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Post by J-MANN on Feb 21, 2024 21:52:24 GMT -5
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Post by muuk76 on Feb 22, 2024 7:55:37 GMT -5
It will be good to see this line here in the UK at Smyths.
I prefer the American packaging with the bio on it, most likely it will be the bi lingual style packaging, which I personally dislike.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 22, 2024 12:23:19 GMT -5
I find it funny that this time a year ago and ever since we got more pictures of Bret (display shots, official shots, in packaging shots all prior to mass release) - overwhelmingly on here, facebook, IG - the majority were saying how much they liked the Bret heads.
I was baffled because they looked beyond ridiculous to me. Glad pretty much everyone commenting here say the same but this is poor from Mattel. They just can't stop from messing with Bret's likeness and not taking the good and sticking with it. The elite 94 head looked great. Why couldn't they do what they've done for so many other sculpts and alter the file to fit the era and put the correct hair from the time on? They could have just used E94 as a base and built on it.
Piper's heads look ok, apart from the hair. He had that bryl-creamed, brushed to one side hair on what, ONE occasion in WCW? The rest of the time it was just a tiny bit messy.
I just don't get their choices sometimes....
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Post by GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy on Feb 22, 2024 15:35:23 GMT -5
I find it funny that this time a year ago and ever since we got more pictures of Bret (display shots, official shots, in packaging shots all prior to mass release) - overwhelmingly on here, facebook, IG - the majority were saying how much they liked the Bret heads. I was baffled because they looked beyond ridiculous to me. Glad pretty much everyone commenting here say the same but this is poor from Mattel. They just can't stop from messing with Bret's likeness and not taking the good and sticking with it. The elite 93 head looked great. Why couldn't they do what they've done for so many other sculpts and alter the file to fit the era and put the correct hair from the time on? They could have just used E93 as a base and built on it. Piper's heads look ok, apart from the hair. He had that bryl-creamed, brushed to one side hair on what, ONE occasion in WCW? The rest of the time it was just a tiny bit messy. I just don't get their choices sometimes.... I really wanted Piper with mid length hair. It was his most iconic look in WCW imo. Even the packaging shows him with mid length hair. I’m more upset that his trunks and kneepads are the wrong color. They’re supposed to be a navyish blue. |
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Post by Flair Forever on Feb 22, 2024 17:15:55 GMT -5
I find it funny that this time a year ago and ever since we got more pictures of Bret (display shots, official shots, in packaging shots all prior to mass release) - overwhelmingly on here, facebook, IG - the majority were saying how much they liked the Bret heads. I was baffled because they looked beyond ridiculous to me. Glad pretty much everyone commenting here say the same but this is poor from Mattel. They just can't stop from messing with Bret's likeness and not taking the good and sticking with it. The elite 93 head looked great. Why couldn't they do what they've done for so many other sculpts and alter the file to fit the era and put the correct hair from the time on? They could have just used E93 as a base and built on it. Piper's heads look ok, apart from the hair. He had that bryl-creamed, brushed to one side hair on what, ONE occasion in WCW? The rest of the time it was just a tiny bit messy. I just don't get their choices sometimes.... I really wanted Piper with mid length hair. It was his most iconic look in WCW imo. Even the packaging shows him with mid length hair. I’m more upset that his trunks and kneepads are the wrong color. They’re supposed to be a navyish blue. I agree with you about the WCW Piper hair..... I am not NEARLY as upset as you are about the trunks. I don't think they were "navy blue" I think they were either just aged a bit from years of use or wet from sweat and looked darker.... Regardless, I don't plan to display it without the kilt anyway so I'm not that worried about it....    Above all else, I'm just worried about finding and buying this figure. I feel it will be hard to obtain. I really want it for my collection, WCW Piper is one I've been waiting a long time for..... I do hope these are not impossible to find/get. |
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Post by shanieomaniac on Feb 22, 2024 23:58:54 GMT -5
You know, I was at walmart today and they still have a peg there for the Ruthless Aggression set, despite the RA figures we got in never once being on a peg. They were on a shelf or an endcap. So either that's some sort of dummy peg or they are saving that peg for the MNW figures.
