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Wrestling Toys Played Out?
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I'd have to concur with yes, they are overplayed.
Even the few people I know who collect them, skip the majority of the lines for the figures who've never been made before. Like the recently release short wrestler (whose name escapes me at the moment).
As a whole though, they take up ungodly room on shelves, rarely move save to the weekend hunters, and honestly don't really look all that fun. But I guess that's me since I've never found wrestling and it's ficticious storylines interesting. I'd rather have fantasy that is fantasy as opposed to muscle bound men beating each other for a fake sport. The only good side to them though? Maybe we'll get a Donald Trump action figure.
I've personally never seen the draw of these figures as opposed to real sports heroes in the mcfarlane lines, or even boxing or UFC. They've had their day, now it's time for the real heroes to shine that actually have a positive light to them (and no, power rangers does not have a positive light either for that you have to turn to japan's sentai). Blurring the lines of fantasy and reality for kids isn't a good idea, and is what leads to backyard brawl mis-haps.
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