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Various News/opinions

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This week Mattel Creations put up for sale the new Legends of the Territory Era 4 pack. This features 'Superstar' Billy Graham, 'Handsome' Harley Race. Muhammad Ali and Gorilla Monsoon. We have an influx in different lines, of Ali in recent months, I guess this is for them to get out as many as they can before the deal WWE/Mattel have with his estate expires but, although, people could be purchasing these for various reasons, the first time in the line belts, which are the WWWF belt with Graham and the NWA 'dome' title with Race or Graham/Race in those attires, some may even want Monsoon in wrestling gear as his only previous figure from Mattel was in his announcer attire, a very nice, sought after figure but I am guessing, there's not many who have bought this set thinking the Ali is a 'must have', if I am wrong, let me know. When i first saw the set I was thinking I would keep Race/Graham with the belts and sell the other two, now, I may keep the M

More re-releases on the horizon

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Even more re-releases coming. During the great interview by Justin of  wrestlingfigurenews.com with  Steve Ozer, Mattel's action figure marketing manager it was mentioned there would be a best of series in the  Monday Night  Wars line now, this won't be a selection of figures that have come out already/will be coming out, these are figures that have been out over the years in the Mattel line that are from the time of the  Monday Night  Wars. You may recall, we had a 'Best of Attitude Era' series some years back, in that series was Chris Jericho (who was the only one in wrestling attire from the 4), 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin, The Rock & Triple H. The Rock has already been re released in the 'Greatest Hits' line and Steve announced that in this upcoming wave, this 'best of MNW' set one of the figures will be the Triple H from that 'Attitude Era' set which you can see here.  Steve basically said it will just be a case of updated articula

Mattel Ruthless Aggression Top 5

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He we are again guys, another Top 5 list, you know the drill by now, I only include figures I have in my collection. There were 18  overall in this set, I have 8 of them. Was an interesting concept when they were originally announced, I wasn't too sure what could possibly feature as I had zoned out of the WWE around the time of the Ruthless Aggression era, I did see bits here and there but I can't say I am a fountain of knowledge of the RA era. As an avid collector of JAKKS prior to Mattel I collected many RA figures and some did get a release in Mattel form with this Best of Ruthless Aggression series. So, from the 6 I have, here is my Top 5 -  5. Booker T So when the nWo came to the WWE in early 2002 it was Hogan, Hall & Nash, eventually, others would join and there was a stint where Booker T 'was a member' and this figure is based on that, he has the nWo tights underneath the removeable bottoms. I think it makes it into the list soley because it's quirky bein