Your Top 4 WWE Retros Mattel Should Make in 2024

Realistic- based on the era they seem to be hitting hard
Mr Wonderful
Ricky Steamboat
Harley Race
George Steele

What they really should do
Jake Roberts - heel 
Sgt. Slaughter - Iraqi 
Macho King long tights - get him back Mattel!!!
Miss Elizabeth 

What I want right now
Heenan 
Monsoon
The Fink
Danny Davis - referee 

A person of culture, I see

Zeus
Heel Jake the Snake
Macho King Long Tights
Bob Backlund


HM: Bobby Heenan (epic one should be great)
Pipe Dream: Hakushi

Who I would want to see…(all on the Bob Orton body)
Mr Wonderful
Kerry Von Erich
Tito Santana
Magnificent Muraco

I would also like to see another Piper, but on a better body.

Paul orndorff to complete the wm1 main event

Bobby Heenan
Brother Love
Zeus


There are so many names I would like to see signed to get elites first but I would also love to see as retros too. Guys who didn't get Hasbros back in the day but were in that era.

The Genius, Haku, Bad News Brown, Fabulous Rougeau Brothers, white trunks Santana, Dino Bravo, Men on a Mission, King Kong Bundy, Hillbilly Jim, etc.

I’m sharing things just in case people are unaware/missed it and might be interested. Grapplers and Gimmicks is planning on doing a short haired Bulldog:

http://instagram.com/p/C2FwOgwuFhy

Additionally, G&G said they will be producing one of the versions of Macho seen below. You can still go vote on it:

http://instagram.com/p/C2XVtGhu9t6

I have somewhat been hoping RSC announces a WCW 4 pack to help fill out some of the WCW releases they did. I already have a display dedicated to this growing concept (Sting, nWo, Raven, Macho). Harlem Heat and a proper Goldberg would be nice. The Giant is a big time want as well but it is highly unlikely due to his current contract status.

Realistically we’re looking at only one more bundle this year after the upcoming WrestleMania bundle - unless the earlier release of the DX bundle compared to the timing of last year’s nWo bundle means that they’ll sneak-in another tag team bundle at the end of the year or something similar, then we’ll just be getting the August Mattel Creations bundle, which we’ll hopefully hear about at WrestleMania.

With the August bundle following on chronologically after the DX set, then I hope it is an Attitude Era bundle led by X-Pac (preferably in his return red in-ring gear) so collectors can place him next to DX on their shelves.

But a lot of Attitude Era names have either been done or have appeared in the line recently under different looks or aren’t available or would be better saved for other bundles (e.g. the Hart Foundation if Mattel get Pillman back under contract, the Nation, Faces of Foley (Commissioner Foley being the fourth one there), or better placed in tag sets like the Dudleys) so getting an interesting balance is something to consider.

But what if they tied-it into the current Monday Night War theme they’ve got going on in the Elite and Ultimate lines? Something like:

Monday Night War Retros bundle:

-X-PAC (red gear)
-Austin (anchor for the set; street gear)
-Goldberg (WCW) (is he still under a Legends contract?)
-DDP (in jeans)

Alternative names could include Eddie Guerrero, Booker T, Big Poppa Pump, Rey Mysterio, maybe Luger in the shirt though he recently appeared in the orange set - Mattel should have enough names to create another WWF guy along with two WCW guys to join X-PAC in the bundle.

Something like that could be interesting.

Bobby Heenan (not a fan of the awkward arm pointing on the epic)
Sensational Sherri
Heel Jake (black tights, cobra)
Iraqi Slaughter

(I would say long tights macho king, but he’s not available right this moment)