Wrestling Toys (Mattel WWE, Jazwares AEW, etc.)

Got my Stephane and Giulia this week. Really impressive work.

Then I see the 126 Roxanne Perez on YouTube and she looks like the part in Beetlejuice where they pull their faces out.
 
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Jeremy Padawer is just a typical no-talent opportunistic sleazebag...He's probably most famous for his time running the 'boys' division of Jakks Pacific where, again, his entire philosophy was to crank out as many rare, chase, or exclusive figures as possible to create tons of figures with high secondary market prices that only 'true collectors' could even dream of owning. He is largely also held responsible for such stellar decisions as Rey Mysterio and The Undertaker using the same body mold. Because Jeremy Padawer does not give a single fuck about the actual product.
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Naked Mark Henry and Rock N Roll Express with reversed hair color say hello.
 
Got Koko and Frankie from Amazon over the weekend. Frankie has soft rubbery wings, nothing fancy that would allow some kind of possibility. Koko has a wig for a headband or no headband look. The wig is well done with a good fit. Andre has the only other wig that represents an actual hairstyle I can remember and the shape looked off. Back in the day, I took a picture of Brock and Batista wearing Andre's and Goldust's wigs, but unfortunately Photobucket wants $5 to recover my account.

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Bull Nakano and the rest of Legends 31 are available on Mattel Creations.

Bull, while wearing a Joker T-shirt, no sells cane shots from Aja Kong and I believe Bison Kimura. From an era when the company doesn't give everyone the name of a second rate pornnstar.
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Vala has a new video about LJN wrestling and just pronounced Ted Arcidi as Ted Arcadey 🤦

Since Philadelphia's USPS distribution center always manages to slow down my packages, I will have to wait until Monday to find out if Zombie Sailor Toys Abdullah the Butcher figure was worth $81 shipped.

Besides this wrestling figure, Philadelphia is also sitting on my HotToys Vi from BBTS. I paid $23 to ship it. Complete waste.
 
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I got Bull Nakano and Abdullah yesterday. Bull is a disappointment for the figure I was looking forward to the most this year. First off, she has the giraffe neck. The sculpted portion of her neck is possibly too long, but may have been ok if the neck peg was shorter. Pop the head off and the neck peg looks crazy long. How does someone approve this? So, we have new torso, new boots, possibly new thighs (not sure if Piper Niven's), and we'll finish it off with Alexa Bliss sized arms and shoulders. I might be slightly exaggerating about the Alexa arms, but pretty close. I think the best option here is to leave the soft goods robe on, which I didn't want to do, to hide the arms and to slightly distract from the neck.

I'm much more positive about Abbie, despite the price. Actually, it's not so much the price of these figures and more about the articulation. If I'm paying import or boutique prices, I kind of expect import or Savage Crucible levels of articulation, not S7 or 4H. I'd like to get one of these figures with a more traditional body type to see how well they move. Abbie has single jointed elbows that don't quite hit 90° and I'm not sure if it's just the girth preventing much movement in the hips. Underneath the soft goods pants are double jointed pinned knees. His waist is a swivel. Upper torso is a ball joint that allows a small slouch forward, which may be appropriate for a guy his size. They went with an all in one head and neck sculpt you don't see too often outside of 1/6 figures. It moves and looks reasonably well. Overall, I think it's a good looking figure. The likeness and distinct body shape is there. Maybe it could use a matte finish? I'd like to get Bundy and Pillman, but don't want to drop an additional $70 for each too soon. They're preorder was $60 and I hear they are currently carried at Newburry Comics.

Fact according to Google: Abbie is 85 years old and been married four times. Born in Canada and was not really the Madman from the Sudan.
 
Aw man, disappointing to hear about Bull. She sold out before I could get her, but I'm still planning on picking one up (or two, let's be honest; she does occasional signings stateside, I want to keep one in package for that). Just sounds like I might need to swap some parts here and work out a fix.

EDIT: What do you MEAN Abbie isn't really the Madman from the Sudan?! Is nothing sacred anymore.
 
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Fact according to Google: Abbie is 85 years old and been married four times. Born in Canada and was not really the Madman from the Sudan.
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I don't want to blow your mind or anything, but George "The Animal" Steele wasn't a savage simpleton (he was a high school teacher), Bob "Sparky Plug" Holly wasn't a race car driver, and Undertaker wasn't an undead mortician or cult leader (he IS a biker though). :LOL:
 
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I don't want to blow your mind or anything, but George "The Animal" Steele wasn't a savage simpleton (he was a high school teacher), Bob "Sparky Plug" Holly wasn't a race car driver, and Undertaker wasn't an undead mortician or cult leader (he IS a biker though). :LOL:
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My entire worldview is -SHATTERED-.
 
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If there wasn't another reason to be annoyed by Kyle Peterson, I think his Bull figure has a better seated head. I took a flat head screwdriver and scraped away some material from the socket. Looks a little better.
 
That new Jake Roberts looks pretty good...... goddamn it.
 
I left a mildly terse and indignant comment for Nerdzoic.com today. Out of all their shipping options, I chose UPS, thinking it was your typical UPS Ground, like it always has been. Instead I got UPS Surepost. What usually takes one day, is now three. I was wondering why Roxanne wasn't out for delivery. Might as well turn off the red light.
 
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