OFFICIAL Ultimate WCW Nitro Entrance Crowdfund Thread

WCW’s fanbase died when WCW died, they just stopped watching wrestling all together

Definitely Truck Driving Buddy.

The figures were crap. Too many Reys on the market right now and only a completist would go out of his way to get yet another one. DDP has been released in similar forms before. Hogan is very similar to the Legends 18 release that just hit.

So that leaves Steiner and Warrior. Clearly they weren’t enough.

I truly think the first unlock bonus should’ve been the announce desk with exclusive Bischoff and Heenan.

Make the next level the Outsiders in street/debut gear.

Then throw in Steiner and you got a stew going.

Nothing in this set was “must have”, and the market has spoken.

That's true regarding the WCW fanbase basically moving on after WCW's demise. Once the WWF Attitude era ended at the end of Wrestlemania X7 that was it for us Attitude era fans too. I watched the WWE product until Wrestlemania 20 when I stopped altogether after that PPV. There's still plenty of lapsed WWFE fans out their that would back the Raw Is War stage but if that doesn't come to fruition so be it. I just want my Attitude Era mid card talent like Val Venis, Gangrel, Mideon, Steve Blackman, and Hardcore Holly to name a few.

Sure would specially if Taka Michinoku was the first tier and the Early Bird was a The Rock figure. Amd at 7000 we could unlock Triple H and after that An Undertaker.

aka the figures sucked on this thats why it failed

End of heartache

I don't think they would have been funded either... along with ALL the other issues, these things are just too big and expensive (...seriously, have you seen the size of the Raw one!? It's ridiculous).

People are saying the failure of the Nitro stage sucks because we won't get any more similar items? Not really. I mean, it won't matter to me... it probably won't matter to most collectors (less than 4K backers worldwide kind of proves that). The market just isn't there (or big enough).

Bottom line: forget these huge stages/things - and give us something like some nice UE figure boxsets instead 😎.

There's a weird narrative that's happened overnight about the size of this thing now being an issue. That's what was so good about it. It was scaled properly for once. There's nothing worse than crappy cardboard stages / backdrops (AEW Stage anyone?) and those little action rings that just make the figures look ridiculous. It's not the reason this thing failed and if they start making out of scale things as a crowdfunder then we really are on to a loser.

Rubbish figures, International rip offs and a lack of value. That's it. That's why this failed.

If mattel want to consider crowdfunding imo a change is needed to the thinking and psychology behind it.

Both crowdfunds were supposed to be the big items (ring and entrance for the first, then entrance for the second) and the figures were ‘bonus’

But on the whole (and yes there’s exceptions) people view the figures as the pull and the bigger / display item as a bonus.

Look at it this was - a ring people are not interested in with 5 figures people massively want will fund. A ring people want with figures people don’t wouldn’t.

They need the figures to pull people in - and tbf that was clear from the last crowdfund which only hit due to the ad budget being scrapped and macho added. I said before this was launched its success depends on the figures and unfortunately there wasn’t enough pull on the figures to get this done.

If they won’t crowdfund figures by themselves they still need to make the figures desirable enough to be the worm on the hook to catch the fish