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Character: William Regal
Brand: Mattel
Year: 2010
Series: Basic Series #4

Straight outta Blackpool, William Regal finally has a modern day representation in figure form.

The shaggy-haired Englishman changed his look around the time he won the 2008 King of the Ring. Here, he is sporting his all black tights, with fancy gold, elegant designs.

The headscan captures his trademark scowl, however, feels as if it lacks the fidelity in his features. The one-tone hair doesn’t help matters, but it’s alright. He also has his one hand taped up just like real life.

Mattel introduced a new torso shared by both William Regal and Matt Hardy, in Basic Series #4. It’s a modified version of the torso commonly seen on most regular-sized Mattel figures, as seen here with Chris Jericho.

He also has his tiny tattoos. They’re not colored in, but it’s still nice to see such attention to small details. Above is the rose tattoo with his wife’s name on top.

This tattoo is supposed to say “Made in England”. It just reads “England”. This isn’t a factory error.

Regal’s Blackpool shield tattoo. Also not colored in.

Here are two Jakks Pacific William Regals compared to the Mattel one. The Regal on the left is from Adrenaline Series #20. It has all of the tattoos the Mattel one has, but they’re also colored in and more legible. The main drawback to this figure, for it’s time period, is the the cut torso. It just…isn’t Regal. Later on they made the RA#26 Regal shown on the right. He’s wearing inaccurate attire, but the new torso they made for him is a much better fit. If there was a way to mix all the best features of the Jakks figures with the Mattel version, we’d have the perfect Master Regal.

As it stands this is a decent, but flawed, first effort on William Regal. The new torso is too lean but a better fit than the standard one. The gold vine designs are nice and shiny. We’re just lucky Mattel didn’t decide to make the women’s bathing suit look Regal had on-and-off in 2009, over this. That wouldn’t have been pretty. My take on this Regal? Hold out for the upcoming Elite one by the end of 2010.

Unessential.

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