I like the way the mattel ones look and I compare my played with Jakks pads to my cousins played with mattels ( He's 7 and wants to be grim so they take a beating) and his mattels are in better condition. I just hate making customs and removing feet just to get a knee pad
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I resorted to rf clothing for their pads and also sometimes use jakks elbow pads for certain knees. I rarely if ever keep Mattel padding on figures. Now that Mattel thought it would be brilliant to use the same plastic material for t-shirts and jackets I have totally given up hope with the clothing and padding for Mattel figures. This coming from a company that specializes in Barbie clothing and accessories is a kick in the nuts. Imagine Barbie in a full plastic gown?
Those things in addition to the inital colors that Mattel used to use kept me away from the line for the first 2 years. But especially the colors. They used mustard yellow for everyones hair...
Post by poindizzle on Aug 27, 2013 22:53:00 GMT -5
Only ever had problems once with the knee sleeves. I split a pad slightly. It's not so bad noticeable, but it was where I tried to bend the knee on a figure too far.
I resorted to rf clothing for their pads and also sometimes use jakks elbow pads for certain knees. I rarely if ever keep Mattel padding on figures. Now that Mattel thought it would be brilliant to use the same plastic material for t-shirts and jackets I have totally given up hope with the clothing and padding for Mattel figures. This coming from a company that specializes in Barbie clothing and accessories is a kick in the nuts. Imagine Barbie in a full plastic gown?
When planning the line, Mattel didn't think that hardcore wrestling collectors were particularly interested in dressing their dolls up like Barbies. They were going for a completely different feel and market. WWE is a boy's line, not a girl's line. Dress-up dolls are usually a girl's thing. For a boy's toy, the key things are fun and durability. As Mattel, Jakks and the custom clothing companies prove, they can't make decent clothing at this scale anyway. It always fits oddly and looks weird. So if we were getting CM Punks with removable t-shirts, boots, trunks, hoodies etc, they'd be expensive as hell, look awful and the dress-up features wouldn't appeal to boys, the core market.
too loose??? how so? i never once had a jakks kneepad fall off of a figure. never. and at one point i had almost 1000 figures. the only issues i ever had with Jakks' pads were the DA elbow pads, those were loose and never really stayed on arms right.
too loose??? how so? i never once had a jakks kneepad fall off of a figure. never. and at one point i had almost 1000 figures. the only issues i ever had with Jakks' pads were the DA elbow pads, those were loose and never really stayed on arms right.
I never had them fall off proper, but I did have replacement knee pads that I bought off of Ebay for figures that I had bought loose that they were missing from fall off a lot. That might be what has happened for these people who are claiming it. Factory fresh and untampered figures have always been fine on RA figures. The problem with the RA knee pads is the people who take them off to resell them. You have to stretch them out to get them over the large feet. Once they are stretched, they are ruined, I haven't been able to do anything to get them back on. They were never meant to be removed, but that doesn't stop some people.
DA elbow pads are awful. The kneepads slide around a lot but they don't fall off.