Jakks-Pacific Vs Mattel Round 2

  One of my first blog posts was a comparison of the former maker of WWE action figures, Jakks-Pacific and the current licensee Mattel. Last time I compared their basic style rings and Mattel won by a landslide victory.  However Jakks-Pacific did things a little differently than Mattel does currently.

  Round One: Obscure Figures. 

  Unlike Mattel, Jakks-Pacific took risks and made referees and commentators and managers and even a cameraman which was a cheap reuse of the BCA Referee only with a different right forearm and hand so you can place a camera in his hand. Mattel on the other hand had is afraid to give us Referees, Managers and Commentators. Although they made Vickie Guerrero in the basic line and Michael Cole as a Build a figure respectively. However Mattel's problem is that they are afraid that if the make the authority figures that they won't sell well. Us fans want a referee Mattel! However if they did make a referee, it would be a Toys R Us exclusive Build A Figure, which is a major pain in the neck due to short packing the one you needed to complete your figure. Winner- Jakks-Pacific 

Round Two: Distribution

  I didn't collect many Jakks-Pacific figures only sporadic BCA's when I was 8 years old. But Mattel collectors hate Mattel's horrid distribution network. It's a nightmare some waves turn up in some stores and doesn't appear in other stores. However I have heard Jakks-Pacific had great distribution during their run with the WWE license. Now in the Jakks era a wave of figures would show up in CA and within a few weeks would be in every store across the country. The economy maybe a factor in Mattel's part but I wish they had the distribution power of Jakks. Winner- Jakks-Pacific

Round Three: Quality

  When it comes to quality and continuity, Mattel pwns Jakks-Pacific. For instance Jakks figures were not in scale with each other when it came to height except for figures like Big Show, The Great Khali, and Andre the Giant, which were taller. So height wise, a Ruthless Aggression Rey Mysterio was the same height as Undertaker. Now Mattel does the exact opposite, they have their figures in scale with one another so Rey isn't the same height as Undertaker. Mattel however has scale issues with Diva's. Jakks had no continuity whatsoever when it came to tattoos. For instance RA15 Gene Snitsky had his back tattoo, whereas his ECW figure didn't have it. He never got that tattoo removed. When it came to joints, Mattel also kicked Jakks ass. Mattel has tight joints and kneepads whereas Jakks tended to be loose. and would have your figure fall over due to the loose joints. Winner-Mattel

Round Four: Weapons

  Jakks gave us a weapon with every figure from the TTL era all the way to the RA era. It would be steel chairs, title belts, trash cans, anything you could think of. Mattel on the other side doesn't give accessories and weapons when it comes to basic figures with the exception of Battle Packs which are basic figures. Mattel only gives weapons usually with Elite figures and FlexForce crap. Winner- Jakks-Pacific.

 

Final Score

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Winner: Jakks Pacific

  

Reunited At Last

  Many years ago I got a Jakks Pacific WWF RAW Monster Ring for Christmas back in 1997 or 1998 one of those years. It came from the JC Penny catalog with an exclusive BCA referee figure and an BCA Kane, Undertaker and I believe a Stone Cold Steve Austin. Anyway I had a lot of fun with that as a kid. The referee took lots of abuse from having obscure matches against Barney the Dinosaur which when you were 8 years old, beating the living shit out of a Barney toy was the cool thing to do with old Jakks figures. Barney was always the jobber to The Undertaker. I guess when I was 12-13 years old I foolishly gave away my WWF RAW Monster Ring and Referee and other BCA's. I regret giving away the Referee but I got better Mattel Versions of them with the exception  of Stone Cold Steve Austin whose Mattel I don't have. Anyway how does this relate to being reunited?
  Well I am a wfigs.proboards.com member to start with, so I was looking to buy or trade with other members when I saw one member had the BCA referee that I had when I was a kid. So he gave me a price of $12 for the loose referee. I paid it, and received the figure a week later. So I got the figure yesterday waiting for me when I came home from work yesterday. Opening the box and seeing a figure just like I used to have as a kid made me feel reunited with my childhood. The figure had a few chips on the shirt and on the black hair and faded eyes which I don't mind at all. It adds to the conversation. I got it in time just for the 1000th episode of Monday Night RAW oddly enough. The figure is smaller in comparison to Mattel figures. In fact he is slightly taller than Hornswoggle with his leprechaun hat on. So many memories are brought back.

It Wasn't My Fault

 Today I am going to rant about two unwanted obsessions I didn't see coming at me like an atom bomb. These 2 obsessions have changed my life forever. So It Wasn't My Fault I got obsessed with them.
  1. Lady Gaga.

This song started it all.

  Once upon a time back when Lady Gaga burst out onto the music scene, I hated her and I never heard any of her songs. I hated her because she seemed to be very weird with her strange outfits and what she wore to meet the Queen of England. Flash forward to the end of July 27th 2010. It was a Sunday and I had gotten off from work at 5. My Friend had invited me to go to the see a double feature at the drive in movie with his girlfriend. I agreed to come along. We went to go see Despicable Me and Salt. On the way down on the 41 minute drive the radio was on in the car when I heard a song called Alejandro. I thought to myself, damn this is pretty good. I didn't even bother me to ask my friend who was singing this song. On the drive back home the radio was on again, and yet again the song Alejandro was being played. I began to sing the chorus in my head. I really liked this song but at the same time was hesitant to ask who the artist was. So I arrived home around 1:30 AM. I could have gone on the computer and googled the song but I was too tired.

