Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2021 17:16:35 GMT -5
Jan 26, 2021 11:29:52 GMT -5 @kyoken said:
Video game deals are different that figure deals in terms of how WWE works where one doesn't mean the other. Sting signing with Acclaim likely gave them access to every attire that Jazwares and Mattel would have access to outside of the obvious nWo attires in the case of Acclaim and Jazwares.This deal was then licensing Sting and doing the four most popular attires, like they did with Warrior and basicslly everyone else in those games.
Yes but again my memory is foggy on this because it was 10 years ago, but when Jakks lost the WWE license to Mattel but got the TNA license Trevor asked Jakks to do a RSC exclusive Surfer Sting and he was told something along the lines it had to be pre ‘93 because the WWE had the rights to anything post ‘92. So that was why he picked the American Sting attire from his match vs Muta. So if Jakks couldn’t do WCW Sting attires post ‘92 then maybe Jazwares would still have the same restrictions? Again that was 10 years ago, so I hope they can do any WCW and TNA Sting, but if they were restricted back then they could still be restricted today to NWA & TNA attires. I hope that’s not the case, but I don’t know what would have changed. And I don’t think Sting had a Legends deal yet back then for that to have been a factor on why the ‘93 until the end of WCW was off limits to Jakks.
Honestly it probably had to do with them licensing the NWA logo for the LOTR line and WCW splitting from the NWA in 1993. Can't use the WCW logo on the LOTR packaging because WWE owns it, so they couldn't use anything after they left the NWA and theu always had the promotion logos on the LOTR packaging, so to do one without it would have been weird. It probably had nothing to do with the ring gear itself, since we got two Storm Hogans based on WCW and several based on WWF/WWE and all of those characters in the LOW games.
