WWE Action Figure complaints

[J-Man R.]

Ok, I collect WWE Action Figs, and yes I play with them, however, I bought the ECW Series of Sandman, and Tommy Dreamer, and I have a deluxe aggresion Sabu. Here are my complaints
Sandman
Singapore Cane is too small for his hand, and it bends to easily. Other than that it's a great fig.
Tommy Dreamer (came with a barbed wire board)
It's kind of like his ECW carreer now, it does nothing except the Raven pose, that's it you can't use him to wrestle other figs, he can only move his arms a little the fig can't even hold a chair.
Sabu.
No complaints it's great.

[Deleted]

Sad that Dreamer's the only one still in the company.

[Kyle]

You should have been around back when the first gen WWF BCA action figures where around. Hell I used to write for a Wrestling Figure News Site (yes, such things actually existed, and yours truly not only wrote for one, but ran one for over half a year).

I'm not sure what the figures you're referencing (because the WWE has gone far beyond the point of them being collectable anymore. With a $10.00 and up price tag, and the fact there are millions of them now it's next to impossible) but you should have seen some of the older ones.

There was a Jeff Jarrett figure whose fingers where permanently stuck outword in some type of pose, thus making playability with him near impossible unless you wanted to recreate The Finger Poke of Doom.

Jakks came out with a Vince McMahon figure that had a removable tux, and it was the most bizarre creation I've ever seen. The tux was a solid plastic front, which the figure snapped into, thus making any sort of movement impossible. And it also made Vince appear about roughly 400 times larger than anyone else.

Quite possibly the best of the bunch was a very short lived line of figures called S.T.O.M.P, where the fine folks at Jakks took you're favorite WWF stars and turned them, quite literally, into G.I. Joes. There was a Brian Pillman that came with assault gear (complete with knives, guns, body armor. The works) and an Ahmed Johnson packaged with a Chainsaw and a chunk of meat (?)

So while The Sandman may not be able to hold onto his cane and Tommy Dreamer may not have 50 points of articulation like all the rest of the figures, you'd be amazed to see how far these figures have came.

~Kyle

[Vice honcho room temperature]

killbill20 said:

Quite possibly the best of the bunch was a very short lived line of figures called S.T.O.M.P, where the fine folks at Jakks took you're favorite WWF stars and turned them, quite literally, into G.I. Joes. There was a Brian Pillman that came with assault gear (complete with knives, guns, body armor. The works) and an Ahmed Johnson packaged with a Chainsaw and a chunk of meat (?)

~Kyle

Well of course. Pillman had to defend himself against Austin. And its obvious that Ahmed chainsawed a man just to watch him die.

[Mozenrath]

killbill20 said:

You should have been around back when the first gen WWF BCA action figures where around. Hell I used to write for a Wrestling Figure News Site (yes, such things actually existed, and yours truly not only wrote for one, but ran one for over half a year).

I'm not sure what the figures you're referencing (because the WWE has gone far beyond the point of them being collectable anymore. With a $10.00 and up price tag, and the fact there are millions of them now it's next to impossible) but you should have seen some of the older ones.

There was a Jeff Jarrett figure whose fingers where permanently stuck outword in some type of pose, thus making playability with him near impossible unless you wanted to recreate The Finger Poke of Doom.

Jakks came out with a Vince McMahon figure that had a removable tux, and it was the most bizarre creation I've ever seen. The tux was a solid plastic front, which the figure snapped into, thus making any sort of movement impossible. And it also made Vince appear about roughly 400 times larger than anyone else.

Quite possibly the best of the bunch was a very short lived line of figures called S.T.O.M.P, where the fine folks at Jakks took you're favorite WWF stars and turned them, quite literally, into G.I. Joes. There was a Brian Pillman that came with assault gear (complete with knives, guns, body armor. The works) and an Ahmed Johnson packaged with a Chainsaw and a chunk of meat (?)

So while The Sandman may not be able to hold onto his cane and Tommy Dreamer may not have 50 points of articulation like all the rest of the figures, you'd be amazed to see how far these figures have came.

~Kyle

What the hell is under the tux?

[Mozenrath]

tapoutorangleslam said:

Ok, I collect WWE Action Figs, and yes I play with them, however, I bought the ECW Series of Sandman, and Tommy Dreamer, and I have a deluxe aggresion Sabu. Here are my complaints
Sandman
Singapore Cane is too small for his hand, and it bends to easily. Other than that it's a great fig.
Tommy Dreamer (came with a barbed wire board)
It's kind of like his ECW carreer now, it does nothing except the Raven pose, that's it you can't use him to wrestle other figs, he can only move his arms a little the fig can't even hold a chair.
Sabu.
No complaints it's great.

Make him do Razor Edges and double clotheslines.

[Kyle]

Wasn't there a S.T.O.M.P figure of Steve Austin where he was all decked out in camo gear?

And on a side note, tell me someone remembers the old line of WWF figures (from around 1999 or so) that would sweat? They where oversized and came with this stupid little squirt bottle you filled with water and injected the figure with. Then there was a button near the figures ass you hit that made them "sweat". I know for a fact that I have Ken Shamrock figure that does this, I just don't know off the top of my head which box of crap he is in.

If these have not been featured on the site, they really should be.

~Kyle

[I Like Your Poetry]

killbill20 said:

You should have been around back when the first gen WWF BCA action figures where around. Hell I used to write for a Wrestling Figure News Site (yes, such things actually existed, and yours truly not only wrote for one, but ran one for over half a year).

