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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 17:31:08 GMT -5
Look back at the Jakks era. the Ra and DA lineups like had plain action figures with occasionaly a removable entrance vest from time to time. Now when there was an internet exclusive the figures felt special because they included things like cloth entrance attires and coloured belts.
But now with Mattel the regular Elite series includes all of that so exclusives don't feel as special anymore.
The internet exclusives from Mattel have been brilliant and I have bought them all but they are still something you would expect in a regular Elite series and much more expensive.
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Post by jayrod2009 on Jul 10, 2013 17:37:57 GMT -5
They feel more exclusive to me then ever truthfully. We got a Cactus Jack!!! Most crazy parents that research toys before they but would never have given that to a kid! Same goes for Kane with the Hardcore Title. We got a freakin nWo Savage. I havent ha a nWo Savage sine 1998!
So far, none of the Mattel Exclusives have popped up in regular lines. Remember the RSC exclusive Taz that got reissued into a CSTT 2 pack? Or the Jakks exclusive "whos next" shirted Goldberg that made it into a Walmart Exclusive series? That pissed alot of people off!
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Post by AlexWestCollects on Jul 10, 2013 17:45:28 GMT -5
Didnt we just have a whole thread about this.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 17:47:01 GMT -5
They're just regular elites with an extra title or something like that
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 17:48:36 GMT -5
Feels kinda like a normal Elite with a title.
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Post by East Coast on Jul 10, 2013 17:49:41 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 17:51:04 GMT -5
They feel more exclusive to me then ever truthfully. We got a Cactus Jack!!! Most crazy parents that research toys before they but would never have given that to a kid! Same goes for Kane with the Hardcore Title. We got a freakin nWo Savage. I havent ha a nWo Savage sine 1998! So far, none of the Mattel Exclusives have popped up in regular lines. Remember the RSC exclusive Taz that got reissued into a CSTT 2 pack? Or the Jakks exclusive "whos next" shirted Goldberg that made it into a Walmart Exclusive series? That pissed alot of people off! I'm not saying that their bad figures I'm just saying that they're something you would expect in an ordinary Elite line. Put it like this every Elite figure feels like an Internet exclusive due to the super quality and detail the figures have. |
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Post by Dat guy ova der on Jul 10, 2013 17:53:19 GMT -5
They feel more exclusive to me then ever truthfully. We got a Cactus Jack!!! Most crazy parents that research toys before they but would never have given that to a kid! Same goes for Kane with the Hardcore Title. We got a freakin nWo Savage. I havent ha a nWo Savage sine 1998! So far, none of the Mattel Exclusives have popped up in regular lines. Remember the RSC exclusive Taz that got reissued into a CSTT 2 pack? Or the Jakks exclusive "whos next" shirted Goldberg that made it into a Walmart Exclusive series? That pissed alot of people off! If you're going to compare them to Jakks exclusives, how can you even bring up Cactus Jack? Jakks had a cloth shirt, wooden board with barbed wire, and a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Mattel has a plastic shirt, a stop sign, and handcuffs... If you're going for classic Cactus, I'd MUCH rather have the barbed wire accessories than a freaking stop sign... |
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Post by jayrod2009 on Jul 10, 2013 17:54:20 GMT -5
They feel more exclusive to me then ever truthfully. We got a Cactus Jack!!! Most crazy parents that research toys before they but would never have given that to a kid! Same goes for Kane with the Hardcore Title. We got a freakin nWo Savage. I havent ha a nWo Savage sine 1998! So far, none of the Mattel Exclusives have popped up in regular lines. Remember the RSC exclusive Taz that got reissued into a CSTT 2 pack? Or the Jakks exclusive "whos next" shirted Goldberg that made it into a Walmart Exclusive series? That pissed alot of people off! I'm not saying that their bad figures I'm just saying that they're something you would expect in an ordinary Elite line. Put it like this every Elite figure feels like an Internet exclusive due to the super quality and detail the figures have. Thats true. Which is why I'm glad Mattel has the license, they have done a great job quality wise. Some misses here and there, but they have made nearly every Elite figure a must own. |
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Post by NikeGuy on Jul 10, 2013 17:54:30 GMT -5
Dude, there was a five page thread I made last week about the same thing...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 17:59:21 GMT -5
Feels kinda like a normal Elite with a title. Exactly how i feel about the exclusives. |
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Post by Agent_Bradley on Jul 10, 2013 18:06:20 GMT -5
I still think exclusives and hell, Mattel Elites are special. Mattel is LEAGUES in front of Jakks. I stopped actively collecting Jakks in 2008. I couldn't stand how BIG everybody was. Rey Mysterio the SAME SIZE as Big Show? Garbage. While I feel the accessories were better with Jakks, I love the Mattel figures. Everytime I get one, I can't believe the detail and integrity that goes into each figure. I think Mattels are the definitive WWE figures.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 18:10:49 GMT -5
I still think exclusives and hell, Mattel Elites are special. Mattel is LEAGUES in front of Jakks. I stopped actively collecting Jakks in 2008. I couldn't stand how BIG everybody was. Rey Mysterio the SAME SIZE as Big Show? Garbage. While I feel the accessories were better with Jakks, I love the Mattel figures. Everytime I get one, I can't believe the detail and integrity that goes into each figure. I think Mattels are the definitive WWE figures. I went off Jakks when the RA and DA figures started. For some reason I could not stand those figures and they were kinda boring. The TTL's were ok but my favourite mostly for nostalgia reasons was the BCA figures. |
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Jul 10, 2013 18:14:24 GMT -5
The internet exclusives from Mattel have been brilliant and I have bought them all but they are still something you would expect in a regular Elite series and much more expensive. They're more expensive because they have a more limited production run. For the most part, they are just standard elite figures (the CM Punk for example was originally slotted for the elite line but then cancelled). Same with the MattyCollector Legends. People complained about the cost of those too compared to the in-store Legends 1-6. We're not paying for super premium products with these, we're just paying for elites/Legends that couldn't make it to stores for various reasons. It does sometimes feel like we should be getting more bang for our buck on the Internet figures... But hey, look on the bright side. It's better to have the retail figures be so good that the exclusives don't feel too special than to have the old Jakks system where the retail figures are so bad that the only worthwhile ones are the exclusives a few times a year. |
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Post by qdogg on Jul 11, 2013 9:33:44 GMT -5
Well you just have to look at it from the point of your getting 3 extra flashbacks a year from RSC. And you got basically 7 Legends figures (rockers,andre,ddp,bundy,busters) from Matty that you probably would not of gotten in the main elite line through flashbacks, other than Andre the Giant. Yes, the prices on them are a bit high with the shipping and stuff but the online ones have proven to be more valuable than the regular elite line ones, because of lesser quantities. In fact, the Matty ones have shot up in value quite a bit. Also you dont have to waste time and gas driving to stores to get the online ones, so thats gotta be worth at least a few bucks.
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