How Much Money Did ECW Wrestlers Get From Action Figure Sales?
Tommy Dreamer has the scoop...
Former ECW original Tommy Dreamer revealed how much cash the promotion's wrestlers made from action figure sales during an interview with Brian Myers for the 'Figs 4 Friends' show.
According to Dreamer, it wasn't much.
He was stunned when he heard that ECW toys had shipped 3 million units on the Netflix series 'The Toys That Made Us'. Myers stepped in to say that the show's claim was probably an exaggeration, but Tommy wasn't so sure.
Then, he shocked Myers by admitting that he earned around $200 in total from action figure royalties during his ECW run. The only other thing he received as "payment" was two boxes (approximately 48 figures) of the toys for himself. That was commonplace if you were on the ECW roster - some, however, probs didn't even get the $200 sum and only received figures.
Basically, Dreamer and most of the guys the toys were based on got next-to-nothing for lending their likeness to the dolls. Watch the clip and you'll see that this isn't something that sits well with Tommy in retrospect.
Can't blame him for that one.