Collector’s Corner: Wicked Cool Toys WWE RAW & SmackDown Live Stages, Crowd Pop-Ups (Photos)

Today we’ll take a look at the highly anticipated Wicked Cool Toys WWE Raw & SmackDown Live Stages as well as a crowd pop-up! These are made completely out of cardboard, similar to the popular Extreme-Sets dioramas, but are officially in scale with the WWE action figures from Mattel and other companies. I got mine from Ringside Collectibles!

WWE RAW & SmackDown Live Stages

These sets are massive as they’re over three feet wide and work perfectly with the latest Mattel official scale rings. There is both a RAW one and SmackDown Live one. There is a diagram on the packaging showing you which pieces are which, but the pieces themselves are also labeled accordingly and honestly it’s pretty straight forward on how to assemble.

I’m typically a stubborn guy when it comes to reading instructions to assemble toys and I assembled this with no issue. It took a good ten to fifteen minutes I’d say per each one as you want to make sure you do it right and carefully as well since it’s just cardboard. Be very patient assembling them though so you don’t end up ripping them as they are a bit fragile.

Overall, I’d say they’re nice. I always love entrance stages for my photography and for display purposes. They’re pretty cheap, too, as they’re under twenty dollars, which is great for parents. My only real complaint is that being it is cardboard it is a bit flimsy. Having figures standing on the stage, as seen in the gallery below, the floor piece does cave a bit from the weight of the figures. I’d suggest putting something under the floor to make it firm for them to stand on. Other than that they look nice and you really can’t complain for the price-point they’re at. An all-plastic version of these would cost a good hundred dollars or more probably.

WWE Crowd

The WWE crowd pop-up comes with two to assemble, which is nice if you want to have an entire crowd for your setup. This pair also has a bit of a 3D effect to it as several crowd members are separate from the backdrop to give it a more realistic look. These are also pretty straight forward to assemble, just take your time with them.

Overall, these are pretty good. The glare on them can be a bit annoying as you’ll see in the images below due to the finish of how they were printed. They’re also not quite in scale if you see the image below as Rollins’ waist comes above the barrier, which definitely isn’t height accurate but if you have these at a distance from the figures you won’t really notice that. I imagine people buying many of these to create an entire crowd from if you like them. Being you get two in a pack you can easily buy several to create a full arena crowd quite quickly. Regardless, they get the job done if you don’t have a crowd backdrop.

Overall

I do like these honestly, the stages especially as who knows if and when we will ever get plastic versions of them. I wish the cardboard was a bit sturdier and I wish the finish on these wasn’t the way it was for lighting purposes but overall they’re still really nice for how much they cost. I do recommend them as who knows if we’ll ever see these stages from Mattel. You can currently get them over on RingsideCollectibles.com where you can SAVE 10% with discount code MBG at checkout!

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