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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 23:26:56 GMT -5
One thing that's annoying about collecting Jakks these days is how they left kneepads off so many dudes. I want to get this:  but the missing kneepads are such a glaring thing for me. I'm still going to get it, because the titles and figure itself is awesome, but that little detail would have added so much more. |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Mar 14, 2016 2:53:14 GMT -5
Jakks would do that at times and I am not sure why.
The ECW Series CM Punk comes to mind. It didn't have knee pads on either.
If you are a loose collector, it doesn't matter since you can just add them on, but as a MOC collector it would be pretty annoying.
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Post by Kollector_Kombat on Mar 14, 2016 3:30:51 GMT -5
I coulda sworn they did this to one of the RA Booker T's I used to have too. It really does look great without the kneepads though. I wish Jakks had painted all their belts, the Tag one looks solid.
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Post by chaddec on Mar 14, 2016 14:48:14 GMT -5
Whoa I like that figure and the titles.
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Post by poindizzle on Mar 14, 2016 18:25:41 GMT -5
There are several ones that showed the kneepads in the proto pic only to shaft us on them in the final release. I think the biggest problem with leaving them off is how bad the painted skintone below the kneepad looks.
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Post by charabro on Mar 14, 2016 18:35:51 GMT -5
This irked me so much. It wasn't too bad as a loose collector but it was irritating having to try fork out for loose pads on the bay or take some from some other figure and have that one be padless.
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Post by bad guy™ on Mar 15, 2016 14:16:55 GMT -5
Jakks would do that at times and I am not sure why. The ECW Series CM Punk comes to mind. It didn't have knee pads on either. If you are a loose collector, it doesn't matter since you can just add them on, but as a MOC collector it would be pretty annoying. Well the Punk at least made sense originally from a GTS standpoint. |
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Post by Escape The Rules on Mar 15, 2016 20:27:18 GMT -5
Probably to save money the cheap bastards.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Mar 16, 2016 15:01:32 GMT -5
Probably to save money the cheap bastards. Pretty much, and laziness. There was many many occurrences of this happening. The worst for me was for RA 21 RVD and Carlito. Now, I added plain black ones for RVD, but Carlito needed dedicated blue ones with his logo. And those didn't exist completely in that blue (there was another figure, but the blue was off, and why take one of another?). The proto had them. And his attire was so cool! Just another bonehead Jakks decision. Up there with leaving off designs on the back half of the figure, TTL arms (no elbows) on a RA body and larger body types for smaller wrestlers... |
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Post by ricflair4ever on Mar 18, 2016 22:53:36 GMT -5
In the case of that Batista, it was probably cost cutting. The budget probably went to the body wrap and paint apps on the belts. Now as to their other knee pad-less releases.......i have no clue.
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Mar 19, 2016 10:40:43 GMT -5
In the case of that Batista, it was probably cost cutting. The budget probably went to the body wrap and paint apps on the belts. Now as to their other knee pad-less releases.......i have no clue. that's an exclusive. it has no budget restrictions. |
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Post by Overnight Sensation on Mar 21, 2016 11:11:56 GMT -5
In the case of that Batista, it was probably cost cutting. The budget probably went to the body wrap and paint apps on the belts. Now as to their other knee pad-less releases.......i have no clue. that's an exclusive. it has no budget restrictions. Oh come on now, everything has a budget restriction when dealing with mass production. |
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Mar 21, 2016 13:10:21 GMT -5
In the case of that Batista, it was probably cost cutting. The budget probably went to the body wrap and paint apps on the belts. Now as to their other knee pad-less releases.......i have no clue. that's an exclusive. it has no budget restrictions. Of course it has budget restrictions. |
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Post by GoldenHulk on Mar 27, 2016 2:04:27 GMT -5
Probably to save money the cheap bastards. Pretty much, and laziness. There was many many occurrences of this happening. The worst for me was for RA 21 RVD and Carlito. Now, I added plain black ones for RVD, but Carlito needed dedicated blue ones with his logo. And those didn't exist completely in that blue (there was another figure, but the blue was off, and why take one of another?). The proto had them. And his attire was so cool! Just another bonehead Jakks decision. Up there with leaving off designs on the back half of the figure, TTL arms (no elbows) on a RA body and larger body types for smaller wrestlers... Yeah, it was cutting corners in a cost cutting measure. And at the time it was argued against heavily on these forums. To them it was "just kneepads" but to collectors it would be like buying a Superman figure without the cape. It's a part of the wrestlers' look and costume. After that big blowup on the forums I remember the next series of Classic Superstars pretty much every figure had BLACK kneepads thrown on every figure, whether they needed them or not. Koko with black kneepads, Doink with black kneepads, etc. Then they put black kneepads on the Bruno figure even though he did NOT actually wear them! LOL They just never really understood the attention to detail collectors were looking for. |
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Post by PJ on Mar 27, 2016 5:16:14 GMT -5
Probably to keep certain figures or waves within their production budget.
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