5 most disappointing misses in Deluxe Impact

Well yeah that actually happened, the 2 big players in Toybiz Permutter and Arad were promoted to bigger roles in Marvel when Toybiz merged with them.

Arad got a nice cushy job in charge of Sony's Spider-Man movie development, among other movie duties.




We actually discussed this topic at length recently on the Fwoosh, really interesting stuff. There was a research paper published in 2004 on the implosion of Marvel and the Toybiz bailout. Can't find it right now, but it's a long read and if you're interested, I could try to get it over to you.

I was rooting for Toybiz, since I associate them with nostalgia and my childhood. They pretty much made figures of every franchise I loved, and their toys were fun.

I especially love the TNA figures because they were cool and a huge step up from the WCW ones. Just they're hard to get nowadays.

Dixie Carter was a huge mistake

Short-hair Bobby Roode

I wish they had made a more appropriate Mich Foley instead of the 8 inch tall Umaga mold ones. The later Samoa Joe one with the green shorts works good enough for me even though it's a bit taller than it should be but the Mick Foley ones are both just all around too big. I wish they had made the current TNA belt or at least stopped putting out the old one on wrestlers that never held it... if you open a figure it's easy enough to toss the belt aside but if you're having it Mock it looks weird seeing Chris Sabin wearing a belt they got rid of in 2011 when he wasn't champion till 2013... I wish they had made a fully "Crow" Sting without the red streaks, and maybe with long rubber hair... And I wish they had made an open mouth scan one. And I wish the exclusive joke style one with the cloth coat had the real glove mold instead of the hand mold with fingernails and so forth just painted black... Obviously there's the common things like wanting a bearded Eric Young, a short haired Roode, ODB, etc. It seems like EC3 would be a pretty easy one cause they could just use the Rob Terry type moulds and it would be a really easy paint job and so forth they'd just have to make the head scan...

Would have personally loved to see more Knockout variety (and an updated brunette Madison Rayne), but I am thankful that we finally got a Gail Kim figure!

No Jim Cornette

-no real scale 6 sided ring/cage/ultimate X
-lack of diversity, especially the knockouts. the same figs in repaints over and over and when they did new ones they were terrible like bully ray
-the legends line could have been interesting for sure, but at least one super company is finally giving us a Jim Cornette, albeit with no tennis racket
-letting Dixie have a figure, or any say in running the company at all but we already know that
-putting out more than the low recognition of the company was capable of compared to WWE

The fact they kept releasing Abyss in that strange, bland tank top he never wore over and over again.

They loved releasing the same guy, over and over again, but most of the time they wouldn't try to do something that would actually attract you to buying the figure.

I was always happy shelling out for a new attire of the same wrestler but I'd want to see a little bit of effort to entice me towards another version of the character.

You look at Series 11 AJ Styles, the box has a photo of AJ with bangs next to the same short haircut we've already been seeing repeated...change the head sculpt or AT LEAST choose a photo that doesn't make the figure feel dated BEFORE YOU EVEN BUY HIM.