Territory Legends line and the Possibilities

How about a release of the Chief Jay Strongbow figure that was in stores for like a week.

Play along Steve. Fantasy book the next wave if one were to come to fruition. What 2 iconic matchups from the territory days would you, the fan and not the Mattel employee, most wanna see?

Not complaining at all, the set is amazing, just curious. Why were these put in this box set and not put in the legends or main elite line? 

As I recall, a single person made a stink about it online and that's why it ended up being pulled.

I agree with you in regards to sublines of same sized lines repackaged with a different colored bandana as the selling point (but a chase in reality). I would not agree if you included the retro or superstars lines as they are primarily geared toward old school collectors looking for nostalgia and some good memories to remember before we pass on. The regular lines include some of those legends but they are the minority. I would also agree with you that there are too many repeats but i get it. They need a few known characters in each wave to keep interest. Its a tough situation because we all see how many times they do this while the most requested wrestlers get ignored, but in the end as i learned myself (surprised face), is that they need permission to make each person/wrestler/manager/character. I was a star wars collector previous to this and just dabbled a bit in wrestling figures picking them up at swapmeets or garage sales if i saw them. Hasbro too has remade darth vader a few hundred times now and it was a big reason why i stopped being a completist and just decided to pick up new characters. But i never had a doubt that every character could be made. With these wwe figures that is not the case. There is a middleman in the way since mattel is not part of the wwe, so they (mattel) have no control over it. It was a big shock but in short those are the cards we are being dealt. My main worry is the wait. At the rate this has gone on it will take a long time till we get closwr to the finish line.... mainly due to all the repeats...

Just add to this, what could happen however is that a new company could come around and offer a better price as part as a deal with the wwe. The obvious elephant in the room is hasbro. They need a reboot and could try to take away one of mattels biggest ips. That could either be a bad thing or a blessing in disguise although hasbro would have the same problems mattel has.

That is another can of worms right there, in my opinion.

So let's say that Hasbro gets the license at the start of 2026, how many people would start over? Getting every legend from scratch, just the Hasbro version and not the Mattel version. I suspect a good number of people would use the opportunity to completely get out of it, unless they had some sort of amazing Legend debuts. But I am not sure what names out there would tip the scales in that direction. When Mattel took over from Jakks, they had Ricky Steamboat early on in the Legends line which was a big deal, then the Defining Moments Macho Man was another big deal, both early on in the line. I don't know if something like Haku or Hercules debuting for Hasbro would tip the needle at all like Steamboat or Savage.

I'd rather see Mattel keep the license, but at the same time see McFarlane get the license to do their typical 7 inch scale. The lines don't have compete with each other, a McFarlane WWE line belongs with the collectibles aisle like the NECA stuff.

Not to mention they ditched the MMPR line that they OWN.

Sounds like the “influencers” who are constantly coddled for never damning any product dropped the ball here. They’ve been spouting the word “line” in relation to this set since it was unveiled.