OFFICIAL Ultimate WCW Nitro Entrance Crowdfund Thread

There’s such a lack of general business understanding

It’s like when people say why are funko dumping $30 mil of stock, why not give it away or sell massively discounted?

1. It lowers the overall worth and perception of stock they want to sell

2. There’s cost associated with selling even marked down etc

There’s a real disillusionment about a product costs x to make they should sell for a couple quid more.

Mattel’s predicted profit is already down for 2023

Doing business is an expensive thing - at Mattel’s there’s not just making the product but all admin costs, keeping the lights on (there’s a worldwide fuel crisis going on), premises, insurances, staff (HR etc you don’t think of when making toys) all of which go into how they price things. They have been working on the stage for 7 years, imagine how many hours that is x how many members of staff and how much development in terms of wages has gone into it let alone prototypes etc all that has to be taken into account before they even enter the ‘profit’

I remember when I knew someone who owned a pub. They literally made pence on each pint. There’s the stock, wages, taxes etc to pay. It’s not all gravy

I would pay at least 600 for that

Ah the classic Elvis song 🎵

I don’t believe those 7 years. Maybe someone had an idea 7 years ago. But that prototype and everything that created costs started after The Arena was founded. Creating a prototype isn’t that expensive nowadays btw. Pretty sure the Mattel design team has a few 3D printers in their office. The real expensive part is creating the molds in China.

I was wondering these last few days, when Steve mentioned the trusses being somewhat customizable. It made me realize that Mattel could of "down the line" released fabric clip ons (like the Nitro banners) to create something like this. On another note, I didn't know Bret wore his reflective sunglasses in WCW. I always thought he wore the round ones.

I wonder if this would have turned out differently if they started with the Raw stage instead of the Nitro one. Since they would have shared parts this might have been an option. Of course its always easy to know it better in the retrospective so I don’t want to come along criticizing someone as I am not in the position to do so, but I would like to know.
@afa Would you be willing to give us some insight about why you did choose the Nitro stage over the Raw stage to start with?

I guess we'll never know, but it would have been more expensive ($500-$600 by the sounds of it) and was even bigger than the Nitro stage - so we'd have had all the same problems. If anything, given the extra cost and size, it might have done worse...

“If they would’ve done this it would’ve filled.”

“If they would’ve done that it would’ve filled.”

I know it would have had one less backer for certain.