Greensborohill
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Post by Greensborohill on May 23, 2008 15:50:06 GMT -5
LJN's for me. 1. I played with them as a kid. When wrestling was wrestling. 2. The ONLY wrestling action figure line, in my mind, to get heights right!!!!! Andre the Giant is huge. Jimmy Hart is tiny! Why the rest of the makers of WWF/E figures can't get this right is beyond me. (yeah yeah, each mold needs to be custom, cuts cost, blah blah. have some pride!) I actually have childhood memories around the figures.... - I lost $20 one day when going to the store to buy an LJN fig. My parents were FURIOUS that I lost it. I was SO upset. They bought me Corporal Kirchner after I learned my lesson. - I got a wood burning kit as a kid. Do they still even sell those? Anyway,t he only thing I used it for was to make stairs for my ring! - I also made my own bell out of cardboard and my own "Piper's Pit" backdrop for interviews. - My ring had tag ropes. - The posters were hung, with care, around my room and grouped into 'stables'. If a wrestler made a change, the wall was updated. - I was playng with them one day with my little brother and I got pissed because he was throwing them around a little too hard. A fight ensued. When my mom asked what was wrong, I said, "He's throwing them around too hard! Like this...." and I demonstrated. That's when the Iron Sheik's head put a HOLE in my closet door and wasn't damaged at all! THAT is an action figure my friend. Can a Hasbro (or Jakks) do that? I don't think so. *sniff* I love you LJNs. I put my JYD thumb wrestler in the microwave. . . . . he looked like doo doo when he came out. |
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Mastermind
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Post by Mastermind on May 24, 2008 15:14:56 GMT -5
thats a tough one for me..i like both of these lines equally..to the more realistic look on ljns..to the cartoony look of the hasbros..
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 25, 2008 3:30:22 GMT -5
I follow wrestling since 1987 (well, only WWF in those days), first figs I saw on tv must've been the LJN stretch wrestlers. I thought they looked "the bomb!", sadly there was no chance I could lay my hands on them: they weren't sold over here and internet wouldn't arrive the first 10 years...
Anyway, in 1990 or 1991 my parents bought me two wrestling figures from a fun fair: Big John Studd (didn't know that until 1998, always thought I had Hercules) and Hulk Hogan. The card back revealed other wrestlers all with unknown names, but familiar looks. OK, not the real deal, but I had 2 wrestlers!
Around the same time Hasbro series 1 (including the ring!) started to pop up in toy-stores here... Since I was 15 at that time, my parents thought I was too old to get all these plastic men. So, I had to be pleased with my bootlegs the next couple of years. In september 1997, I had graduated already, I went to the toy-store - armed with pics of hasbros (plucked from the 'net) - surprisingly they still had figs of series 1 and the ring! In the next weeks I bought all they had.
Later I'd buy others over the internet, then LJNs, galoobs, osftms, popys, ...
I really liked LJNs; they had wrestlers, managers, referees, announcers, ...
LJNs had the complete picture, so I pick them over Hasbros!
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Post by joeface on May 30, 2008 7:31:03 GMT -5
I prefer hasbros
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Post by pandelis on May 30, 2008 11:03:35 GMT -5
Although I've collected and completed both sets - I'm still partial to the good ol' rubber LJN figures.
Little known fact: As a pre-teen, I used to charge neighbourhood kids to come check out my wrestling cards with LJN figures.
Some of my greatest battles:
Hulk Hogan vs. Sergeant Slaughter IRAQ edition (a customized CPL Kirshner)
One Man Gang & Kamala vs. Ricky Steamboat and Ax (for the tag team belts)
And the legendary battle of:
Undertaker (a customized Ken Patera) vs. Billy Jack Haynes...who's hat was subsequently stolen by Undertaker. I think I eventually had a hat match to see who would get to wear it.
Feel free to check out my WWF LJN figures on eBay now:
Ebay user: No Spam
Cheers,
PtheG
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whydraft2
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Post by whydraft2 on May 30, 2008 20:11:09 GMT -5
hasbro all the way for me
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Post by twistedtate on Oct 30, 2008 16:32:04 GMT -5
i went with Both both good times in my life and both were not bad timesi n the wrestling era ok wait maybe the end of the hasbros was a bad time lol
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Post by STOMWIJF on Oct 31, 2008 0:24:17 GMT -5
i went with Both both good times in my life and both were not bad timesi n the wrestling era ok wait maybe the end of the hasbros was a bad time lol You bumped several old posts on this board. Please do not do this again and please take the time to read the board rules. Thanks. |
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