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Post by The Madness on Jan 23, 2020 14:33:02 GMT -5
I was looking at some of my old Hasbro figures recently, and it dawned on me that one of the reasons the Jakks and Mattel versions of some guys like Hogan and Warrior look sort of off is that no one since Hasbro has really attempted to capture that incredibly deep bronze, sun-tanned skin tone some of those wrestlers had. I know that Mattel has a unique color for Sheamus; is there a reason that we've never really gotten that "boiled hot dog" skin tone for folks like Hogan? Is it something like not wanting to promote unhealthy tanning, or just a tooling/budget thing?
Just curious! Keep making those Legends, and I'll keep buying them!
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Jan 23, 2020 15:44:35 GMT -5
I was looking at some of my old Hasbro figures recently, and it dawned on me that one of the reasons the Jakks and Mattel versions of some guys like Hogan and Warrior look sort of off is that no one since Hasbro has really attempted to capture that incredibly deep bronze, sun-tanned skin tone some of those wrestlers had. I know that Mattel has a unique color for Sheamus; is there a reason that we've never really gotten that "boiled hot dog" skin tone for folks like Hogan? Is it something like not wanting to promote unhealthy tanning, or just a tooling/budget thing? Just curious! Keep making those Legends, and I'll keep buying them! Not sure why design went with those skin tones but it was their direction along with licensor’s approval. I don’t see why various skin tones couldn’t be explored on future figs that are a bit more tan.
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Jan 23, 2020 15:47:33 GMT -5
Action Figure Attack do you and the team ever look at your collections and say, ok we’re missing these characters from this era let’s try and get one into the line to go with that certain time frame. (For example 93-95 85-87) I look at the line overall (and I guess by default my collection) and do this guy lineup slots are usually more talent & look driven rather than era driven.
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Jan 23, 2020 15:49:13 GMT -5
2 per case makes the most sense IMO. If foot traffic is the prime goal for these collectors editions, having more than one in a case would encourage people to go hunt. Hopefully this isn't exclusive to Target and Walmart's exclusives become just as potentially plentiful. That Anvil and Blassie are calling my name This will be decided per wave based on a variety of factors. You won’t see this in every instance.
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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on Jan 23, 2020 16:54:22 GMT -5
Do you guys try and do versions of figures LJN Zoe Hasbro has done to bring back a type of nastalgia for older collectors and bring them Back to the oh man I had such and such as a hasbro it’s awesome in Mattel?
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Post by kaleb9 on Jan 23, 2020 17:35:30 GMT -5
Will Chyna be collectors edition or elite line?
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Jan 23, 2020 19:32:48 GMT -5
Will Chyna be collectors edition or elite line? Chyna will not be a Collector’s Edition figure.
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Post by taserface on Jan 23, 2020 19:43:40 GMT -5
First - thanks for responding to questions on here. Second - the new Elite Natalya looks great in terms of detail and especially the head scan, but any idea what happened with the height? See below comparison with her last basic (the new Elite is even shorter than Alexa Bliss figures). Thanks. AFA Any chance of a running change for E74 Natalya, so that she doesn’t look like a dwarf? Or is it too late?
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Post by powerfred3k on Jan 23, 2020 19:58:43 GMT -5
2 per case makes the most sense IMO. If foot traffic is the prime goal for these collectors editions, having more than one in a case would encourage people to go hunt. Hopefully this isn't exclusive to Target and Walmart's exclusives become just as potentially plentiful. That Anvil and Blassie are calling my name This will be decided per wave based on a variety of factors. You won’t see this in every instance. Here is a crazy thought, why not if target and walmart get backed up and there exclusives are going to wind up in discount stores. Why not take those exclusive figures and send then to wweshop.com ? It would seem like a win-win, instead of going to big lots, tjmaxx, five below, etc for half its retail price or more. You sell off stuff at full price online and a lot faster turnaround then it takes for discount retailers to move product. What do you think ?
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Jan 23, 2020 21:25:15 GMT -5
First - thanks for responding to questions on here. Second - the new Elite Natalya looks great in terms of detail and especially the head scan, but any idea what happened with the height? See below comparison with her last basic (the new Elite is even shorter than Alexa Bliss figures). Thanks. To start, that Natalya Basic was too tall and the Alexa figs are probably a bit too tall also. Nattie is billed as 5’ 5” and Alexa is billed at 5’ 1”. Do a google image search of Natalya and Alexa Bliss and in most of the images, Nattie is just slightly taller than Alexa. Stand Nattie next to other figs that are closer to her height in real life like Sasha, Mandy, Becky and even Ronda who is 5’ 7” and she’ll look pretty much in scale as she should.
