R-3 Tech

Good skinny figures that size up well to Mattel. I miss them

I had a few R-3’s, I didn’t really like how they looked in my collection as it was mostly TTLs at the time. The skinny arms and arched backs were awful. The best things to come out of R-3 IMO were Kane and Jeff Hardy’s scans and the untucked shirt torso mold. Shame none of those have ever been redone.

- R3 could and should of worked but jakks didnt fully invest in the line. the tag was real scan, real scale, real reaction.

we got real scan in the heads and they started using 'scanned' body moulds. the best figure they did IMO was Angle but you could only use those parts for Angle.

if you look at Austin and his torso its posed as if hes doing his corner pose, thus the dent in the back, and that torso ended up on rock, hogan, undertaker.

if you look at the shirted torso the nWo came out with that IMO is based on Hogan and fits well for him and if you look at it next to the torso used on Billy Gunn you can see they are almost identical which leads me to think the Billy Gunn torso is actually a Hogan torso.

basically if jakks had invested in the line and kept the right parts for the right person EG Benoit, rikishi, Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, street gear Rock then the line would of been awesome.

Grrrrr I remember back then getting very excited for the R-3 tech Mr. Perfect and then it was cancelled due to Hennig being released.

I did love some of the others such as Benoit, Rhyno, Rikishi, Billy & Chuck, Christian, Test, nWo street gear Hogan, Hall and Nash, even the nWo 2-packs I loved Nash in his ring gear.

Gotta say for some reason my favourite was the WWE Draft Diamond Dallas Page, mainly because I really wanted a DDP but he had his tattoos.

I do wonder what could have been if they would have carried on with it, stuck with it and invested into it more... I've still got like 4 or 5 of those Metal Vengeance Arenas in my loft unopened lol.

That figure is the reason I started collecting RA figures. I had it preordered with RSC but when it got canceled they gave me store credit so I ordered the RA Series 1 Randy Orton.

The Rhyno and Big Show R3 figures were the best!

I love the detail on Kane's first R3 figure but the body proportions are a little too skinny/oddly shaped. Either the TTL with the specially made mold, or the Classic Superstars RA articulation Kane in that attire are the best figures for that look.

I was 9/10 years old when they came out in 2002. The first time I saw them was at my friend's house. His parents always bought him tons of figures at a time, almost to the point of being spoiled. When I first saw them I thought they looked incredible! My favourites were Big Show and Kane, but there were so many good ones. I agree with some of the criticisms above too such as the arched back mold, DDP being too short, no tattoos, stiff joints on the figures wearing jeans etc, but overall I thought it was a pretty cool series.