OFFICIAL Ultimate WCW Nitro Entrance Crowdfund Thread

Mattel made a lot of small mistakes on this that hindered progression. From Rey being the included figure, to the Hogan being a rerelease. You had the fact that they included a usually colourful character like Warrior just in jeans. Steiner didn’t have all the deco.

But it would have been funded in spite of those things if they’d have given us Steiner as an early bird from the beginning. Motivate that FOMO by saying anyone after 10 days won’t get him and not launched without sorting out international costs.

This thing was DEAD the moment it went up at £470, which was already ludicrous and then Jack it up an extra £30 with no explanation the following day.

Absurd.

A real shame this thing didn’t make it. I was lucky enough to see it in person at Mania, it deserved to be made.

And now my passive aggressive, drunk take on the situation (almost 7.00pm here in Australia on Saturday night, I’m just getting started 🍺).

The figure choices missed big time. Rey’s WCW run is an after thought for most collectors at this point, he had no business being anywhere near a WCW stage crowd fund. Same goes for “wish” (WCW) Hulk Hogan, and while they switched to Steiner, it got off on the wrong foot. Why not just do the Outsiders or Harlem Heat straight up and call it a day. I get holding off Bischoff to the ring, but it that failed didn’t it. Maybe it should have been Bischoff and DDP! Point is, Rey and Hogan were a big miss.

And stop with the bloody reissues / rereleases. You’re killing your own market. What made the New Gen work was resellers, like it or hate it, that’s the game. Very few “investors” (using that term lightly) doubled or tripled up on this, that’s the gap why it came up 1k short. And you can all say, scalpers suck blah blah blah, but we as buyers fuel their market. Mattel can’t have it both ways, you either completely kill the secondary market and give up on high end items, or you stop the reissues, understanding that the secondary market can be a good thing and support high end items that can be broken up and sold for profit. (In turn helping those who can’t or won’t pay the total get parts/figures they want)

And lastly, you’re alienating your collector base with all this influencer crap. Guess what, most of us who buy the more expensive stuff are grown men, who like to think our collections are pretty awesome. We don’t like Logan Paul or KSI (who ever the hell that is), you’re just pissing us off by sending these “influencers” item first. Cody is the perfect example, why do other have it before the rest of us. Not like they can go out “influence” anyone to buy it?

Passive aggressive rant over. I really did want this to get made, I back it even though I only collect MOC and have no use for a stage. Now back to my beers 🍻 cheers 😜

Just think. All they had to do to make this a success was charge international customers the same as the yanks. 1000 people from the rest of the world would have absolutely backed this.

Will they learn from this? I have a feeling that’s a no.

This died by Mattel’s greed. Nothing more to say.

It really is baffling why they didn't just charge UK/international backers the cost price ($400) plus the extra shipping... it seemed such a simple way of doing things (it's how they did thimgs for the New Gen set too).

Who on earth wants to pay all the import fees etc. up front/all in one go, when they're already paying extra for the shipping? Not to mention the unexplained overcharge (which was £32 at the minimum).

I'd really like Mattel - and more specifically the scam-tastic Mattel Creations website - to learn from this and stop overcharging us for everything... I'd buy a GREAT deal more from them if they did .