Retro Mattel figures

We'll be lucky to even get these given select ones from Series 2 stuck around for ages in some Smyths branches.

I'd love to get the opportunity to buy Ric Flair.

I would say any day now. Although that's if smyths stocks them again. I saw aj going for £3-4 I can't remember for sure but I know they were mostly a buggar to sell.

Well Mattel themselves have said that series 4 and 5 won’t be coming over here at all, but that series 6 will be, so it will be interesting to see if Smyths stock series 6 as that might indicate that it’s not them giving-up on the line but Mattel just not offering UK carriers the option of series 4 and 5 for whatever reason. Maybe Mattel just love the idea of us making US eBayers plus Royal Mail and HMRC richer in order to fill our damn collections?

Knowing the stock and sales figures from Smyths would be interesting - Lesnar and Undertaker sold-out reasonably quickly in the first series and didn’t get re-stocked, but Cena and Warrior have been there so long that they’ve been marked-down for ages, so did they order extras of Cena and Warrior compared to Taker and Lesnar, or were the latter two underpacked by Mattel in the cases Smyths received? Same sort of question with series 2: Mankind and Kane were harder to find than the others from the start - were they underpacked by Mattel? Certainly seems that Smyths didn’t have a problem selling-out Lesnar, Taker, Mankind and Kane, but the others lasted on pegs a lot longer. Also series 3 wasn’t available online for long, and the stores around me at least were sold-out of all series 3 figures within a couple of months - looking at the stock indicator online (which I know isn’t perfect) that seems to show that they have shifted series 3 quite well, there are only a few of them still in stores across the country compared to the numbers for Cena, Warrior and Rock for example. It’d be interesting to see the numbers Smyths had delivered of each guy.

Good point on the reductions - could easily be a case of Smyths just wanting to be done with the line. I’ve not followed the prices close enough to know much about the timing of the reductions (especially with the severe reduction to AJ) but it still seems to me that series 3 wasn’t stocked in anything like the quantities of the first two series.

Let’s see what happens with series 6.