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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Oct 19, 2020 16:39:49 GMT -5
IIRC, there was a rash of child kidnappings in the news at the time, so Turner probably thought the idea of a creepy facepaint man preying on children would be a “too soon” scenario. By that point I had completely checked out of WCW because their program was eliciting a constant stream of douche chills from me even when I was like, 14. However, Brian Zane seemed to imply the character was cut because the promos had kinda pedophilic overtones. The one brief clip I've seen of him talking to the kid outside the window didn't suggest that to me, but it is still kinda weird. Could see TNT deciding it isn't worth it.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Oct 19, 2020 17:35:45 GMT -5
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Oct 19, 2020 18:06:43 GMT -5
Nothing they did with it would ever be better than Dustin making his entrance and immediately shitting on it was.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 19, 2020 18:10:53 GMT -5
Nothing they did with it would ever be better than Dustin making his entrance and immediately shitting on it was. I mean just think of how much time, energy, and money went into making the spooky floating to the ring entrance... Only to then have the guy shit all over it.
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Post by bog on Oct 19, 2020 18:14:11 GMT -5
At that point in time? Nah. We had already had Mankind, Undertaker, Raven, Sting...the competition for "evil/cultish/paranormal" was pretty high. Even warrior gave it a shot and nobody was into it. I can't see the artist formally known as Goldust showing up in a dark city outfit and getting over without a lot of work and growing pains.
Now though? I can see it going over well in NXT or AEW
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Oct 19, 2020 18:15:38 GMT -5
Nothing they did with it would ever be better than Dustin making his entrance and immediately shitting on it was. I mean just think of how much time, energy, and money went into making the spooky floating to the ring entrance... Only to then have the guy shit all over it. I know, it's great, right?
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Post by XIII on Oct 19, 2020 18:17:17 GMT -5
Velveteen Dream is furiously petitioning HHH for a character change as we speak.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Oct 19, 2020 18:58:21 GMT -5
No.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Oct 19, 2020 20:21:09 GMT -5
and Dark City! but the answer is yeah... probably not. Good to see someone other than Dustin remembers that movie. Highly underrated. One of my favorites. I do prefer the original theatrical cut over the director's cut. The gimmick wouldn't have worked for that era. But today's cinematic matches and even some of what the Fiend does in-ring, it would come off better.
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Post by Muskrat on Oct 19, 2020 21:52:49 GMT -5
Holy shit, I forgot how bad that was.
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Post by floundertime on Oct 19, 2020 22:55:59 GMT -5
Nah Seven didn’t work. I’d say it was a jump the shark moment for Married with Children
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Post by hassanchop on Oct 19, 2020 23:25:48 GMT -5
If they wanted it to be family friendly just make him the character based on the joke in Dexter's Laboratory:
Also owned by Time Warner.
Problem is that Syxx was already in WWE, so he couldn't feud with him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2020 7:33:23 GMT -5
He was supposed to be (or greatly teased to be) a child abductor, right?
Yeah, no one in their right mind should've allowed that on a wrestling show.
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 20, 2020 10:36:50 GMT -5
He was supposed to be (or greatly teased to be) a child abductor, right? Yeah, no one in their right mind should've allowed that on a wrestling show. No...and yes. Given the kind of gimmicks they were common at the time like Ministry Undertaker and Vampiro, I can see where they did the teaser video package and thought of it purely as just sone spooky, gothic character. Until some Time Warner exec said “So he stalks little kids?” Think if it like the “that’s a penis!” reveal.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2020 11:08:25 GMT -5
A guy with a painted white face that hangs outside little boys bedroom windows and says “Join me in complete bliss!”. I’m gonna go big no on that one.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 20, 2020 16:35:29 GMT -5
I first started watching wrestling in the late 90s, and so Dustin in WCW for me was like...
He was stood next to Dusty Rhodes. I had no idea who Dusty was, but he was clearly older, shorter and in worse shape than his kid, and I still felt like he was the one who had all the talent. To be blunt in these segments you had Flair, Dusty, Dustin and a donkey, and I think Dustin was the fourth most interesting thing to me in that segment.
I don't know when I found out Goldust was Dustin, but it surprised the shit out of me.
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