2011 NYCC - Mattel WWE Display

Wow, you pretty much summed it up verbatim, I clearly said "I'm defending all of Mattel's actions and I'm insisting that the company can't possibly do anything wrong, and that everyone who incessantly b#tches about it are sinners for pointing out their mistakes..."

I'm going to make sure from now on to use "bloody paragraphs" so that you can focus on my words over my form.

I'll be even more plain-speaking than I was before (which was pretty plain-speaking anyway) and reiterate: Mattel was making a mistake (in my opinion and several others that I have talked to) by making Heritage PPV lines that only included the same few repaints over and over again, and was applauding what I thought was a great decision to expand the line to include wrestlers who existed prior to 2000. When reading a sentence which says that Mattel is finally making a good decision one should be able, if they are so damn smart, to infer that the sequence for finally arriving at a good decision means that one has made several bad ones prior to.

I hate that the Legends line had to be cancelled, but stop living in denial and saying that Mattel had no justification to do so. When it comes to big business Mattel is HUGE, and big businesses stay big by cancelling things that don't "sell well", and I say that in parentheses because these figures did okay at retail, and in fact, better than okay at some stores, but just "okay" doesn't cut it for a company that is trying to maximize it's profits.

Mattel does not give a sh#t about your toy collection. I'm sure that the folks on the Mattel WWE design team are passionate about what they do, and are as disappointed as you are about the Legends line being axed at retail. Realize that if they called the shots you'd probably have the most awesome line of toys ever made. That can more than likely be said for any great toy line. But these fellows don't make the rules and they don't call the shots. And again, Mattel does not give two craps about your hobby. They are not a charity and they do not seek to operate like one.

Does anything I've said sound like a man who thinks Mattel can do no wrong? No, I'm just not kidding myself into thinking a corporate entity is going to exist and operate and do anything differently than any other corporation on the planet. You can accept this and keep buying toys (keep in mind we are talking about toys, not food, not water, not sleep, not reproduction) or you can quit. Have fun or don't. I have never once let my dislike of the Heritage series figures up to this point make me come on to a message board with a stinking rotten attitude and sh#t on someones else's parade because they are getting something they want and I'm not.

You voted, we delivered? HOW F@#$ING DARE YOU! You mean you dissed us and we had no choice. How long ago did you show us the proto of Andre and we still don't have him yet. You cancelled the line. This is a joke right? Love the new DM's too. Mattel, you are the worst toy company ever!!!

If I learned anything from this thread, it's that you guys are never pleased. Be happy they're still making that set...

All you guys that come on here and have a problem with my posts need to shut up. So, I can't be pissed that The Legend Series got cancelled at retail huh? Mattel is a business really? Ok MARKS, if your little Kofi Kingston figures got cancelled you would be pissed too. I only collect Legends, well not anymore. That poster should be for the next wave not a years worth of online bullcrap. "Quit crying", please.