The Australian edition of the Fame Monster

   On Monday the song totally skipped my mind until Wednesday when I went to Dunkin' Donuts with my friend. When we got into his car Alejandro was being played yet again. So I asked him who is singing this song. He said Lady Gaga. I gave my self one of those slap on the foreheads like they do in the I could of had a V8 commercials.  That's it that there moment changed my life. I then became obsessed over Lady Gaga when I bought The Fame Monster at Walmart on Friday night. By the way I am one of Lady Gaga's few Straight male little Monsters. Buying that CD triggered me to buy The Fame, The Remix, an import The Remix, The Remix CDs of The Fame Monster Singles, 4 Lady Gaga posters, A t-shirt, wristbands, and the Australian uncensored version of The Fame Monster, The Cherrytree Sessions, and other remix EP's.
   Yeah Lady Gaga changed my freaking life. so my Lady Gaga CD collection is starting to catch up to my Nine Inch Nails CDs.

Snitsky says It Wasn't My Fault!

     2. WWE Smackdown Vs Raw series and Gene Snitsky. 
     It wasn't until mid December 2010 when I bought my first Smackdown Vs Raw game for PS2. I bought Smackdown Vs Raw 2010 new for $20 at Gamestop. Now if it wasn't for my friend at work who told me he bought SVR 2011 for PS3, I got interested in the game when I asked him about the Create A Wrestler feature. I asked him if it would be good for creating Lady Gaga. He told me that he downloaded a Lady Gaga CAW because he has online play and so he could create Trent Reznor to fight Lady Gaga. So After work I headed over to Gamestop and bought SVR 2010.

     I went home took a shower, ate and played SVR 2010 and then I went on the Internet to get a CAW formula for Lady Gaga. The rest is history after that day. I later proceeded to buy SVR 2009, 2007, 2006. Now on to Gene Snitsky. When I was creating a wrestler, I noticed that under Pennsylvania cities there was Nesquehoning and I thought why in the hell would Nesquehoning be on there. So the next time I worked I asked my friend why Nesquehoning was on SVR. He told me because there was a wrestler from there named Gene Snitsky. I live in Hazleton and I never even heard of Gene Snitsky. My friend told me that another coworker met him. After knowing that he is not in the WWE anymore, I decided to buy WWE toys after I bought the WWE diva Maryse at Kmart. The week after, Kmart was having a buy 2 get 1 free sale so I bought Kane, John Cena and I got Maryse again as my free figure. I was going to sell it to my friend at work but it backfired when he didn't have $10 on him. So I struck a deal that he would bring me his Snitsky figure for the Maryse figure. He gave me a bonus figure his double of Mattel's Big Show. I found that ironic because on SVR 2007 I tried career mode with Snitsky and My first match was with Big Show and I lost.

The 5 Most Ridiculous Batman and Robin Action Figures Ever

Batman is one of the most popular superheros of all time. If there would be a superhero to represent the action figure industry it would have to be Batman. Even though Batman's secret identity, Bruce Wayne is a billionaire, he still wouldn't waste his money on stupid suits for Batman. The following are the most ridiculous Batman action figures ever.
1. Inferno Extinction Batman

Now when is Batman ever a firefighter? The answer is NEVER. Why in the hell would Hasbro even make this atrocity? My theory is that they want kids to believe that Batman can be anything no matter how ludicrous it seems. I mean look at Batnan's outfit, he is clearly not wearing the proper turnout gear that firefighters are supposed to wear. To top that Batman is not wearing a fire helmet. The idiot who designed this toy probably thought Batman's cowl backed as a helmet. Well Guess what his cowl was made out of cloth or some kind of material in the New Batman Adventures. It looks like Hasbro has Dun Goof'd on this one.

                                                                                                     





2. Sky Dive Batman.                 

OK seriously when does Batman ever skydive? Never. If he would ever have to skydive from the Batplane, which is a jet by the way he would have to avoid being sucked in by a jet engine when jumping from the narrow cockpit of his jet. Or Batman may have an ejector seat in the Batplane. This Batman the Animated Series figure is another dumb idea from the good folks at Kenner. It just keeps getting stupider and stupider in every generation of Batman action figures.









3. Robin (Batman Returns)       

OK here is a major loophole. A Robin figure in the Batman Returns line? Are you kidding me because this makes no sense to me whatsoever. I mean this figure has fail written all over it because if I'm not mistaken, Robin was NOT in Batman Returns at all. So why make a figure of a character who was not in the movie at all. Once again Kenner dun goof'd.











4. Power Armor Batman          

Here was a great idea for a Terry McGinnis action figure from Batman Beyond but naturally Hasbro screws things up. This figure was the one and only Secret Identity Batman figure from Batman Beyond. Hasbro went along and gave this figure way to comical armor and weird Robin robot thingy which I don't get at all. Hasbro should have just made a Regular Street Gear Terry McGinnis figure instead of this crap. So guess what Hasbro, ya dun goof'd again.










 5. Firewall Robin                

Here's another great screw up by Hasbro in its Batman Beyond line, Its Firewall Robin. Just like the Batman Returns Robin, Firewall Robin has no place in the Batman Beyond line, because you guessed it, Robin was never in Batman Beyond. What in the hell were the designers at Hasbro Thinking with this one. I mean were they on drugs or something. Because there is no utter stupidity than adding a Robin figure to a toy line for a series that he was not in. Well Hasbro Ya Dun Goof'd Up.