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Post by Ministry of Darkness on Jan 28, 2023 7:06:22 GMT -5
Will grab Undertaker, NOD D'Lo and Kama. For those that want NOD Mark Henry you'll need to pay decent dollars since he is signed with AEW and won't be getting any figures from Mattel anytime soon. I mean who knows we’ve gotten Billy Gunn, Jake the Snake and DDP while they are/were with AEW so it’s possible we could at some point get a Mark Henry. Who knows but I'll bet he doesn't have any legends deal but like you said no one really knows. |
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Post by ztj_wwf on Jan 28, 2023 7:13:12 GMT -5
Sucks that the in hand proto of kama has the retro fest duggan torso. Why would they do that when they created the perfect mold for kama? Makes no sense...Hopefully it's just a mistake that can be corrected. |
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Post by coldblooded on Jan 28, 2023 8:13:04 GMT -5
Sucks that the in hand proto of kama has the retro fest duggan torso. Why would they do that when they created the perfect mold for kama? Makes no sense...Hopefully it's just a mistake that can be corrected. Mattels/bills track record seemingly points to a no. |
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Post by underoos on Jan 28, 2023 9:48:04 GMT -5
18 is up for preorder finally
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Post by Figure Nova on Jan 28, 2023 10:09:30 GMT -5
18 is up for preorder finally The lower torso on the Headshrinkers are ridiculously skinny. When did Fatu ever have an ass and legs like that 😂😂 |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Jan 31, 2023 3:31:06 GMT -5
I certainly don't remember this look or much of that face run. I feel like he wasn't very present after the Rock took over as a Faarooq vs Rock feud didn't really take off. How long was he in this look or face run before transitioning to the acolytes? He was over as hell as a face after getting kicked out of the Nation. Teaming with guys like Shamrock and Scorpio. Also had a pretty badass theme. He wasn't over at all... and got repackaged accordingly. Guys who get ousted as head of their own group, then lose in a quick blowoff tend not to be over. He had one filler PPV match from June until the end of the year teaming with Scorpio, which was more of a dead-on-arrival team than the New Midnight Express, so much so that Scorpio was given the dishonor of being placed with a jobber faction. Really, it's remarkable that his career revived at all. He was 40, moving like it, looking like it, and he was in a position in 1998, when lost in the shuffle, to have been simply jobbing on Heat unceremoniously to people like Tiger Ali Singh. Then he got paired with Bradshaw, who was always a great character worker, even when he wasn't doing much, that gave Faarooq a privileged spot of not having to deal with an intense schedule. Their matches were pretty short, even if rough. Acolytes were one of my favorite teams for the optics, but it makes sense looking back as to why they tended not to do much compared to other teams, usually being guys who smashed the loser teams, but clearly not booked even in the top 4 (Edge and Christian, Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boys, Too Cool). Then they got repackaged, successfully doing filler skits Either way, I wouldn't mind his post-Nation, pre-Acolytes attire. I wanted to see that in the BCA line On that note, I really hope that they make the Mean Street Posse. One of my favorite gimmicks since the McMahon's had to come off as trailer trash in Greenwich, the gimmick was a play on the Outsiders movie ("the Socials," and incidentally "the Greasers" being the nWo), and it even drew from the Michael Skakel brouhaha (a Kennedy cousin who was controversially convicted, for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in Greenwich; the investigation kicked off in 1998 from book by a one Mark Fuhrman, the racist cop notorious from the OJ case with ties to Anglo-Saxon Fraternal Orders and Aryan Nations in Idaho) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_Moxley |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Jan 31, 2023 3:38:25 GMT -5
Surprised they didn’t save Brother Love for a BAF Glad they didn't though. My mother LOVED the Brother Love character. It's one of those gimmicks that wouldn't make sense to younger people today, but the 80's was the apex of evangelical theatrics, back when Jim Bakker had the 3rd largest amusement park in the country in Charlotte. To a Euro, Brother Love was the embodiment of American capitalist greed culture. There's a character in Blood Meridian wherein the Judge debuts at a tent revival, accusing the tent city charismatic of pedophilia, theft, and never having gone to a theology school, which led to a violent riot Anyway, I'm super excited about this one. I've long belabored getting the CS one, but nowadays, so many have that orange tint and sometimes even slime on their outfits that it sadly went to my backburner. That Brother Love was made at all really made me intrigued about the CS line for years, since I didn't buy any more for 15 years. It's a really great addition. I'd love to see the Brother Love set too, given that that was the most important segment for a few years on Superstars of Wrestling |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Jan 31, 2023 3:45:24 GMT -5
