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Post by taserface on Dec 4, 2019 21:05:47 GMT -5
Would it ever be an option to include a ‘collectors edition’ figure in every series that Wal Mart and Target order? Instead of every other series
Could be a way of getting guys you have like Steamboat, Brain, Bulldog, JYD those alternate looks and not having to wait years to fit them in somewhere
And for Target there’s a never ending supply of NXT and women’s figures
Also sorry if answered already. Is Mae Young available to y’all to be made? I know that would definitely have to be a ‘right fit, right spot figure’. Would love to see Mattel’s version of her though
Thanks again
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Post by taserface on Dec 4, 2019 15:22:06 GMT -5
the 1st DM Undertaker has this also. But he didn’t just have a cloth shirt on either
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Post by taserface on Dec 4, 2019 14:54:05 GMT -5
Has there ever been any thought of creating carded subsets in the Elite line? Along the lines of Marvel Legends Retros (ToyBiz packaging), ML X Men Retros (ToyBiz packaging), Star Wars Black Series 40th (Kenner OG packaging). Most having minimal repaints or changes. Maybe a new character sprinkled in here or there
Just curious if any chance of doing the obvious Hasbro style, Jakks original BCA style, LJN style packaging of guys who may fit that theme
Or maybe even OSFTM or Galoob WCW style carding with
Rey Flair Sting Goldberg Hall Nash
Just something different and I feel like a lot of loose collectors tend to pick up multiples to keep carded versions. I know I do
Again thanks for your time and your answers
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Post by taserface on Dec 2, 2019 7:15:22 GMT -5
Wal Mart in Burlington had a whole display of the Masters of the WWE Universe ring with Triple H & Cena yesterday $30. Pretty cool I guess. If you have room for that type of stuff And they had remnants of E71. (2) Nikki’s and a Cena Any sign of the new Battle Packs? By new if you mean anything in the new style packaging. I haven’t seen anything in new packaging at retail
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Post by taserface on Dec 1, 2019 21:48:03 GMT -5
Wal Mart in Burlington had a whole display of the Masters of the WWE Universe ring with Triple H & Cena yesterday
$30. Pretty cool I guess. If you have room for that type of stuff And they had remnants of E71. (2) Nikki’s and a Cena
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Post by taserface on Nov 29, 2019 20:34:05 GMT -5
Have there been any other Wallyworld sightings of series 10 ? Seems fishy that they would be available there after the huge series 7 clearance. I have never seen 9 or 10 but lots of our Wal Marts in NC had Series 8 back in June or July maybe? If they stuck around they were included in the big clearance they had along with 7
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Post by taserface on Nov 24, 2019 12:55:18 GMT -5
For the post above. I never saw the Ghostbusters display either. And we have a TON of Wal Marts here in NC
Not my thing so didn’t really bother me. But never saw a display once. Saw the figures just a few times actually
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Post by taserface on Nov 17, 2019 18:36:38 GMT -5
Hi AFA, the “Top Talent” Series makes a lot of sense to me - always having the top wrestlers of the moment ready to buy in store for who ever comes in. Do you think there could be a place for the same concept but for Legends too? There are certain guys: Macho Man, Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan (when/if available) to name a few that could easily fit the bill for something like this and each of them have an endless back category of attires that have yet to be explored in Elite form. Just wanted to get your thoughts on it? This! Great question / idea
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Post by taserface on Nov 14, 2019 11:42:53 GMT -5
You referenced the next wave of UE figures after Beock and Shawn as the "Becky wave". Has there been an official confirmation as to who the other figure in the set is? Flair
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Post by taserface on Nov 13, 2019 8:33:42 GMT -5
