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Post by Gorilla on Mar 6, 2019 16:05:20 GMT -5
I guess some people fail to realize what the term 'exclusive' means. If a figure is such a big deal to you, join a forum like this one, and make some friends in the US that would be willing to go find one for you and ship it over to you. Or you look the other way and realize it's just a toy and should be available to everyone? Toys are like flying first class, or celebrity night clubs, not for your regular Joe Schmo
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 6, 2019 15:59:59 GMT -5
See, you point of that you “only get one day”... that’s your choice in life. Granted you don’t complain about it or blame Mattel, but obviously with having a family, certain things get put on the back burner. Some people don’t see that and believe everything should go the way they want it to 100% of the time. That’s just not how life works. Well, the kids WERE a choice but having to share 1 car with the mrs is kinda no choice. Dont get me wrong, It SUCKS not having to find ANY new figs (I'm a Authors mark and I JUST found Rezar @ Target. Sadly, no Akam) but I just know of all else fails, I can get them for half off somewhere down the line at flea markets, collectible shows, or BF sales. It seems like Walmart Canada only got Akam lol
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 6, 2019 13:36:08 GMT -5
He was a very large man. It was probably heart related If you've seen him in recent years, he looked like literally 1/2 the man that he was when he wrestled. I saw a pic of him from a around 2015 and I initially didn't recognize him. Being that big for that long does a lot of damage
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 6, 2019 13:13:20 GMT -5
I like it here as well. It would get hammered by current generation fans as an attack on the present day style.
We did have our share of injuries though. Jesse Ventura's career was ended through injuries. Bret Hart had that nasty injury with Bravo. Shawn messed up his knee again later in his career. Savage had a messed up elbow for mania 5.
I'm sure there are a lot of instances of bad injuries, in the 80s you had to work through them or not get paid.
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 6, 2019 12:12:47 GMT -5
Yes I would love if Bill we're to tell us if this was a short run figure and series or if he thinks there are more cases of this series somewhere out there that will be available down the road. Then he would be either admitting hirer ups at mattel are either ignorant or incompetent or both. So it's very unlikely he will say anything. If Zack Ryder aka VintageFigs1 wants to put bill on his podcast and point blank ask him what the hell happened, that would be awesome. Yes, that would be awesome.
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 6, 2019 7:53:17 GMT -5
That Jakks head is one of the only heads that looks better than Mattel (from what I have scene).
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 6, 2019 7:17:27 GMT -5
Big part of my childhood. A larger than life character during the glory days of wrestling. RIP Bundy was *THE* biggest villain in WWF for a couple of years. Until Andre turned, Bundy was the guy who crushed the babyfaces the most. If you were a kid, he seemed genuinely scary. He looked happy and healthy in recent years. He enjoyed his past fame, but he wasn't desperately clinging to the biz. I'm shocked that he's gone at only 61.He was a very large man. It was probably heart related
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 22:25:38 GMT -5
I am experiencing similar fears to toys as I am with comic books right now. Every week people looking to get rich off comics are running 2-5 titles a week up to $20 or so a book which is insane inflation on a $4 comic. Toys are the same way, someone snaps up all the chases. Another decides no price is too high. Boom, now us reasonable people who know that no piece of mass market plastic is worth $120 just have to pray we get lucky or we just take our ball and go home. I see longtime comic readers drop left and right because of how terrible the market is. Now I see toys doing the same. They are both wounded critically and I don't think either market will sustain in their current form. Hyperbolic to say the least.
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 20:38:54 GMT -5
Lol. Uhhhh.... That would be George the Animal Steele. Enzo must have an IQ of 70
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 20:37:56 GMT -5
Heel Rousey works much better. She should've been booked like Brock and have Heyman do the talking. Hell, have Alexa Bliss do the talking.
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 19:36:58 GMT -5
What I'm really hearing is Target and Walmart suck. Mattel should be giving them both feedback on what collectors are saying.
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 19:00:23 GMT -5
I say we ship you to Vladivostok and you try collecting from there. I'd get my figures anywhere I was, I don't complain, I have a good core of helpers lol Thatta boy
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 18:33:59 GMT -5
I feel like I'm celebrity spotting in the crowd. There's Liz! There's Sting!
LoL
Wonderful job man
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 18:32:14 GMT -5
This topic is sooo boring now I say we ship you to Vladivostok and you try collecting from there.
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 13:32:51 GMT -5
The only ones bothering me are flashback 3. That series really pissed me off I hear ya, the debacle with Flashback 3 has pretty much turned me off these Mattel figures completely. Mattel has really botched things with all these store exclusives, they have cancelled one line after another, its ridiculous. I echo Powerfred3k's sentiment- its time for a change, Mattel has had the license long enough- time for someone else to take over. I agree, but I want them to stay in scale with Mattel, and likeness. I also want them to make guys that we need. Go crazy like Jakks did lol
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 11:30:38 GMT -5
The only ones bothering me are flashback 3. That series really pissed me off
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 10:49:46 GMT -5
Guys, OP is being melodramatic, but I am with him.
Some of your replies are terrible. Yes, there are disasters in the world and other people suffering, but this is a wrestling figure forum. It's not Reddit. It's not Facebook. It's not Instagram. Yes, this has been discussed ad nauseam, but his complaints are valid. If US stores want these exclusive figures, they should be made available to the foreign collectors as well through some other means. I don't know that that is, it'd need to be locked to US collectors to keep the US retailers happy.
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 10:33:35 GMT -5
I hadn’t watched RAW when seeing this thread, so I was thrown off with the ending of the show. Ronda is still the champion and we’re still where we expected to be, Becky needing to beat Charlotte to make Mania a 3-way. Ok, I never watch Raw, just the occasional PPV, and saw the Raw results from last week and was super confused.
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 6:16:31 GMT -5
RIP Bundy!
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Post by Gorilla on Mar 5, 2019 6:12:02 GMT -5
I'm looking for a Mattel body for announcer Gorilla Monsoon. Would Paul Heyman work with longer legs from maybe another suited figure? Maybe mankind torso modified on Luke harper legs. I’ve been wanting to make a Gorilla for a bit now but jakks head too big. Maybe a modified big show torso on harpers legs The Jakks head is big? Bummer! Is there anyway to shrink them?
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