Mattel, make Magnum TA please!!!!

hecks yes

we collectors make up 5% of mattels sales. 2/3's of the collectors here want Magnum T.A. 100 people here claim they would buy one. what percentage of collectors frequent wfigs? 1% maybe?

The other collectors probably just buy legends/flashbacks at retail and dont vote here. does that mean 2/3's of collectors would vote yes? not really. The ones hardcore enough into the wrestling figures would have found wfigs already. Magnum T.A appeals mostly to NWA enthusiasts and the WWF/WWE only collector doesnt know or care who Magnum T.A is, and that exludes the wrestling enthusiasts here at wfigs and your friend mike from down the street and that guy you go to school with

The thing i noticed is NWA fans are extremely desperate to get their NWA legends. when it came to Arn,Tully,Windham,Magnum ,lotsof guys claimed to vote 100 times a day,would defend the honour of these guys all day long and kept on claiming that if you didnt want these guys then you didnt actually like wrestling and just enjoyed the doink the clown circus and other wrestlecrap. Seriously Arn and Tully are not gonna do much better then andre,ddp and bundy and arn and tully are legendary. they wont sell well enough to save the line or make a comeback,what chance does magnum have at selling out even at 2000 peices?

just let it die and go out with some dignity. even if rsc took it on they would still be stuck with a couple thousand magnums in their warehouse and a hefty bill to pay. unless mattel makes him a mail away figure to clear out legends (even though i dont think that would persuade many people) then its not gonna happen. sorry guys, theres many other legends more deserving of that spot

if magnum gets the flashback treatment , thats gonna be the first nail in the flashback coffin. mattels seriously trying to get flashbacks to a good state, legends dm and eg all died, we only have flashbacks now. yokozuna,mankind,diesel all work on so many levels, magnum ta is the last person who should be a flashback.

This is really the most important element for me. It's the same for Ringside Exclusives as well. Mattel, and Ringside, seem to have a good blue print for getting these things to sell so that everyone is happy, on the business side. So why do I want to see them that up with a guy that isn't going to sell anywhere near the likes of guys with actual popularity to the masses. Seems like the MTA crowd is willing to risk the entire sanctity of getting Classic figures just to get this one guy, which is insanely narrow sighted imo.

I get it. If this was lets say, Raven, I'd be fighting like hell to see him made too. However, like Raven and Owen Hart, you eventually just have to let some things go if they don't make sense imo.

Right. And if you don't know who he is why should you, me or anyone else HAVE TO research him just to feel justified in spending 20-30 bucks on his figure? He's not even a hall of famer and he never will be. How about Barry Windham? At least he's in the hall, was a major part of the Four Horsemen, wrestled in the WWF, and could lead to similar customs that some of you are clamoring for. A guy like that "deserves" seven pages over Magnum TA.

He wasn't that good. He was never the world champion, and he wrestled for a company that let Ric Flair drop the belt and pick it up again as often as he changed underwear. You can say, "but he was gonna be the champion until his accident!" That doesn't change the fact that he never WAS the champion. And there are so many "popular" guys and gimmicks who could draw cheers. There were 5 times as many good workers, too. All of that by itself still does not equate to good business.

Again, you dont know what you're talking about. Please list me all the world title that Koko B. Ware, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Abdullah The Butcher, Big John Studd etc etc etc held? A world title, or lack thereof does not give or not give you a right into the hall of fame. You say "well he wasnt that good", then you obviously are stating you've never watched, read or researched anything about him. He was by far the most popular wrestler in the NWA. A company that had Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair in their stable at the same time. He put on classic matches like the I Quit Cage Match with Tully Blanchard as well as the Best of 7 Series with Nikita Koloff. NWA attendance dropped (everywhere) the weeks after Magnum got hurt. He was THE man in the NWA and if he would have never gotten hurt guys like Sting, Luger and Barry Windham would have been long lost in the mid card shuffle...or made into silly gimmicks in the WWF.

If you dont know who he is, fine. If you dont want to know or learn about one of the true legends of pro wrestling, fine. But dont talk out of your ass saying you "know" something when clearly you dont know anything about the subject.

Clearly his lack of memorabilia, DVDs, hall of fame recognition, championships, figures, alumni listing on WWE.com, I could go on an on . . . clearly a lack of all this stuff is enough proof that he is NOT "one of the true legends of pro wrestling." I believe it isn't me who is talking out of my ass when I point to the lack of evidence to support your claim (objective facts beyond dispute), and all you can do is make grandiose proclamations based on your own highly subjective opinions of "good wrestling" and super stardom in a company that was far from global in a time when wrestling had yet to hit its peak.

Thank you!

Somewhere in some Chinese factory there's a negative impression mold of Magnum T.A.'s headsculpt sitting gathering dust when it could potentially be making money.

All I ever hear from toy companies is how expensive it is to make a mold, but in Magnum's case you already have the bloody mold!

I appreciate the prototype argument but the fact is Magnum TA is a 'never was' in the wrestling business. Should've, could've, would've but didn't do anything in wrestling except a few great matches with Tully, Arn and Dusty, but then, who didn't? Trust me, this is coming from a guy who wishes we had a Dino Bravo or Ronnie Garvin figure.