Is the Maivia Legacy 3-Pack the Worst Selling 3-Pack Ever?

This set is one of the only things my Walmart has for wrestling figures along with a basic Ronda, several nick jackson exclusives and a few dreaded Nyla rose figures that have been put out recently which I feel like I’ll never see the end off, I’m sure that Roman and Samoans pack will warm just as if not harder

I feel like if someone’s got momentum has usually died down before the figures come out, heck sometimes superstars aren’t even with the company anymore when they come out perfect example Ethan Page

I'm honestly pretty sure the reason they made this is because they saw the Bloodline was money in 2022 and tried to make a cash grab. Especially seeing as when it was announced.

Same with the new set. They seem to think that The Bloodline is still singlehandedly paying all their bills when most people were lukewarm at best on the notion of Temu Bloodline until two nights ago. Now they just want to see Roman wreck the imposters.

But the thing I said to a friend was, at no point were the fans chanting for the OG Bloodline, they were specifically chanting for Roman.

This is the Roman Reigns show, and it looks like he isn't going to have the help of guys like Jacob and the Usos (combined) to boost the program.

The second set will bomb even worse than the first because WWE has no clue how to strike while the iron is hot, and even if they try to, as said above, that long delay between announce and release means that 9/10 times, the momentum is completely DEAD by the time the figures come out.

See the LWO set, for example. That faction stopped being relevant about 3 weeks after the preorders were put up.

It really is, agreed.  LJN got Outback Jack out faster in the 80's than Mattel can get stuff out today.

Like at mcdonalds greed has reached its limits.

23$ a figure is too much for most.

I would love to see how the price of plastic correlates with the price increase of the first elites / marvel legends with mutiple points of articulation when they first sold for about 8$.

Bottom line even if people accept 23+ for a non exclusive mass released figure, it will nevwr be widely accepted over 30$. By 2030 we should be at that mark if this trend continues with 3 packs at 100$. Minimum raise doesnt increase enough in comparison = people will limit their purchases.

The completist is already dead. By 2030 they will kill the part time collector

Biggest differences between the 80s/90s is that now entire batches are printed/produced in full whereas before figures were recalled/reprinted/reproduced when supply did not match demand or vice versa. Now there is a quota that usually gets corrected with a newer series. One and done. Larger batches take longer to produce.

The other problem is the sheer amount of sublines. Mattel has to ask the factories to produce many more figures than before and articulated figures take longer to make than a rubber cast figure.

Walmart losing money at this point makes me exuberantly happy.

Maybe if they lose enough money on exclusives, they'll stop handling them, then those figures can go to someone who actually knows how to properly stock shelves.

Checked in again today, none have sold. They knocked 10 bucks off online but that's not enough for me, I can't justify it at any more than 50 bucks.

They discounted a bunch of aew figures at my store, but this set still sits full price. I stand by it though that 10 years from now this will be a sought after set.