OFFICIAL Ultimate WCW Nitro Entrance Crowdfund Thread

I think everything is fantastic.
The price is the issue for me. Don’t know if I can swing it especially when there’s a chance it could just be Rey and the Stage.

Probably not. These things take months of planning and budgeting and has to get approval from the licensor. Changing things up will add more to the production costs because they have to design an entire new figure from scratch. And since they’re starting from scratch it will also likely delay the release of the set.

If they had put this up for 400 bucks with all the figs included, I'd order day one. That's not a bad deal. Thinking I might pay 400 and only get 2 figs? Only getting all 5 if it hits 11k+ orders? Nah, I'll wait and see. I think they blew this one, and I've always tried to be very supportive and appreciative of what Mattel has done in the past. Sorry, Steve and everyone else at Mattel. It's just how I feel. I'm not trying to knock anyone who's happy about it at all. Just my opinion here.

I cannot think of a worse figure to drive early bird sales than that Hogan. Yes, I’m aware it’s a WCW red & yellow Hogan. But his red & yellow WCW look and red & yellow WWF look aren’t all that different. No meat left on the bone of red & yellow Hogan’s for me.

I will start out by saying the stage and the ramp are incredible. This is a dream come true. I want this stage badly. The figures, however, leave much to be desired (and I realize they have accessories not ready to be shown yet.)

Everyone has been asking for a DDP depicting his most common look during the boom of The Monday Night War. They threw us a bone in the Basic series years ago, but that's hardly enough. This is now the FOURTH time this attire has been done (only one had a pink stripe instead of blue, whoopie.) Legends, Elite, Best Of later this year, and now this. Like, I think it's a good candidate for the Best Of series, hopefully with better hair and beard paint apps, but why do this as the Ultimate? DDP in textured jeans, with removable ab tape, a diamond cutter shirt, the vest, the extra head & hands, and the US title - all of that stuff would make for the perfect DDP from '97-'98. It's weird, man. We have 4 DDPs from right before the boom period and then right after with his WWE-run figure. It keeps getting avoided. I don't understand why.

I think White Thunder Scott Steiner is an excellent choice to do here, but the execution leaves much to be desired. I remember this look the most with him having his face in the star and the Superman logo. He also had one with "Big Poppa Pump" on the front. It's just too plain looking, why not do more with it? I get it if you can't do the Superman logo exactly, but why not just do an S with circle or something?

Hogan is the most 'who cares' thing ever to me. We've had enough Hulks in yellow trunks for awhile. Not interested.

That's not a bad Rey or anything, but we just got the E100 Rey from a similar time period, and that will suffice for me. This was an opportunity to redo Phantom Rey as an Ultimate with a ripped mask alt head and WCW cruiserweight title. I'd kill for a Mattel Juvi, but I know he's not under a Legends deal.

Ultimate Warrior in jeans from his dog water WCW run. Pass. I'm sure it'll look cool with the duster, I get why some people would like this, but it's not enticing to me personally.

The big question I have is where is nWo Eric Bischoff? That's most no-brainer thing.

For me to be completely on-board with this, it'd have something resembling this:

• UE DDP as described above included with the stage
• UE Booker T in dark magenta (like the Basic Flashback - youtube.com/watch?v=PVn51-tQmyA) with the TV title, alt head, durag, sunglasses
• UE Eric Bischoff in jeans in a molded nWo shirt torso, removable leather jacket arms & bare arms w/ black tapped hands, WCW nWo title, Nitro mic, alt head with light beard/shorter hair)
• UE Scott Steiner in a more detailed 'White Thunder' attire as described above; similar to what we're getting
• UE Mortis or Glacier. Something wild like that. This would be the Final Tier figure if funding is completed. I realize this depends on obtaining rights.

I kept Booker light on accessories so Bischoff could have all his. I also don't expect those to be exact (Booker in white or black would be cool, too).

Anyway, enough fantasy booking. I'm just looking at the asking price and thinking about how much more enticing it would be without any of these figures included. Maybe just Scott with better deco? Anything to get this to be just that incredible stage without a bunch of extra stuff driving up cost.

The shiny 'steel' WCW logos, the background banner graphics, the gritty burnt-metal look of the stage platform, the lights...the stage is seriously is amazing, and as someone who received the Nitro Arena from Toybiz back in the day, I could only dream of something like this as a kid. Mattel made something special here; this is a project with a lot of love put into it. I wish I could buy it by itself at reduced cost, or that the figure offerings appealed to me more to justify it. I don't want to undermine the stage with my complaints.

I wonder if those Warrior pants and boots are evidence of a planned SummerSlam 2002 HBK.

Wait, do people not live in multiple room houses with a room dedicated to just their collection?

If this was the jeans DDP everyone wants behind a $400 paywall and requiring 7000 backers wouldn’t that just anger even more people?

I’m sure there are a lot more people who would want a more iconic DDP than people wanting to have to buy a $400, extremely large play set.

You’re not wrong but we’ve been asking for that look since the beginning and have yet to see it.