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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2013 18:24:55 GMT -5
Ok you got me $100 a figure ill pass. Ill just mix in Jakks Classics obscure characters with The Mattel figs. Thanks for all the great info though
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Post by East Coast on Jun 22, 2013 18:32:26 GMT -5
pc83uk, IDK maybe its a british thing.....but stop calling them "wrestling dolls". the word doll is reserved for barbie or cabbage patch kids.
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Post by austin81 on Jun 22, 2013 19:23:47 GMT -5
i collect flashback!! Are my first choise!!! I really don't understand why they don't sell well.... Jakks css was a succesful line....
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Post by PJ on Jun 22, 2013 19:28:46 GMT -5
If it is on Matty Collectors they need to sell out within a day (three tops) if not then it is considered a failure to them.
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Post by Nivro™ on Jun 22, 2013 19:58:54 GMT -5
I'd just be happy if they put a camo Slaughter in the Flashback line or even make it an exclusive and give it a bunch of accessories. As much as Id love a Camo Slaughter, Id love to get a Slaughter-Col. Mustafa two pack
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Post by slappy on Jun 22, 2013 20:00:21 GMT -5
I'd just be happy if they put a camo Slaughter in the Flashback line or even make it an exclusive and give it a bunch of accessories. As much as Id love a Camo Slaughter, Id love to get a Slaughter-Col. Mustafa two pack I'd be more than happy to buy that as well.
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Post by StephMcMahonFan on Jun 22, 2013 20:04:09 GMT -5
Mattel is not a charity for the few hundred hardcore wrestling fans who like dolls of their childhood wrestlers. The people on the WWE team at Mattel try to do what they can for us and they hope we're happy, but there aren't enough of us to make a doll profitable so they can't make lineups just for us. They're a business. They have to appeal to the wider market, and the wider market for Legends isn't there like it was in the Jakks days. The economy's different, the figure prices are different, and the fad has just ended. Filling the Flashbacks with obscure names just because three guys on a messageboard want them would be a surefire way for the Flashbacks to be a failure and then they'd get cancelled too and we'd have no classic figures from Mattel at all. I always thought they were a charity
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Jun 22, 2013 20:09:25 GMT -5
I always thought they were a charity I'll wait for Mattel to confirm that.
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Post by StephMcMahonFan on Jun 22, 2013 20:11:24 GMT -5
If it is on Matty Collectors they need to sell out within a day (three tops) if not then it is considered a failure to them. that doesnt make sense though, no sites sell out that fast. why would they expect to sell out that fast
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Post by StephMcMahonFan on Jun 22, 2013 20:11:51 GMT -5
I always thought they were a charity I'll wait for Mattel to confirm that. haha alright
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Jun 22, 2013 20:18:29 GMT -5
pc83uk, IDK maybe its a british thing.....but stop calling them "wrestling dolls". the word doll is reserved for barbie or cabbage patch kids. It's not a British thing. We're grown men collecting wrestling dolls, whether we want to admit it or not. There's no point taking ourselves seriously and trying to come up with other names for them to make it sound more acceptable. I remember when Scott Hall was auctioning a Razor Ramon doll (can't remember if it was Hasbro or Jakks, think Jakks Classic) a couple of years ago and people were getting upset with him saying "doll."
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Post by Flair Forever on Jun 22, 2013 20:42:29 GMT -5
Well if figures are going to cost $30 each - I'm not buying them. End of story...
If they can't make them at a consumer price-point of about $18 or less I'm going to have to quit again - this is part of the reason I quit when JAKKS lost the contract (Mattel just seemed too expensive).
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Post by slappy on Jun 22, 2013 20:51:38 GMT -5
pc83uk, IDK maybe its a british thing.....but stop calling them "wrestling dolls". the word doll is reserved for barbie or cabbage patch kids. It's not a British thing. We're grown men collecting wrestling dolls, whether we want to admit it or not. There's no point taking ourselves seriously and trying to come up with other names for them to make it sound more acceptable. I remember when Scott Hall was auctioning a Razor Ramon doll (can't remember if it was Hasbro or Jakks, think Jakks Classic) a couple of years ago and people were getting upset with him saying "doll." They are action figures not dolls. There is a big difference between the two. GI Joe collectors don't call their figures dolls. (Here is the point where you find an article from 8 years ago where one collector says the word dolls in relation to GI Joe figures)
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Jun 22, 2013 21:05:21 GMT -5
They are action figures not dolls.
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Post by PJ on Jun 22, 2013 21:12:09 GMT -5
If it is on Matty Collectors they need to sell out within a day (three tops) if not then it is considered a failure to them. that doesnt make sense though, no sites sell out that fast. why would they expect to sell out that fast I think they feel that it's a "collectors" site and they are releasing figures that the collectors were asking for...so if they don't sell out right away it's a failure in their eyes.. As they feel the collector market isn't there like they thought. It's been that way since they introduced the site.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2013 21:19:49 GMT -5
Then Masters of the Universe must have one HELL of a collectors base! I would think wrestling collectors could equal if not top them. I could be under estimating them and over estimating us, but as much of that stuff as they crank out, you would think WWE could compete
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Post by StephMcMahonFan on Jun 22, 2013 21:23:31 GMT -5
Well if figures are going to cost $30 each - I'm not buying them. End of story... If they can't make them at a consumer price-point of about $18 or less I'm going to have to quit again - this is part of the reason I quit when JAKKS lost the contract (Mattel just seemed too expensive). I went to a TRU the other day and they had BOPPV Elites for 25.99. It is a different store then I usually go to. That is way too much seeing as they are 22.99 at my regular TRU. And 22.99 is still a lot!
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Post by PJ on Jun 22, 2013 21:23:48 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure every MotU figure has sold out within a few days if not on the release date. Most of the WWE legends didn't sell out within the time of the next Legend.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2013 21:28:57 GMT -5
BOPPV Elites are supposed to be $22.99 which is high BUT you are getting 1/4 of another figure with it. I think they are worth it. Especially as many sales BOGO that TRU does
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Post by mrhoss on Jun 22, 2013 21:52:06 GMT -5
Not all MOTUC figures sell out in days
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