with the Horsemen sets the Arn Anderson head had a better paint job. 12. Ivan looks more like Boris Zukhov. There you go, three tag teams with a dozen freaking things wrong with them. Great work Jakks, way to make want to spend money during a recession. Brilliant marketing. I'm still angry too. But I actually disagree with some of your points. Although the RnR wore colorful attire, they often wore black -- a lot. Check out OWW or youtube. I prefer the black or blue solid tights to the two-tone ones, but from looking at this thread, apparently its just me. Jakks should have written Rock & Roll on the tights, though (I can't tell if they did from this pics, but I doubt it). Also, despite their lack of muscle tone, I hate the trend of everybody on the boards wanting to put the Regal torso on everybody who didn't have a steroid-era body. Maybe the Rey torso would be better, but I seriously would prefer my RnR Express figures without potbellies (even though Ricky sometimes had one). Again, I think I'm in the minority on this one. Pretty much everything else I agree with. Let the hate and rage continue.
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Otto The Orange
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Post by Otto The Orange on Oct 21, 2008 18:05:43 GMT -5
man i am SO glad i stopped collecting
I have a feeling when I'm in TRU looking at Mattel in 2011, I'll be seeing this series and TT 7 still on clearance right along side a few CSDA 5 figures.
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T-Phunk
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Post by T-Phunk on Oct 21, 2008 18:39:33 GMT -5
I'm still angry too. But I actually disagree with some of your points. Although the RnR wore colorful attire, they often wore black -- a lot. Check out OWW or youtube. I prefer the black or blue solid tights to the two-tone ones, but from looking at this thread, apparently its just me. Jakks should have written Rock & Roll on the tights, though (I can't tell if they did from this pics, but I doubt it). Also, despite their lack of muscle tone, I hate the trend of everybody on the boards wanting to put the Regal torso on everybody who didn't have a steroid-era body. Maybe the Rey torso would be better, but I seriously would prefer my RnR Express figures without potbellies (even though Ricky sometimes had one). Again, I think I'm in the minority on this one. Pretty much everything else I agree with. Let the hate and rage continue. Well since you invoked the almighty OWW. I will have to say, " Challenge." Here is their main profile pic: You telling me that they don't warrant a tiny bit of love handle on their figures? The point I will give you is, perhaps if there was just more color in general to really capture their vibe I would care less about the black tights or perhaps I am just throwing you a bone because I still really like your Von Erich custom.
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Post by spawnsyxx9 on Oct 21, 2008 18:45:45 GMT -5
Only Bulldogs and Russians for me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2008 18:57:48 GMT -5
Well since you invoked the almighty OWW. I will have to say, " Challenge." Here is their main profile pic: You telling me that they don't warrant a tiny bit of love handle on their figures? The point I will give you is, perhaps if there was just more color in general to really capture their vibe I would care less about the black tights or perhaps I am just throwing you a bone because I still really like your Von Erich custom. I confessed that Ricky sometimes had a potbelly, and that they had little definition. But really, Robert doesn't have a belly in that pic, and neither of those bird chests resemble the flabby pecs of the Regal torso. I just don't think the Regal torso is the cure-all for figures of poorly defined wrestlers. I know most people don't agree. Assuming you clicked through to the rest of the RnR pics, I'm sure you saw all those black tights pics. The real problem is the two pieces of cloth on the figures in comparison to how much bandana "flair" they actually wore. Well that, and you guys had a whole thread about how color attires are better than black ones.
