Attitude Era ring & Kane shipping

Until the quantity produced sells out.

I have no use for the rings, just the figures, but if I were wanting a ring it would definitely be the Attitude Era one.

Careful. You can get tarred and feathered for a hot take like that around here.

… I think I hear the angry mob with their torches. 🤣

As someone who funded the New Gen ring despite not caring much about the New Gen and only got it because I love scale rings and entrance playsets AND who ordered the Attitude Era ring because I love the Attitude Era and scale rings… complaining about the release of the Attitude Era ring being too close to the release of the New Gen ring seems like crying over nothing. They’re two distinctly different products and if you bought it from RSC, you already got it. I ordered mine from Mattel and am getting a “ships by May” release date, 5 months after I ordered it. What is the point in demanding an arbitrary waiting period just so random individuals feel better that they got their toy first? It’s crazy. They’re not even the same product! Mattel was probably hoping to get it out by Christmas and missed the holiday window.

I'm probably going to buy this one soon. I'm kind of spergy about keeping separate the characters of different periods, otherwise it's "video game wrestling," as if Texas Tornado versus Kevin Nash of the nWo period makes any dimensional sense other than to squash him in 3 minutes. Different eras, ages, move sets, aesthetics.

I'm only confused about Jakks (real scale, I think), Mattel authentic, Wicked classic. I got the cage for the Wicked Toys one that took me forever to figure out. Would that cage fit this in the New Generation ring? I bought that one recently but it has yet to arrive.


I looked at the pictures of the Jakks Hell in a Cell. How were people supposed to play with that? Seems like it was only for display, which wouldn't surprise me since Jakks seemed to have the worst QC imaginable

Thanks. It's cheaper than I would've imagined. Figured with time, lack of modernized models, and (I presume) rarity, it would have gone for $500. The Wicked toys ring and cage added up to maybe $400+, ring used

This has always been the problem here. " tripleass has the best take, I'm tripleasses friend and I come running to his defence because I love him".

Believe it or not this is a discussion board, and people should be able to have an opinion without being corrected on it.

You read half a post and can't contain your inner karen. "Omg I need to reply and everyone has to know me and triples are tight"

You defend the raw ring by telling me how good it is......yeah I know Tom..I ordered one and said it was great. All I said (multiple times) is that the timing was poor. I knew a few people who didn't have the ring they paid to have made while mattel was beginning to punt the raw ring. A small interval of time is nothing really, few months would have been fine. So it'd not about defending the need for a raw ring tom, nor is it about you defending your pals honour or anything, don't worry. I'd never hurt her

New Gen is polarizing anyway. I'm surprised people are nostalgic about that period. It was booking genius to make a lot of viable stars from scratch of those who never got a break, while trying to pass off people like Bret Hart as competitive with his forebears. The production substantially declined (it was almost like fog overcame the television screen), undercard often SMW castaways just to fill TV, tag teams depleted and heatless, chief storylines silly, McMahon stuck in "What would my dad have done in the 1970's?" with ethnic tribute acts like Tatanka, Albano, Headshrinkers (modern Wild Samoans), and Bob Backlund; women's wrestling treated semi-seriously, old foggies brought in like Nikolai Volkoff, among other things. It's a miracle that they did so much with so little in such a short period of time, since it seemed like week by week the company was struggling to find its voice through really arbitrary experimentation, sometimes with smarks at Raw and families at Superstars and Challenge. It was surreal to see in contrast to the 80's. Licensing was deplorable in that period too. Like the "Bend 'ems" being their main toy line for two years 😪

My reservation about the Attitude Era is that the undercard throwaways were a lot more amusing, and Mattel will never make people like the undercard gangs, Flash Funk, Sultan (well, maybe they will), Oddities, and the rest. With the passage of time, that gets harder to do since normies will never buy people like that. It's one of those weird periods where the top guys were so over that the product designers seem to forget a good 40% of the roster. (Tiger Ali Singh was funny af)

The heart and soul of a product will always be the undercard, not just the main guys. They reflect the tempo set by the main event talents.

I'm thankful for the two sets because it's nice to have the eras be delineated. The shifts were really subtle over a few brief years until it was decided to pull the gun entirely in moving towards a more mean-spirited taste that appealed to Gen X types over yuppie Cold War kids of the 80's and a smorgasbord of demos during the New Gen

Probably so Ringside can say their customers got it months ahead of time like everything else? 🤷