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Post by kgchampion on May 18, 2015 16:39:10 GMT -5
I recently made some tweaks to my Mattel arena and moved everything around so it's all as connected as it can be. I'm really loving it and wanted to share with the folks who enjoy looking at arenas. I used to try and have everything ringside spaced out as accurately as on TV as possible, but decided to change it to save a little space. The entrance stage is much closer to the ring now. Jake's snake bag is filled with a Doink wig, a Triple H head, and a couple elbow pads to give it some weight and make it look like there's a snake inside. Swapped out the Mattel barricades for the sturdier wrestling superstore ones. Also made them much closer to the ring. The ring is a combination of ESR and ASR parts. Apron, posts, base and steps from the ESR; turnbuckles and mat from ASR, ropes from RSC. Removed the barriers around the timekeeper area. Still have Raw and Smackdown announce teams. Raw is Lawler and JR, Smackdown is Cole and Booker. The tables are much closer to the ring now. I keep the ring steps disconnected from the ring base so they'll break apart easier when wrestlers get slammed into them. Entrance Stage is now connected to the backstage area. Interview area now leads directly to the backstage area. Rearranged the backstage area. By gorilla position.
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Post by kgchampion on May 18, 2015 16:39:34 GMT -5
Edit: Back from work. Time for the pics I didn't have time to add. This is also backstage. A mirrored wall so the talent can make some last minute checks to make sure they're camera ready. This flows into a curtained off wall with the WWE logo for quick interviews if needed. On the other side of the mirror is the GM office. During backstage brawls, you could send someone through the mirror and into the GM office on the other side. Mirrored wall and curtain swing open revealing the GM office for easy access and playability. If anyone is wondering, the floor is just thick foam board. It keeps the cardboard backdrops in place and creates stability. A shot of the backstage area. It's much bigger in person. It's made up of pieces from two Backstage Brawl and two Performance Center playsets. You can kind of see how everything fits together. The backstage area feeds directly into the stage which leads to the ringside area. Directly to the right of the backstage area is the Performance Center. It actually could directly connect to the backstage area if I had another foam board, but I don't. So they are not attached. This is made up of the leftover pieces of the two Backstage Brawl and two Performance Center playsets. I only have one set of weight ropes stretched out. The other stays coiled up for space. It also just looks like cabling or something similar coiled up like that. You can't really see it, but there's a bench on its side in the corner with a row dumbbells leaned against it. Kind of like what you see in a real gym. I have the cargo shutters here simply because those weird tops are difficult to fit with other things. I just couldn't make them fit anywhere else with what I wanted to do. So here is where you go for brawls into the parking lot. Right now the parking lot doesn't exist. Still looking to get some cheap in-scale cars that look like average cars. Back to ringside. I actually don't mind the scale of the ring so much. Yes, it's pretty gigantic. Yes, it's limiting if you have short arms. Yes, there's a lot of empty space in one-on-one or even two-on-two matches. But put a lot of people in there, and the space gets eaten up pretty quickly. The short ladders can easily reach from the ring to the barricade. I apologize for the blurriness. Arial view of the ring. The section of barricade that RVD is next to is actually unattached to the rest of the barricade so you can just move it away and get closer to the ring. I really like the length of the Mattel Real Scale Ring's apron because it hides weapons much easier. You can't tell, but there are actually two Mattel tables there, one on top of the other, as well as a steel chair. I just wanted to show off some accessories. I think I have most of the weapon accessories at this point and this is just a few. There's a chair wedged in the corner opposite the trashcan that doesn't show in any of the pictures. Again, Jake's snake bag is filled with odds and ends (not too much to avoid appearing like Santa's sack) to give some weight and the appearance there's a snake inside. Ric is handcuffed to the rope about to get caned by the Viper. I made a small cut in both ends with a boxcutter so that they could be attached to different things. You can also see RSC coffin to the right. It's propped up by a black RSC breakaway table. Awesome accessory. Wish I also got the purple one when it was still available. Cena is being hanged by Rusev! The chain is from JYD. Mattel should def make a battlepack of these two with a chain that has the collar on both ends. That would be awesome. Thought about getting another JYD and doing it myself, but I can't bring myself to pay 16 bucks for a duplicate of a figure that rarely gets played with just for another chain. Kofi is laid out on the wheeled stretcher. Vince is sitting in the RSC wheelchair with a neck brace. You can really see how close the entrance ramp is to the ring. I could move the ring and ringside area further back, but I did this to save space and make everything more compact. I hope you liked everything. This display takes up at most about one-third of the room it's in. It's just a spare room with no other purpose, so it's fine. I love it. Doing something like this is what I always wanted to do as a kid but was never able to. Mostly because when I was a kid, the Bone Crushing Action line didn't have most of this stuff.
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Post by Kyle on May 18, 2015 16:41:42 GMT -5
Looks amazing. Wish I had the space for something like that.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 16:47:50 GMT -5
That is freakin cool
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 16:54:05 GMT -5
It looks incredible!
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Post by Y3RP: LA MARAVILLA!!! on May 18, 2015 17:33:10 GMT -5
haha that's bad ass
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Post by Browser Brody on May 18, 2015 17:37:54 GMT -5
Looks great!
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Post by poindizzle on May 18, 2015 17:41:14 GMT -5
I hope for the dat when I have the room to make a cool setup like this. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by ARUN on May 18, 2015 17:49:42 GMT -5
Awesome stuff man!
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Post by kgchampion on May 18, 2015 23:24:38 GMT -5
Updated with more pics above.
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Post by BOOM! #WDE on May 19, 2015 0:26:25 GMT -5
Awesome set up. I miss having my arena set up. I always enjoyed putting together odds and ends to make an awesome creation.
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Post by justwright316 on May 19, 2015 8:32:18 GMT -5
very impressive
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Post by Mongo Bears on May 19, 2015 8:48:47 GMT -5
I like it I'm jealous
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Post by Midnight on May 19, 2015 11:29:24 GMT -5
That is true beauty. Great job!
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Post by knupmc on May 19, 2015 14:03:55 GMT -5
Awesome arena! Looks great and I love the backstage area
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Post by Artistix on May 19, 2015 22:20:45 GMT -5
That is freakin amazing! Do Mattels commentators desks break apart easier than the Jakks versions? I wish we got the playsets in Australia.
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Post by gregrules420 on May 19, 2015 22:41:56 GMT -5
Amazing
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Post by TheNinthCloud on May 19, 2015 23:12:19 GMT -5
That is amazing, man. You should really try a fed!
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Post by kgchampion on May 19, 2015 23:20:39 GMT -5
That is freakin amazing! Do Mattels commentators desks break apart easier than the Jakks versions? I wish we got the playsets in Australia. The only Jakks announcer table I had was the one that came with JR during the Bone Crunching Action era. So I don't know. I've got four of the Mattel ones. They're all fairly sturdy, but can break apart easily enough when a figure is slammed on it. Mine tend to break in the right places, too. The sides and front comes off, but the split in the middle usually stays in place, which is the way I like it. If you don't have a Mattel announce table I strongly encourage you to get one. I honestly think they're the best looking announce table to date. toysrus.com has the Ringside Battle playset that the table comes with on clearance. Not sure if they deliver to AU, though. I imagine shipping might be pricey if they do.
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Post by kgchampion on May 19, 2015 23:21:18 GMT -5
Thanks for all the love towards my arena guys. I really appreciate it.
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