So Hardcore Hak and Golga But No Big Poppa Pump???

The Steiners have been signed for over two years now and they each have two figures each, it’s fairly laughable given, a.) how easily the Steiners can fall out with WWE and thus not become available, b.) how quickly they can seemingly churn out other guys like Hogan. Tell me why I need a THIRD version of Bad Blood 97 Shawn Michaels for the sake of some extra hands and knee pads?

Mattel would rather focus on rereleasing every single figure already in existence, gutting the secondary market and existing collections built-up over 15 years, and spending tooling to stop customising figures.

I don’t think this is exactly true - losing the rights to Jarrett, Sting, Savage almost resets their status as “major signings”. Bringing any of those back into the fold would be a major signing as there are so many looks to still tap into.

There’s always those that have only one release - Martel, Bundy, Akeem, Demolition - that would be considered major too.

It’s laziness from Mattel - again, as said in my previous post, their focus is clearly monopolising the entire market by focusing on no more secondary market (rereleases galore) and no more customisation (e.g. torso redesigns on UEs).

Theyve done Sting and LOD. As I said, other than Jarrett, there’s not one name they haven’t already done that’s gonna be a bigger name. And I don’t even think Jarrett outside of his Double J attire is that toyetic.

Spot on!

Its a shame that they are just turning those u.es into elites when theres a lot of people that just didnt have the money due to the covid years and inflation.

Or even the space for that whole set up.

I hope mattel at least lets b.p.p slide by on the u.e scale instead of turning him elite

Apart from wave 3 and now waves 5 and 6

I know I'm absolutely in the weird minority here. But I am way more excited for Golga than I ever would be for another Scott Steiner. So excited that I have no problem buying 4 figures I don't really care about to build him. And Ill buy Hak if I see him but Big Poppa Pump would be a pass for me.

The list of true HEAVY hitters is slim. We all know we won't see a Mattel version of Owen or Benoit. It is all about those midcard names now. Guys like Crush/Ahmed Johnson/Dynamite Kid are the difference makers.

I don't blame Mattel too much because they can only work with who is signed by WWE. Like, if WWE is on a signing freeze, then they can only work with who they have. So Golga and Hardcore Hak are good choices, in my opinion. I have no doubt that we will see Big Poppa Pump in the line at some point - this is clearly going on longer than the 6 series announced, which is cool. The RA series lasted 6 series, so my hope is that this goes for 10 series. If we do get 10 total series, that would be excellent.

Honestly, I think they agreed to the line before they realized that they would be losing access to some of their wrestlers. In the last year or two they lost access to Goldberg and the Giant, along with the previous loss of Sting & Flair, that takes a lot of heat off from the WCW side of the line. So Mattel reaching into the bag to pull out Hardcore Hak or Golga makes sense.

I fully expect that we get Big Poppa Pump in the line as soon as wave 7 or 8.