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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 20:48:51 GMT -5
The chase is 100% 97. Shawn wore wrist tape in 03, not the hand wraps. The chase also has the Heartbreak Kid logo on the tights. Which he didn’t wear in his return since he switched that to Shawn Michaels. The head is definitely more 03 looking but they can only change the attires on the chase, not anything else. Oh crap, you’re right. Why the hell didn’t they just make it the Rumble 2003 version!? haha, i didn’t even notice the wrist tape. No clue. They were trying to make two sets of fans happy I guess, but it would have made more sense to just do two versions from 03/04 because of the head. I put the extra head from the UE Shawn on the chase Basic.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 20:23:29 GMT -5
The basic 100 chase is from One Night Stand. The mass release is from 2003. And he won the tag titles with Austin in 97 and they wrestled each other at KOTR that year as the tag champs. I would love that attire. I posted pics, it’s definitely the 2003 Rumble attire. He has the old guy head, it’s gotta be the Rumble. I see what you’re saying, he has the same attire at One Night Only, but the hair is the old guy hair as well as a sculpt That’s what I was thinking of, I guess it’s first half of 97 that I want an HBK of. I don’t think we have ever gotten one. The chase is 100% 97. Shawn wore wrist tape in 03, not the hand wraps. The chase also has the Heartbreak Kid logo on the tights. Which he didn’t wear in his return since he switched that to Shawn Michaels. The head is definitely more 03 looking but they can only change the attires on the chase, not anything else.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 20:09:54 GMT -5
Is this sarcasm? E19/Lost Legends, Ringside DX, Ultimate Edition from SvS, Basic 100 chase, all from 97. Noooo, basic 100 chase is rumble 2003 Do I have the wrong year? I’m thinking of the Tag Team era with Stone Cold when he had the beard and the zebra pants The basic 100 chase is from One Night Stand. The mass release is from 2003. Shawn never wore the hand wraps after he retired in 98. He also switched from Heartbreak Kid (the chase) to Shawn Michaels on the back of his tights when he returned. And he won the tag titles with Austin in 97 and they wrestled each other at KOTR that year as the tag champs. I would love that attire.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 20:03:36 GMT -5
Do we know yet which attire that figure is gonna be? I don’t think in the history of wrestling action figures we have ever gotten a HBK ‘97. It would be nice to finally get one here Is this sarcasm? E19/Lost Legends, Ringside DX, Ultimate Edition from SvS, Basic 100 chase, all from 97.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 19:12:01 GMT -5
Great video. But guys... that chair is PINK!! 🤪 ![](https://media.giphy.com/media/l0IyjxxfGfdqEiVfa/giphy.gif)
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 19:08:01 GMT -5
Yeah that makes me want the ring even less, but I likely wasn’t ever going to display it anyway.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 18:39:34 GMT -5
Isn't Elite 89 WrestleMania 7 Sarge? He just needed the boots that came on the Basic? I can't say I understand the boots thing. I guess they could redo the Hall of Fame Sarge and add the boots to that one right? I'm not an expert on Sarge. It seems like they're in the ballpark it's just not right.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 13:53:49 GMT -5
No Peter, oddly, but good luck so far at Target. ![](https://i.postimg.cc/2ys4qS08/C1-AE663-B-6-BDE-478-C-A876-5-B48500393-F0.jpg)
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 10:41:08 GMT -5
Neca actually does a pretty good job rereleasing exclusives. They charge an arm and a leg to ship them to you, and you have to wait forever, but they’ve done a ton of goodwill in the last year with getting stuff on their site imo. Randy is an A+ dude if you ask me.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 10:38:04 GMT -5
Yeah, that’s why I can’t really not defend them taking it upfront. If there’s an option to pay later, there could be a lot of people to not pay it or not have the funds. They could do an autopay thing but that may not work either. Idk lol. You don’t need a “pay later” option. Literally all they needed to do was force you to back with a valid card for it to count, but not touch the money until the campaign was over and it was successfully backed. Literally exactly like Hasbro does it. This is a goofy debate. HasLab does it correctly. Mattel does not. End of conversation.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 10:36:19 GMT -5
I need that belt for Kushida.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 9:13:28 GMT -5
I’ll also be passing and would have bought at $45. Oh well. Hopefully they do a single release.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 9:07:44 GMT -5
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 27, 2021 8:38:23 GMT -5
I don’t want to raise the bar too high, but sweet mother of Gozer does this all feel so right.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 26, 2021 21:38:29 GMT -5
I got a DDP just now.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 26, 2021 15:26:32 GMT -5
We have an entire thread on this already, most firmly expressing either their disinterest or lack of confidence in this project. Thats not good enough. Its SDCC time...Thats when all the people nobody has ever heard of come out on here and tell you how much they hate mattel, collecting, target, pre-orders, kittens and chocolate cake Like any of us really give a ![](http://www.wrestlingfigs.com/images/wfcensored.gif) . ![](https://media.giphy.com/media/GUi6Wy5CQjKxy/giphy.gif)
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 26, 2021 15:24:16 GMT -5
Gene and Piper are great, but I couldn't care any less about the other two. Even then, I would have done a 90s Piper with black boots. That's the entire reason we wanted him with removable kilt is because the Hasbro figure was permanently in entrance gear.
Hopefully the next wave is something really strong. Matching Bret and Anvil, King, Shawn with hearts, USA Luger, Mabel, Vader, a much needed female like Liz/Sherri/Luna. Something that hits the mark. DX, the Kliq, NWO, any of those. Paul Bearer and Heenan. This is kind of a swing and miss for me as far as an entire "comeback' set. I'm not very excited about these right now, which I can't believe I'm saying.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 26, 2021 12:04:37 GMT -5
Topher Grace played Venom… I honestly think most of Raimi’s trilogy was bogged down by horrible casting. Dunst was way too homely looking to be MJ. But man, Venom was offensive in Spidey 3. I think Raimi just threw crap into those movies to entertain himself. He definitely did on 3.
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 26, 2021 12:03:14 GMT -5
Bill nailed this Taker the same way he did Dude Love's shirt...
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Post by punksnotdead on Jul 26, 2021 11:57:50 GMT -5
It's also a game of margins for Hasbro. They're making considerably more money going direct to consumer on the bigger items. Walmart does chargebacks for things that don't sell. Target doesn't but Hasbro also doesn't want these large items clearanced out. Which Target usually does too quickly since they want aisle turnover.
And yeah, as was mentioned, Galactus is 32" tall. It would need to go in the bike aisle haha.
I think the major difference between this and the HasLab stuff is that people weren't really questioning the value of the HasLab items. That Sail Barge wasn't a thing we were getting at retail for $500 and it's massive. And people had been asking for it for years. I don't think this ring set, which I fully support and want, checks those boxes. The perceived value isn't high, the demand really isn't that high outside of maybe the entryway, and I don't think people were asking specifically for this or feel it's a thing we couldn't get parted out.
Maybe there are 4,000 people just sitting around waiting to order this thing on 8/22 but I think there are plenty of reasons why we're sitting at less than a thousand backers after the initial launch. If it's not confusing to us why it's doing so poorly to this point then you have to question why Mattel put this set in this position.
Honestly, this reminds me of WB not copying Disney on the MCU. All you had to do was copy what they did, but just do it with your characters. But they didn't, and now we're stuck with Justice League.
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