Much to both my chagrin and dismay, the WWE is basically out of blets that I could possibly want. For the time being, there are no blets left for them to release, because at this point, just about every single WWE blet in history has been released at some point.
They could start digging, and begin releasing older WCW and ECW or even AWA and territorial replicas like Jim Crockett or Smoky Mountain. But instead, they’re making all these gaudy tribute blets as well as for some reason releasing WWE championships with side plates of SEC schools.
Hopefully when they inevitably launch NXT Europe, the inevitable blets will be baller. Or not, I don’t need any more temptations to suck my spare money, $300-400 at a time.
Because that’s the general price range, if not lower, of what replica wrestling blets should cost. $599 for one, or the bargain price of $999 for two AEW tag team replica blets??
As the kids these days like to say, the fuck outta here
The thing is, the tag blets are the one AEW championship I like the most. Aesthetically, as well as fandom wise. AEW does have outstanding tag team wrestling, and these titles hold more weight in my opinion than any other championship they have currently, and if they weren’t $600, I’d definitely want one.
I don’t know how AEW can justify having such egregiously priced replicas in the first place, and I’m curious to know how many other blet collectors have any. Their world title replica is around $800 and I know they released a TNT replica that was also in the $600-700 range. If I played my cards right, I could probably get three, maybe four WWE replicas, and if I didn’t care about quality, I could probably get like 8-9 Pakistani bootlegs on eBay, including all of the AEW ones.
I know they don’t use the same blet makers as WWE or old Ring of Honor did, and use someone completely different. I don’t know if they’re not mass producing them overseas like most other replicas not New Japan are, but the bottom line is that it’s causing AEW to have to price them way too fucking high that even the most hardcore of collectors like me don’t want to pay.
Inevitably, I will eventually want some AEW blet(s), because it doesn’t take a whole lot to inspire me to want a blet. I’m going to kid myself; as much as I criticize AEW, I do want them to do well, it’s just I think TK is kind of an obnoxious mark, as well as all of the vast majority of their fans. But with the price point they’re at, it most definitely isn’t going to be any time soon.