Legion of Doom 2000! (My Life’s Work)

Now...the trash! It’s been a long time since the original LOD 2000 figures were made, but they have shown up in the Jakks Pacific Classic Superstars line THREE TIMES! In three attempts they never improved on the previous release, releasing products that just seemed senselessly inaccurate. Each installment seemingly replaced an old inaccuracy with a NEW inaccuracy!

The first release and by far the most embarrassing was this classic Superstars version of Animal. To kick off what’s wrong with it...it must first be stated that at that time there never was a LOD 2000 Hawk released along side it. They released this LOD 2000 Animal and an NWA Road Warriors Hawk in the same series, So you couldn’t even make the team...only Animal.

Aside from that, the paint is wrong and looks like it was just a reused head from a previous release, and per usual he has the old school hair style instead of the full head of hair he had at the time. It can’t be overstated that this version of LOD needs its own unique head-sculpts and face paint! They also did the lazy, inaccurate silver pads with full spikes and this figure doesn’t even have knee pads, which were essential to the look since Animal wore shorts and it just looks bad with such an empty leg design. 

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Second attempt. Admittedly these are “better” but still, it’s not saying much. There is a big difference between doing something well and doing it better than last time. These are merely better than last time. To start, we at-least have a Hawk to go with our Animal, so that’s nice haha. Once again though the hair is wrong, the pads are wrong, Animals paint is wrong...same old stuff. They did get Hawks paint right, and the attire this time is actually pretty accurate. Still no helmets

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In a Hat Trick of attempts, this is the third time Jakks took a crack at the LOD 2000 look. I had high hopes for these as they were Ringside Exclusives! I though ok, they are finally going to put the money into this design and sculpt unique parts for this unique look rather than piecing together parts of Road Warriors past to create these Frankenstein LOD 2000 designs.

In what would be my greatest disappointment, these were no better and I was baffled. All that really changed here was that we got the previously correct knee pads removed, we substituted the wrong shoulder pads with another pair of wrong shoulder pads but turned them black for whatever reason. Head sculpts are still wrong, blah blah blah...we did add a decent Sunny though.  

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In closing...I hope I have THOROUGHLY expressed my love for these designs and just how wrong they have been done to date. The closest we’ve gotten we’re the original toys to come out over 20 years ago, but to this day we have never gotten just a solid replica of the WrestleMania 14 LOD 2000. Jakks contributed absolutely nothing. This version of LOD would be best suited as an exclusive or an Ultimates release due to the high amount of detail. They are commonly frankensteined together using old Road Warrior parts and sculpts and they are never done justice. Not only should these be done, they should be done well!  

Please make these 🤟

While I hope you get them and I do love LOD I hated the LOD 2000 look and gimmick. Animal wearing shorts killed It for me. It made them look less cool with him in shorts. There are some attire looks I could never get behind. Such as...
Animal wearing shorts.
Warrior wearing the singlet.
Macho going from trunks to the cowboys hats and tights.
Jericho switching from tights to shorts.

I never got use to any of those changes.

I would like to see LOD 2000 figures made in the Mattel ultimates line and to include the helmets.