Re-release all popular Elite figures!

Brown Mankind had yet to be released at all, and you can still buy Cactus Jack at the one place where it was sold: ringside. Though this would help newbies get caught up, it would severely alienate those who have been with Mattel since the beginning, or at least for a couple years. If we got six flashbacks a set, then I wouldn't mind 1 rerelease, similar to their "best of 20--" series. But we have so precious few spots now, I don't want them taken up with figures we all already had a more than fair enough chance of getting.

Wow, I didn't even realize all I listed were flashback. 

Bigbossman

I forgot to mention this is not to replace new figures coming out, these flashback figures will only be release on RSC, so they are in addition to new figures not to replace new figures.

Most of those figures they don't even have. They'd scalp 'em.

I've been waiting for this to happen for a while now. I know they would make a good profit from it and they've proven that they are able to throw random series out of nowhere with the wm30 series. All they have to do is look at what's selling for over retail on eBay regularly and they could have 3 or 4 series sure to sell lined up in 10 minutes. No brainier.

Absolutely but only on RSC so that Mattel doesn't lose money.

Since this is a Mattel Suggestion Box, I really hope they read this. 

If there are 100 willing to pay that much, tgere are plenty others willing to pay retail. I think you're forgetting that a lot of us didn't jump on the mattel band wagon in the beginning. Tgere are a lot more mattel collectors now vs when they first got the rights. Besides, they don't have to make as many as they do normally. They already have all the parts so it's not like they would be producing new figures..

I just want E16 Kevin Nash

Because the $17 price (or whichever price each store in each area charges) is based on how much that store/chain buys them from Mattel for. And Mattel's prices are based on shipping a certain number of units. The less units shipped, the higher the price per unit. That's at the core of bulk buying.

It's all well and good to fantasise "wouldn't it be lovely if Mattel rereleased all the figures I missed out on so that I could complete my collection at retail price" but it's an unrealistic pipe dream and it's best to know the difference between pipe dreams and reality. Mattel's business is not built on plugging the gaps in every individual hardcore flashback collector's personal collection. If we did get elite rereleases, they wouldn't be sets of every flashback that every individual Wfigs member wants. They'd be Best Of Year sets that would feature the more well-known current characters, and we'd all cry that the pegs were being clogged up by more Cenas and Lesnars.

That has no basis in rational economics whatsoever. A small dedicated group is in no way indicative of anything except that they are a small dedicated group.

It isn't about having the parts, It's about having the slots. We only get about 10 or so elite flashbacks a year not including exclusives or specials (like WM30 elites). That's limited enough! Now you all want to take those slots up for figures we've all already had a reasonable chance of purchasing? I'm sorry, but I'll argue against that until the cows come home.