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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2009 12:04:35 GMT -5
I started collecting Jakks in the beginning with the first assortment of bca's. I bought heavily into all of their lines and had a storage space filled with all my old figs which I donated to Amvets two years ago. I still have the classics though and my fondest memory was the night I walked into Toys r us and found the first set of classic tag teams as I was a huge road warriors fan and totally marked out that night( I believe I ran around the store screaming YES!!! as I was totally unaware these were coming out). The classics line will still be one of my favorite toy lines ever and I have been collecting toys since the mid seventies. With the downfall of Pro wrestling as it is today these figs take me back to a amuch better time in the industry and I can relive some of the best moments in wrestling history. I stiil have a spare room filled with cases of carded classic superstars.
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Post by angry2k9 on Dec 16, 2009 12:22:35 GMT -5
few random figure finding memories I remember me and my old man finding the BCA WM XV set with Venis, X Pac and whoever else when they first came out at Target. I definitely got the Venis and Pac, it might have been on the same day as a WWF pay per view too Found UCF at the same store, remember getting nearly the full set on a sunday when me and my dad went there I remember me and him going to our local walmart and finding Rebellion 1 and seeing the first benoit figure and being excited since you really didnt even know about protos and stuff way back when. Back in 98 I found the only Slammers Kane in KBs at Oak Brook, looked through all the pegs and found one, i was a happy panda. in aaaa, i remember finding R3's at my Grandpa's target way back when too, bought hardy cause of that cool ass ladder. I remember me and Droopy hiding figures and crap for eachother back in like 02-04ish. Finding my only 1/500 at KB toys, a joey styles i was pretty happy. got that, horswoggle, a captian america fitted and went to IWA double death that weekend. i miss the bike rides i used to have to take to target and TRU in the spring when i wanted to look at figures. I remember riding home with big bags a few times with like 5 figures and crap when the RA set with Rosey, Angle, Tomko, etc came out. The bike rides to the mall and TRU during the dying days of R3 and Birth of RA's was good times too. man, there is a lot of warm memories just running around looking for figures, im just gonna ramble more because this threads making me think of forgotten ones.. I remember hitting up Kmart and KB with my boy Dustin one day and we were prerrty sure it was gonna be a snow day the next day. He wound up getting match enders RVD from Kmart i wanna say. Back in 96 checking Target out for the King of the Iron Rungs back, some good times.
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Post by The Madness on Dec 16, 2009 13:20:43 GMT -5
When Jakks first got the WWF license, I was a little too old for playing with the figures, but too young to be a serious collector. Nevertheless, I still picked some up. My first Jakks BCA figure was the series 1 Undertaker, and I remember just being happy that there were WWF figures with moveable legs.
Still, my fondest Jakks memory will probably be the Classic Superstars line. Toward the middle of its run, it was a really exciting time to be a collector. The announcements of who Jakks had just signed were always great surprises. Sometimes they were almost surreal, when guys who have bad blood with WWE, like Bruno Sammartino and Demolition Ax, were signed. It really felt like Jakks was going above and beyond all expectations to make Classic Superstars the best line of wrestling figures ever. It's a real shame that when they lost the license, they just let the line coast downhill.
I already miss the days when CS announcements were an "event." I'm really hoping that the NWA classic series will recapture some of what made the Classic Superstars line seem like a really special, top-notch line for old-school collectors.
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Post by nastynate on Dec 16, 2009 14:51:24 GMT -5
For me it is without a doubt finding cstt 1 at tru in traverse city with my buddy Gugin. i freaked out when i saw lod, the hart foundation, and the rockers. i immediately bought the harts and lod and to this day i swear 2 rockers packs sat on the pegs for over a year!!!! of course when i broke down to buy 1 they were gone, but still!!! seeing those in the stores for the 1st time, with no idea they were coming, was what really got me pumped for claissic superstars figures. i really hope that the nwa legends line is able to pick up where classic superstars left off, and give us old school collectors something to look forward too. i wont be buying mattel unless they eventually produce a legends line (im hoping at least mattycollector does a few) so jakks losing the line in 2010 is kinda depressing.
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Post by albireo on Dec 16, 2009 16:03:58 GMT -5
My fondest memory is from back when Finishing Moves first came out, I'd had TTL for a while but they had limited playability so seeing these just blew my mind. I'd seen the Hardy 2 pack in TRU but didn't have enough money to get it so literally everytime we went anywhere we HAD to look for them. One time we even had an employee open what must have been 10 boxes searching for them but with no luck. Eventually we took another trip to TRU and I there they were, just sitting on the shelf. It was the happiest day of my life...then Matt's leg broke off a few months later.
I guess another fond memory would be winning AD11 Cena/Funaki and a spring ring in a news paper competition. Up until that point I had only bought the occasional fig but that really kick started the obsession.
