walter7paisley
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Post by walter7paisley on Jul 27, 2024 12:32:58 GMT -5
or, he's saying that the moulds have already been paid for, and it's really expensive to recast them
these Bulldogs look (as in plastic quality) like Hasbros
fix the issues, and they'd actually be good, it's just a pity that Mattel are releasing a Bulldog (as is everyone) at the same time, and theirs is going to be a fraction of the price of these, and who is really going to buy 10 Bulldog figures from various manufacturers?
Well yes, I think he’s trying to sell us on the oversizing and obviously he wouldn’t really want to spend more money and delay the figures but he’s done it already with the two pack bulldog - Zombie’s wait time is criticised but in fairness it’s because things like this, he wouldn’t release, it would go back and be changed. Even with the mismatched waist size, appreciate these are more expensive than Mattel’s but they also look way better. Far more like Hasbros. Mattels retros are far too weird for me and I’m out of collecting those. I’d rather have one bulldog that I love and fits into the collection than pay the same price for 4 Mattels that don’t look anything like Hasbros or the wrestlers half the time. I agree there are too many bulldogs, I’m not interested in anything based on looks too far after the Hasbro era so I’ll pick up one of these, maybe the cropped hair biker shorts as it’s a look we never got - attitude era is too far removed from Hasbro era for me, that is Jakks era to me. There's never too many Bulldogs! |
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Post by AttitudeLegendCollector on Jul 27, 2024 12:59:42 GMT -5
Ahhh Mitch! Pulling for him and he’s made so much progress but he needs to find some consistency. If these were Marc Mero level then they’d be a must have but they need a fair few adjustments. The heads (like his Mooney and Hayes) are like those early Chella ones where they look more like customs, the shoulder connection looks out but I guess that could just be early stage. The knee pads ideally should be lower than the knees too. I’d also prefer a Wrestlemania 5 both all in red for their gear but I guess what he’s done there is fine. Shame overall. |
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Post by kiphouse on Jul 27, 2024 13:09:18 GMT -5
The kneepads get a pass because he'll reuse the legs but the arms dont look like they line up at the shoulders
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Post by misterfigi on Jul 27, 2024 13:38:57 GMT -5
Ahhh Mitch! Pulling for him and he’s made so much progress but he needs to find some consistency. If these were Marc Mero level then they’d be a must have but they need a fair few adjustments. The heads (like his Mooney and Hayes) are like those early Chella ones where they look more like customs, the shoulder connection looks out but I guess that could just be early stage. The knee pads ideally should be lower than the knees too. I’d also prefer a Wrestlemania 5 both all in red for their gear but I guess what he’s done there is fine. Shame overall. What are the chances he changes the heads to something that looks like Arn and Tully? I really hope so because I would love to add the Brainbusters to my collection, especially with the Epic Toys Heenan coming soon. |
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Post by Bandalero on Jul 27, 2024 13:49:40 GMT -5
I was so excited to see this reveal until I saw the heads! Ugh, and why is Tully so thick? I really hope he tweaks these more, it will be my first Hastel purchase
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Post by kojikanemoto on Jul 27, 2024 14:18:07 GMT -5
I’m not too worried about the arms, they’ll be correct during production. But the knee pads should be lower, especially if he’s making the leg mold specifically for them. And I would use the Mero torso for Tully. The paint job on the faces isn’t the greatest so it hard to tell if it’s just that or if the sculpts are eh. Fingers crossed
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Post by 3poajamie on Jul 27, 2024 14:35:28 GMT -5
So much like the real thing that they’re using the actual Hacksaw Hasbro torso!
Would explain why the arms don’t fit at the stage if he’s reused the torso with reused arms from his other figures, I expect them to be sorted by its released unless it is actually in the molding stage already like he says. Then it can’t be changed
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Post by MKSavage on Jul 27, 2024 14:51:04 GMT -5
I was so excited to see this reveal until I saw the heads! Ugh, and why is Tully so thick? I really hope he tweaks these more, it will be my first Hastel purchase Was thinking the same thing. Why is Tully bigger than Arn? He needs to shrink Tully a bit. |
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Post by MKSavage on Jul 27, 2024 14:58:01 GMT -5
The kneepads get a pass because he'll reuse the legs but the arms dont look like they line up at the shoulders What's wrong with the kneepads? |
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Post by The Brain on Jul 27, 2024 14:58:51 GMT -5
Agree with Tully being too big and man alive that head...
