UPDATED: Impact Wrestling Issues Statement on Planned Action Figure Line, Asylum Responds

UPDATE: Asylum Wrestling Store has responded with a statement of their own, claiming they were not the maker of the action figure line as Impact Wrestling had claimed earlier but were a distributor. You can read their statement in response to Impact’s announcement below:

“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”

In August 2022, Impact Wrestling revealed a new line of action figures in the works from Chella Toys, including some mock-up artwork designs of the figures, that were listed as “Coming Soon” to ShopImpact. The image Asylum posted has the same artwork and designs for the Epic Toys (formerly Chella Toys) line that was announced last year as coming to ShopImpact and 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

ORIGINAL: Impact Wrestling issued an announcement today revealing that the planned line of new Impact action figures from Asylum did not meet the company’s standards or outlined timeframe for release. Per the announcement, the planned line of Asylum figures will not be produced, and Impact will begin talks with other action figure manufacturers for a potential release. Here’s the full announcement:

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.