OFFICIAL Ultimate WCW Nitro Entrance Crowdfund Thread

I think with us tho something of that scale is more of a burden than anything. Yeah maybe we can try and find a spot for it but it’s something we don’t really need. We have to be enticed with other things to make it more appealing. The monetary value is there with the stage alone but not necessarily a personal value. Most of us are thinking “do I really wanna pay $400 and rearrange my entire display room to accommodate a 3.5 foot wide and foot and a half tall playset?” The figs are what sways our decision. Without em, it’s probably a pass.

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

I'm sorry, but I really don't get why there's so much attention on the figures. The item IS the stage. That's what they're selling. The figures are just window dressing, and they've been more or less throw-ins with any crowdfunded project. Expecting high deco or high demand figures packed with the stage never made sense.

Haslab Sail Barge - $499, 3.75in Jabba and Yak Face figures
Haslab Sentinel - $349, 6in Bastion fig, 2 alternate heads
Haslab Galactus - $399, Nova, Silver Surfer, and Morg 6in figs
Haslab Skystriker, $229, 3 Cobra 3.75 early bird, 1 3.75 Scarlett, additional tiers not unlocked
Haslab GI Joe HISS Tank & 6in driver - $299, early bird 6in HISS Tactician, 2 tiers of accessory upgrades, 6in gunner & Cobra Commander stretch goals
Mattel Creations New Gen & UE Diesel - $250, Doink UE stretch, Macho Man early bird
Mattel Creations Eternia - $550, earlybird King Grayskull, moat creature, Keclar stretch goals

For the size, detail, and lighting effects, the stage itself is very fairly priced. UE figures are far more involved (both deco and articulation) than anything else in similar projects. And they've added an earlybird and 3 figure tiers of stretch goals. If it's too big, too expensive, etc - I get it. But this item is VERY fairly priced and loaded with value even if it's just the first two figures.

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.