Guys.....GUYS!!!!!! I have been asking for late '97, early '98 Nation since the early CS days. I cannot believe we're finally getting them! The chest protector was worn between these attires, so it's not really accurate, but I don't think it matters much. I'm just glad that we now have a really good spectrum of D'lo's WWF career. Shamrock and D'lo once again signed around the same time, it seems. I am glad they waited to make Kama until they had that awesome singlet torso for him. I hope we get a Godfather w/ variant next using that torso. And late '96/early '97 Undertaker, too? And Brother Love? I'm so happy with this line-up. 2 Tuff / Tag Teams / Ringside Collectibles / Managers were my favorite BCA sets. It was depressing to have logged all the BCAs made and to see who has been "modernized" since 1999 (with exception to the very ugly R-3 Techs), then think I'd need a quarter of the BCA guys be customized. So this is really great. I never thought they'd make Kama. The representation is as ugly as he really was, with his peanut head. 🥜 Great line. I'll get all of them. Especially D'Lo since he was the least serious of the Nation faction. My biggest gripe with past toylines is they rarely made all the faction members (Sniper excluded, for example, Crush not having a DOA phase, no one of the Los Boricaus with plausible exception to Savio Vega, not to mention a lot of managers overlooked) I bought the Nation guys tonight, actually, though I was not committed prior to tonight. Got to get ready for this set. |
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Post by CM Tusk on Jan 31, 2023 3:45:26 GMT -5
He was over as hell as a face after getting kicked out of the Nation. Teaming with guys like Shamrock and Scorpio. Also had a pretty badass theme. He wasn't over at all... and got repackaged accordingly. Guys who get ousted as head of their own group, then lose in a quick blowoff tend not to be over. He had one filler PPV match from June until the end of the year teaming with Scorpio, which was more of a dead-on-arrival team than the New Midnight Express, so much so that Scorpio was given the dishonor of being placed with a jobber faction. Really, it's remarkable that his career revived at all. He was 40, moving like it, looking like it, and he was in a position in 1998, when lost in the shuffle, to have been simply jobbing on Heat unceremoniously to people like Tiger Ali Singh. Then he got paired with Bradshaw, who was always a great character worker, even when he wasn't doing much, that gave Faarooq a privileged spot of not having to deal with an intense schedule. Their matches were pretty short, even if rough. Acolytes were one of my favorite teams for the optics, but it makes sense looking back as to why they tended not to do much compared to other teams, usually being guys who smashed the loser teams, but clearly not booked even in the top 4 (Edge and Christian, Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boys, Too Cool). Then they got repackaged, successfully doing filler skits Either way, I wouldn't mind his post-Nation, pre-Acolytes attire. I wanted to see that in the BCA line On that note, I really hope that they make the Mean Street Posse. One of my favorite gimmicks since the McMahon's had to come off as trailer trash in Greenwich, the gimmick was a play on the Outsiders movie ("the Socials," and incidentally "the Greasers" being the nWo), and it even drew from the Michael Skakel brouhaha (a Kennedy cousin who was controversially convicted, for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in Greenwich; the investigation kicked off in 1998 from book by a one Mark Fuhrman, the racist cop notorious from the OJ case with ties to Anglo-Saxon Fraternal Orders and Aryan Nations in Idaho) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_MoxleyYeah, I’m not reading all of that. Been watch 98 and he was actively getting cheered through the summer. Also you’re pretty odd, bud. |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Jan 31, 2023 3:53:36 GMT -5
He wasn't over at all... and got repackaged accordingly. Guys who get ousted as head of their own group, then lose in a quick blowoff tend not to be over. He had one filler PPV match from June until the end of the year teaming with Scorpio, which was more of a dead-on-arrival team than the New Midnight Express, so much so that Scorpio was given the dishonor of being placed with a jobber faction. Really, it's remarkable that his career revived at all. He was 40, moving like it, looking like it, and he was in a position in 1998, when lost in the shuffle, to have been simply jobbing on Heat unceremoniously to people like Tiger Ali Singh. Then he got paired with Bradshaw, who was always a great character worker, even when he wasn't doing much, that gave Faarooq a privileged spot of not having to deal with an intense schedule. Their matches were pretty short, even if rough. Acolytes were one of