I'm not sure what the figures you're referencing (because the WWE has gone far beyond the point of them being collectable anymore. With a $10.00 and up price tag, and the fact there are millions of them now it's next to impossible) but you should have seen some of the older ones.

There was a Jeff Jarrett figure whose fingers where permanently stuck outword in some type of pose, thus making playability with him near impossible unless you wanted to recreate The Finger Poke of Doom.

Jakks came out with a Vince McMahon figure that had a removable tux, and it was the most bizarre creation I've ever seen. The tux was a solid plastic front, which the figure snapped into, thus making any sort of movement impossible. And it also made Vince appear about roughly 400 times larger than anyone else.

Quite possibly the best of the bunch was a very short lived line of figures called S.T.O.M.P, where the fine folks at Jakks took you're favorite WWF stars and turned them, quite literally, into G.I. Joes. There was a Brian Pillman that came with assault gear (complete with knives, guns, body armor. The works) and an Ahmed Johnson packaged with a Chainsaw and a chunk of meat (?)

So while The Sandman may not be able to hold onto his cane and Tommy Dreamer may not have 50 points of articulation like all the rest of the figures, you'd be amazed to see how far these figures have came.

~Kyle

Whoa, I used to post on the action figure newsboards as WWF411...what sites were you on?

[redbull]

Speaking of Razor how do you take Razor's jacket thing off on his CS figure?

[Mozenrath]

killbill20 said:

Wasn't there a S.T.O.M.P figure of Steve Austin where he was all decked out in camo gear?

And on a side note, tell me someone remembers the old line of WWF figures (from around 1999 or so) that would sweat? They where oversized and came with this stupid little squirt bottle you filled with water and injected the figure with. Then there was a button near the figures ass you hit that made them "sweat". I know for a fact that I have Ken Shamrock figure that does this, I just don't know off the top of my head which box of crap he is in.

If these have not been featured on the site, they really should be.

~Kyle

I remember seeing a Mankind one. Such a terrible concept.

[Diddly]

kiddobradley said:

What the hell is under the tux?

His wrestling gear. (I owned this figure as a kid)

[Lt. Palumbo]

killbill20 said:

Wasn't there a S.T.O.M.P figure of Steve Austin where he was all decked out in camo gear?

I bought the Steve Austin S.T.O.M.P, figure from one R.D. Reynolds, mainly (in fact entirely) because it came with an entire rip of the wrestlecrap site (it was in the dark days when I feared the site would never return)

do you think I could submit this to 'Someone Bought This'?

[Kyle]

Under Vince's Tux? While I SHOULD leave that to your imagination, I won't... as I don't want to know what your imagination will bring. He had on a generic pair of black tights and singlet. Like what he used to "wrestle" in.

And I was active over on the Figure Zone Website. I couldn't even begin to tell you what I posted under anymore. I stuck around on that website for quite a while, when the owner stopped... well, talking to all of us, I basically took over and ran it (without anyone’s permission, mind you) for a while.

It was an interesting concept, I was running a website without having to pay any of the domain costs. The one day it went offline and never came back. Pretty much put and end to my internet wrestling figure/news career.

Which is for the best, I'd just bitch about everything at this point.

~Kyle

[I Like Your Poetry]

Haha, oh man...the wrestling figure boom of like 1998/1999 was a fun one though.

I do remember when all of the major sites started closing down (now it's just wrestlingfigs.com, guess monopolies don't extend to just WWE), I remember the sheer havoc of people not knowing what to do, or having anything to report. By that point, wrestling figures stopped being interesting (when it switched over to TTL), so a lot of people just stopped collecting/caring. The market's way too oversaturated now..I buy occasionally, but not nearly the amount that I used to.

Collecting used to be fun, not about getting the limited edition 1 out out of 1 Ric Flair that 's a super duper secret executive company exclusive..bah, I want the good ol' days back.

[macdaddysquid]

Those are some wuality figs, but the Punk is probably the best in that series. I have them all and I will be 20 years old next month.

Start flaming....now

[macdaddysquid]

macdaddysquid said:

Those are some quality figs, but the Punk is probably the best in that series. I have them all and I will be 20 years old next month.

Start flaming....now

[Kyle]

You nailed it man. The TTL was the downfall of the figure collecting era. It really was. When I first got into the figures, I was young enough that I still kind of enjoyed playing with them, but it pretty quickly turned into just me collecting them. It was so easy back then to keep up with it all. You'd get like a series a month, with maybe 6 or 7 DIFFERENT figures in it.

I couldn't possibly keep up with the shear mass VOLUME of figures they put out on the market today. I still make my trips up the toy isle (like any good nerd, I buy my share of TMNT, Star Wars, and Transformers to decorate my desk with) and I am always sure to check out the latest wrestlers. I don't like the way they mass produce the same figures, only with different gear. Remember how bad it got with reprints of The Rock and Steve Austin?

I enjoyed the 'old school' collecting tactics. When a figure was rare... because it was hard to find. Not because someone sitting behind a desk said it was. Remember the ill-fated Blue Blazer that got pulled from the shelves? Or the Dude Love figure that nobody could ever find. Or the Yokozuna that was some kind of exclusive (I don't remember the details anymore).

See folks.... it wasn't only the Wrestling product that was better in '98 and '99. Merchandising was a hell of a lot more fun as well.

~Kyle

[The Booty Disciple]

Did you just repost a request for you to be flamed?

Cuz I'd flame...but it'd be about your UMAGA! costume, not about wrestling figures.

[macdaddysquid]

whats wrong with my Umaga?I look pretty good...

Repost was an accident

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Hey, I started collecting figures again and I do play with them. Hoping perhaps I can regain some of my imagination.