Arn is fine but damn gotta do better on Tully
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Post by aaron34 on Jul 27, 2024 16:34:46 GMT -5
Yeah this isn’t good. Arn is ok, Tully is bad, why usr the same torso for both. And Tully’s face is very generic looking. Hopefully it’s not to late to rectify.
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Post by biggerbetterbadder on Jul 27, 2024 17:00:34 GMT -5
What a shame. Mitch has been building momentum big time with his figures, but the Tully Blanchard needs work. Oof.
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Post by walter7paisley on Jul 27, 2024 17:13:21 GMT -5
To be fair to him, it does state that these are painted prototypes. I'd assume he'll tweak them. You'd hope so, anyway.
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Post by kojikanemoto on Jul 27, 2024 17:50:55 GMT -5
The kneepads get a pass because he'll reuse the legs but the arms dont look like they line up at the shoulders What's wrong with the kneepads? They both wore them below the knee, like Flair did |
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Jul 27, 2024 19:55:50 GMT -5
Yeah, agree with everyone on these looking off. One additional thing, is I really wish all these guys making tag sets, would go with 2 clearly different bodytypes/moves. Think Arn would have been good with a bodyslam/press pose, would have also made sense for the spinebuster.
Hasbro's tag packs, tended to usually have different body types, at least the better ones did like Demos, LOD, Nastys, Stieners,.
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Post by @Chair.Shot on Jul 27, 2024 22:42:14 GMT -5
Yeah, agree with everyone on these looking off. One additional thing, is I really wish all these guys making tag sets, would go with 2 clearly different bodytypes/moves. Think Arn would have been good with a bodyslam/press pose, would have also made sense for the spinebuster. Hasbro's tag packs, tended to usually have different body types, at least the better ones did like Demos, LOD, Nastys, Stieners,. Counterpoint: Arn can do the DDT. |
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Post by MKSavage on Jul 28, 2024 0:16:22 GMT -5
Yeah, agree with everyone on these looking off. One additional thing, is I really wish all these guys making tag sets, would go with 2 clearly different bodytypes/moves. Think Arn would have been good with a bodyslam/press pose, would have also made sense for the spinebuster. Hasbro's tag packs, tended to usually have different body types, at least the better ones did like Demos, LOD, Nastys, Stieners,. Counterpoint: Arn can do the DDT. The bent left arm can also work for holding the wrestler for the spinebuster. |
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Post by mrh on Jul 28, 2024 0:19:32 GMT -5
The Brainbusters are disappointing -- a major step back from the quality of the Bulldog, Quebeckers, and Marc Mero.
I get everything can't be as good as the best ones -- but too bad for this, since so many people have wanted these for so long.
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Post by 3poajamie on Jul 28, 2024 0:33:22 GMT -5
To be fair to him, it does state that these are painted prototypes. I'd assume he'll tweak them. You'd hope so, anyway. It says in the post that these are in the molding stage, if true then it’ll be too late to change |
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Post by @Chair.Shot on Jul 28, 2024 0:48:09 GMT -5
To be fair to him, it does state that these are painted prototypes. I'd assume he'll tweak them. You'd hope so, anyway. It says in the post that these are in the molding stage, if true then it’ll be too late to change It depends. The mold looks identical to me aside from the arms and head. They could always use it for Arn and pivot to something else for Tully. Or you can make the same amount of figures as planned originally but use the “extra” to do a repaint of Arn. Not the best options but it’s not like anything would be wasted that way. If you create a new mold for Tully, you’ll end up with one more mold you can use further down the line. Otherwise, you can try to use another mold from a previous release…but that is doubtful as everything has changed since moving away from the seams. Edit: the torso for the Rougeaus would work. It doesn’t have the molded body hair but that could be done as a paint app or he could shave off some of the costs and create a duplicate prototype using the Rougeau torso with body hair added and fast track that to be made into a mold. |
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