E23 Savage scan

I said it before. This figure is amazing. The detail on the attire is some of the best work I've EVER seen. This is the best Savage by a landslide. Some of mattels best work to date!

I can see some folks buying an extra DM figure for the hat and shades, and an extra of this one to paint the shirt and put on the DM.



I'd leave them on the nWo figure. Black acrylic paint is ~$1 at Wal-mart. It's tough to mess up painting something black.

I actually like the scan. I think it's a good "in match" look for that period.

I don't like the shirt. Wish it was molded or more at least had a more consistent neck line. His attires at this time weren't cut around the neck like his nwo shirts.

I also wish he had boot tassels and that some of the tassels on his shirt were gold.

Well if this is going to be a post match Savage then we should get a bloody Ric Flair.

The shirts a re-paint of nWo Savage correct?

About the only figure Mattel showed that actually looks good.

The scan Im fine with, the attire is incorrect all over. The designs dont make sense, you look at pics of the match you can see there were more intricate designs with black patchs here and gold lines and the figure has no tassels on the boots. It looks like they took one design on the leg and went to town using it all over the figure.

I would honestly say I am one of the biggest Randy savage fans out there. I was born in 1984, watched Savage at wrestlemania 3 vs Steamboat as a toddler and then watched him win the tournament at Mania 4 and even cheered him vs Hogan at Mania 5. My mom was so amazed that a toddler could take such interest and be so captivated by something usually enjoyed by an older crowd. I grew up a huge fan and had every figure From the LJN to the Hasbros and I think hands down the Hasbro heads were the best likeness until Mattel came along. The wcw toybiz line was fair at best and almost cartoonish with the cheesy grins and stiff looking hair and over sized molded on sunglasses. I would always resort back to displaying the Hasbros as the best likeness. When mattel announced their first randy savage figure in the legends line and defining moments I was floored and thought that they were the best macho man figures to ever be made but over time found myself bothered by something in the head sculpts used. Not sure if it was the way they flowed the hair or that the hair was just to short. as its been said, savage is tough because of the super thin and crazy messed up hair to capture his likeness. I also think Mattels first attempt at savage was really made to look more spot on with the sunglasses on. The face without glasses was somewhat lacking. When they made the nwo exclusive with the smiling or grinning sculpt it much improved the likeness of savage and I enjoyed the change. I would and will buy every savage figure ever made and wouldn't mind a different savage in literally every elite set. I'm sure many would disagree but you would feel the same about your favorite wrestler. You can never get enough. There are so many countless attires that you could put savage in and wrestlemania 8 was in my top 5 most wanted attires for a Savage figure to be in. But after watching the match over and over I was worried that if they used the sculpt from previous... That it would ruin the figure.

Savage was worn down, had a distressed look at WM8 with all that had transpired with Flair and the Elizabeth scandal. His hair was a bit longer, and very messy. His face was a bit older looking and I think Mattel nailed it 100% this figure was one that I never thought we would get because of the detail and deco being too much for Mattels budget. The new sculpt is fantastic, the winged eagle belt is a must as he used all his last energy to hoist the belt high after defeating flair and the shirt to me looks great regardless if its rubber as they still managed to add all the crazy deco and color like the original. Don't be surprised if we see the tassels added to the boots and the correct color change to the shoulder tassels in the final production run. Sure the hat and jacket would have been cool but they honestly aren't needed as this figure is truly based on a post match look for Savage, hence the wwf title coming with it and the exhausted look on Randy's face.

Thank you Mattel. Easily my favorite figure to date. Now we just need a Wrestlemania 3 Savage with full deco Robe and headband.

I think the figure is damn near perfect. I absolutely cannot wait to have that displayed on my shelf