britishbrickfan
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Post by britishbrickfan on Jan 26, 2022 7:15:48 GMT -5
hopefully Chella sells just a pack of 3 masks on their own. or individual masks. if you're spending the money to mold them, make 500-1000 extra masks. they'll sell, assuming they fit original Hasbro heads. sensible idea, especially for those who have the Hasbro 3 figs and only the 2 masks, or have just the original Series 1 Ax & Smash Hasbros (with no masks)
they stand to make money just selling their updated/detailed masks too, this is a great idea!
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Post by Scott! on Jan 26, 2022 14:16:04 GMT -5
hopefully Chella sells just a pack of 3 masks on their own. or individual masks. if you're spending the money to mold them, make 500-1000 extra masks. they'll sell, assuming they fit original Hasbro heads. That would honestly just be like printing money, the amount of Hasbro buyers for them would be through the roof. ... anybody wanna tweet and tell Chella?
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Post by casanova on Jan 26, 2022 16:05:36 GMT -5
Aren’t there enough reproductions of the original masks?
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Post by ajay182 on Jan 26, 2022 19:29:08 GMT -5
With the "Retro" style seemingly being open to anyone with the money to create figures, is there a chance that one of the other wrestling promotions around the world decide to take a chance on them, even for a limited run? I'm thinking along the lines of AEW, NJPW, etc... AEW are obviously putting out a small amount of LJN style, so I wonder if they'd take on the Retro? I'd love some CMLL Retros, though that'll likely never happen, same with AAA. 🤷 I'm really hoping Chella can get a few names from these companies signed up, Zombie, too... But obviously Chella is the preferred option for me as a pasty-faced Brit. I recall Jeremy Padawer teasing retros once or twice for AEW. At this point, there's clearly a market for it, give Zombie, Chella etc are seemingly doing well. The only question would be whether there are enough legends left to sign up - I can't see a line of retros that's primarily the current AEW roster doing particularly well.
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Post by @Chair.Shot on Jan 26, 2022 23:04:25 GMT -5
I wrote about this recently in another thread. If they did “throwbacks” AEW could release the following:
Owen Hart Surfer Sting 80’s Arn/Tully Billy Gunn (NAO through modern era) ECW era Taz Chris Jericho Christian Chaco Guerrero Tony Shiavone Dustin Rhodes Luther Jim Ross Jake Roberts (87-93) 90’s Dean Malenko Jerry Lynn Punk Mark Henry Paul Wight Vickie Guerrero
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britishbrickfan
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Post by britishbrickfan on Jan 27, 2022 2:10:52 GMT -5
With the "Retro" style seemingly being open to anyone with the money to create figures, is there a chance that one of the other wrestling promotions around the world decide to take a chance on them, even for a limited run? I'm thinking along the lines of AEW, NJPW, etc... AEW are obviously putting out a small amount of LJN style, so I wonder if they'd take on the Retro? I'd love some CMLL Retros, though that'll likely never happen, same with AAA. 🤷 I'm really hoping Chella can get a few names from these companies signed up, Zombie, too... But obviously Chella is the preferred option for me as a pasty-faced Brit. I recall Jeremy Padawer teasing retros once or twice for AEW. At this point, there's clearly a market for it, give Zombie, Chella etc are seemingly doing well. The only question would be whether there are enough legends left to sign up - I can't see a line of retros that's primarily the current AEW roster doing particularly well. I think any AEW retro line would just be the top names - Jericho, Cody, Bucks, MJF, Hangman, Omega etc
if they went down the route of women, that might give them a differentiator but they would probably wait till either Mattel's line ran with women so they were in scale, or they'd risk making figures to Chella's Nakano scale and find Mattel (or even Chella) don't follow through at that size and went with a larger figure size
that said, an AEW Women's line of Britt, Penelope, Bunny, Tay and Anna Jay with either Brandi/Nyla/Thunder as the 6th figure would probably sell really well, especially if it was a single lineup so you'd have figures that can play together rather than releasing a single women's figure per series
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Jan 28, 2022 9:37:40 GMT -5
I wrote about this recently in another thread. If they did “throwbacks” AEW could release the following: Owen Hart Surfer Sting 80’s Arn/Tully Billy Gunn (NAO through modern era) ECW era Taz Chris Jericho Christian Chaco Guerrero Tony Shiavone Dustin Rhodes Luther Jim Ross Jake Roberts (87-93) 90’s Dean Malenko Jerry Lynn Punk Mark Henry Paul Wight Vickie Guerrero For sure, I think they could at least get out 12-24 figures off that list. Multiple versions of Sting, Dustin, Jake, Arn/Tully as WCW and as Brain Busters. Bring it on.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Jan 29, 2022 6:11:14 GMT -5
Wow. Another huge name. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I’ve never particularly wanted an entrance gear Demolition, but the hasbros are pretty flawless so having the entrance attire version will be a cool addition. I'm blown away by these, didn't see this one coming for sure. But, didn't see Greg coming either for that matter. This is pretty much ideal choice of look IMO, entrance gear and different paint, pretty much 1988 look. So, these can be displayed with guys from 88, the original Hasbro Ax and Smash with 89'/Hasbro S1, and the 2 pack with your guys from 1990/S2 Hasbro/S1 Tag teams or however you want to say it lol.