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plasticsuperstar
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Post by plasticsuperstar on Oct 21, 2008 19:00:34 GMT -5
STILL ANGRY!!!Is there anything they got right in this series? 1. Dynamite kid has Robert Gibson's lazy eye. 2. BRAIDS!!! F'n BRAIDS!!! 3. That's Winston, you just had to give it a little more Brown paint to make it Matilda 4. One GD tag belt. 5. Wrong shade of blue. 6. Are there any two wrestlers in history that require the Regal torso more than the Rock and Roll Express? No just no, there was almost no muscle on their torsos. 7. Those head scans are so bad I am convinced they are actually scans of Jakks' Spring '08 Interns with mullets added. 8. The tights are all black. 9. No accessories with the RNR express. Don't tell me the bandana belts are accessories. 10. Ivan is bigger than Nikita and looks about the same age. 11. Nikita is a straight re-release, at least with the Horsemen sets the Arn Anderson head had a better paint job. 12. Ivan looks more like Boris Zukhov. There you go, three tag teams with a dozen freaking things wrong with them. Great work Jakks, way to make want to spend money during a recession. Brilliant marketing. I agree with all those and could probably find another 12 but this IS Jakks and I honestly think that a tiny amount of different part choices would've made this whole set great and would've had the total opposite reaction. If Jakks had used a few proper ref pics or looked on youtube they easily could've done these: 1. Davey Boy CSDA head 2. Nikita tall kickers 3. Ivan short kickers 4. Ivan skinny arms That would've been enough to keep me happy, extremely happy actually. Some chest hair on Ivan and a couple of JYD leads aswell would've made that one of my favourite CSTTs ever. Obviously a second tag belt for the Bulldogs should be a given but I have loads of those anyway. The RnR Express scans can't really be judged from those rubbish photos but I don't mind dodgy scans on two if everything else is alright. Those attires are kinda how I imagined these and I'd rather they had plain black tights with cloth bits tied on than black tights with the cloth bits printed on. If the Bulldogs and Russians had been done better I would've been fine with the Express but as a whole this set is very bad as it is however you look at it.
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T-Phunk
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Post by T-Phunk on Oct 21, 2008 19:09:09 GMT -5
I could pull my tights up to my nipples too, and cover up my beer gut, but that doesn't mean it ain't there. I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Just for the record though, I am not one of those people that think every figure should have the Regal torso, but these should. Oh and by the way your Ivan was better than Jakks.
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plasticsuperstar
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Post by plasticsuperstar on Oct 21, 2008 19:15:03 GMT -5
Well since you invoked the almighty OWW. I will have to say, " Challenge." Here is their main profile pic: You telling me that they don't warrant a tiny bit of love handle on their figures? The point I will give you is, perhaps if there was just more color in general to really capture their vibe I would care less about the black tights or perhaps I am just throwing you a bone because I still really like your Von Erich custom. I confessed that Ricky sometimes had a potbelly, and that they had little definition. But really, Robert doesn't have a belly in that pic, and neither of those bird chests resemble the flabby pecs of the Regal torso. I just don't think the Regal torso is the cure-all for figures of poorly defined wrestlers. I know most people don't agree. Assuming you clicked through to the rest of the RnR pics, I'm sure you saw all those black tights pics. The real problem is the two pieces of cloth on the figures in comparison to how much bandana "flair" they actually wore. Well that, and you guys had a whole thread about how color attires are better than black ones. I think the CW torsos are a fair choice (maybe Delaney's would've suited Morton, or maybe Rey's on both) at least they have the skinny arms. I still want to see better pics before judging but the boot covers appear to be plain white with red at the top, if they had the zebra print I think the attires would look exiting and detailed enough. The chest hair should be there too but overall I'd say they are definately the best of the bunch. Maybe the scans aren't as bad as they look. That rubbish site helps no one by releasing such terrible "high res images" LOL
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Post by tywebb on Oct 21, 2008 19:21:37 GMT -5
how are we getting MOC before loose protos did i miss somethings these look like customs
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Post by twinn on Oct 21, 2008 19:22:09 GMT -5
how are we getting MOC before loose protos did i miss somethings these look like customs lol.... unfortunately these are the real god damn deal...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2008 19:23:39 GMT -5
I could pull my tights up to my nipples too, and cover up my beer gut, but that doesn't mean it ain't there. I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Just for the record though, I am not one of those people that think every figure should have the Regal torso, but these should. Oh and by the way your Ivan was better than Jakks. Thanks for the compliment. I'll agree to disagree about the torsos (I never want a too-fat torso as opposed to a too-ripped one; I think the Regal torso is too fat, you don't -- cool), but you could have at least given me the black tights/bandanas thing. Black tights was one of their most common attires -- its the lack of sufficient bandanas that makes them look so plain. Thanks plasticsuperstar for the backup on the torso choice. I think the Rey torso might be the best for the RnR. I actually don't think Ivan should have the skinny arms. His arms were big but undefined (because he used to be huge earlier in his career). There aren't any Jakks parts that capture that (except for the fat torso arms). I was originally going to put the skinny arms on my Ivan custom, but after looking at a lot of pics and video, I thought his arms were too big (if undefined), so the skinny arms wouldn't fly.
