WWE Ultimate Edition Razor Ramon review – chase and regular figures

Every so often things work out in your favor as an action figure collector. For months I’d been scrambling to every Target in my area trying to track down the WWE Ultimate Edition Razor Ramon chase. The purple attire gear would happily take the place of my magenta/not at all accurate purple attire of Razor’s Defining Moments figure. I hit up several stores and even missed it when my fellow collector tried to stash it away for me at a Wal-Mart.

I’d resigned myself to never finding this figure until I stumbled onto a very unexpected sight of the chase Razor just sitting on the pegs. And even better, this was right when Target cued up its massive clearance sale so I got him for half off. Sounds like another win for the good guys.

The clearance sale also finally encouraged me to pull the trigger on the non-chase version as well so I’m going to tag team this review and knock out both figures in one. Let’s see if this UE version of The Bad Guy makes for a great figure.

Packaging:  The UE packaging stayed color consistent through the first few years of the line’s inception with white with red accents. Target has a special Legends UE branding with more red than white, but they blend in together nicely.

The wide window allows for easy inspection of all the parts and paint jobs, which is very helpful.

The side art of Razor looks a little weird like they might have done some Photoshop alterations for some reason. On the back we get the usual reference photo of the character and a very nicely shot version of the figure.

I greatly appreciate the stats breakdown as well as Mattel’s constantly terrific work on the bio. Razor’s is a nice summary of The Bad Guy.

Likeness:  Mattel has done some better likenesses to Razor than some others. This default head looks pretty good although it rests too low on the neck peg. Resting the head slightly higher will give Razor back his neck and crank up his height more appropriately.

Mattel hasn’t introduced a ton of new molds in the Ultimate Edition line, but the parts used for Razor work out alright. He’s got what I think is the Stone Cold mold, which is definitely slimmer than Razor.

You can see that the Legends Razor figure has thicker legs, which are more accurate to his size. And Razor could have had thicker arms too though the overly muscular ones used for The Ultimate Warrior wouldn’t have worked either.

Scale:  Razor was the tallest non-giant of The New Generation era clocking in at 6’7″. That meant he was looking down at rivals like the 6’3″ IRS, and the 6’1″ HBK and 123 Kid, and 6′ Bret Hart and The Model.

Paint:  One big reason I was so pressed to track down the chase was the Defining Moments figure’s weak purple, which wasn’t nearly deep and dark enough. This UE figure has a much closer tone of purple to what Razor wore while teaming with Ric Flair at Survivor Series 92 against The Perfect Team.

The work on the boot laces is about as clean as I’d expect for a mass market application of something so precise. I really dig the chest hair implementation as it covers his chest down to the waist. It’s much sharper than randomly splattered black paint.

Mattel rarely has issues with logo tampo placement. The Razor Ramon logo on his trunks is sharp and has the accent color outline cleanly applied as well.

Articulation:  Razor is a big guy who had no problem moving around allowing him to pull off quick impact moves as well as his momentum stopping power specials.

Razor has butterfly shoulders, which should make The Razor’s Edge even easier to apply. He can also hit his overhead toss and bulldogs with little problem.

I still wish the torso joint had better back and forth/side to side range to pull off moves even better, but for now this is the highest level of articulation in Mattel figures.

Ultimate Edition Razor Ramon has:

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

Accessories:  Mattel has been somewhat generous in ascribing the Ultimate Edition tag to some figures considering the accessories aren’t always more than what we can find in a decked out Elite figure.

Razor is somewhat in the middle as he’s got plenty of hand options — all of which make sense for very specific Razor gestures.

There’s the outstretched fingers for his “oooh, I so scared” taunt; a set of fists and a set of thumbs up for his pointing back to himself pose.

To further boost Razor to UE worthy territory, he’s got two additional head sculpts. The bright smiling one is probably my favorite as I can immediately see the reference pic for the sculpt and the likeness is dead on.

The snarling sculpt is more aggressive, but again the likeness is tremendous. Both figures sport good face printing with the five o’clock shadow and eye detailing.

Razor also has a removable vest for his ring entrance setup. Both feature a two-tone setup with black on the back. The tampo work on Razor’s logo turned out crisp and the gold paint on the vest buttons is also pretty sharp.

With the standard figure, the front is a bright yellow and the vest buttons this time stand out more as well.

Razor’s gold chain necklace looks good, resting much flatter against his chest than previous figures where it couldn’t lay down properly.

Finally, Razor comes with the Intercontinental title. As a four-time winner, Razor is one of the guys most synonymous with the belt at a time when winning championships mattered. The lettering and detail on the belt is nice and clean with a good bright gold sheen to the plating.

Worth it?  Mattel has raised the prices on Ultimate Edition figures to $33 so getting Razor for $17 felt like a real steal.

Rating: 9.5 out of 10

Mattel did a strong job on this Ultimate Edition Razor Ramon. Having a standard and alternate color attire was pretty…sweet making for one of my favorite WWE figures of 2023.

Where to get it? Razor has been tough to track down. He goes in and out of stock on Amazon. He’s available in a case with AJ Styles at Entertainment Earth.

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