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Post by walter7paisley on Jan 30, 2022 16:58:46 GMT -5
With the "Retro" style seemingly being open to anyone with the money to create figures, is there a chance that one of the other wrestling promotions around the world decide to take a chance on them, even for a limited run? I'm thinking along the lines of AEW, NJPW, etc... AEW are obviously putting out a small amount of LJN style, so I wonder if they'd take on the Retro? I'd love some CMLL Retros, though that'll likely never happen, same with AAA. 🤷 I'm really hoping Chella can get a few names from these companies signed up, Zombie, too... But obviously Chella is the preferred option for me as a pasty-faced Brit. I recall Jeremy Padawer teasing retros once or twice for AEW. At this point, there's clearly a market for it, give Zombie, Chella etc are seemingly doing well. The only question would be whether there are enough legends left to sign up - I can't see a line of retros that's primarily the current AEW roster doing particularly well. Yeah, I definitely think it'd be a smaller market for Retros of the current AEW lineup, but saying that, I'd love Penta, Fenix, Pilman Jr, Cody, Pac, Andrade, Black etc. I see it possibly being something that Tony Khan, as well as the Elite, liking the idea of, but I dunno if it'd sell enough for them to be worth it.
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Post by walter7paisley on Jan 30, 2022 16:59:51 GMT -5
I wrote about this recently in another thread. If they did “throwbacks” AEW could release the following: Owen Hart Surfer Sting 80’s Arn/Tully Billy Gunn (NAO through modern era) ECW era Taz Chris Jericho Christian Chaco Guerrero Tony Shiavone Dustin Rhodes Luther Jim Ross Jake Roberts (87-93) 90’s Dean Malenko Jerry Lynn Punk Mark Henry Paul Wight Vickie Guerrero I'd be game for most of them, for sure.
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Post by Scott! on Jan 31, 2022 11:51:00 GMT -5
Got my other two Joey's in today!
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Post by walter7paisley on Jan 31, 2022 13:16:51 GMT -5
Got my other two Joey's in today! I kind of regret not pulling the trigger on one or more of these. I didn't think they'd sell out, tbh. 🤷
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Post by Scott! on Jan 31, 2022 14:02:34 GMT -5
I kind of regret not pulling the trigger on one or more of these. I didn't think they'd sell out, tbh. 🤷 Fair play to Joey for making them happen, and even more credit to him selling out of them! I'm glad I got my three because I've already seen the price two sold for on eBay and I'm just glad I got on these at the right time. Joey's a great guy to deal with too, credit to him.
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Post by RedDevil on Jan 31, 2022 14:06:15 GMT -5
From Insta:
chellatoys @zoomgotti We have Ethan page in our store room and we are shipping all our orders this week. Adam Bomb is scheduled too arrive to us in March along with Haystacks & Dynamite Kid. Thank you for your support! ☺️
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Post by walter7paisley on Jan 31, 2022 14:19:40 GMT -5
I kind of regret not pulling the trigger on one or more of these. I didn't think they'd sell out, tbh. 🤷 Fair play to Joey for making them happen, and even more credit to him selling out of them! I'm glad I got my three because I've already seen the price two sold for on eBay and I'm just glad I got on these at the right time. Joey's a great guy to deal with too, credit to him. Yeah I'm glad people got on board with his figures, they really were/are great, I love the colours. I just sort of left it too long with some of the other stuff that's been coming out and getting announced.
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Post by Scott! on Jan 31, 2022 14:22:48 GMT -5
From Insta: chellatoys @zoomgotti We have Ethan page in our store room and we are shipping all our orders this week. Adam Bomb is scheduled too arrive to us in March along with Haystacks & Dynamite Kid. Thank you for your support! ☺️ It looks pretty damn good to be fair!
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Post by RedDevil on Jan 31, 2022 14:32:02 GMT -5
From Insta: chellatoys @zoomgotti We have Ethan page in our store room and we are shipping all our orders this week. Adam Bomb is scheduled too arrive to us in March along with Haystacks & Dynamite Kid. Thank you for your support! ☺️ It looks pretty damn good to be fair! Wow, that looks beautiful Looks like it might be the best actual Chella figure so far - I’m sure someone will complain about something but looks like they’ve really delivered what the design promised. Shame we can’t see the smile better due to the light glare, but if thats there as well then it’s a triumph in my view.
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Post by kiphouse on Jan 31, 2022 14:52:12 GMT -5
Cant tell if its the head is smaller or the torso is just a lot bigger than the protos. Its still pretty good. I'll be waiting for the varient
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Post by newgenandy on Jan 31, 2022 15:28:34 GMT -5
Not a flattering photo angle I don’t think but yeah the figure itself looks great once you get past that
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Post by Scott! on Jan 31, 2022 15:43:38 GMT -5
We'll get a better idea without the damn glare everybody, but I'm pretty happy with it so far. Looks pretty good to me. Should be in hands hopefully this week!
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