KnuckleBonz launches limited Lars Ulrich statue from Hardwired era
KnuckleBonz’s new Lars Ulrich statue freezes Metallica’s Hardwired era in a 1/9-scale run of 3,000, and the drummer-first presentation gives it real collector appeal.
KnuckleBonz has launched an officially licensed Lars Ulrich Rock Iconz statue built around Metallica’s Hardwired… to Self-Destruct era, and the release leans hard into drummer-specific display appeal. The piece is limited to 3,000 worldwide, hand-crafted, hand-numbered, and sold with a certificate of authenticity, putting it squarely in collector territory rather than standard band merch.
The statue is scaled at 1/9 and measures 8.5 inches high, 8 inches wide, and 7 inches deep. KnuckleBonz lists it at $184.00, a price that signals a premium art-object approach instead of a casual souvenir buy. That matters for drummers because the value here is not just that Lars Ulrich is attached to it, but that the product is framed as a sculpted snapshot of a specific performance era, the kind of thing that reads as a shelf piece in a studio, rehearsal room, or office.
That Hardwired connection gives the figure more weight than a generic Metallica logo item. Metallica released Hardwired… to Self-Destruct on November 18, 2016, with Ulrich on drums, and the WorldWired Tour supported the album from 2016 through 2019. KnuckleBonz had already announced a limited-edition Hardwired-era Metallica statue set on August 31, 2020, including James Hetfield, Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo, each at about 8.5 inches tall and capped at 3,000 pieces. This new Ulrich release extends that run into a focused drummer collectible.
For Metallica fans, the significance is partly historical. The band traces its start to October 28, 1981, when Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield first got together after Ulrich’s LA Recycler ad, and Ulrich has remained the band’s most visually identifiable drummer. Rock Iconz is built around that idea, with KnuckleBonz saying the line represents artists from a moment in performance history and that the company has been making music collectibles since 2003.
The verdict for drummers is pretty clear: this is more than a band collectible with Lars pasted onto it. The Hardwired-era framing, the limited hand-numbered run, and the sculpted presentation make it genuine drummer memorabilia, even if its main appeal still comes from Metallica’s wider collector market.
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