Medieval
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Post by Medieval on Jan 15, 2020 16:01:05 GMT -5
This line isn't going anywhere. Is it clogging up certain Targets? Sure is, but they would rather have 8 Ajs on the pegs then nothing at all.
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Post by LA Knight Yeah! on Jan 15, 2020 16:04:09 GMT -5
It was jeff seth and aj I believe I think Finn as well it was rey, Hardy, Rollins, AJ
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Post by Chicago on Jan 15, 2020 16:06:40 GMT -5
Yeah, these should still be coming. There's a new assortment code and everything for the Elites. The new assortment UPC is expected to be 887961873658.
As far as I know, this time they're comprised of AJ Styles, Seth Rollins, Rey Mysterio, and Jeff Hardy.
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Post by warlord on Jan 15, 2020 16:12:50 GMT -5
It was jeff seth and aj I believe I think Finn as well it was rey, Hardy, Rollins, AJ I thought it was Cena over Mysterio or am I wrong? I honestly don’t remember and don’t really care anyways (cared enough to reply though).
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Post by rkmo: The FOCUS Method on Jan 15, 2020 16:13:39 GMT -5
A few of the first set of Elites warmed horribly, so much so no store around me even bothered with the second.
As others said, the attires and accessories need to make them more distinct and unique from the mainline counterparts to encourage sales. One-off tights, cloth shirts for them, not just bland schemes, flipped colors, and clearly no straight rehashes from the regular series that wind up sharing peg space. Them still marked for $20 at Wal-Mart also didn't help when similar figures were reduced to $15.88. Good concept, poor execution.
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Rattlehead
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Joined on: Apr 30, 2013 21:30:51 GMT -5
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Post by Rattlehead on Jan 15, 2020 16:14:01 GMT -5
It was jeff seth and aj I believe I think Finn as well Makes me wonder what attire Hardy would've been in...
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Post by Nivro™ on Jan 15, 2020 16:42:53 GMT -5
My target doesnt have any more peg room. In fact they have already taken over the Royal Rumbleb pegs
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xtremer18
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Post by xtremer18 on Jan 15, 2020 17:57:47 GMT -5
I may be in the minority, but I would actually be ok with this series continuing.
The 2020 line-up would be guys that I would all buy and the overproduction of these figures would make things easy to scoop up!
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Post by warlord on Jan 16, 2020 0:19:25 GMT -5
My target doesnt have any more peg room. In fact they have already taken over the Royal Rumbleb pegs Literally this. My closet Target has had 3 regular main elite line in stock since September but there’s literally no wrestlers from the regular main elite line on the pegs besides a few NS and 6 top talent AJ’s that has been sitting there peg warming since June. Little Jimmy or little Cheryl doesn’t want 50 AJ’s or 50 Rollins in their pig fed/collection to play with. They want a variety of wrestlers to put up against their top guys. Even when I was like 8-9 years old, 12-17 years ago during the Jakks era, I wanted my top guys like Kane, Taker, or the Hardy’s, but I still got other guys I didn’t like or care for as a kid such as Mike Knox, A-Train, or even freakin Simon Dean. I loved it when Jakks threw in guys that no one really cared for, weren’t really on tv, or were even jobbers into their lines and they were still selling. Something that Mattel can’t seem to do. We don’t need to be seeing the same people set after set after set. Give us variety lol.
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willow10
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Post by willow10 on Jan 16, 2020 1:29:18 GMT -5
I had Jeff Hardy pre ordered in this set than it disappeared and was offered a refund....... I didn’t want a refund I just wanted Hardy
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secondwhiteline
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Post by secondwhiteline on Jan 16, 2020 11:40:33 GMT -5
Was it the basics they listed the names for? Because I know for a fact I commented on how this was a line really for kids wanting their first of these popular wrestlers yet they kept AJ and removed Finn who with Seth were the two popular ones with the kids. And now AJ, Seth and Finn ( if still in the line) are all heels and Hardy has been off TV for ages so they probably aren’t as wanted by the kids now. lol
Oof, that's a thing, yeah. A bunch of their top figure sellers are heels now (and Jeff and Cena aren't around for reasons). It's pretty much Rey, Braun, and maybe Roman holding the line?
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Post by LA Times on Jan 16, 2020 12:37:59 GMT -5
Was it the basics they listed the names for? Because I know for a fact I commented on how this was a line really for kids wanting their first of these popular wrestlers yet they kept AJ and removed Finn who with Seth were the two popular ones with the kids. And now AJ, Seth and Finn ( if still in the line) are all heels and Hardy has been off TV for ages so they probably aren’t as wanted by the kids now. lol Oof, that's a thing, yeah. A bunch of their top figure sellers are heels now (and Jeff and Cena aren't around for reasons). It's pretty much Rey, Braun, and maybe Roman holding the line?
Braun will be out of the line soon if he continues being a mid card comedy act
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Post by warlord on Jan 16, 2020 13:48:00 GMT -5
Oof, that's a thing, yeah. A bunch of their top figure sellers are heels now (and Jeff and Cena aren't around for reasons). It's pretty much Rey, Braun, and maybe Roman holding the line?
Braun will be out of the line soon if he continues being a mid card comedy act So basically Roman, Rey, and maybe Owens/Orton and Bryan?
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Post by WCWThunderRosa on Jan 16, 2020 14:54:20 GMT -5
If I see another Top Talent AJ Styles élite I’m gonna add it to my therapy topics
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jan 16, 2020 15:19:05 GMT -5
I am glad then that I am not the only one suffering from seeing Top Talent elite figures in stores.
My local Walmart has so many Strowman, Balor and Styles Top Talent elite figures, that they won't order in any more WWE figures because these ones are still showing that there's enough there.
I tried to explain that having figures of the same 3 guys is different than a new batch of elites coming in, but they don't see it that way.
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Post by Crane on Jan 17, 2020 1:32:51 GMT -5
Top Talents has been pretty good imo, only shelf warmer in my area has been Series 1 AJ, there's still like 3 of them at my Target.
Anyway, I'd like Rollins to be WM 35, AJ to be WM 35 or OC, I'd be totally fine if Finn was the exact same as E74 but blue, Braun... who cares tbh
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Post by qdogg on Jan 18, 2020 20:14:27 GMT -5
They should do 2 figures per wave called "top talents" with current roster and then have 2 "top legends" as the other figures in the wave. Those would be for guys who have been world champion.
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