Mattel, make Magnum TA please!!!!

Absolutely, hopefully RSC carries him and the "What?" Austin as exclusives. Those figures look too good to be scrapped.

I would buy him despite not even seeing him Wrestle and I'm 28 but I like to have Wrestlers from all eras so yeah be cool to have him plus he'd be good fodder for Customs

I remember seeing a picture of a mattel prototype Magnum TA. it looked AMAZING. I would love to own it, but cant see it happening since Flashbacks will be mostly guys from the 90's, with the rare late 80's wrestler.

I was alive and did watch wrestling during this era. I grew up in
Pennsylvania, the heart of WWF country. To me, most wrestlers
from the NWA always came off as a tad boring. Magnum TA was no
exception.

Since we are referring to a legends line, before I made Magnum TA,
I would make famous WWF/E legends that were skipped by Jakks:
WWF Champions like Pedro Morales, Stan Stasiak, and Antonio Inoki;
mainstays like Tony Garea and Pat Patterson; all-time legends like
Haystacks Calhoun and Bobo Brazil. All of these wrestlers had careers
that were much longer and much more significant than that of Magnum TA.
The sad reality is, none of them will ever see the light of day as a figure.
There is simply not enough of a fan base for them today. Their time has passed.

For those of you who so desperately want a Magnum Terry Allen figure,
I offer you this:

Having done a bit of research on the net, I believe that the production cost
of a single figure is about $25000 - $30000. From what we have seen,
Mattel already has a prototype of Magnum, so let's assume a cost of $25000
for a run of 500 figures. Assuming Mattel's profit is figured in already, your cost
per figure is $50. If the figure is a Matty exclusive, add in shipping. That makes
each figure $58.70. Get 500 people together who would would pay $58.70,
in advance, for a Magnum TA figure and approach Mattel with your $25000.
I'm sure they would consider having the figure produced for you.

Feel free to play with the math, but these are probably low-ball numbers.

WOW 6 pages of Magnum T. A. debate and el Bandalero didn't chime in yet?!

Y'know I have to be honest and say that Magnum isn't my most favourite wrestler of all-time. But I appreciated his place in history and it's a travesty that none of these toy companies have immortalized him in miniature plastic yet.

My beef with all those Bills that work at Mattel is that they spent production dollars to get a painted-proto of this guy, hired a photographer to take product-shots of this guy, used an in-house graphics designer to photoshop the figure on packaging artwork - then just dropped him completely. It's like the GobbeldyGooker - invest so much time and money in a one-off, but unlike the Gooker, the crowd isn't split 50/50 I think it's safe to conclude that more people want Magnum than not (at least on these boards).

Mattel doesn't care about this part, but the figure itself is great for customs - the vest can be re-used for Sid, the whole body for a Scott Hall, the normal-sized cowboy boots for an endless amount of Texan wrestlers. Simply put the Magnum T. A. figure is a boon of possibilities like that Terry Funk buck figure was.

C'mon RSC I believe in you guys - please ask Mattel to release the Magnum T. A. as an exclusive - you guys did it for sling-arm Punk, youv'e got 100+ instant orders for Magnum T. A. already....

You can't expect modern era fans to care about the guy. Especially, since he has no influence on the history of WWE. I'm not sure why you both would think otherwise. It's one thing to not be curious about guys like Hogan, Macho Man, Piper and Dibiase, but TA was an NWA guy that never transcended his territory because he tragically never got the chance. Dusty, Steamboat, Road Warriors, Flair, all crossed over and were immortalized.

Additionally, a lot of older wrestling doesn't resinate with younger fans at all. The styles are completely different, and the business has evolved. I love Ric Flair, but I'd take 15 minutes of Austin Aries over an hour of Flair, any day of the week. I love the Chi Town Rumble match against Steamboat, one of my favorites, but I'd bet you a sh*t ton of money you would be hard pressed to find a room full of 2000 generation fans who could actually get through the match.

Older fans are in the minority, at almost 28 years old, I'm starting to feel like a part of that group. The late 70's and the 80's are now a thing of the past, and it's now the 90's that are getting the "historic" attention, and more so the mid to late 90's. Which I could argue and believe is for good reason. I'm with you, I love going back and watching older stuff and seeing what made a guy highly regarded, but we have come a long way since tape trading days. Even now, when footage is more accessible than ever, the younger fans just don't have the interest. It's not their fault imo, and all we can do is reinforce to them that they are truly missing out.

With all that being said, I still think the demand for Magnum is seriously marginal. Does he deserve one? Anyone who has ever seen him wrestle probably isn't going to dispute that, but that's not business. It's not that we don't want you to get the TA figure, it's that we don't want it to take up the space for a figure that is more widely wanted. If it was limited to 500 pieces on Ringside, great, but that isn't going to happen I don't think.

Exactly this point. In a perfect world all our figure dreams would come true, but we are all jockeying for position now that our legends slots are so precious.

As for the guy who compared Magnum to watching the NFL Hall of Fame, the only problem there is that Magnum isn't a hall of famer and never will be! When they talk about "the only wrestler to never wrestler in the WWE," they're talking about Sting, not Magnum, even though he didn't either.

The reason this guy will get 6 or more pages of discussion is because guys either want him or they don't want him bumping out someone else. Even with all the bad gimmick choices Mattel has made of guys I otherwise loved (Slaughter, etc), I'd still take the field over Magnum TA any day and twice on Sundays. Like I said, he not a has been, he's a never was.

I'd buy 2 one MOC and one Loose.

You've got a 100 people to answer a hypothetical question that simply asked "would you buy Magnum TA?". Some people even said they'd buy multiples for customs and loose/MOC collections. But what happens when the price is announced? If RSC and Mattel go through the production cost for a limited run figure the cost to the consumer will be ASTRONOMICAL! Exclusives already cost a lot before you pay shipping. A figure with a 500 count run better sell out, and so far we're only 1/5 the way there. Would these same 100+ people who might be thinking $16.99 at retail buy him if he's $38.00 after shipping? You seem to think so. I doubt Mattel or RSC agrees.