Mattel's WWE Legends Elite Series 31 opened for preorder on Target.com on June 19, 2026, and Wrestling Figure News confirms the set hit Target store shelves on July 1, priced at $24.99 per figure. With that street date now three weeks behind us, this is a confirmed-available release rather than an upcoming one.
The headline draw of this wave is a pair of long-requested firsts: this marks Kona Crush's debut in the modern Legends line and Bull Nakano's first-ever Mattel figure. They're joined by "El Matador" Tito Santana, a Triple H figure built around his early-2000s Evolution-era look, and the pieces to build a Diamond Studd build-a-figure across the four-figure wave.
Here is what's confirmed about each figure, why the two debuts matter, and how to protect a set built around this many first-time releases.
Wrestling Figure News and Wrestling Figure Database's own product listings confirm the following:
All four carded figures include the Diamond Studd build-a-figure pieces as part of their individual accessory loadouts, meaning a completed Diamond Studd requires picking up the full wave rather than any single figure.
Kona Crush's figure includes an extra pair of legs, extra hands, and additional accessories, all packaged in his yellow-and-purple ring gear with CRUSH lettering across the front. The figure's packaging back specifically credits him as a former WWF Tag Team Champion, tying his design to his run as one half of Kona Crush and Yokozuna's tag team pairing rather than a generic look.
Bull Nakano's figure is easily the most accessory-dense piece in the wave: an alternate head, extra interchangeable hands, a black-and-gold cape, and two nunchucks accompany her signature orange-and-black mohawk sculpt. Wrestling Figure Database attributes her attire specifically to a March 13, 1995 WWF Raw appearance, giving the figure a source-accurate costume rather than a composite design pulled from multiple eras of her run.
Triple H's figure comes with interchangeable hands, a championship belt, a water bottle, a barbed wire bat, and an extra torso piece, with Wrestling Figure Database dating the attire to June 15, 2003 at WWE Bad Blood. That places this figure squarely in his Evolution-era run rather than his more commonly figured Attitude Era or Cerebral Assassin looks, giving longtime Triple H collectors a genuinely different costume to add alongside existing releases.
Tito Santana's figure ships with interchangeable hands and legs plus his signature pink-and-yellow cape, worn over teal ring gear and pink boots. The packaging back details his career accomplishments and, like the rest of the wave, includes the build-a-figure promotion for Diamond Studd on the reverse.
Both Kona Crush and Bull Nakano have been requested by WWE Legends collectors for years without a modern Mattel release, and landing both debuts in the same four-figure wave is a notable concentration of new-to-line characters. One commenter on Wrestling Figure News' initial reveal post specifically called it the first wave in years they planned to buy in its entirety, reflecting how the combination of two genuine firsts alongside two established fan-favorites landed with the collecting community.
Since Diamond Studd's parts are spread across all four figures rather than concentrated in one or two, completing the build-a-figure means committing to the full wave rather than cherry-picking a favorite or two. That's worth planning around before deciding which figures to prioritize if budget or shelf space means buying fewer than all four.
WWE Legends has built its identity on filling exactly these kinds of gaps, characters with genuine historical significance who somehow never got a modern figure, rather than re-covering already well-represented Attitude Era stars. Kona Crush and Bull Nakano both fall squarely into that category: Crush's tag team run with Yokozuna and Nakano's status as one of the most decorated joshi wrestlers to ever appear in a WWF ring both carry real historical weight that had gone unrepresented until this wave. Pairing those two debuts with Tito Santana and Triple H, both established names collectors already look for, gives Series 31 a mix of must-have rarity and dependable demand rather than leaning entirely on one or the other.
Since this is a Target-exclusive release without a guaranteed wide-retail reprint, protecting the carded packaging on all four figures helps preserve both display condition and long-term resale value. A PET protector sized for Mattel's WWE Legends card format keeps the bubble and card intact against shelf handling.
For collectors who prefer opening and displaying loose, a 6-inch scale clamshell protector keeps each figure, along with Bull Nakano's alternate head and nunchucks or Triple H's barbed wire bat, protected and organized once out of the packaging.
Yes. It street-dated at Target stores on July 1, 2026, after preorders opened June 19.
Kona Crush and Bull Nakano are both making their first-ever appearance in Mattel's modern WWE Legends line with this wave.
By collecting all four figures in the wave — Kona Crush, Bull Nakano, Tito Santana, and Triple H — each of which includes a portion of the Diamond Studd parts.
It's a Target exclusive, priced at $24.99 per figure.
WWE Legends Elite Series 31 pairs two genuinely overdue character debuts with two established fan favorites and a build-a-figure payoff, making it one of the more complete-the-set-worthy waves Mattel has put out this year. Since it's already on shelves, checking local Target stock or the online listings directly is the more useful next step than waiting for a future release date.
Once the full wave is in hand, protecting all four cards, plus Diamond Studd's small assembled parts, is worth doing before anything gets separated or lost.
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