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Post by LeighD on Dec 16, 2009 16:50:21 GMT -5
A few immediately come to mind:
- BCA 1. Man at the time those were so cool and I ended up buying 2 of each for 1 loose and 1 MOC.
- Survivor Series 4-Pack with Green Warrior! I still have that Warrior to this day and it is one of my favorite BCA figures.
- CS 1. I remember seeing the protos and was highly caught, but when i saw the final product I HAD to have some! This all lead to me being a MOC CS completion-ist!
- Buying CS 16. My local KB had just gotten them in and we were having a HUGE snow storm so i drove 10 miles to get them. Plus it was in the middle of the holiday season, my wife was pregnant with our first child, and I was working on one of my favorite projects.
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Post by taker619freak on Dec 16, 2009 16:58:53 GMT -5
Man... I started collecting JAKKS WWF/E figures in 1997 right before the first TTLs were released. I stopped collecting in 2007 but what a run it was. I loved going to KB Toys and Toys R Us to see if they had the "new series" in stock.
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Post by martel on Dec 16, 2009 18:36:48 GMT -5
When I found the first BCA series, it was during the summer at Wal Mart and I randomly found the entire set. My grandma bought me Shawn, Diesel, and Goldust. I got Razor, Bret, and Taker later that week. I went through 3 Diesels, that first series broke way too often and way too easily. Then I never found Series 2, luckily my aunt got me the entire set for Christmas that year because she knew we couldn't find them here.
From there on, I found them random places but kept up no less. Only store we had here at the time was Wal Mart, and they never got any in, I'm guessing because Series 1 Razor was a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR shelfwarmer. I remember the entire WWF section was Razor at one point. They started carrying them again around....Series 6 I'd say. Mostly just had the side series though. Actually we had a K-Mart too, but they didn't carry wrestling figures until around Series 5. I found some at grocery stores randomly.
My fondest moment though had to be when I got the Blue Blazer. Terrible figure, but I was a HUGE Owen mark, and a huge Blazer mark, and he had just died. My mom got it for me at a flea market for 20 bucks.
Good times.
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Post by Billy F'N Shogunn on Dec 16, 2009 19:42:07 GMT -5
The fact that Classic Superstars materialized. I remember vividly both first HEARING of this line and FINDING it for the first time in stores. I was an avid Jakks/WWE collector already so it was great, and the first few series only made my addiction, er, hobby more intense.
i remember the night i first heard of the line, a few buddies of mine were all sitting around (in an altered state of mind) and we were saying who we'd want in the line. I was so messed up i said "I want a George the Animal Steele - and i want it to have REAL HAIR - and i got it. thank you Jakks, it was the best idea for a fig ever and i will take the credit for it, even though i know you weren't listening in on me (although i was paranoid for some reason - nah that couldn't have been you guys....)
also Rulers of the Ring series 2 was the best TTL set ever, thanks again for that one (basically all the Rulers of the Ring TTL sets were amazing - but 2 was my fave)
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Post by ~ Cymru ~ on Dec 16, 2009 20:38:01 GMT -5
i've loved every miniute saving up every peeny i had to buy one figure as a kid, i've loved it all. i live in hope that one day. years from now Jakks will re-aquire the WWE license and i can pick up my collecting again.
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Post by Glorydaysofwrestling on Dec 16, 2009 21:01:39 GMT -5
Like a few others on here, I might have grown up with Jakks/WWE. I remember Finding the 1st bone crunching figs...I was so happy I had something new to play with other than Bend-ems lol......anyway I remember finding the new protos for BCA series 5 when I first got the internet, it was so awesome, pretty much been on wrestlingfigs since it started out as wrestleworld.com/figures...I finally feel like I'm done with wrestling figures at age 26, Jakks and my collecting has come to an end. Take it easy dudes
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Post by HugoOne on Dec 16, 2009 21:06:17 GMT -5
Sure, why not.
The first time I saw a Jakks figure, it was Bret Hart from Series 1. His arm was off and I thought he was supposed to come like that, due to the bone crunching action. What a silly 9-10 year old I was.
Beanie babies were huge when BCA was alive and kicking. My Mom traded one to get me a MOC Blue Blazer that still sits upon my shelves.
My Mom also got me the first BCA X-Pac for Valentine's Day when it came out. That figure was amazing at the time.
When the CSTT Demolition came out, I went to Toys R Us with a friend. The only one I saw was top stocked, and I had to put her on my shoulders to grab it for me.
When I was 14 or 15 and moved from Illinois to Florida, I was huge into my figure federation because I didn't have any friends. I tried to do a pic fed, but I didn't have a digital camera so I was using a disposable. Still have those. The last PPV I had, I took pictures of, and that was pretty much the end of me consistently playing with my figures.
