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Post by TheLastDude on Nov 25, 2019 22:16:51 GMT -5
Action Figure Attack what's a common misconception you see around here you'd like us to be informed about? That Mattel distributes to individual retail locations and that Mattel can force retailers to take items. “Why don’t they just give it to (insert retailer here)!!” Retailers buy from us and then they are responsible for distributing to their individual locations. Retailers decide what specifically they want to take. We can offer items to them and encourage and try to “sell-in” but we can’t force anyone to take things. *edit* I take that back. It's exactly like people don't know what Toy Fair is.
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Post by Ultimate Figure Collector on Nov 25, 2019 22:25:13 GMT -5
What are the chances that Ringside will start carrying the chase/store exclusives figures? They got in Alexander Wolfe but he was the only one. Any chance of Ringside selling the harder to find exclusives regularly?
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Nov 25, 2019 22:28:28 GMT -5
Hi not sure if you can answer this just wondering. For someone like Greg Valentine did it take so long to get him in the line because he wasn’t signed or was it more just strategically waiting for the right place to put him. There are a few other significant legends that are missing just wondering without any names are there any fairly big names who are currently signed but just don’t have a spot yet? Also Keeping up hope for a dream team valentine and beefcake🤞🏻 Thx for this thread!!! Greg wasn’t available to us when I first joined the team. I included him on our request list and WWE was eventually able to secure him for us. The second we received word, I asked Bill to get a sculpt ready so we could show you guys at SDCC. We do have First Time in the Line (and first time gimmick) Legends coming your way over the next two years.
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Nov 25, 2019 22:28:35 GMT -5
What are the chances that Ringside will start carrying the chase/store exclusives figures? They got in Alexander Wolfe but he was the only one. Any chance of Ringside selling the harder to find exclusives regularly? Already said no
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Nov 25, 2019 22:28:56 GMT -5
What are the chances that Ringside will start carrying the chase/store exclusives figures? They got in Alexander Wolfe but he was the only one. Any chance of Ringside selling the harder to find exclusives regularly? Not possible.
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Nov 25, 2019 22:31:51 GMT -5
How often does the team submit request lists?
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Nov 25, 2019 22:33:31 GMT -5
Thinking you can’t provide details so I won’t ask, except to ask this. Is it likely we will hear about Mattel contract with WWE in the near future? My understanding is that it currently runs through 2021... (If it’s not appropriate to answer in this forum, I think we all would understand - and you can just ignore my question) Thanks as always for your interaction and time. I hope you are doing this on Mattels (company) time and not your own. 😜 When the time comes I’m sure there will be an official announcement, press release, etc just like before. This is all on my time. I have to run the business for my lines on Mattel’s time.
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Nov 25, 2019 22:33:54 GMT -5
How often does the team submit request lists? No set time frame. When necessary.
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Nov 25, 2019 22:40:12 GMT -5
With the caveat that this doesn't influence what's coming, what was your favorite old school stable/faction and what's your relatively current favorite one? I really liked Mattel making efforts to get some factions out in one shot like the Four Horsemen, Shield, New Day and UE. With the lack of TRU, are two-packs more or less the best option to complete/fill in the gaps for factions now? Thanks again Steve. Really appreciate all the participation! Old school....Demolition. Wish they had a longer run as a three man faction and were really used as a major threat terrorizing WWE. Hart Foundation was just perfect. Natural, made complete sense and they all complimented each other well. Current...New Day is really standing the test of time. Two packs and single basics and elites. I like how we‘ve rolled out Lucha House Party so far.
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Post by LaParka on Nov 25, 2019 22:44:42 GMT -5
When you get to another Erick Rowan how will you handle the band t shirts he wears just create something generic due to the issues with the bands licensing?
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Post by TheLastDude on Nov 25, 2019 22:46:44 GMT -5
Thinking you can’t provide details so I won’t ask, except to ask this. Is it likely we will hear about Mattel contract with WWE in the near future? My understanding is that it currently runs through 2021... (If it’s not appropriate to answer in this forum, I think we all would understand - and you can just ignore my question) Thanks as always for your interaction and time. I hope you are doing this on Mattels (company) time and not your own. 😜 When the time comes I’m sure there will be an official announcement, press release, etc just like before. This is all on my time. I have to run the business for my lines on Mattel’s time.I want this added to the banner too. Doing this on his own time. Bless'm.
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Post by djloch on Nov 25, 2019 22:49:38 GMT -5
The Ultimate Edition line has quickly become my favorite to collect. For a future line up, would something like this be possible:
Classic Undertaker - accessories would be black coat, purple band hat, grey band hat, purple tie, grey tie, purple gloves, grey gloves, purple boots, and grey boots.
Basically we could get a grey and purple Taker simply with swappable gloves, boots, tie, and hat. Would swappable boots be possible for this line or will it stick with arms, hands and heads for now? Seems like a cheap paint swap to make it possible. Thanks!
