WAAAAAAAAALTER! WAAAAAAAALTER!
So, while I officially stopped watching WWE programming about a year ago, (sex criming) I’d only been paying minimal attention to them for a few years before that (pig-lipstick on other sex criming, Saudi Arabia shows, general shittiness).But before THAT, during the heyday of WWE UK and 205 Live, there was Walter. The kind of wrestler I generally don’t get into. A giant brute who just slaps people into oblivion. But he was SUCH a a brute who slapped people SO HARD into ALL THE OBLIVION that he, especially in his matches with Ilya Dragunov, won me over.
In time, he would get his name changed wo Gunther, get called up to the main roster, lead a faction that was only slightly more Nazi than the WWE’s own politics, and I would hear of his exploits on the internet. But there is still a fondness, enough so that a good sale price on his recent Ultimate Edition got me to pull the trigger and recreate him chopping the everl-loving shit out of Dragunov’s chest.
This is New Slimmer Gunther, which is both fine and also weird because Gunther is both stocky and gangly at the same time? And the figure reflects that with uncanny accuracy. He comes with a fairly light array of Ultinates gear - heads, yes. Hands, yes. Soft goods jacket? Technically, yes, but it looks like they took his actual ring gear and asked themselves “what’s the cheapest possible way we could imply what this jacket looks like?” and went withh that. But again it was a decent discount so I’m not mad. Just slightly disappointed. I see what you tried to get away with here, Mattel, and we both know that we both know you didn’t pull it off..
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