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I think like 90% of guys have more success in WWE than anywhere else, once you've even just touched WWE, especially nowadays with televised developmental, you've suddenly got way more star power.

I would say Asuka and Shinsuke, have gone from the types of stars that are very popular in their home countries and to hardcore wrestling fans to being considered the best in the biggest wrestling company in the world.
That is a pretty huge skyrocket. Shinsuke is the face of this month's PPV.

I think Jeff Jarrett went from being a moderately big star to the HHH of the second most well known wrestling company for years. If we are considering TNA an Indy, that is.

Hmm...I think the Indys are a great place for big guy personalities in smaller stature bodies, maybe like The Ascension?
Those guys were super heroes in NXT and Stardust bumbling goons on the main roster.

I read an interview with Low-Ki this week saying that with the current structure of WWE and NXT he'd have a very different run there now and I have to agree, the guys they push now like AJ, Joe and Balor...he can put on an amazing show with them.
He came in still at a pretty big man dominated company but the recent shift and loss of a lot of their older, larger stars and emergence of hard-kicking high flyers, would give him a lot of potential.

I'm kind of disappointed he is Godfather in all his appearances, I loved Papa Shango.

Obviously he is both but it discourages me from getting a photo.

Who were the other two?

I would love to see pics!

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It was an awkwardly timed line I thought lacking in both rings and accessories and I thought the idea of releasing so many scales/styles of figures simultaneously was idiotic.

However, the main line, Deluxe Impact, had good size and movement.

The main problem with the sets were Jakks had already become pretty lazy by the time they got the TNA license, while Toybiz was constantly making new parts, new accessories, Jakks would give you a very buff Brother Ray and the same weird, sparse Abyss tops he never wore.

From not long ago when Low-Ki, Sonjay and Suicide returned to fight for the X-Division Title to this week's Ultimate X match, Matt Sydal calling out the champ and of course, the newer crop of talent, I think the X-Division has some potential right now.

I would really like to see Homicide compete again too.

My only gripe is that it's still pretty heavily focused on Andrew Everett and Trevor Lee, two of my least favourite stars right now (I won't say they weren't good in Ultimate X, just not my personal preference)...I was disappointed not seeing Dezmond Xavier in this week's main event, that guy is unbelievable.

What does everyone else think?

I know a lot of their "Make Impact Great Again" talk has been mostly nonsense but the division (and match types) that really made TNA stick out in the first place seems like it can really make up for what the rest of the show might be missing right now.

I was disappointed to read that Low-Ki is determined to challenge Lashley and move up to the World Title picture, he'd have some great matches I'm sure, but I hope he changes his mind and sticks to the X-Division or at least divides his time well like so many stars (AJ, Joe, Aries) have done before him.

Hey, 

This seems like a pretty straightforward topic, but this is what I am interested in seeing in the next WWE 2K release, off the top of my head..

1. I'd like the simple change that you can have more match number choices in Universe Mode.
If I want to rush through it doing one match for Raw and 1 for Smackdown! then 3 for PPVs I'd like to be able to without all the skipping and simulating.

I remember one match per show was how me and my friends would play GM Mode against eachother in the old games so we would be able to enjoy it quickly without getting bored waiting for our turn.

Also after 6 months, NXT's roster is so empty I can't run a show, but if it only had one match per week, I could.
They could change it so your roster size for a show measures up with how many matches it has.

2. More cut scenes.
Every year they say Universe Mode has more cut scenes and I still haven't seen all of them from the first iteration.
For whatever reason, more times than not, rivalry matches happen without one, and when they do get a cut scene it's often the old "OMG HE DIDN'T SHAKE HIS HAND"

3. More exaggerated tired/weakened animations.
I love the animations when somebody just lays down for a few seconds after a move then crawls over for the pin and I'd like to see more of these. (If anyone knows how to change your settings a bit so this happens more often, please let me know.)

4. More OMG Moments.

By far, my favourite part of the game, is still somewhat lacking in some areas.
I found it strange that there are so many different new table moves and cool Authority desk moves but there's still no Powerbomb through a table unless you both climb up on it.
Actual announce table finishers are limited to an Attitude Adjustment, a few Chokeslams, a few flying moves and they took out the Rock Bottom for some reason.


5. Reversals into reversals.

Way back when TNA made it's console and handheld debuts, they introduced a very smooth, very cool reversal system where a reversal could be reversed, and then that reversal could be reversed, and so on!

I think you can do this with a very limited number of moves in WWE2K17, but I'd like to see this become a large feature in the next game. 
It has become pretty common in recent years to see this happen on TV and it'd be fun to see in the game, especially if they're going to put 205 Live into the game. (Hopefully the purple ropes and such will be implemented as well as Sin Cara's special match lighting was when he was first introduced to the games.)


That's it for now!

I'm gonna add that if a lot of the 205 guys don't start doing more, we might see a lot of them showing up in TNA as it tries to reignite it's X-Division.

I remember being bothered in the old games, even in the new games, that the created guys often look a little worse off than the guys who are actually in the game and the only exceptions were if you used like a bear suit or knight outfit or something that would completely cover the person head to toe, so I used to make a lot of guys like that just so I'd have a created person that actually looked like they fit with the other wrestlers quality-wise.

I also (like so many) had all the fictional characters in the GameCube games because those games really let you go nuts.

This year I haven't played around too much, every once in a while I'll make a bikini brawl match at summer slam for the divas or I dressed all the divas in jobber gear so Alundra Blaze would have an actual opponent but after reading this I might have to add some silly outfits to some of the wrestlers.

I love the show and hope it comes back even if it's just a shorter series of YouTube episodes.

I thought the best figures were the ones that originally came out before the smaller, lighter, thinner plastic ReScan series and the somewhat disappointing two-packs with smaller, non-transforming figures.

I have a pretty complete collection but I'm thinking of replacing the Bumblebee I got second hand with an Energize one to match my other figures.

Also thinking of picking up Fire Station Prime, and a Heatwave/Mobile Command Centre because those two I also got second hand.

Anyone else or their kids/grandkids/nephews/nieces/younger siblings collect these?