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Post by PJ on Oct 21, 2008 20:20:40 GMT -5
I wouldn't give Ivan the skinny/scrawny arms...I'd give him the smaller RA arms (CW) And with R&R Express I'd keep the CW torsos, but I'd give them the skinny/scarwny arms.
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Post by WalterF on Oct 21, 2008 20:40:36 GMT -5
I'm still angry too. But I actually disagree with some of your points. Although the RnR wore colorful attire, they often wore black -- a lot. Check out OWW or youtube. I prefer the black or blue solid tights to the two-tone ones, but from looking at this thread, apparently its just me. Jakks should have written Rock & Roll on the tights, though (I can't tell if they did from this pics, but I doubt it). Also, despite their lack of muscle tone, I hate the trend of everybody on the boards wanting to put the Regal torso on everybody who didn't have a steroid-era body. Maybe the Rey torso would be better, but I seriously would prefer my RnR Express figures without potbellies (even though Ricky sometimes had one). Again, I think I'm in the minority on this one. Pretty much everything else I agree with. Let the hate and rage continue. Well since you invoked the almighty OWW. I will have to say, " Challenge." Here is their main profile pic: You telling me that they don't warrant a tiny bit of love handle on their figures? The point I will give you is, perhaps if there was just more color in general to really capture their vibe I would care less about the black tights or perhaps I am just throwing you a bone because I still really like your Von Erich custom. To kinda add to this I think black was good color choice because even though they wore other colors, they did wear black ALOT and problably more than any other color. I also have a hard time deciding what torso should be used on them since their torsos dont really look like any molds JAKKS has made.
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Bruiser Brody
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Post by Bruiser Brody on Oct 21, 2008 21:00:25 GMT -5
I really , really hope that Jakks is reading this. There are a lot of negative s that need to be addressed. Damn quality control person needs to lose his job.
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Post by MR._SOCKO on Oct 21, 2008 21:20:16 GMT -5
I agree with the people saying the RNR Express should have Regal torso. They weren't real out of shape or anything but they weren't really defined either.
I think people want to see them in their colorful tights because that is how everyone remembers them. Yeah, I'm sure they wore black from time to time but when everyone hears RNR, they think bright colors and bandanas all over.
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Post by Smash Ventura on Oct 21, 2008 22:44:27 GMT -5
I have to agree with "Magnum T.A."... the regal chest is simply to fat..but we can agree to dissagree... the delany chest is a iteresting idea i may try... here is my best effort at a rock and roll exspress...i may just swap these tights on to a couple delany chests with the rock and roll heads... also magnum, your kerry is fantastic sir..if i could i would gladly pay you to do up a head just like yours for my kerrys body....great job.... but needless to say Magnum is right...they often wore black with lots of 80s styled bandannas tied around there legs and what not... in all fairness to T-Phunk, they did wear blue,red, and that interessting white purple combo in 1991 during a short fude with doom...im sure magnum agress here...but during there hay day black with planety of colorful excessories was there popular look..much like hulk hogan in 1984 wore mostly yellow and red but during that period in to 85 sometimes wore all blue a blue and white combo(like no holds barred) or all white commonly called his made in america look do to the matching shirt;)
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Post by mikenorm on Dec 1, 2008 9:09:52 GMT -5
the rnr express has the rock and roll written on the sides of the tights, and jakks admitedly painted the two heads wrong. they gave ricky the brown hair. i have all 3 sets, but bought them with the intension of fixing them all up. i hate ivan and nikitas face. they both look like s*it to me. bulldogs braids, jakks said they didn't get the rights to use the younger davey boy scan. the csda davey boy they only had permission to use for that one line. i dont know who said it before, but when i first got these packs, i thought to myself wow jakks made a new soviet team someone who they are passing off as nikita koloff and boris zukov. overall most recent jakks figs suck. the classic line went to crapbecause of bad scans and just pumping them out to pump them out. i mean do we really need 2 giant gonzales'. i dont even need one. the fact that they made a harvey whippleman over a j j dillon or paul ellering or lucious johnny v boggles my mind too. i would rather see an oliver humperdink than a whippleman. maybe jakks just doesnt care anymore since they lost the license.
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Post by LeighD on Dec 1, 2008 12:11:07 GMT -5
^ Why did you top a post that is over a month old?!
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