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Post by danfdan on Feb 23, 2024 16:22:07 GMT -5
Series 2 images just shared on Instagram - and Unmasked Filthy animals Rey has been replaced with pink masked Rey.
Shame.
Fake Diesel looks class though
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Post by coldblooded on Feb 23, 2024 16:26:33 GMT -5
Wasn't Rey supposed to be unmasked in MNW series 2? Steve just showed Rey in elite form from the nitro stage fund.  |
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Post by danfdan on Feb 23, 2024 16:29:56 GMT -5
Series 2 images just shared on Instagram - and Unmasked Filthy animals Rey has been replaced with pink masked Rey.
Shame.
Fake Diesel looks class though
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Post by crush on Feb 23, 2024 16:35:17 GMT -5
Nash and fake Diesel look good. The Rey change is immensely disappointing. Really hope the FA Rey see the light of day in a different series. Triple H Not having a shirt, be it a new (to figure form) DX one or even one he wore during his solo run is lame.
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Post by Jim Cornette’s Wendy’s Order🍔 on Feb 23, 2024 16:45:23 GMT -5
Man, the scrapped the one I most looked forward to with unmasked Rey. Wonder why.
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Post by CM Tusk on Feb 23, 2024 16:47:30 GMT -5
No unmasked Rey  ing sucks |
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Post by TheXtremisT on Feb 23, 2024 16:53:25 GMT -5
Yeah this is a major letdown.
Not only have they replaced it and probably will never see the light of day - we get ANOTHER release of a guy who's had a couple already from the same era, but Mattel have gone back on their word to release one of the Nitro stage exclusives in elite form - when they said they'd never do it. And it's not even one of the figures like Scott Steiner that we actually wanted....
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Post by AxelSmackdown on Feb 23, 2024 16:54:36 GMT -5
maybe they moved rey to another line or they ran into some complications
who knows
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Post by Crossfit Jesus on Feb 23, 2024 16:56:30 GMT -5
Wow unmasked Rey was a huge want. Passing on that crowdfund elite
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Post by crush on Feb 23, 2024 17:00:57 GMT -5
The Rey move brings up something I've been thinking about: Namely, Mattel drops renders and lineups really on in the process because there's demand and pressure for "reveals" but because it's so early, things can change (We don't know for sure, but it seems likely that either Rey or WWE decided they didn't want an unmasked figure out there at this time) so then it becomes a disappointment. Same thing happens when they show new finished product reveals, but they're "old news" because we saw the renders months before. IDK, I don't think there's really anything that can be done about it since reveals are such. big part of the game now, but still worth thinking about.
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Post by Ministry of Darkness on Feb 23, 2024 17:26:28 GMT -5
Wasn't Rey supposed to be unmasked in MNW series 2? Steve just showed Rey in elite form from the nitro stage fund. Another "old school" Rey with oversized hands again. 😔 |
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Post by GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy on Feb 23, 2024 17:27:29 GMT -5
Damn. I hope we could get unmasked Rey at some point. I was looking forward to putting the unmasked sculpt on my masked WCW Rey’s. Unmasked Rey would of also been cool to get at some point from the night he unmasked too.
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Post by danfdan on Feb 23, 2024 17:30:09 GMT -5
I think the WM reveals last year was overkill. Left the next 12 months with pretty much no reveals.
I'd be happy if they showed less and we only got it once it was in production. Maybe the odd reader about renders or what's coming but that's it.
Like you say many things that are wanted get crapcanned - Rey here, JJ Ultimate, Macho Man Ultimate etc and by the time we see reveals it does feel like old news
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Post by muuk76 on Feb 23, 2024 18:17:43 GMT -5
Appears Rey Mysterio Jr. is spelled incorrectly on the back of the packaging too
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