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

mrboshek said:

I said my Nikki figure had loose torso, no idea what you guys are going on about.

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Was a magazine packed with the figure? If so, that's why she has a loose torso!

Amazon hit a price point on UE Shango/Warrior that was difficult to pass on at $37.95. This set catches me up on the Colosseum figures. If anyone hasn't seen them, the Colosseum Collection, has one of the packages I always regret having to toss. A heavy cardboard box holding two heavy card backs with a collector friendly slide off bubble, with the accessories hidden in a little box at the bottom to resemble the LJN poster location. The inside box is a gatefold of a front row with members of Mattel as faces in the crowd. They just take up too much space for two figures.

I bought the Piper's Pit set at Target last night.

I finished my Joe Hendry custom! Hopefully he gets an official Mattel figure soon.

Bunch of new reveals on TNI today. Or newish. Or first time we're seeing finished figures? I dunno, man.

Crush is going to be REALLY tempting if I'm able to get Ax and Smash, and an easy skip if I don't find them. I kind of wish he had different hands, though. First of all, why does every figure have gripping hands? Is everyone posing all of their figures with weapons/belts? But more importantly, my memories of Demolition are not just the actual wrestling, but the old Hasbro figures. And one (I think it was Ax?) had that body slam/press action with the big open hands. So between all three Demolition Elite figures, we still can't re-create that. Not a huge deal, but kinda sucks.

Guilia and Steph look really, really nice. As does black-and-red Seth. And, of course, Rhea.

A big disappointment and kind of 'slap in the face, what are you doing to yourself' is The New Age Outlaws. I just.. why? Why is Mattel so fucking cheap? Have they not made enough money with this license yet?

The slap in the face was... these are two of the figures that were a big reason why I sold off all my wrestling figures the last time I had a WWE collection. It just bothers me that they don't seem interested in getting these guys right. And it bothers me in particular with these two because Billy Gunn, true story, is one of my favorite wrestlers and has been since The Smoking Gunns. Like.. I would buy a Rocka-Billy Billy Gunn RIGHT NOW.

But look at these figures. Road Dogg always tucked his shirt in, so for 'in ring' you need him in that base body with the sculpted shirt. But they just paint up some skinny torso and it looks terrible as a shirt, first of all, and is representing someone like... 30 pounds lighter with 10 pounds more muscle than Road Dogg was on his best day. The pants aren't sculpted to look loose enough, and why does he look bored?

Then there's my boy Billy. Still using that same combination of long bare lower legs with those boots, resulting in a figure that doesn't look ANYTHING like Billy's actual ring attire. I just finished watching every RAW and PPV from the entire NAO and DX era of WWE and I don't think I saw Billy's skin below the thigh ONCE. There's literally no excuse for how fucking bad this looks and how they just keep doing it. Just a re-color of the same completely wrong Billy figure every goddamn time. Bothers me so much.

Your ass better call somebody.

That Giulia figure is insane. Like, zoom in on that, how textured every part of her gear is. I need every Stardom and Marigold wrestler to do a year excursion to WWE at some point just for the figures. (Sorry the Outlaws figures are rough, though. I don't want to seem like I'm rubbing it in, I'm just really excited for this figure.)

Guilia looks great, Stephanie too but I'm already dreading how tall the figure will be considering the parts used. I'm definitely part of the problem, my expectations for Mattel are typically pretty low so i'll get these New Age Outlaws just to get 2 steps closer to a full DX lineup with double joints.

I POed the women a while back at DJC solely off the renders and Canadian scarcity, so it's rad they came out nice in the end

I might have to buy the Outlaws if I want the Charles Robinson parts. During RSC's holiday '24 sales I bought the re-releases, "From the Vault" versions. Those would've been good enough since these aren't a huge upgrade. The Vault version of Dogg had some iffy face printing, maybe a little too heavy on the eyeliner and RSC ended up sending me two instead of Scott Hall. They let me keep the extra and sent a Hall. It was a decent sized order and they chose the worst figure to double up on

I was reading comments on Wfigs about unnecessary one-off tooling and someone posted this upcoming UE Cactus Jack with lying down hair. He also correctly pointed out Mick's huge biceps. I missed this on a livestream from last month. I'm spoilering because the picture looks huge on my laptop.

I have Giulia and Stephanie pre-ordered from Ringside. I got tired of missing the pre-orders from BBTS and EE. I would like that Gold Rock to use as a more menacing Molten Man. The one in that set from Amazon was not so menacing.