The All Retro Figures General Discussion [Closing Soon!]

I just read this in an RVD interview. Did Zombie ever tell people that he will not be doing RVD?

"There was a third party conflict though. I gave a third-party permission to make an RVD action figure. They are called Heels and Faces, their work is really good. I didn’t know WWE was doing anything with me, but at the virtual San Diego Comic Con, Heels and Faces made their announcement about my figure. But also Mattel was making an announcement on the same day about an RVD figure, and I had no idea. WWE got a hold of me shortly after and made me cancel the first one. It’s understandable, but I just don’t know. People ask me if I’m going to be in the videogame, I don’t know, I have very little to do with it. They are just using my likeness."

He's never said it was cancelled, that was last week so you'd think he'd have put it out there by now. Once the RVD Elites were shown I actually thought that it was very strange on WWE's part to allow him to have other merchandise put out when he was under contract with them. Strange one.

Depends on the terms of RVD’s NIL deal with WWE. Based on his comment posted above, it likely supersedes any other third party agreements.

Did you all see this? What was ZST originally promising on timelines?

Read the language closely.

The PTB will push a narrative that “February” was just an expected estimate and we should be grateful if we even get them in 2022 at all due to the “global pandemic”. 

People have high expectations for the line, but we need them in hand before we decide to further preorder future lines. There is a lot riding on Series 1! Zombie says no shortcuts were taken.

I won’t pretend to be a legal expert but it would come as a surprise to me if someone could sign a contract after already signing one with someone else and have the second one supersede it. It’s possible that the wording on ZST’s didn’t allow for this or ZST didn’t want to fight them legally. I REALLY hope that Mattel makes an RVD retro now!

Also, maybe there will be a silver lining to this: Smart Mark Sterling can take his place in the series!

Tbf my super 7 stuff has always been fine.

Having not committed to the pre-order on these, I understand a lot of the concerns with shipping dates on these. There's not a lot of communication from Zombie in my opinion, and every time there is it's just being pushed back and back. I get what he has said about them wanting the absolute best final product and I 100% respect that, but having not dropped the money for them I don't have that same investment in them other than thinking of picking up a few later on when more and more sets start getting released. It must be incredibly frustrating. I know a lot of collectors get so mad at Super 7 and the amount of time they're sitting on the money until they ship months later, so I get the unease here. It's a long time for them to sit on a few hundred dollars for the set.

I think Zombie is more active when he's announcing new signings, rather than keeping people up to date on the set that has actually been paid for by many without ever seeing a final product. I'm sure once Series 1 does get released and collectors have them in hand, the next waves will be quicker. It's that first order for him that he'll still be figuring things out, no pun intended, on how to deal with the company producing them. So I think he deserves to be cut a little slack here and given a bit more patience.

As I said, I've not placed an order so I'm saying this from the outside. If Zombie was sitting on the money I paid, I can imagine I'd be a little impatient.

Oh wow I didn’t jump in on those, that’s disappointing