Why hasn’t Mattel made any AWA title belts, I know people aren’t exactly demanding it but is there any reason why you guys haven’t made them? I would love them. But who would they realistically include them with? Slaughter is only one I can think of, and I’m not even sure he held the championship Zybysko is highly doubtful for another figure
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Post by taserface on Nov 13, 2019 8:31:13 GMT -5
I would like to ask about how the decisions are made to short pick various figures versus double packing some For instance WM 36 Elites - Instead of everyone having 2 each Matt Hardy gets 3 and Booker gets 1. And it’s a BAF. Shouldn’t everything be even? WM 35 Elites - we all know Scott Hall is popular. Why would he only get 1 per case and Triple H get 3? Again why not just everyone get 2? And the regular Elite line E68 - there’s a proven track record with Daniel Bryan. He doesn’t sell that great. For whatever reason. Why choose to double pack him, instead of Braun? E69 - Rey. I understand this choice. But to double pack E72 Rey, that is nearly identical? E72 - Bryan (again) and Triple H are double packed. Why not Alister Black (that you know there’s a huge demand for?, maybe the tattoo color hits??) That leads to another question. In some of these assortments. There doesn’t need to be multiple people getting double packed Is it ever an option to get 7 characters instead of 6? Or in the rare case of no store Exclusive, 8 separate characters? Just curious how these things work Mainline Elites are a case pack of 8. That means two will be double weighted. Your double weighted figs are your anchors of the waves. Your Batmans or Spider-Mans to compare to super hero lines. Those talents who anchor usually have proven history of sell through or have a popularity level high enough to greatly reduce the risk of clogging. Waves with BaF: Although many do, not every consumer wants to complete the BaF. Weighting of the waves is still evaluated by the talent included. This isn’t just done with WWE as you can see tons of examples with Marvel Legends where the same thing occurs. Thanks for the reply. To counter the Marvel Legends comparison though. Often those waves vary They may have 8 separate characters, 7 or 6. I’m guessing they adjust, where it seems like WWE is totally set on 6 per set. E68 would be a great example. You know and everyone knows that DB doesn’t have a great sell through history. Was or is it an option to just go 7 characters deep instead of double packing him Again not trying to troll or argue. Just genuinely curious. These Elite slots are getting fewer and fewer, with all the NXT talents, etc. Just exploring ways to get more talent in the line
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Post by taserface on Nov 12, 2019 20:23:14 GMT -5
Finally found Elite 70 at Asheboro Wal Mart
They had
EC3 Dolph pink Dolph black Vince Seth (2) Finns Briscoe
That was 8 figures. No Gargano which I thought was weird
Anyway, I picked up both Dolphs and Briscoe
They also had a Ricochet figure if anyone still needs one
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Post by taserface on Nov 12, 2019 19:32:50 GMT -5
I would like to ask about how the decisions are made to short pick various figures versus double packing some
For instance
WM 36 Elites - Instead of everyone having 2 each Matt Hardy gets 3 and Booker gets 1. And it’s a BAF. Shouldn’t everything be even?
WM 35 Elites - we all know Scott Hall is popular. Why would he only get 1 per case and Triple H get 3? Again why not just everyone get 2?
And the regular Elite line E68 - there’s a proven track record with Daniel Bryan. He doesn’t sell that great. For whatever reason. Why choose to double pack him, instead of Braun?
E69 - Rey. I understand this choice. But to double pack E72 Rey, that is nearly identical?
E72 - Bryan (again) and Triple H are double packed. Why not Alister Black (that you know there’s a huge demand for?, maybe the tattoo color hits??)
That leads to another question. In some of these assortments. There doesn’t need to be multiple people getting double packed Is it ever an option to get 7 characters instead of 6? Or in the rare case of no store Exclusive, 8 separate characters?
