Anyone miss R3 tech ?

I hated R3 tech figures. I bought 2 only. Rock and Nash.

There were a lot of great figures and they could have made more if they would have kept going not sure what happened , I remember a mr perfect proto for the raw draft series I want it so bad

"what happened" is Jakks got lazy. One of the key things of the line was full body scanned figures and that disappeared rather quickly. How many guys had that silly arched Austin torso? R3 also suffered BADLY from a lack of new characters. Why didn't Mr. Perfect, Goldust, Tommy Dreamer, and so many more get figures? Instead it was constant repaints and re-releases of Austin, Rock, and The Hardys. Jakks' laziness also hurt them BADLY because they continued to release the wildly out of scale with R3 TTL figures. Why should people dump their TTL collection when they can still buy them? Why rebuy Austin, Rock, Undertaker, Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, & Rikishi when the TTLs were "just fine". I think DDP (most with no tattoos at all) and Maven were the only "R3 exclusives". There's no reason why every single person in the Draft series wasn't produced, and R3. Brock Lesnar is the only one who would've needed head to toe new parts, and by the time the draft figures were hitting, he was already a HUGE deal and worth the expeditied production. Who remembers how big of a deal Brock's first (TTL) figure was in King of the Ring?

Someone explain to me why Mr. Perfect (made it to proto stages), D-Lo Brown, Terri, Mark Henry (on WWE roster for YEARS and OBVIOUSLY scanned), Billy Kidman (got released RIGHT AFTER this in the Final Count series...), and Torrie Wilson (around for a year+ at this point..) couldn't be made. Brock I'll give them would've taken some resources but as many times as they released Brock, they could've made their money back. Will first time figures in "modern scale" of Perfect, D-Lo, Terri, and Henry "not sell"? Ivory was limited to 10,000 units. IVORY will sell better than Mr. Perfect or D-Lo? DDP was limited to just 3750. How can they validate that 3750 units of ANY of these characters wouldn't move? Or that 3750 Brock Lesnars would really take THAT long to produce?

Yea, I pre-ordered it thru Ringside and never got my refund. MULTIPLE E-mails that they never replied too.... Pissed me off.

Back on topic, I never really cared for most of them. I only ordered Mr. Perfect because it was Mr. Perfect.

Yea, I pre-ordered it thru Ringside and never got my refund. MULTIPLE E-mails that they never replied too.... Pissed me off.

Back on topic, I never really cared for most of them. I only ordered Mr. Perfect because it was Mr. Perfect.

Before they were given the Austin arched torso, they were awesome.

I like them cause they are perfect size for Mattel customs!

The arched torso made them look so awkward. I remember how hard they were to play with for some reason. Only good thing we got out of that line was the nice head scans that work very well for Mattel fix ups.

I hated them. Still do. The arms were stiff to bend at the shoulder, their ankles were hideously thin and the hand articulation meant they couldn't hold weapons.
Only bought Billy + Chuck, nwo Nash and Maven. That was enough for me.
I initially disliked ttl early on too, but I grew to love them. Didn't happen for the r3's.

Ruthless on the other hand, I was blown away with. Great start with RA 1 + 2, and even more articulation. My only gripe with those were the close together thighs, making powerbombs/pedigrees/hurricanranas tough...