my favorite teams for the optics, but it makes sense looking back as to why they tended not to do much compared to other teams, usually being guys who smashed the loser teams, but clearly not booked even in the top 4 (Edge and Christian, Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boys, Too Cool). Then they got repackaged, successfully doing filler skits Either way, I wouldn't mind his post-Nation, pre-Acolytes attire. I wanted to see that in the BCA line On that note, I really hope that they make the Mean Street Posse. One of my favorite gimmicks since the McMahon's had to come off as trailer trash in Greenwich, the gimmick was a play on the Outsiders movie ("the Socials," and incidentally "the Greasers" being the nWo), and it even drew from the Michael Skakel brouhaha (a Kennedy cousin who was controversially convicted, for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in Greenwich; the investigation kicked off in 1998 from book by a one Mark Fuhrman, the racist cop notorious from the OJ case with ties to Anglo-Saxon Fraternal Orders and Aryan Nations in Idaho) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_MoxleyYeah, I’m not reading all of that. Been watch 98 and he was actively getting cheered through the summer. Also you’re pretty odd, bud. I don't write for you specifically. It's for everyone, including lurkers. Also, just about was over in that period since business was hot. But really "over" acts don't get excluded from 4 months of PPVs, especially with how thin their roster was I don't know what "odd" is supposed to mean. Those who move civilization are all "odd" people. It's not bar trivia nerds, lower PMC conformists, suburbanite losers afraid of "crime," or some cross-legged midwit mansplaining World War II through Churchill sloganeering who change culture. If nothing else, they live pretty empty lives, often succumb to cuckoldry, are functional alcoholics, and pre-diabetic betas. Those are people worthy of mockery |
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 31, 2023 6:28:35 GMT -5
FFS 🙄.
Definitely only passing on Brother Love here. Great set. When we got Kama Fighting Machine I wondered would they get around to NOD Kama...Great stuff
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Post by Figure Nova on Jan 31, 2023 7:37:54 GMT -5
He wasn't over at all... and got repackaged accordingly. Guys who get ousted as head of their own group, then lose in a quick blowoff tend not to be over. He had one filler PPV match from June until the end of the year teaming with Scorpio, which was more of a dead-on-arrival team than the New Midnight Express, so much so that Scorpio was given the dishonor of being placed with a jobber faction. Really, it's remarkable that his career revived at all. He was 40, moving like it, looking like it, and he was in a position in 1998, when lost in the shuffle, to have been simply jobbing on Heat unceremoniously to people like Tiger Ali Singh. Then he got paired with Bradshaw, who was always a great character worker, even when he wasn't doing much, that gave Faarooq a privileged spot of not having to deal with an intense schedule. Their matches were pretty short, even if rough. Acolytes were one of my favorite teams for the optics, but it makes sense looking back as to why they tended not to do much compared to other teams, usually being guys who smashed the loser teams, but clearly not booked even in the top 4 (Edge and Christian, Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boys, Too Cool). Then they got repackaged, successfully doing filler skits Either way, I wouldn't mind his post-Nation, pre-Acolytes attire. I wanted to see that in the BCA line On that note, I really hope that they make the Mean Street Posse. One of my favorite gimmicks since the McMahon's had to come off as trailer trash in Greenwich, the gimmick was a play on the Outsiders movie ("the Socials," and incidentally "the Greasers" being the nWo), and it even drew from the Michael Skakel brouhaha (a Kennedy cousin who was controversially convicted, for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in Greenwich; the investigation kicked off in 1998 from book by a one Mark Fuhrman, the racist cop notorious from the OJ case with ties to Anglo-Saxon Fraternal Orders and Aryan Nations in Idaho) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_MoxleyYeah, I’m not reading all of that. Been watch 98 and he was actively getting cheered through the summer. Also you’re pretty odd, bud. LOL, I’m with you brother. I was around in ‘98 and Faarooq was definitely over. In a line with the likes of Mean Mark, Dok Hendrix, Rocco the puppet, The Goon, Cena in nWo gear, etc…there’s absolutely a spot for Faarooq in his babyface gear as a chase. |
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on Jan 31, 2023 8:10:38 GMT -5
Not sure what show y’all were watching in 1998 but Faarooq post-NOD was not over. And had it not been for Rock joining NOD in 1997 that group woulda had the same fate as DOA and Los Boricuas. That being said, I don’t have an issue with that attire being made. It would actually be perfect for a chase figure if NOD was made in the Legends line.
