Matty Collector figs

nobody bought Legends. Nobody bought Matty Legends.

but Mattel figured out that we were buying up every figure in the normal elite collection......so they shoved them in there. And that is where they shall remain

also Bruno Sammartino will be out at the end of the year

If Matty Legends weren't selling then why did they have to cancel so many orders? That part confuses me.

I guess it just makes me sick to see every other series basic or Elite full of Cena, Orton, and Rey, when they have soooo many options from WWF and WCW. I don't care if they are basic or Elites, they need to throw some new (old)names in there
Since they started flashbacks we've gotten
12 - Kane (Great) Papa Shango (Great)
13 - Edge (I think they could've used a better old school name) saved Edge for a Christian / Edge 2 pack down the line or Brood special or something
14 - Bossman (Awesome figure), King Booker (pass for me)
15 - Yokozuna (great figure BUT by the time Fuji ever is ready to come out Mattel won't have the license at this rate)
16 - Diesel / Nash (loved these)
17 - Mankind (awesome)
18 - Lawler (great (I guess) I would have chosen another look BUT ill take whatever they give Bad Ass Taker (loved it)
19 - Elizabeth (Great to have her with Macho I guess) HBK - (great I guess but I think they could have passed on this one)
20 - Christian (Pass for me personally)
21 - Honkey Tonk Man (love it)
22 - The Giant (Really!?) The NWO Giant is the last thing I want to buy
23 - VERY interested to see this series I hope JBL, Taker, HHH, and Cena along with Macho are flashback type)

Anyway my point is as you can see Mattel is afraid to get away from any mainstream names for Legends/Flashback. (The most obscure flashback they've done is Papa Shango, but he looks so cool kids bought him anyway)

I love Mattel WWE figures, but I loved what Jakks did including LOTS of different stars throughout the lines. Mattel is all about realism and obviously thinks about the collector while making the figures, I wish they would think about the collector while doing lineups.

Personally, the question of "Why didnt they sell" (MDT Exclusives) , Well for starters the 30.00 shipped price tag was one reason, the other, being the ones they were selling.. No kids want DDP, Arn, Tully, Bundy, hell even Andre.. If they would throw a 16.99 price tag on them , i guarentee u they wouldve sold out sooner rather than later. Im kinda glad now i didnt cough up the money seeing how i never really was sold on any of them , except for maybe the Brainbusters. Andre shoudlve been a normal retail release , as well as Bundy. Just my 2cents.

yea i know that..lol.  i was talking from a consumer standpoint. not mattels standpoint. But i agree with u about the gamble not paying off. Again though that goes back to the price and etc...

Well yeah, there were numerous reasons the gamble didn't pay off, and the price is one of them, but the price was never something that could've been different when they moved to an online-only distribution. Character selection, outfits, accessories, etc could have been different, but the price had to be what it was. If they made the exact same figures cheaper and didn't charge us for shipping, they'd have sold more figures, but they'd have lost money by doing that and would've still had to cancel it.


Yeah, that's a pretty big condemnation of the line, when it gets moved to discount stores for a fraction of what it originally retailed at and it's still not flying off shelves.

I agree with all of your points and I understand the business side and all of that BUT Mattel is NOT going to be as profitable making the same figs over and over and over again and have them sit on the shelf I'm in North Carolina and I swear you can go anywhere and find Elite 9 Ortons, Best of 11 Elite Ortons, every Elite Orton since then, any kind or color Rey Mysterio, any John Cena since Elite 11 you can find. What I mean is they have got to put some variety out there. Kids and kids parents aren't that stupid. They aren't going to pay $20 for a John Cena that just has a diff colored shirt on. They may however let there kid get a different cool looking figure like say Earthquake, DX, or other names from the past that parents may have heard of. I don't know. Like I said I love Mattel figures I just wish there was a way to get some more and different names out there

I understand that they aren't making figs based on us 3 or 4 people on the message board, BUT I GUARANTEE you if they limited some of the more obscure legends to Marty site and only made 750 - 1,000 of them and they had to charge $30-40 for each one, they would sell them eventually Because us hardcore collectors wouldn't be able to resist NOT having them on our displays. Just my thoughts

If love to see a heel Slaughter one day

Kids are almost always going to want a John Cena in a new shirt before some fat guy they've never heard of from twenty or thirty years ago. Plus there are new kids getting their first wrestling doll all the time, who never had Elite 11 or 14 or 17 Cena but walk into a store and see Elite 20 Cena with a ladder and the Money in the Bank case and it's the greatest thing they've ever seen.


Mattel has to sell minimum 5000 units of a figure to make a profit. To make a profit from selling 750-1000 figures, they'd have to charge around $90 a figure. Add ten for shipping and you're looking at $100 each for a standard elite style figure. I don't think there are 1000 of us who would pay that.