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Post by BoJack Hogan on Dec 31, 2009 22:06:46 GMT -5
I was wondering, for anyone who is old enough to remember what were common shelfwarmers during the LJN or Hasbro days? I was very young and I really can't remember. I also got in towards the end of LJN and have no real recollection of shelfwarmers. I would be very interested in taking a trip down memory lane to anyone who might remember.
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Post by WCWA Online on Dec 31, 2009 22:11:28 GMT -5
The Headshrinkers and The Bushwhackers warmed mad shelves. In fact, most of the dark blue card series were super shelf warmers. The Rockers tag pack too
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Post by carly1988 on Dec 31, 2009 22:13:35 GMT -5
Purple Razor Ramon, The Undertaker, British Bulldog and the HBK in white were shelf warmers around here.....Surprising of all I only own the white HBK
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Post by pandelis on Dec 31, 2009 22:15:01 GMT -5
I remember my local Woolworth's would have dozens of Bobby Heenans, Classy Freddie Blassies and Jimmy Harts.
Years later - I would find plenty of Outback Jacks, Kamalas and Rick Rudes at my local Toys R Us.
If I knew then, what I know now...
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Post by wrestlingfigure on Dec 31, 2009 22:16:49 GMT -5
The absolute biggest Hasbro shelf warmer I remember is Rowdy Roddy Piper.I saw him at Ames CVS Toys r us Dywanes toy land....everywhere!As for LJN I remember seeing The Slickster , though I was to young to recognize if he was a shelf warmer.
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Post by Burger Lad on Jan 1, 2010 3:47:59 GMT -5
Hasbros in the UK I remember were mainly The Rockers 2-pack!
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Post by ICHIBAN 一番 on Jan 1, 2010 4:40:55 GMT -5
bushwhakers on single cards were in out local woolworths forever.
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Post by hbkjason on Jan 1, 2010 5:05:53 GMT -5
In the UK I remember seeing the tag packs as the shelf warmers esp nasty boys lol
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Post by habrofan83 on Jan 1, 2010 6:59:04 GMT -5
lod, superfly snuka, irs, dibiase green. texas tornado and the rockers, wish i would have bought them all ha ha
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Post by Burger Lad on Jan 1, 2010 10:48:47 GMT -5
lod, superfly snuka, irs, dibiase green. texas tornado and the rockers, wish i would have bought them all ha ha Tornado and IRS - yes definitely! |
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Post by Mr. Old School™ on Jan 1, 2010 16:08:12 GMT -5
Hmm, great question. As far as the Hasbro's go, I believe the biggest shelf warmers that I can remember are Sid Justice, The Rockers 2-pack, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, and Ultimate Warrior #1. My God, that Warrior was awful.
I can barely remember any shelf warmers from the LJN series because it was so long ago and I was like 5 or 6 then, but if I had to guess, I'd say some of the biggest shelf warmers would be Jimmy Hart, Tito Santana purple trunks, Ted Arcidi, Corporal Kirchner, and "Cowboy" Bob Orton to name a few.
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Post by Scotty Flamingo on Jan 1, 2010 16:38:42 GMT -5
Some Hasbro shelfwarmers were the Bushwackers 2 pack and singles, LOD 2 pack, Tatanka purple card, Dusty Rhodes, Razor in purple, and HBK in Black. Also the Galoob Sting in blue and AWA Flair vs Zbyszko 2 pack were major shelf warmers.
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Post by crissfresh on Jan 1, 2010 22:02:57 GMT -5
Here in Australia it was the Hasbro green card series. In all seriousness they couldn't give them away. The Kid and Yokozuna weren't so common but The Gunns, Borga, Adam Bomb and Heel Crush were everywhere. Toys R Us reduced the crap out of The Smoking Guns to clear them. If I had have known how rare they were overseas I would have stocked up on them  |
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Post by angry2k9 on Jan 1, 2010 22:36:17 GMT -5
i remember the scott steiner warming lots of shelves at KB toy's around here
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Jan 2, 2010 10:14:07 GMT -5
For LJNs, I remember seeing a lot of Bruno Sammartino, Greg Valentine and Freddie Blassie clogging the pegs at stores when I was a kid.
Also, while stores didn't stock as many LJN tag team packs, every store that carried them seemed to have trouble getting rid of the Iron Shiek-Nikolai Volkoff 2-pack. Part of the problem is that both figures came out as singles very early in the LJN run, and there was nothing different about them other than the brown belts. Kids like me already had both figures before the 2-pack hit shelves and it wasn't worth $20 just to get the pair of brown tag team title belts.
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Post by JWLJN on Jan 2, 2010 12:00:41 GMT -5
Here it was Mean Gene and Blassie as far as LJNs. One local Toys R Us had them into the '90s.
As far as Hasbro's...Piper, Honky, Rockers, LOD, Samu, Fatu, Luke, Butch, and Gonzalez.
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Post by jthomps3 on Jan 2, 2010 14:31:52 GMT -5
I was too young for LJN, but I definitely remember seeing a few old Remco AWA figures. I remember seeing Garvin and Baby Doll. The cards were BEAT.
As for Hasbro, The ROCKERS warmed forever. KB had Bret Hart, Taker, and Ramon purple in multiples. They were 3/$10 by about 1995.
Don't we all wish we picked them up back then?
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Post by hasbrocustomsdude on Jan 2, 2010 14:50:04 GMT -5
I cant remember any from the first batches as i only ever paid attention to ones i needed for my collection. However i remember in 1995 home and bargains got hundreds of foreign cards in stock, mainly ultimate warrior 2 and boss man 1. Also remember the local pound shop having boxes full of purple carded tatankas for about 2/3 years
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Post by romafan87 on Jan 2, 2010 22:42:53 GMT -5
Shelfwarmers in Allentown, PA from what I can remember:
Hasbro
Rick Rude
Jake Roberts
Roddy Piper
Jimmy Snuka
The Rockers
The Bushwhackers
IRS
Tatanka
Brutus #2
Bret Hart Red Card
Undertaker Red Card
All later blue cards with the exception of Giant Gonzales
Some of the surprisingly tough to locate figures included all of the yellow and green cards, specifically Nailz and evil Crush, Koko B. Ware, Greg Valentine, LOD, Nasty Boys, and the British Bulldog.
LJN
Was too young to remember but I did find Bossman, Haku, Warlord, and Rude at retail. The only ones I bought (well, my parents, I was 2/3) when they came out. I've heard interesting stories about certain areas having a really tough time clearing out Haku though.
Galoob
Sting
Ric Flair
Arn Anderson
Lex Luger
Toughest to find in my area were Z-Man, Butch Reed, and Sid.
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Post by WCWA Online on Jan 2, 2010 23:37:44 GMT -5
I'll add this to the discussion. For Christmas 1994, my mom got me and my brother both MOC Terry Funk's. She said she found them on clearance at Walmart and was suprised to find them. I'll always remember it, because it was the only LJN I actually got to open myself. So at least two Terry Funk's warmed for the better part of a decade around here, or got lost in a stock room or something.
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