Post by WalterF on Oct 17, 2007 22:02:05 GMT -5
I know I've been making several threads, but the last one about 2000-02 TTL's made me think: How much does the actual time period of wrestling effect the quality or enjoyment of the figures?
For example in BCA days the figures were simple, but there was no internet, no proto's. You showed up to the store and were geniunely suprised when a new series showed up. Another thing to note is that throughout a lot of the BCA days wrestlers wore more colorful, varied attires, therefore allowing more variations of figures.
The TTL days, particularly real scan era were with the dawn of internet wrestling figure sites that began to show proto's, find info out about figures way ahead of time. Since this era was the most popular era of WWF, I think the figures were exciting. The roster was full of cool wrestlers, but it sort of began the "maaaanny repeats of one figure" routine where we ended up seeing many HHH's, Rock's and Stone Cold's wearing virtually the same attires over and over.
Nowadays, wrestling figures is more internet based and interactive with the buyers than ever. We have internet exclusives, polls ... for the most part we have proto's many months ahead of time and line-ups that will take us through the next 6 months to a year. I also think the wrestling product itself affects the market because we have the top guys or who are considered top guys and not a whole lot of upper-mid card, etc. It's pretty much top card, then shoot down to low card. And, many of top guys have more repetetive attires. For example: Lashley, Umaga, John Cena wear either the same attire or extremely similar attires all the time. This is unlike 96 and 97 where you had Bret Hart, HBK, so on who constantly wore different attires. I believe JAKKS was aware that the current product is very limited so thats why they went the CS route.
Anyway, how much do you think the current times (current product, internet, knowing all line-ups months in advance) is compared to the past (if you have been collecting that long)?
For me, I really miss being suprised and seeing more variety, but at the same time now that I am conditioned to seeing proto's and line-ups, i think I would get frustrated if I hate to wait to see wha tevery series was when it hit the store rather than have the knowledge mnoths in advance.
For example in BCA days the figures were simple, but there was no internet, no proto's. You showed up to the store and were geniunely suprised when a new series showed up. Another thing to note is that throughout a lot of the BCA days wrestlers wore more colorful, varied attires, therefore allowing more variations of figures.
The TTL days, particularly real scan era were with the dawn of internet wrestling figure sites that began to show proto's, find info out about figures way ahead of time. Since this era was the most popular era of WWF, I think the figures were exciting. The roster was full of cool wrestlers, but it sort of began the "maaaanny repeats of one figure" routine where we ended up seeing many HHH's, Rock's and Stone Cold's wearing virtually the same attires over and over.
Nowadays, wrestling figures is more internet based and interactive with the buyers than ever. We have internet exclusives, polls ... for the most part we have proto's many months ahead of time and line-ups that will take us through the next 6 months to a year. I also think the wrestling product itself affects the market because we have the top guys or who are considered top guys and not a whole lot of upper-mid card, etc. It's pretty much top card, then shoot down to low card. And, many of top guys have more repetetive attires. For example: Lashley, Umaga, John Cena wear either the same attire or extremely similar attires all the time. This is unlike 96 and 97 where you had Bret Hart, HBK, so on who constantly wore different attires. I believe JAKKS was aware that the current product is very limited so thats why they went the CS route.
Anyway, how much do you think the current times (current product, internet, knowing all line-ups months in advance) is compared to the past (if you have been collecting that long)?
For me, I really miss being suprised and seeing more variety, but at the same time now that I am conditioned to seeing proto's and line-ups, i think I would get frustrated if I hate to wait to see wha tevery series was when it hit the store rather than have the knowledge mnoths in advance.