Hm...what else...
When I was in Canada, Superstars Series 9 came out, and I found them at an awesome TRU in Quebec. Picked up Big Show...actually, probably the whole set. I was pretty excited about that.
Ordering RA Series 1 was pretty exciting, getting Orton, Cena, Lesnar, etc. in the mail. That was my first time (and one of them only times) I ordered a complete set.
My other favorite memory?
The incredibly awesome monster ring.
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Post by angry2k9 on Dec 16, 2009 23:01:58 GMT -5
^^man good call on finding figs in different states/countries, forgot all about some cool stories
remmeber finding the BCA big show's first release in wisconsin of all places, went there to see my uncle. i got a rotr guerrero too from wisconsin a few years later and still remember how sick the TRU was with their backstock
remmeber finding TTL3 in florida, everyone but jericho. i got chyna and bossman then we fly back to chicago and found jericho that night at TRU in north riverside.
i remember when WM18 R3's first came out and i rode my bike all the way to the mall just to find a HHH with no belt. but i wound up finding a billy gunn and got that just because i wanted a new figure.
i remember getting thursday and friday off for some week or it might have been spring break and ROTR 1 hit my TRU man that was some crap. such an awesome set too, those dudleys were top notch, got them and taz and wound up getting snow later down the line
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2009 23:49:53 GMT -5
Like kaneisdaman, having to get wrestling figures while living in Australia can be a touch more difficult, but during the late Nineties, my local TRU, Kmart and other department stores would be awash with ToyBiz WCW figures, of which I snapped up as many as I could, and was impressed with the attention to detail, which, at the time, it looked as if the BCA's didn't have. Of course there being two premier companies in wrestling made it essential to get both and have a massive fed or promotion, with WCW's stars outnumbering the-then WWF's. Of the BCA's, I liked the Mankind that came with Kane (2Tuff), Austin's Breakdown figure and the Big Bossman from the 'Corporation' line. (just the fact they had a line or series for a faction was amazing) As time went on, WWE hit its stride, and the WCW figures weren't what they used to be, and I was amazed at TTL, and remember thinking 'How can they better this?' I got as many figures as I could from TTL, as the other lines (Final Count and Snappin' Bashers or whatever) didn't make it to my neck of the woods. When it ended, I wondered if I'd keep collecting, and by luck, found the RAW X Anniversary set at TRU, and saw Goldust and Trish, and was more astonished than when I first saw TTLs for the first time. Like HugoOne, I ordered RA1, as the mold was simply brilliant, and was the step up from TTL that I thought wouldn't be possible. From then on, getting CS1 and CS2 (with a few exceptions) in TRU and other assorted Classics on my travels were icing on the cake, as the whole CS idea to me was simply amazing. A good friend of mine on another forum helped me get the 'Rock Family' 3 pack last year, which was another fantastic moment for me, as Jakk's work on High Chief Peter Maivia is flawless, and is probably my favourite CS figure ever. Managing to get what I've could and being impressed with Jakks is something I'll never take away, but of course as time has proven, this year hasn't been so kind. Great question, thanks again.
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Post by purplekangaroo on Dec 17, 2009 0:05:24 GMT -5
I like the classic and classic deluxe series. I must have spent US$12000 at least on my figures cos i only started collecting in 2007.
Also love older RA figures like Brock Lesnar, Goldberg, Rock, Cena, etc.
Not a fan of the older TTL or BCA stuff. Hasbro is ok i guess but i haven't got a single Hasbro. Lol.
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Post by JJ420 on Dec 17, 2009 2:27:03 GMT -5
I've had some great moments in collecting... but the greatest is still yet to come God bless.
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Post by gordon on Dec 17, 2009 10:42:03 GMT -5
Setting up the WWF TitanTron and taking display pics with all my figs in them. Receiving Unmatched Fury Series 1. Receiving the TTL Too Cool 3-Pack.
Gooooood times.
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Post by Dudewithattitude83 on Dec 17, 2009 13:10:48 GMT -5
well it was around this time of year that i bought my first jakks set it was Hbk in red vs Vader BCa i was so stoked about them i bought them from ames dept store and for christmas i got about 20 more figures for christmas man that was a great christmas it was great because i had been playing with hasbro's wich don't move very much.
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Post by awatkins25WWE on Dec 17, 2009 17:15:58 GMT -5
My fondest memory would be when I played Raw Mondays with my neices and nephews
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Post by fallbrawl on Dec 17, 2009 20:34:53 GMT -5
I still remember going into the store and seeing the first series of the bca i only have enough money to buy two so i got bret hart and hbk. after the bca series i took a break from collection and got back into collection when the classic series came out
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