[Joe Moore]

Masters of the WWE Universe Series 6 - Goldberg, Kane, Stephanie McMahon, and Ultimate Warrior

[OriginalFire]

They look cool. I guess the leak was right. Wonder what happened to Wave 5.This line is so awesome.

[Trivial Psychic]

Kane = Roboto = Big Red Machine...
Goldberg = Ram Man...

Well played Mattel. Can't wait to get my hands on these.

[ludovicotek]

These look great! Well, except for Goldberg. I really with they'd stop pushing him. Kane is perfection. And that Stephanie is surprisingly awesome. Wish I could find more of these series around me. Seems like they get one shipment in and that's it. Never see them again.

[Jester]

Aw man, I was hoping if they did another Warrior it would be with his mullet hairstyle from the early 90s...

[dCon]

Wave 6? Can someone tell me what characters are out? I only know of wave 1 I think. The one with Mr. T.

[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by dCon

Wave 6? Can someone tell me what characters are out? I only know of wave 1 I think. The one with Mr. T.

I'm not all sure who's in stores at the moment. You can see every story on the line Here. But here's everyone revealed so far:

Wave 1
Sting
Finn Balor
HHH
Ultimate Warrior

Wave 2
Rey Mysterio
Macho Man
John Cena (Faker)
Roman Reigns

Wave3
The Rock
New Day
Braun Strowman
The Undertaker

Wave 4
Mr. T
Seth Rollins
The Fiend
Jake The Snake

Wave 5 (Not out yet from what I can tell)
Macho Man (Horde Armor)
Ricky the Dragon Steamboat
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Becky Lynch

Wave 6
Kane
Goldberg
Stephanie McMahon
Ultimate Warrior (Version 2)

Rings
Grayskull Mania Ring with HHH and John Cena
Rattlesnake Mountain Ring with Hulk Hogan and Stone cold

[JerpJerp]

Kane is unbelievable!11!!!1!q!!!! I’d get down with Stephanie too. More female characters are good with me!

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by ludovicotek

These look great! Well, except for Goldberg. I really with they'd stop pushing him.

I feel this way about the Ultimate Warrior. He was a horrible wrestler in the ring and a reputed locker room cancer behind the scenes. The stuff that came AFTER his career ended showed he was a pretty gross human being as well. Not to condone Hulk, but the Warrior's past makes Hogan's own checkered past feel tame in comparison...which it was anything but.

The fact that WWE continues to use his likeness and name for an award of courage, strength and humanitarianism is pretty icky...

[OriginalFire]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

I feel this way about the Ultimate Warrior. He was a horrible wrestler in the ring and a reputed locker room cancer behind the scenes. The stuff that came AFTER his career ended showed he was a pretty gross human being as well. Not to condone Hulk, but the Warrior's past makes Hogan's own checkered past feel tame in comparison...which it was anything but.

The fact that WWE continues to use his likeness and name for an award of courage, strength and humanitarianism is pretty icky...

What did they do? Do you have any links? I never heard of either Hulk or Warrior doing anything bad except Hulk being racist a few yrs ago and at the same time at the end of the day, he is already dead so I don't know if we should be talking bad about a dead guy.

[OriginalFire]

I read a little about the Ultimate Warrior and it seems he was a troubled person. Perhaps, he had a lot of difficulties in his life and he was not able to overcome them.

[theguru1974]

Now hearing this, I hope Dark Side of the Ring does an episode on UW! Regarding the figures, they are VERY hard to find like all Walmart exclusives. I'm really tired of hunting for these things and not finding them.

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by OriginalFire

What did they do? Do you have any links? I never heard of either Hulk or Warrior doing anything bad except Hulk being racist a few yrs ago and at the same time at the end of the day, he is already dead so I don't know if we should be talking bad about a dead guy.

When it came to the Warrior's career and backstage antics, he didn't make a lot of friends. Many wrestlers hated working with him because of his tendencies to refuse to sell, work snug and careless, and several wrestlers were injured in matches against him because of his attitude. There are all sorts of stories about his unprofessionalism behind the scenes...I recommend searching out the podcasts and interviews from wrestling journalists and executives such as Jim Ross, Jim Cornette, Eric Bischoff, Wade Keller, and Dave Meltzer...to name a few.

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Originally Posted by theguru1974

Now hearing this, I hope Dark Side of the Ring does an episode on UW!

https://www.vice.com/en/article/59y3...s-bigoted-past

Vice (the producers of Dark Side Of The Ring) actually wrote a pretty good article that highlighted some of whitewashing of the Warrior's bigoted and homophobic behaviors back in 2017, as well as some of the other heinous things he said and did post career such as praising Heath Ledger for "killing himself" and essentially celebrating former wrestling manager Bobby Heenan's cancer diagnosis...insinuating it was deserved and karma.

Deadspin also wrote a terrific article about the UW, which gives even more details over how bonkers and deplorable he was...

https://deadspin.com/the-ultimate-wa...ick-1561275496

[Xcalibar25]

I’ve seen the, at my neighborhood Walmart here in Canada. I picked up- the Stephanie figure and saw Kane and Goldberg. Did not see Ultimate Warrior.

[deecee4]

Dang,this thread turned into an Ultimate Warrior burial lol. I'm a fan but, can't say it's not deserved, guy was clearly his own worst enemy.

[ronriii]

Damn I only want Kane. Shame it's a Walmart exclusive.

[Jester]

Found the wave at WM today. Picked up Warrior, since I missed the first release and he's now ridiculously expensive on the secondary market, but I'm enjoying the figure a lot more than I thought that I would. While he doesn't have the classic neon green and purple Warrior colours, the blond hair and red-accented silver torso harness/armour seem intended to more directly invoke the He-Man aesthetic (as opposed to the previous release with its crude cave-man spear, borrowed from and seemingly intended to homage the "Savage He-Man" AKA Oo-Lar), and that's pretty cool. The cardback artwork also shows him emerging from what looks like an escape or orbital atmospheric insertion pod as well, in a rather clever nod to his "I was sent in a capsule from a place not from here!" spiel.

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Originally Posted by deecee4

Dang,this thread turned into an Ultimate Warrior burial lol.

That's cancel culture for you.

[benvoliothefirs]

*consequence culture

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jester

That's cancel culture for you.

[Joe Moore]

And Warrior has faced neither cancel nor consequences. His estate still rakes in money on merchandise, new products are revealed often, his matches are still available to watch, he’s still in the WWE Hall of Fame, and there’s an award still named after him. Like 3 people bringing up his shitty actions on a toy forum will affect him in no way.