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Nov 25, 2019 22:50:33 GMT -5
Legends 100%. That artwork was awesome. One of my favorites as well, the only knock being it's not collector friendly. I did love the airbrushed 80s movie poster filter they did on the wrestlers on the card though. A bit of a followup concerning your position at Mattel: Since you're the social media/marketing guy, you have a lot of influence on different platforms including this message board but more so on Twitter and Instagram. As such there's a huge subculture of figure photography on both social medias (Of which I post my work)to where some of us are influencers on their respective platforms so to speak (I'm not but my work was shown off at the past two SDCCs). Do you think this is a successful move all told and part of the brand becoming more in-tune with the digital age? On that note, were you the one to push for interchangeable parts knowing it'd be super helpful for figure photographers/display artists or was this also more of a collaborative decision? I think you’re seeing the joy in collecting on social media, specifically Instagram. It’s the user sharing their collection or the photography and that sharing is drastically different than a message board where negativity can get out of hand at times. I think action figure photography specifically has pushed us towards another golden age of collecting. So many great lines right now. Adding the extra hands, heads to elites and full executions like Ultimate Edition geared towards action figure photographers was only natural. The swappable hands were already in motion when I joined the team since they work so far in advance but the concept of Ultimate Edition was driven by me.
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Post by #Heel on Nov 25, 2019 22:51:36 GMT -5
Do you have an estimate of when pre orders should be available for Ultimate Edition series 4?
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Nov 25, 2019 23:13:57 GMT -5
One of my favorites as well, the only knock being it's not collector friendly. I did love the airbrushed 80s movie poster filter they did on the wrestlers on the card though. A bit of a followup concerning your position at Mattel: Since you're the social media/marketing guy, you have a lot of influence on different platforms including this message board but more so on Twitter and Instagram. As such there's a huge subculture of figure photography on both social medias (Of which I post my work)to where some of us are influencers on their respective platforms so to speak (I'm not but my work was shown off at the past two SDCCs). Do you think this is a successful move all told and part of the brand becoming more in-tune with the digital age? On that note, were you the one to push for interchangeable parts knowing it'd be super helpful for figure photographers/display artists or was this also more of a collaborative decision? I think you’re seeing the joy in collecting on social media, specifically Instagram. It’s the user sharing their collection or the photography and that sharing is drastically different than a message board where negativity can get out of hand at times. I think action figure photography specifically has pushed us towards another golden age of collecting. So many great lines right now. Adding the extra hands, heads to elites and full executions like Ultimate Edition geared towards action figure photographers was only natural. The swappable hands were already in motion when I joined the team since they work so far in advance but the concept of Ultimate Edition was driven by me. Thank you I love the Ultimates, especially ones with two sets of arms because I can upgrade elites. Planning to do this to E63 Nak and the Wrestlemania 10 Bret
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Nov 25, 2019 23:19:11 GMT -5
When you get to another Erick Rowan how will you handle the band t shirts he wears just create something generic due to the issues with the bands licensing? Probably a generic design
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Nov 25, 2019 23:22:42 GMT -5
The Ultimate Edition line has quickly become my favorite to collect. For a future line up, would something like this be possible: Classic Undertaker - accessories would be black coat, purple band hat, grey band hat, purple tie, grey tie, purple gloves, grey gloves, purple boots, and grey boots. Basically we could get a grey and purple Taker simply with swappable gloves, boots, tie, and hat. Would swappable boots be possible for this line or will it stick with arms, hands and heads for now? Seems like a cheap paint swap to make it possible. Thanks! Well I thinks it’s safe to say at some point we’ll get an Ultimate at some point. That was actually my suggestion for what we should do for him. Bill has a different look in mind. We’ll see where we wind up when the time actually comes to start work.
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Post by Action Figure Attack on Nov 25, 2019 23:23:23 GMT -5
Do you have an estimate of when pre orders should be available for Ultimate Edition series 4? You’d have to check with Ringside for their ETA on that one.
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Post by djloch on Nov 25, 2019 23:28:12 GMT -5
The Ultimate Edition line has quickly become my favorite to collect. For a future line up, would something like this be possible: Classic Undertaker - accessories would be black coat, purple band hat, grey band hat, purple tie, grey tie, purple gloves, grey gloves, purple boots, and grey boots. Basically we could get a grey and purple Taker simply with swappable gloves, boots, tie, and hat. Would swappable boots be possible for this line or will it stick with arms, hands and heads for now? Seems like a cheap paint swap to make it possible. Thanks! Well I thinks it’s safe to say at some point we’ll get an Ultimate at some point. That was actually my suggestion for what we should do for him. Bill has a different look in mind. We’ll see where we wind up when the time actually comes to start work. I guess great minds think alike. 😉 Thanks for responding!
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Nov 25, 2019 23:31:26 GMT -5
The Ultimate Edition line has quickly become my favorite to collect. For a future line up, would something like this be possible: Classic Undertaker - accessories would be black coat, purple band hat, grey band hat, purple tie, grey tie, purple gloves, grey gloves, purple boots, and grey boots. Basically we could get a grey and purple Taker simply with swappable gloves, boots, tie, and hat. Would swappable boots be possible for this line or will it stick with arms, hands and heads for now? Seems like a cheap paint swap to make it possible. Thanks! Well I thinks it’s safe to say at some point we’ll get an Ultimate at some point. That was actually my suggestion for what we should do for him. Bill has a different look in mind. We’ll see where we wind up when the time actually comes to start work. While we’re discussing Ultimates, I’d like to throw Edge out there as a name if for no other reason than to finally get some good head sculpts of him, he’s never really had a good scan by Jakks or Mattel imo
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