Updated: 9/7/2018 - Twitter comments added from 3/18 - 9/7/18. Added Legends Deal section. Will be adding update info to a post as well as putting in the main posts at the top. You can find new info only in my single posts here, in case you dont want to re-read all above info. (Thanks to
Jonny Flashback suggestion)
A Mid-Card type series (midcarders only)
- "As a seperate series? Not likely. We prefer if series represents the entire card if possible, something for everyone." - Bill, Twitter - 9/6/2018
Giant Gonzales
- "Would love to do Giant Gonzales someday. I think we would nail it." - Bill, Twitter - 6/28/2018
Shawn Michaels Summerslam 2002 Return
- "Kinda boring. Of all the Shawn Michaels outfits available, this is probably the plainest." - Bill, Twitter - 6/5/2018
(On do WWE figures have to be OK'd by WWE themselves or can you just get the licences from who you want?)
- "We need OK from the licensor." - Bill, Twitter - 6/1/2018
Most unlikely figures to be made that Bills wants
- "corporal Kirshner, Adrian Adonis (flower shop version), Gangrel" - Bill, Twitter - 6/1/2018
Womens 3-Pack (Wendi, Lita, Sasha)
- "FYE cancelled. Not reassigned. I'm looking for other ways to get the figures out. I didn't work on them for them not to come out. Trying to find homes for these orphans." - Bill, Twitter - 5/29/2018
NXT Basics line
- "(Cancelled.) Elite line still on as far as I know!" - Bill, Twitter - 5/29/2018
Smokey Mountain Wrestling figures (rights owned by WWE)
- "No... SMW was a regional territory that went out of buisness almost 25 years ago. That's way too niche." - Bill, Twitter - 5/28/2018
Billie Kay NXT Basic (On if it is still coming out)
- "I'm not sure they are anymore. The silver lining to this is that both (Billy and Roddy) have been placed in upcoming lineups to compensate for this. So you will be able to get figures of both, just not as soon as we would have wanted." - Bill, Twitter - 5/20/2018
Mutants Line
- "Mutants was one and done, for now atleast" - Bill, twitter - 5/23/2018
Retro (On remaking the orange line that never appeared from Hasbro)
- "Would need rights to everyone as planned in that
wave, as of now we do not." - Bill, Twitter - 5/7/2018
Great Khali Elite
- "No plans for now." - Bill, Twitter, 5/3/2018
Fan Central Series 3
- "That program was planned for Toys R Us... Currently looking to find a home for second series, (s)o 3rd is sadly unlikely in the immediate future." - Bill, Twitter - 4/25/2018
Kota Ibushi (Can you amke since he has competed in WWE)
- "Nope." - Bill, Twitter - 4/15/2018
Elite Scale Entrance Stage
- "I have no idea at this point. Feedback was very positive but there are MANY things that need to fall in place before we announce anything." - Bill, Twitter - 4/14/2018
Nicolas (Tag champ with Braun) (on will we ever see one)
- "No." - Bill, Twitter - 4/10/2018
Legends Contract Updates:
Jeff Jarrett - No (Bill, Twitter - 4/7/2018)
Legion Of Doom - No (Bill, blocked.com Interview - 8/10/2018)
Marty Janetty - No (Bill, Twitter - 3/31/2018)
UK Market:
- (One getting US Exclusives) - "I understand compeltely. We are looking at ways of servicing the U.K. Market in regards to US store exclusives. The U.K. is the second largest market for us and we want to keep it happy!" - Bill, Twitter - 4/1/2018
- Is an NXT UK figure line possible? "Its something I am personally keeping my eye on... I think a lot of it depends on if they get a network show in the UK that gets good numbers where it is drawing to point we can do more than just a limited run." - Bill, blocked.com Interview - 8/10/2018
LJN Style Figures
- "In theory yes. Right now its not something that is rising to the top of ideas. Just of the cost of that item would be significantly more expensive now, to when they came out. The weight of these items is very heavy, which is costly. At the time there were action figures that were simular to those on the shelves. If we did that now, they would stand out like a sore thumb.Where we are now iwth figures being about the hyper articulation, hyper detail, hyper poseable, to go back to something like that with the mainstream offering. " - Bill, blocked.com Interview - 8/10/2018
Ultimate Edition
- "The grand reveal of Ultimates is going to be revealed in November." - Bill, blocked Interview - 8/10/2018
True FX Face Scanning:
- "The plan right now is to implement it on everything Elite for 2019 and then also work it onto the basic line as the designers are already adding these into the Basics also because they just look better and in some cases there are cost savings..." - Bill, blocked.com Interview - 8/10/2018
Mark Henry (NOD)
- "Probably. I know we had Mark Henry in a poll for the Fan Central line and the NOD outfit did not win, it lost to the Sexual Chocolate version so we went with that one." - Bill, blocked.com Interview - 8/10/2018
Kama
- "Probably. For Godfather, we did the full Godfather gear which kind of works for Nation. It was around that time they were kind of splitting up and he went the full color outfit. It might be dificult to do a Kama Mustafa version just because its so monochrome compared to a standard Godfather figure... I would want to do Kama "Supreme Fighting Machine" from the 95-96 run." - Bill, blocked.com Interview - 8/10/2018
Niche Figures
- (on getting new niche figs like Gooker, Max Moon and Mantaur) - "The three mentioned are very high tooling. So it would have to be somewhere that justifys it. You would almost have to find like a niche of a niche. The other mentioned (Shark, Yankem, Shockmaster, Rooster) we were lucky because we were able to do The Shark, Yankem, Red Rooster with just new heads. Where if you do Gobeldy Gooker, you would almost have to tool that from scratch. The investment on something like that, you would have to justify doing it and justify tooling up that much deco for a low-run. It's difficult." - Bill, blocked.com Interview - 8/10/2018
Chainsaw Charley
- "I'd love a Chainsaw Charlie myself. As long as Terry Funk is in a legends deal there is a window open and Chainsaw is another where he almost fits into the Shark catagory." - Bill, blocked.com Interview - 8/10/2018
Who they can and cant make
"WWE are the licensor so they have the final say. So we submit our submission we want to use in the line up and WWE basically says yes or no. They are a veru veru good partner on this. I dont remember many instances where they have been adamant about not using a submission." - Bill, blocked.com Interview - 8/10/2018