OFFICIAL Ultimate WCW Nitro Entrance Crowdfund Thread

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In the Q&A, someone asked if they could add more (in that example, Bischoff/announce table before he was revealed with the ring) and AFA said that they can't add more because it is loaded and they already put everything they possibly could into it from a cost perspective.

With Hogan gone, that's no longer the case.

Mattel can:

1. Leave things as is (and it will probably fail).

2. Extend Hogan's early bird deadline (which I don't think would help much since it didn't hit the mark the first time).

3. Add a new early bird option (I don't see this as likely unless they had someone already planned as a backup).

4. Move figures down the tiers. They can't swap Rey with DDP, Steiner, or Warrior like people keep suggesting since 2K backed it with him being released at 5K. They can move people down, but not up (another example - they can't swap DDP with Warrior).

For example, they could make Steiner an early bird and then move Warrior down to his spot. If the stage hits 5K by 4/15, then we get Rey and Steiner at 5K and Warrior would be the 9K slot. If they don't hit 5K then Scott goes back to his spot and Warrior stays in his spot.

I'm not sure why people ask Steve or Bill if they will change things hours/days after a crowdfund is announced (in this case before Hogan failed). It's not like they are going to say upfront, sure don't buy it the way that they planned for months/years.

Then it goes to show that nobody cares about Hogan, Mysterio and not really DDP. Consumers want figures they’ve never had before. It also shows that the desire for the main product (the stage) just isn’t there at that quantity. It doesn’t get backed and we all move on.

Lol, where?

Would the crowdfund done any better if Sting and Big Show was still available to Mattel? Ultimate Crow Sting for instance? And an Ultimate Giant perhaps?

I'm a bit conflicted on what Mattel will do next with this: on one hand I can't see them wanting to be seen to alter the offer again after what happened with the New Gen arena as that would confirm the precedent that Mattel can be influenced to give more/change things every time things go bad, but will we see Mattel just sit back for a month waiting for the inevitable failure to be confirmed?

So what's more likely? Mattel swallow their pride and again change the offer to save the project? Or that they let it die without trying anything?

I think that they'll actually let it die, as crazy as that sounds.

We shall see.

How does this make any sense? We already had the chance to be guaranteed Hogan, Rey and the stage and barely 2,000 people backed it. Those three together isn’t enticing enough for people.

For all the people that are waiting until it reaches a certain number are hurting this as well. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t back it first and then cancel if it doesn’t look like it’s reaches your tier versus waiting to back until it reaches the tier. You’re just taking another number away from the total. You won’t get charged yet anyway.

Nonsense! I said this when he was still under contract and I still believe it today. They could/should have put Sting in every wave of every wwe line they released and he would sell. With all the bright face paints he had kids would be eating that up. And collectors would be buying them as well. I know I would buy every Sting released.

Realistically they can’t take Rey out of tier 1 since 2k people have backed under the assumption they would get that figure.

Moving the tiers around is a little messy too. If they move Steiner to being a late bird that leaves a vacuum where the 9k spot is. Do they move Warrior down?

The cleanest thing to do is forget Hogan, keep the other tiers as is, relaunch with a fixed international solution and a genuine 10 day early bird.

If they came out and said. ‘We’ve heard you. We’ve fixed our ordering system for international buyers and we realised our early bird offering was inadequate. So everyone who backed so far, and everyone who backs over the next 10 days will receive an exclusive Halloween Havoc 96 Macho Man once we hit 5k.’

It shouldn’t be out of their budget to replace Hogan and launch the replacement as an early bird. Maybe if it was possible within their budget they could reinsert Hogan back in the offering at like 12k.

If they did that. This thing could easily see Steiner minimum.