Re-release of older UE figures ?

How many of each Legends figure are each adult collectors buying? All the Targets around me are swamped with the latest wave of Legends. Hurricane is probably the one with the least totals. But between four area Targets the other three figures are flooding the area. And seeing the area collectors and the area scalper shop(T0y W!z) have all purchased theirs now. So now it’s going to be largely up to parents to buy the rest whether it’s buying a wrestler that they liked when they were a kid or because it’s appealing to their kids. Or gifts for their children’s friends birthdays.

That’s not making your point. The reason it’s doing well is because parents are also buying them for their kids. Which is proving the point that if parents stop doing that and it’s up to just the collectors the line will fail.

the value of these HBK and Brock Ultimates will still be high in 10 years. maybe not $300, but who knows.


Defining Moments Bret Hart was widely available to everyone, there were still tons of collectors and kids buying WWE toys in 2010/2011. That figure was being sold at Marshall's for $10....now it sells for over $150 easily.

there's always going to be new people. there's always going to be interest in things that can't be made anymore.
its not like the Brock and HBK Ultimates were made in 2015. they came out 2 years ago in limited release but never advertised as such (they weren't "exclusives")

Love how all the collectors on here think they know more than those in the industry and infact are correcting people at mattel in what they say

Having an opinion is fine but when someone from a business then tells you who a certain product is aimed at you can’t say “nah you’re wrong” 😆

Mattel: “the only way we can have a mass retail presence is making figures which will appeal to kids and collectors”

Collector: “kids don’t want these”

Literally I can prove you wrong with the fact my son does indeed want EVERY figure he sees

Nowadays there’s these new fangled contraptions called tablets, smart TVs etc etc. On these devices you can watch this thing called the wwe network, youtube and other things called apps

These apps allow kids to watch wrestling 24/7. That means they’re not restricted like we were back on the day to either having to buy overpriced vhs and whatever was on tv.

That means my soon to be 8 year old is as familiar with andre v big John studd as he is drew v Brock. He is as much a fan of demolition as he is the new day.

Try and remember back to being a kid obsessed with something - kids will watch the same 5 episodes of the same tv show over and over and over again. Having a literally unlimited amount of wrestling at zero to very little cost at first fingertips - they’d watch wrestling for 25 hours in a 24 hour day of they could.

Take a step back for a second and consider maybe the company who produce the figures, do all the research and development, have all the market research, liaise with the big chain stores etc might, just might, know a bit more about their customer’s preferences than you.

I was 13 when the first set of Classic Superstars came out and I wanted every new character regardless of knowing who they were/are. If anything, it made me want to go back and what older matches to know who they were. So yes, there are some kids that will want Bog John Studd, Cowboy Bob, or any new character.

Ok.

Kids don't only want things they've seen on TV or movies.

Half the superhero/X-Men figures I had as a kid were characters I'd never seen in the comics or in cartoons. Most of the characters on the trading cards were new to me, but I still wanted them if they looked cool. I'm sure there are kids who think Big John Studd or Paul Orndorff or Hurricane look cool and want the figure. Or their parents think they look cool and buy them for them.

How many of us collected, for example, TMNT as kids? And how many of those figures were new to us? Why shouldn't wrestling be the same? Most kids won't care if a guy wrestled in the 80s or last week when they're playing with them.

I’m not following the conversation much but when I was a kid the BCA Dr Death rotted on shelves but I had one because I had to have one of every guy they made. I even had a Cornette even though I only used his racket because I thought, and even as a kid was right, that he was a dweeb.

Point is, some kids want every character they can get. Regardless if they know who they are. I’m sure in poor Dexter Lumis’ case, they put too many on shelves and parents buying for their kids don’t know who he is so they don’t buy him. Lumis himself is rad.