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Post by The King Of Crisps on Jan 23, 2020 21:45:11 GMT -5
so are alot of the ladies gonna start being smaller figs to represent their height more?
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Jan 23, 2020 21:51:24 GMT -5
so are alot of the ladies gonna start being smaller figs to represent their height more? Design will always strive to be close to scale.
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Post by kaleb9 on Jan 23, 2020 22:06:43 GMT -5
I saw somewhere elite 76 will be exclusive to somewhere it that true and will it be on ringside
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Post by rastlinfigures on Jan 23, 2020 22:10:28 GMT -5
First - thanks for responding to questions on here. Second - the new Elite Natalya looks great in terms of detail and especially the head scan, but any idea what happened with the height? See below comparison with her last basic (the new Elite is even shorter than Alexa Bliss figures). Thanks. To start, that Natalya Basic was too tall and the Alexa figs are probably a bit too tall also. Nattie is billed as 5’ 5” and Alexa is billed at 5’ 1”. Do a google image search of Natalya and Alexa Bliss and in most of the images, Nattie is just slightly taller than Alexa. Stand Nattie next to other figs that are closer to her height in real life like Sasha, Mandy, Becky and even Ronda who is 5’ 7” and she’ll look pretty much in scale as she should. Interesting. I just did a comparison with several other women’s figures. Is it that the basics generally (maybe not always) are taller than they probably should be? She doesn’t look as out of scale compared with most of the other elites, but does with most basics. Thanks, again.
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Jan 23, 2020 22:11:57 GMT -5
This will be decided per wave based on a variety of factors. You won’t see this in every instance. Here is a crazy thought, why not if target and walmart get backed up and there exclusives are going to wind up in discount stores. Why not take those exclusive figures and send then to wweshop.com ? It would seem like a win-win, instead of going to big lots, tjmaxx, five below, etc for half its retail price or more. You sell off stuff at full price online and a lot faster turnaround then it takes for discount retailers to move product. What do you think ? Doesn’t quite work that way from a retailer or inventory standpoint. This would also probably be more expensive to accomplish.
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Post by Classic Collector: The Return on Jan 23, 2020 22:24:57 GMT -5
Not sure if it’s been addressed, any reason behind the recent rash of “bobble head” looking figures? Does the size of the head not get noticed until it’s too far down the pipe line? Jakks had this some problem (Tully Blanchard comes to mind).
Example: The Hurricane, a great figure I planned on getting and looks great besides the head - which makes me now not want it. And I highly doubt he will get revisited down the line and corrected.
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Post by One Punch Reigns on Jan 23, 2020 22:39:32 GMT -5
2 per case makes the most sense IMO. If foot traffic is the prime goal for these collectors editions, having more than one in a case would encourage people to go hunt. Hopefully this isn't exclusive to Target and Walmart's exclusives become just as potentially plentiful. That Anvil and Blassie are calling my name This will be decided per wave based on a variety of factors. You won’t see this in every instance. Got it, wishful thinking I suppose. I just appreciate the fact you guys are making these exclusives easier to get a hold of as opposed to the secondary market.
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Post by itssammyszn on Jan 23, 2020 23:11:03 GMT -5
Will there be a chance of seeing a Mauro Ranallo or a bryon Saxton or Greg Hamilton as we haven’t really had announcers in the line I don’t think?
-also will there be plans to release the accurate Paige that’s advertised on Ringsides Website as GM and not in wrestling Gear?
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Jan 23, 2020 23:15:26 GMT -5
I saw somewhere elite 76 will be exclusive to somewhere it that true and will it be on ringside Elite 76 should be widely available and is open to all retailers.
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Jan 23, 2020 23:19:01 GMT -5
Not sure if it’s been addressed, any reason behind the recent rash of “bobble head” looking figures? Does the size of the head not get noticed until it’s too far down the pipe line? Jakks had this some problem (Tully Blanchard comes to mind). Example: The Hurricane, a great figure I planned on getting and looks great besides the head - which makes me now not want it. And I highly doubt he will get revisited down the line and corrected. It’s a long process involving multiple team members in the US working with partners in China and sometimes things don’t turn out as intended. Hopefully there’s more hits than misses though.
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