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

I bought the Road Warriors, I thought they were fine, but they didn't really fit size wise with either WWE or AEW. They were just fudgeable. I had sold all my Mattel Hawk and Animal figures, so I figured I would give them a try. @RicksNerdLife assessment of Demolition is spot on. RSC must've got burned on those when Mattel's preorder went up before RSC's figures were released.
I did appreciate RSC releasing figures without any drawn out promotion or preorder. They said they had an announcement and the next day Hawk and Animal were for sale and ready to ship.
 
Oh.. wow... that Demolition set looks terrible.
I guess the Road Warriors don't look bad, but I don't care enough about them to be nitpicky.
 
Curious if they'd make more TNA stuff, though, or if it's just that Hendry's such a big name at this point that a figure sells itself.

Did those Powertown TNA figures end up coming out? Were they any good?
 
The TNA figures must be closing in on 2 years since their preorder. I have a Powertown Jordynne Grace on preorder. They offered a take your pick of a free series 1 figure as an apology for being late on their current preorders. This was back in Oct 2024, I got a Stan Hansen from them.
Vader at the Buster Douglas vs Mike Tyson fight, the night after Stan Hansen popped out Vader's eyeball:
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I got wrestling figures for Christmas for the first in about 40 years, the chase Mariah and Willow. Willow is a bit more than a repaint, I think it has better expression compared to the regular version.
 
Agreed. And btw, how many ****ing Ultimate Hogans are there now? He's in the Greatest Hits 2025 refresh, was that not recent enough? Needed to have that rubber shirt?
 
Gotta make sure there's lots of Hogans on shelves while his death is still fresh and everyone is too busy screaming 'don't say mean things about the dead' to discourage you from buying figures of one of wrestling's biggest douchebags.
 
Hulkster was really hard to like in his later years, but I admittedly still have that nostalgia where he was my hero as a kid growing up in the 80s. It's hard to let go of that even when I was disgusted by many of the things he said and did during my adult years. There's little worse than realizing that your childhood hero is a deeply flawed human being. I have also found it a little distasteful that his "Real American Beer" commercial still plays so often since his passing.

I had two heroes growing up as an 80's kid. Hulk and Ryne Sandberg of my beloved Cubs. It was hard when they both passed within days of each other earlier this year. It made me realize that I was getting old and made me really recognize my own mortality in a way that I hadn't since my parents both passed within a couple of years of each other about a decade ago. I turned 50 this year and I lose both of them in their mid 60's.
 
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Not to rehash this argument over and over again - obviously you guys live your life and don't worry about what I think.
But no matter how hard I try to 'get it,' I can't. I really just can't. Not saying I'm 'better' than anyone else, but I don't have hero worship issues. No celebrity or authority figure or anything else means so much to me that I can't flush them down the toilet if I find out they're a piece of shit.

My favorite wrestler of all time is Bret Hart. Nothing can ever take away the memories and emotion of watching his matches, following his career, playing with his action figures, etc. But if it came out today that he's a virulent racist, pathological liar, and all around garbage human being - that's it. I never have to watch another interview, buy another action figure, etc. For me, it really is that easy and that simple.
 
Excited for that Rhea. It's maybe more of an event-specific look than I usually want for an Ultimate, but it looks cool and this is probably a case where it was the best way to budget for it. But she's wildly popular so I'm expecting we'll also get another more typical Rhea look as an Ult down the line.
 
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Damien said:
Not to rehash this argument over and over again - obviously you guys live your life and don't worry about what I think.
But no matter how hard I try to 'get it,' I can't. I really just can't. Not saying I'm 'better' than anyone else, but I don't have hero worship issues. No celebrity or authority figure or anything else means so much to me that I can't flush them down the toilet if I find out they're a piece of shit.

My favorite wrestler of all time is Bret Hart. Nothing can ever take away the memories and emotion of watching his matches, following his career, playing with his action figures, etc. But if it came out today that he's a virulent racist, pathological liar, and all around garbage human being - that's it. I never have to watch another interview, buy another action figure, etc. For me, it really is that easy and that simple.
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I don't disagree with any of this. My imagery of Hulk Hogan when I was 8-9 years old in the early 80's, was pristine though, at a time when I probably still thought pro wrestling was real, LOL. He was the "role model" for me as an elementary school kid when I didn't have a lot of great male examples in my life growing up in a very shitty small town. Obviously what I know as an adult tarnishes almost all of that I looked up to as a kid. I probably haven't ever put another human being on a pedestal like that in my entire life. I think you get to know better than that pretty early in life - but I certainly didn't yet at that age.

My years of watching wrestling were when guys like Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels were lesser known tag team wrestlers who hadn't really started as singles wrestlers yet, so that's how I still think of Bret - half of the Heart Foundation with the Anvil and managed by Jimmy Hart. I really never knew him as a singles wrestler. I had stopped watching by that point and then he was long out of the business by the time I started watching again as an adult. I never got to enjoy him when he was the guy that you remember and mostly now know him from the guy he is today, someone who comes off to me as extremely bitter and angry at the entire world. We have just different memories of different individuals at different times in their and our own lives and how they impacted us. No one is likely as good as their best moments or as bad as their worst.

So agreed, celebrity worship in general is bad...because all of these guys are mostly just playing a character. However sometimes even those flawed human beings can help us aspire to be something more than we might otherwise. 8-9 year old me needed that character of Hulk Hogan even if the human being behind the caricature obviously didn't match. I didn't know that yet then, didn't need to and I'm glad that I' didn't. That type of lesson could/would come often as a I got older.
 
That Rhea went up on DJC a while ago and I grabbed it solely off the render/her scarcity in general. Happy to see it translated to plastic and paint well.
 
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I didn't know that yet then, didn't need to and I'm glad that I' didn't.
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But you know now. And you still buy the toys.
Kind of my entire point. Not being able to let go of that childhood hero worship even in the face of overwhelming evidence someone is a piece of shit was what my entire post was about, and it's precisely the thing I just don't understand. I get -what- you're saying, I just can't make myself -understand- the mentality of it.
 
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