BCA Buried Alive Set Undertaker Attire?

Great question.

Undertaker's figure in the Target Exclusive BCA Buried Alive 4-pack is actually based on the attire he wore at Survivor Series one month later.



That became the signature look for Undertaker's Jakks figures beginning in the fall of 1997; in fact, it was the second ever Jakks body mold made exclusively for him.

The first issue of this figure was in the Toys"R"Us Exclusive Championship Title Series 4-pack (Released October 1997).



I don't know why they chose not to use the purple gloves attire for the Buried Alive set.

If it counts for anything, I would say Undertaker abandoning the look nearly a full year prior to the figure's release had something to do with it.

Thanks for the info guys. I didn't realize this set debuted so much later than the actual match. I always preferred the Series 1 BCA figure over all of the other BCA versions.

And I was in the same boat with this set -- we didn't have Target stores in New York when these figures were released. I remember viewing these toys on the old wwf website as a kid.

I don't understand why they didn't use the Undertaker figure with purple gloves from the WWF Superstars BCA series 1 (that same figure was re-released on the series 2 of that line with a "glow in the dark" feature) in this Buried Alive set. I think Jakks was giving more emphasis on the "Lord of Darkness" era at the time instead of making more figures of the 1994-1996 Taker era.

That's correct, although the purple gloves attire was released one more time at the very end of 1997.

Here's a MOC pic of the Toys"R"Us exclusive Best of '97 Series 1 Undertaker figure along with Ahmed Johnson:



This third and final release of the original Undertaker mold from Superstars Series 1 is unique in that a peg hole was added to the bottom of its foot and it could finally be displayed on a WWF figure stand.