Just curious how these things work
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Post by taserface on Nov 12, 2019 16:34:30 GMT -5
I’m always very impressed with how you guys manage to get older names out that (I guess) are almost exclusively targeted at us older collectors rather than kids - roughly how much of a target market are us older brats compared to the younger generation these days? How difficult is it to get approval from either Mattel or WWE on names like Gorilla Monsoon or Don Muraco that the younger buyers likely don’t care about compared to Roman, AJ, etc., or do the sales numbers for classic names make them pretty easy inclusions these days? I’d love to hear a truthful open answer about this The sales #’s are hard to say because they sell them to Target, Wal Mart, etc. but honestly what Legends / Flashbacks do you see warming? In Elite style at least. The last ones I recall were the heavily over produced Berzerker, Warlord figures. Maybe that Razor FB in street clothes or overpriced Entrance Great Goldberg Angle FB, Sting, Dusty, Dude, Taker, Mabel, Rey, and even old school guys like Kane don’t warm. Even a low card guy like Scotty 2 Hotty didn’t warm, so that says something I would love to hear the argument of keeping them OUT of the lineups makes sense (and I’m not talking about the niche guys like Patterson, Briscoe, Gorilla, etc. I think the WM only is fine for those guys. I’m talking legit name in ring performer Flashbacks)
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Post by taserface on Nov 11, 2019 21:57:55 GMT -5
Series 1
1 - Kenny Omega 2 - PAC 3 - Jericho w/ championship belt 4 - Adam Page 5 - Christopher Daniels 6 - Goldust ‘Flashback’
1 - SCU (Scorpio Sky & Kazarian) w/ championship belts 2 - Bucks 3 - Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus
Series 2
1 - Moxley 2 - Cody 3 - MJF 4 - Awesome Kong 5 - Orange Cassidy 6 - Jerry Lynn ‘Flashback’
1 - LAX 2 - Best Fiends 3 - Rock N Roll Express (if they could work something out) if not Bucks repaints I guess
Series 3
1 - Jake Hager 2 - Cody (in suit) 3 - Goldust (current) 4 - Sammy Guervara 5 - Shawn Spears 6 - Jim Ross ‘Flashback’
1 - Lucha Bros (if they are available?) 2 - Jimmy Havoc / Darby Allin 3 - Kenny Omega / Jon Moxley
Roster is pretty limited so it would be a lot of repaints, plus adding in guys like Hager, Joey Jannela, Malenko, Billy Gunn, Schaviane and the women
They could go after lots of these stars that Mattel refuses to sign and have Mattel collectors automatically grabbing their product
Rick Martel, Adrian Adonis, Midnight Express, Dunamite, Nikita Koloff, Ivan Koloff, and on and on for about 100 more names
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Post by taserface on Nov 11, 2019 17:43:56 GMT -5
Can you comment on whether you have access to do a Michael Hayes figure? If not the other Freebirds, at least a Doc Hendrix figure
Thanks in advance
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Post by taserface on Nov 11, 2019 15:39:55 GMT -5
Is Nakamura really that tall? Not taking away anything from this setup. It’s cool as hell But I’m looking at that bottom picture and the scale looks all over the place. Drew looks like a giant and Ciampa looks like Rey. Crazy that they say that they pay attention to scale, because looking at this pic it’s so far off it’s not funny
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Post by taserface on Nov 10, 2019 11:28:40 GMT -5
I have a question Probably not going to be a popular one but as a Charlotte Flair collector I have to ask
There’s never been a female wrestler pushed like her over the last however many years now
How does she only have one Elite figure?
Sasha has 4 Becky has 3 Asuka has 3 Alexa has 3 Bayley has 2 Ronda has 2 Paige has 2
Just hard to believe she can’t get in a lineup more than once since coming in, but Sasha can take up 4 slots, and she quit for half a year.
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Post by taserface on Nov 9, 2019 8:50:45 GMT -5
I've spotted Elite 71 at North Hills Target, they seem to be the only Target in the area with their stuff together. This was a week ago as well, apologies for not posting sooner but I dont visit the site much anymore. I saw Ohno, Cole & Drew. Have you seen any Elite 70 your way? I haven’t seen the first Elite 70 fig yet either. Getting impatient for Briscoe and Dolph
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Post by taserface on Nov 5, 2019 22:34:50 GMT -5
Found grey Hulk tonight sick fig! Where did you find Grey Hulk? And how much was he? (Assuming it was at retail)
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