I’m mainly getting the He-man for the classic style toy head and complete sword of power. I’ll have one modern Pageboy version and one classic toy version.
Visited my parents on Monday and stopped in their regular, old, non-super-center Walmart on the way home and BAM! endcap display that looked like only two sets of figures had been sold. It was hard to tell from the over-abundance of He-Men and Skeletors but there were 4 of each of the other figures so I bought Man at Arms (the only figure I wanted out of wave 1). Gotta say I'm disappointed with him. He was a bobble-head fresh out of the box which was an easy fix (though his molded neck started to split when I pulled his head off) and I find the design and articulation choices to be bizarre - like, I get that the arms on the originals were attached at an angle but replicating that was unnecessary (I keep popping the arms off when I just want to get them straight up - the right arm especially) and legs that can't move forward to 90° or mimic the originals' range of motion to sit makes me wonder how these are going to look in vehicles and playsets. I feel like - even colored by the lenses of nostalgia - Mattel makes some of the laziest & worst boys dolls and I often regret buying them as an adult. I can't say that I didn't give them the benefit of the doubt but I won't try to find the newer release when they start hitting and I was looking forward to Man-e-Faces and Trapjaw.
I've got every thing from Wave two that I want pre-ordered from Amazon, just as place holders if I can't find them here. I got FOMO big time for this line.
I have not preordered anything yet. I’m going to have to start selling some stuff if I plan on collecting more of this line and the wwe.
I think I'd like to find a sky sled and Orko to go with Teela. If they did Cringer that would be cool too. The castle would be neat but it's going to be luck of the draw online.
I bought a second Evil-Lyn to replace some bad QC parts on my first one (the second one had some issues too in different areas), and thanks to being able to swap arms and other parts, now have a great all round quality version. I might consider keeping the other parts for future kitbashing. Currently keeping an eye out for the skysled. I did skip out on preordering Castle Grayskull though, 7th month of Covid Lockdown is making my finances shaky for the latter part of the year, so hopefully I'll have some luck finding one next year when it comes out when my situation's more stable. The price is good, just the timing is unfortunate personally.
So based on the titles I think the figures from MotU WWE is as follows: Heroic Wrestling Champions: Finn Balor Heroic Demon King! John Cena Most Unseeable Man in the Universe! Rey Mysterio Heroic High Flyer! Ultimate Warrior Heroic Champion of WWEternia! The Rock The Most Electrifying Man in WWEternia! New Day The Man E Faces of Positivity! Mr. T Heroic Pitier of Fools! Roman Reigns Heroic Big Dog! Seth Rollins Slayer of Kings and Beasts! (I believe) Sting Mysterious Vigilante of Vengence! (Possibly) Evil Wrestling Champions: Triple H & Terror Claws Triple H Evil Skull King of Kings! Faker John Cena Evil Robot of the Skull King! Jake the Snake Roberts Evil Purveyor of Poisons! The Fiend Bray Wyatt Evil Lord of Fireflies! Braun Strowman Ruthless Monster Among Men! (Based on Title) The Undertaker Dead Man Walking! (I mean, he seems pretty evil with a title like that) The only one I can't figure out from what's released so far is: Macho Man Randy Savage Master of Macho Madness! I mean that title doesn't help figure out if he'd be on Triple H's evil team or the heroes side. Keep in mind I don't follow wrestling nor know what kind of persona they have in the ring, I just like the WWEternia figures, and based all of this on what info I have so far from what little I've purchased and researched online. Really wish I could find the figures, at least the mini-comics seem to have some kind of continuity. From what I've seen so far it looks like Triple H gets turned to stone and killed and then The Fiend claims his championship belt or something. (I own Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and The Fiend so far.) Correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.
