[LJN Style] Big Rubber Guys

Personally, I’d rather have these guys in wrestling attire. I’m hoping they can eventually give us DiBiase and Honky Tonk Man in wrestling attire, though they seem to be locked in to Mattel/WWE long term.

Flair’s attire could be better. I’m fairly confident that this is the first of several Flair’s. At least one robed version and a version in trunks would make complete sense.

Everyone is technically an entirely new body mold. I wanted me as Macho. The rest will not bodies that will be as recognizable.

The LJN tribute and the Bendies both are fantastic. They are doing great work.

Understandable, this just misses the mark though. No pun intended.

On one hand I get what you are saying, on the other hand I feel like most people would prefer something that would fit better with their other collections should they choose to display these MOC. It’s harder at this point to have used a Remco, JusToys, and LJN style of figures and then say you want to create your own legacy/not live in the past. Packaging specifically, only the Bendies line has replicated the 90’s style…and you guys found ways to make that your own. In my opinion, the execution of that far exceeds the BRG packaging in terms of appearance and creativity even while using someone else’s template. The current BRG packaging is fine in its shape and form factor but the background looks like an uninspired placeholder. The name card/front image doesn’t have too many complaints from me but a change in font, line art, or even color could make a big difference.

Maybe you are very committed to this design for whatever reason but I would like to see the feedback if you posted to various social media outlets to see what the majority had to say if presented with the option of either keep it as-is or alter it to a more nostalgic style.

We aren’t doing ljn style packaging. It’s overkill. It’s been done. We’re just not.

2 companies are currently doing it lol

Having listened to this week’s show today, I’m reminded of the part where you quoted Eric Bischoff: (paraphrasing) “there is is greater than, different than, and less than. This feels less than.”

These are suggestions to try and improve the products. They aren’t an attempt to tell you what to do. Please read them as an opinion. The hope would be to create happier customers with the end result leading to better sales for you and your team. I get that Jazwares and Mattel are doing clone-like packaging design though I’m not sure Mattel should be involved much in this conversation as I doubt most MOC LJN collectors would display their LJN’s next to their Mattels. There may not even be that big of an overlap. If Mattel started packaging Ultimates like Hasbros, I’m not sure if people would be displaying them side-by-side. But Hasbros and Retros do display nicely together as do prettt much every Hasbro-style figure that is being produced today. If Mitch switched to a PowerTown style box just because everyone else was doing the Hasbro-style packaging, his figures wouldn’t display as nicely next to the others on the market. But I digress.

Not that I expect to sway you overnight, but a more pleasing aesthetic could be achieved by making the crowd blue and the font red (or even the dead space blue with the crowd black). That would lend itself better to a MOC collection with or without the black series. The current design is easily distinguishable from all other products on the market already; these are just some small ways in which it might be made better without the feeling of forcing something that is on-brand.

Packaging isn’t changing to copy LJNs. It’s just not.

There will be plenty of notice about August Pre-orders. We got Marty proto and mystery man proto in hand today. They are amazing! It will be a limited window to order like Demolition.

We aren’t looking for anybody to “go faster.” We are trying to grow this company and get as many sold as possible.

Will we ever do more limited ones? Probably. But our plan right now is to grow!

Thanks for your support!