There is some action figure controversy going on in the world of IMPACT Wrestling this week.
On Thursday, the promotion issued a press release to announce that they have cancelled their planned line of action figures due to them not meeting the standards or the outlined timeframe for the scheduled release.
IMPACT Wrestling issued the following statement regarding the matter.
Statement Regarding IMPACT Action Figures
IMPACT Wrestling regretfully announces that its scheduled action figures, made by Asylum, did not meet IMPACT standards nor the outlined timeframe for release.
Thus, IMPACT Wrestling is now in discussions with other action figure manufacturers for an upcoming release and no IMPACT Action Figures from Asylum will be produced.
All pre-payments for the IMPACT Action Figures made by Asylum will be refunded in full. Refunds will start being processed at the end of August.
Thank you for your understanding.
Things got interesting when the Asylum Wrestling Store issued an announcement of their own denying that they produced the action figures, claiming IMPACT incorrectly listed them as the manufacturers.
The Asylum Wrestling Store statement reads as follows:
ASYLUM STATEMENT
As you may Have read, Impact has cancelled their action figure Line. These Figures were to be made by a company that isn’t Impact Nor Asylum.
Their press Release Incorrectly Stated that we were the Manufacturer of them, which is clearly not true.
We also apologize as we’ve known for some time that these were at the possibility of being cancelled for about a month or so and wanted to send refunds, but were asked to hold off until “official” cancellation.
We’ve issued all refunds from those who ordered from us.
Thank you for your business and we hope this ordeal doesn’t affect everyone doing business with us in the future
-the Asylum Wrestling Store
As you may Have read, Impact has cancelled their action figure Line. These Figures were to be made by a company that isn’t Impact Nor Asylum.
Their press Release Incorrectly Stated that we were the Manufacturer of them, which is clearly not true.
We also apologize as we've… pic.twitter.com/NMvxCT7Ilp
— TheAsylumWrestlingStore (@asylum_store) August 16, 2023