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 31, 2023 12:59:28 GMT -5
He wasn't over at all... and got repackaged accordingly. Guys who get ousted as head of their own group, then lose in a quick blowoff tend not to be over. He had one filler PPV match from June until the end of the year teaming with Scorpio, which was more of a dead-on-arrival team than the New Midnight Express, so much so that Scorpio was given the dishonor of being placed with a jobber faction. Really, it's remarkable that his career revived at all. He was 40, moving like it, looking like it, and he was in a position in 1998, when lost in the shuffle, to have been simply jobbing on Heat unceremoniously to people like Tiger Ali Singh. Then he got paired with Bradshaw, who was always a great character worker, even when he wasn't doing much, that gave Faarooq a privileged spot of not having to deal with an intense schedule. Their matches were pretty short, even if rough. Acolytes were one of my favorite teams for the optics, but it makes sense looking back as to why they tended not to do much compared to other teams, usually being guys who smashed the loser teams, but clearly not booked even in the top 4 (Edge and Christian, Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boys, Too Cool). Then they got repackaged, successfully doing filler skits Either way, I wouldn't mind his post-Nation, pre-Acolytes attire. I wanted to see that in the BCA line On that note, I really hope that they make the Mean Street Posse. One of my favorite gimmicks since the McMahon's had to come off as trailer trash in Greenwich, the gimmick was a play on the Outsiders movie ("the Socials," and incidentally "the Greasers" being the nWo), and it even drew from the Michael Skakel brouhaha (a Kennedy cousin who was controversially convicted, for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in Greenwich; the investigation kicked off in 1998 from book by a one Mark Fuhrman, the racist cop notorious from the OJ case with ties to Anglo-Saxon Fraternal Orders and Aryan Nations in Idaho) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_MoxleyYeah, I’m not reading all of that. Been watch 98 and he was actively getting cheered through the summer. Also you’re pretty odd, bud. Agreed. Simmons was over...no doubt |
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Post by stc13 on Feb 1, 2023 21:08:46 GMT -5
Guys.....GUYS!!!!!! I have been asking for late '97, early '98 Nation since the early CS days. I cannot believe we're finally getting them! The chest protector was worn between these attires, so it's not really accurate, but I don't think it matters much. I'm just glad that we now have a really good spectrum of D'lo's WWF career. Shamrock and D'lo once again signed around the same time, it seems. I am glad they waited to make Kama until they had that awesome singlet torso for him. I hope we get a Godfather w/ variant next using that torso. And late '96/early '97 Undertaker, too? And Brother Love? I'm so happy with this line-up. 2 Tuff / Tag Teams / Ringside Collectibles / Managers were my favorite BCA sets. It was depressing to have logged all the BCAs made and to see who has been "modernized" since 1999 (with exception to the very ugly R-3 Techs), then think I'd need a quarter of the BCA guys be customized. So this is really great. I never thought they'd make Kama. The representation is as ugly as he really was, with his peanut head. 🥜 Great line. I'll get all of them. Especially D'Lo since he was the least serious of the Nation faction. My biggest gripe with past toylines is they rarely made all the faction members (Sniper excluded, for example, Crush not having a DOA phase, no one of the Los Boricaus with plausible exception to Savio Vega, not to mention a lot of managers overlooked) I bought the Nation guys tonight, actually, though I was not committed prior to tonight. Got to get ready for this set. I'd love to see a breakdown of which BCA figures have been made by Mattel. I have a similar spreadsheet for the Hasbro line, but BCA was a little more all over the place with sublines, box sets, etc. |
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Post by TheHitmanKid on Feb 2, 2023 13:55:19 GMT -5
I hope they can do Nation of Domination justice. The last Farooq and Rock were pretty lackluster. Maybe after D-Lo and Kama, they can do another Farooq with a bigger body (like Acolytes) with a better head scan and lighter skin tone. The Rock needs a big head for a head scan too.
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Post by Crossfit Jesus on Feb 2, 2023 15:06:35 GMT -5
There’s been a lot of arguing here recently
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Post by AxelSmackdown on Feb 2, 2023 15:08:10 GMT -5
There’s been a lot of arguing here recently No there’s not. Why would you think that? Actually, if you think that then you don’t know anything. You’re crazy. |
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Post by AxelSmackdown on Feb 2, 2023 15:08:59 GMT -5
I hope they can do Nation of Domination justice. The last Farooq and Rock were pretty lackluster. Maybe after D-Lo and Kama, they can do another Farooq with a bigger body (like Acolytes) with a better head scan and lighter skin tone. The Rock needs a big head for a head scan too. for the time I think the NOD 2 pack was done well (besides Rock’s torso as it was too big) I remember finding it at Kmart |
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Post by Apocalypse on Feb 2, 2023 15:44:37 GMT -5
18 is up for preorder finally The lower torso on the Headshrinkers are ridiculously skinny. When did Fatu ever have an ass and legs like that 😂😂 Thats a huge issue i have with mattel figures. They give a guy a big torso and hefty trunks and then little skinny thighs that look out of proportion to the figure |
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