Official Ultimate Edition New Gen Arena Megathread

They can't legally use the WWF logo on any new merchandise...Only archived video footage.

Yeah that mentality is really pissing me off. They also constantly say that scalpers are just part of the game. Where are the scalpers now? Lol

Funny thing about all this is…if Mattel said they were making this set including doink and the skirts and they simply said…we’re only making 8,000 of these, that’s it. Limited edition…they’d have probably sold out in an hour. Such is the psychology of collecting, even if it’s something you don’t LOVE, the idea that you’re one of only 8,000 in the world who have this and who will ever have it, would pull people in.

Technically, that would probably end up being the case here but they’ve not framed it that way…also, if 100,000 people bought this they’d make that many so it’s not really a limited item.

Oof, it's dropped from 1,074 to 1,065 now.

Said this exact thing a couple pages back.

Problem with this is the mentality that you can only get it by relying on other people, and given that they took payment immediately it turned everyone off and Mattel killed it out of the gate. Absolute morons.

Like many, I am disappointed with Mattel's first offer--but over the last few weeks, I've consistently said "I will be backing it."

To be honest, as the days go by, the likelihood of that dwindles.

While I love what Mattel has done for the WWE line, they created something that few people really want at an inflated price, bundled with unexciting items we'd be likely to get at retail eventually. If this were just the ring or just the entrance stage at a lower cost, this would likely be funded by now. I've heard the following arguments for why Mattel structured the deal this way:

-Crowdfunding supports projects that are not cheap.
-Mattel wouldn’t waste their time with small items they can just throw on places like Ringside.
-$100 doesn’t need crowdfunding.

If that's the case, this is the wrong project fundamentally: If Mattel could have sold the ring or the entrance at online retailers at lower price points, they should have. If both of these items would get online retailer or physical shelf space, why are we crowdfunding them?

It's then logical to ask myself, "Well, maybe there was demand for a New Generation bundle that definitely couldn't/wouldn't be sold elsewhere." And then I realize what I said and my brain explodes because all arguments don't make any sense anymore because no one wanted this over the litany of other items this could be.

I'm all about community, but I also wonder when I'm doing a thing just to do a thing, even if that thing feels inherently wrong and like I'm enabling bad precedents.

Opinions are like buttholes, and this is mine.

I think their best bet right now would be to just include everything at 5K backers and take the hit on their profit margin and next time do a better job.

No their best bet is to scrap it. And never do a crowdfunding again.

I completely agree with you. Nothing we’ve seen has that home run factor. I still stand by this lineup:

5,000: Ring, Entrance and Kona Crush
7,000: Doink (as shown)
8,000: Dink (to match Doink)
10,000: Evil Crush with Japanese flag and swappable “crushing” hands

Kona Crush gives that star power from the New Gen and uniqueness a project like this needs. Doink goes with Crush from this period. Dink is a nice add-on after 1,000 additional backers (subsequent to Doink). I also stand by Evil Crush being the figure that puts this over the top. With the New Gen being the end of the Hasbro era, there are some uncaptured characters out there that would make sense in a set like this.