Just a thought... or two...

If you are suggesting that the part tooling done by Jakks is owned by WWE, you're not only mistaken but you are quite obviously mistaken. While parts tooled to specifically represent a WWE superstar or trademarked attire would be effectively useless without a WWE license, the core parts and accessories are Jakks' work and can be used outside of the WWE contract.

More to the point, they HAVE been used outside of that contract. Do the Scorpion King and Rocky figures ring a bell? You misunderstand the nature of the business relationship here. Jakks isn't being hired to produce a product WWE owns. Rather, Jakks has paid WWE for a license to produce toys using WWE's intellectual property and trademarks. Their work, from sculpting to packaging design, is THEIR work. WWE can seek out another company at the end of the contract, but they can't take Jakks' work with them. That new company would start from scratch. While it is conceivable to some of Jakks work has contractual limitations on it, those limitations have to be in the contract and we've seen evidence that those limitations are at least not very broad. Jakks isn't working for WWE, strictly speaking. They've paid WWE to make and sell WWE products.

Could Jakks make unlicensed wrestling figures? Maybe. It depends on the contract, but its not impossible that there could be a no-compete clause that prevents Jakks from producing wrestling figures for a period of time after the contract expires. If they can produce wrestlings, there is no guarantee that they would want to. Without the WWE brand, it would be difficult to maintain retail interest in the product. Not unprecidented, though, as ToyBiz/Marvel Toys has shown us with their Legendary Heroes line. Those toys, frankly, had no business being offered at mass market but Marvel was able to sell them to the big toy retailers. At the same time, if its not successful, it could make those stores dubious of Jakks even if they had a potentially better product to offer.

Given that WWE has strongly positioned "Superstars" as its unique name for its wrestlers, I doubt they could maintain the name of "Classic Superstars". It may seem generic, but that sort of thing is upheld all the time and I suspect is a valid trademark. They key is how its being used as the protection would only apply to a wrestling context, but that is the context being discussed here. Anything derived of "Ruthless Aggression" is even more clearly protected by trademark and statute so those names would be out the window, too. Besides that, if they continued making figures, they would obviously want to brand them as a nostalgia line stemming from the CS line and not RA, DA, Adrenaline, etc. They might just opt for "Classic Wrestlers" to emphasize that they are wrestling figures. I don't see this happening, but it would be an option available to Jakks and given how much they have invested in parts during their WWE contract, the cost of starting a line like this could be quite attractive.

I was discussing the trademark and copyright situation, not talking about molds or casts. You came in late on this and are turning it into a different conversation.