OFFICIAL Ultimate WCW Nitro Entrance Crowdfund Thread

I like the stage a lot actually almost enough to convince me to buy but I don’t think there’s enough for the money they’re asking for. Being UK also kills it. If I’m spending £150-£160 on postage and packinging, I want it within the next hour not 16 months from now.

Errrm... yeah, we get it(?). That's why I said "the overall cost". Obviously, it's going to cost more to ship - but it still sucks for international peeps, having to pay nearly $200 more than in the US. It will also put a lot of (international) people off backing it - which will hurt the sales/tiers for everyone.

Don't agree with most of the figure/attire choices, but then I never really expected to since I guessed Mattel would take the "A-lister Ultimates" approach, whereas personally I'd have preferred the "more-obscure Elites" approach (e.g. ring announcer Michael Buffer, commentator Steve McMichael, referee Nick Patrick, interviewer Gene Okerlund, nitro girl Kimberly, etc). That said I guessed DDP would be one of their choices, so had hoped we might at least finally get that blue-diamond shirt and jeans DDP with a serious/intense headscan... But ah well, the quest continues.

The stage is the most important thing here though, and I love that, so happy they made it to an accurate scale. The only thing that bothers me is no announcer area/table. But presumably a Nitro ring will follow at some point (hopefully made to true 18x18 WCW scale, instead of 20x20 WWE scale), so hopefully the full Nitro announcer area/table will be included with that.

Really hope the rumored WCW figure line (supposedly following Ruthless Aggression) includes more-obscure "deep dive" WCW names (i.e. mid-carders, luchas/cruiserweights, managers, women, referees, commentators, announcers, wrestlecrap, etc) and not just the same A-listers/WWE-guys we've already seen loads of times. Plus that blue-diamond shirt and jeans DDP with serious headscan, of course.

According to me The stage and DDP ultimate should be in base offering, Early Bird should be announcers set just like New Gen arena, then the tier 2 should have Big Poppa Pump and 3 rd tier including Eric Bishop , 4th tier should have included ring ropes, turnbuckle, matt and side panel of the ring.

Should’ve been ultimate ultimo

You listed 5 people of which maybe 1 is signed, although we don’t know when contracts start and stop so even gene’s could’ve expired

I wish Hogan would have been in the outfit he wore in the first NWO skit. All black biker pants and the sleeveless solid black shirt. That to me would be a one off that would not be for mass retail. Also swap Rey for Booker. I think the reactions would have been more positive

The UK price includes tax and customs. Let’s break it down:
At $250, we got charged roughly £60-65 in fees with the New Gen set. Scale that up to $400 for the Nitro set, and that £60-65 becomes £96-104. So with the £325 that comes from the straight $ to £ conversion, add the £104 for charges, that gives us a cost of £429 that we would roughly have to pay in total, being charged in US dollars. That leaves £40, which can be for exchange rate fluctuations, and any additional fees Mattel may incur converting it back to USD. It’s not this big rip-off people are claiming it to be!

The only UE Nash is in the new gen set as Diesel, UE NWO Scott Hall to go with Nash is a no brainer, we've never had a UE Booker or even a singles WCW Booker in any form IIRC, Luger has potential not because of the look but the accessories. He could come with a regular NWO shirt, Wolfpac shirt, WCW tag title(s), big gold, etc things really relevant to the set. The only NWO representation in this set being Steiner which doesn't even have the NWO logo (as far as I've seen in pics could be wrong) is wild.