WWE Ultimate Edition Macho Man Randy Savage review – New Generation Arena

When Mattel’s WWE Ultimate Edition New Generation Arena crowdfund wasn’t getting the backers it needed, the WWE team made an audible. They scrapped some of the advertising budget and threw in an extra figure — Macho Man Randy Savage — as an Early Bird incentive.

It was a smart call as Macho Man has always been popular and it’s impossible to exhaust all of his figure options. This one was an even better value as it featured Macho Man from his commentating days as well as two-in-one option from his WrestleMania 10 match against Crush. Mania 10 is one of my favorite WrestleManias and that match is low-key one of the reasons.

With the addition of Macho Man, the project quickly hit all funding tiers and was fully backed. Adding another figure to the box presentation likely wasn’t going to work so Mattel shipped the Macho Man figure separately. He finally arrived so now it’s time to take a look at the final component of Mattel’s first WWE crowdfund effort.

Packaging:  No change with the packaging. It’s mostly red with white accents. That shows off Macho and his accessories nicely.

The portrait of Macho Man on the side shows Macho’s attire had some reflective material and it wasn’t just a basic silver. I love the UE style of showing a reference image along with the figure.

The stat breakdown and bio is fantastic as it always feels like a story is told with the write-up.

Likeness: Mattel has already knocked out a Ultimate Edition Macho Man in his rhinestone cowboy era, but this figure represents an enhancement on the UE 8 version.

For starters, his shirt is now no longer a paint/plastic hybrid — it’s all cloth. This looks a lot better than the plastic shoulder pads Mattel previously used. There’s a trade-off though as his shirt featured tattered fringes, which isn’t easily replicated on a cloth attire without jacking the price up further.

Macho’s cowboy attire wasn’t always the same and the WM10 pants had the shredded, tattered wrapped around his legs. Mattel managed to simulate that look pretty well without looking too clunky and bulky. His boots should have some fringe on the back as well although Mattel did throw in some back lacing to somewhat account for it.

The default head sculpt is terrific with a hint of a smile/gritted teeth that works for “Oh Yeah” promo closures. His additional portrait is more intense and determined, which is probably the one that would be used more often for matches.

Scale:  Macho Man is listed as 6’2″, slightly taller than the 6′ Bret Hart and 5’10” Doink the Clown and looking up at the 6’3″ Mr. Perfect.

I really wish we had Evil Crush at this point.

Paint: Macho’s attire is black and white with some traces of silver in the boots. It’s a Two-Face style color pattern yet most of the paintwork is clean with just a few traces of black bleeding through white and some scrapes in the black.

Macho’s smiling head sculpt has some stray paint along the beard area.

In a nice touch to show the attention to detail, Mattel painted Macho’s hair black like he had it at this point in his career.

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Articulation:  Vince McMahon was way off base thinking Macho Man didn’t have much left in the tank, but he was still hitting all of his signature moves with no problem in 1994.

From flying axe-handles, hangman rope clotheslines and of course the flying elbow drop looked as smooth as ever.

The shift to the cloth shirt adds even more range for the flying elbow and axe handle and the UE Macho definitely benefits from the butterfly shoulders.

Ultimate Edition Macho Man Randy Savage has:

• neck
• bicep
• ball-jointed shoulders
• butterfly shoulders
• elbows (double-jointed)
• wrists
• wrist hinge
• torso
• waist
• hips
• thighs
• knees (double-jointed)
• ankles

Accessories: Macho comes with his checkerboard sunglasses, hat and ring jacket.

These are reference material accurately in silver. I love the fringe strips on the sleeves. Mattel took the shirt off to avoid any possible staining, but he wore this as a wrestler and commentator.

He’s not as loaded with alternate hands as the UE version. This time he only has the pointing hands. I’ve already covered the alternate head.

For this two in one commentator option, Macho comes with a hat with a headset molded on complete with microphone.

In another cool touch, Mattel included a second headset for Vince, Bobby Heenan, Rowdy Piper or Mr. Perfect. There’s two WWF-esque microphones and two small monitors.

These go onto the final bonus — the commentating table complete with blue fabric covering and two blue steel chairs.

Worth it? Like any crowd funding effort, Macho is more or less a freebie to help offset the cost of the project. These days a standard Ultimate Edition figure costs $32.99. Macho Man clearly packs a better value with the accessories, display options and commentating setup.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Sure the shirt and boots aren’t 100% accurate, but this figure is very impressively done making for a stellar add-on to the New Generation project.

Where to get it? The only way you’re getting Macho Man in this attire is through resellers. I’m biased to WrestleMania 10 so this was an easy buy for me, but he’s probably prohibitively expensive if you missed out.