I am a huge advocate for props and background accessories for action figures. Rarely do companies provide these and when they do, they are a pain to find. I have gotten Rings and Vehicles (Hopefully I'll finish a certain custom for the Slambulance vehicle and fulfill a promised review.)
Here I have 2 Accessory packs from Ringside Collectibles:
- Wheelchair playset
- Casket playset
I don't know why they call them playsets since they are accessory packs, but it must be a marketing thing. As far as I know, these are third party accessories with no affiliation to any of the big wrestling companies.
This will not be a normal review since it's a pair of accessories sets.
Wheelchair Playset
I got the wheelchair accessory pack to complement the Slambulance. The crutches and the wheelchair were the main pieces of interest. The accessories remind me a lot of the Jakks Pacific WWF stuff in a good way. (It's possible that these may be repros of the Jakks stuff.)
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Let's start with the wheelchair set:
The wheelchair is pretty decent, with nice details that fit the TMNT Ultimates aesthetics rather than Wrestling figures. Since I wanted something that fits S7TMNT, this is perfect for me. It's supposed to be a Motorized chair, but it has manually powered handles. It wheels rather well. The foot rests also rotate.
The crutches are crutches. They work, OK... there isn't that much to say about them. The neck brace is made out of foam and *with velcro. It's a Nifty little detail but it's not one that I might use.
Crutches and neckbrace will complement the Slambulance the one I'm not customizing... For less than $8 I'm satisfied with this set.
Warning: I have read some reviews that claim the wheelchair being super fragile. These reviews were for the 10 piece backstage set. I haven't ordered that set, so I don't know if the chair is the same. But on the Wheelchair set there are no negative reviews about the chair itself.
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Casket Playset
Now it's time for the Casket set.
The casket is HUUUUUUUUGE! Fits Marvel Legends, DCUC, Mattel WWE, MCFARLANE DCMV, NECA humans, humans from Super7 Ultimates, MOTUC... but the Turtles are too THICC for the casket... NECA, SH FIGUARTS, and SUPER7 fit on the casket, but their half shells are the reason why the casket can't close. That also means tailed figures like Splinter are a no-go, oversized figures like Kingpin, Hulk, Bebop, Ram Man, Etrigan. Figures with non removable plastic capes are a no go either...
For less than $11 this set is really great! The Casket feels well built and the extra accessories are pretty good as well (aside the headstone holes being a bit too loose.)
The rest of the set is GREAT for a WWE Undertaker Casket Match, which is what it was intended for. For MY personal interests, which aren't a WWE Undertaker Casket Match. With that said, The Urn looks pretty good for Nefty-kun's Mom's Ashes. The shovel is just a generic beaten up shovel. The headstone is my second favorite and least favorite accessory of the set.
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My only issue with it is that the top half of the headstone pops off way too easily than I'd like. If it didn't fall off by looking at it wrong, it'd be perfect.
It's a shame that right now only Jazwares and Boss Fight Studios are the only "big boys" making props and accessories for wrestling figures. I know that other companies make accessories like food, furniture, etc. Sadly those are often for Japanese 1/12 scale which often ends up being too small for American 1/12 and too small for 1/10 which is the MOTUC/SUPER7/NECA non toon TMNT Stuff.
We need more accessories for dioramas. Not just wrestling. (Jakks made all of those for hardcore matches)
Summary:
The Advent Calendar this year would have some Time travel shenanigans. Items in it were going to have sneak peeks in other reviews.
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