thehasbrohunter
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Post by thehasbrohunter on Aug 15, 2017 10:14:59 GMT -5
I always love hearing stories of people's feds when they were kids and all the wacky stuff they did so feel free to take some time to reminiscence about your childhood and spin nostalgic yarns of your experiences playing with the legendary WWF Hasbro line.
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Taylor
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Post by Taylor on Aug 15, 2017 10:35:35 GMT -5
We used to take 'anywhere in the building' matchups to the extreme and would often end up with Bret Hart fighting Shawn Michaels out in the garden and Macho Man performing his elbow drop on Mr Perfect from the top of a garden wall.
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Post by rxchrisg on Aug 15, 2017 17:38:34 GMT -5
Yes! I remember no DQ matches ending up in trees and stuff.
Also,and this was LJNs not Hasbros,we had a branding iron made out a paper clip that Terry Funk would brand his opponent with after we held it over a lighter!
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Post by thebigzakbowski on Aug 16, 2017 12:51:18 GMT -5
I had a stable of shawn michaels mr perfect the model and the narcissist and they were all but unbeatable.
Bossman was a heel teamed with the mountie called the international law officers.
Andre was champ (cus who could beat him)
Hogan was a jobber
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Post by Lego Customs! on Aug 16, 2017 13:07:57 GMT -5
I think I did this with my Hasbros.... definitely did with my GI Joes but I had Christmas tree matches when the tree would be up. This consisted of two wrestlers fighting from top to bottom with the loser being the one to be thrown onto the floor below. This allowed for wrestlers to fall and catch the tinsel to add some suspense, land in branches, slam his opponent into baubles, that kind of thing. Kept me amused for ages.
In hindsight, maybe the match should have been won by the wrestler who reached the star first?
I did cut out some little cardboard steel chairs for hardcore matches, along with thumbtacks and wrapped some paper clips around a bat that came with a Little Dracula figure, I believe, to make a barbed wire baseball bat. I made a terrible ladder by chopping and taping drinking straws together.
After seeing the getting slammed through the ring gimmick, I made a ring using a cardboard tea box, some pens for ring posts, wool ropes and a big paper towel mat. With this I cut a rectangle out of the cardboard box ring base, covered it with the paper towel mat and then wrestlers could get slammed through the ring.
I cut pictures of other title belts out of magazines to make up for the lack of an Intercontinental and tag team titles.
Good times.
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Taylor
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Post by Taylor on Aug 16, 2017 14:30:06 GMT -5
Yes! I remember no DQ matches ending up in trees and stuff. Also,and this was LJNs not Hasbros,we had a branding iron made out a paper clip that Terry Funk would brand his opponent with after we held it over a lighter! Haha! Great to hear we weren't alone! That sounds pretty extreme! Great memories. |
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Post by Taylor on Aug 16, 2017 14:35:17 GMT -5
I think I did this with my Hasbros.... definitely did with my GI Joes but I had Christmas tree matches when the tree would be up. This consisted of two wrestlers fighting from top to bottom with the loser being the one to be thrown onto the floor below. This allowed for wrestlers to fall and catch the tinsel to add some suspense, land in branches, slam his opponent into baubles, that kind of thing. Kept me amused for ages. In hindsight, maybe the match should have been won by the wrestler who reached the star first? I did cut out some little cardboard steel chairs for hardcore matches, along with thumbtacks and wrapped some paper clips around a bat that came with a Little Dracula figure, I believe, to make a barbed wire baseball bat. I made a terrible ladder by chopping and taping drinking straws together. After seeing the getting slammed through the ring gimmick, I made a ring using a cardboard tea box, some pens for ring posts, wool ropes and a big paper towel mat. With this I cut a rectangle out of the cardboard box ring base, covered it with the paper towel mat and then wrestlers could get slammed through the ring. I cut pictures of other title belts out of magazines to make up for the lack of an Intercontinental and tag team titles. Good times. Awesome memories! Love the festive themed match ups! My Dad made me a wooden casket for buried alive matches, which was so cool. My friends would love it when they came around and brought some of their own figures, too. I remember some matches starting in the lounge and making there way up the stairs! Warrior #2 doing a gorilla press on some poor victim who would end up falling several stairs at a time. |
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RedDevil
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Post by RedDevil on Aug 16, 2017 16:34:03 GMT -5
My Dad made me a wooden casket for buried alive matches, which was so cool. My friends would love it when they came around and brought some of their own figures, too. Sounds great! I had a small shoe box (I think from shoes bought for my young cousin) that I covered in brown paper and very carefully measured and marked lines on to look like wooden planks (complete with nail marks at each end of the planks) similar to the style in the Undertaker's match with Kamala. It was a little too big, but this was at the time of the extra-large casket for the feud with Yokozuna, so it actually worked quite well - the Yoko figure fit into it very well, but also allowed Taker to win handicap casket matches  A few years later I tried to make a new casket out of wood to resemble the later black casket, but it never looked as good as the shoe box original - I blame the poor quality of the scraps of wood I had to work with, rather than my atrocious caprentry skills  In terms of booking, I can't really remember much before I started customising in the early Attitude Era - I can remember masses of storylines after I started doing that, and could bore you all for hours with my genius booking at that time  With the original toys, I would tend to re-start the fed back to whatever was going on in reality when I got bored, so maybe that's why I can't remember too much pre-Attitude Era booking - the thread of booking would often get broken. Also when I got a new figure then the fed would tend the revolve around him, basically until I got in the next new figure; for example I remember Tatanka being VERY overworked in his first week or so in my fed  |
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Post by Taylor on Aug 16, 2017 16:41:50 GMT -5
My Dad made me a wooden casket for buried alive matches, which was so cool. My friends would love it when they came around and brought some of their own figures, too. Sounds great! I had a small shoe box (I think from shoes bought for my young cousin) that I covered in brown paper and very carefully measured and marked lines on to look like wooden planks (complete with nail marks at each end of the planks) similar to the style in the Undertaker's match with Kamala. It was a little too big, but this was at the time of the extra-large casket for the feud with Yokozuna, so it actually worked quite well - the Yoko figure fit into it very well, but also allowed Taker to win handicap casket matches A few years later I tried to make a new casket out of wood to resemble the later black casket, but it never looked as good as the shoe box original - I blame the poor quality of the scraps of wood I had to work with, rather than my atrocious caprentry skills In terms of booking, I can't really remember much before I started customising in the early Attitude Era - I can remember masses of storylines after I started doing that, and could bore you all for hours with my genius booking at that time With the original toys, I would tend to re-start the fed back to whatever was going on in reality when I got bored, so maybe that's why I can't remember too much pre-Attitude Era booking - the thread of booking would often get broken. Also when I got a new figure then the fed would tend the revolve around him, basically until I got in the next new figure; for example I remember Tatanka being VERY overworked in his first week or so in my fed Brilliant! I love the Undertaker handicap casket matches! I was just looking on another thread where a collector is selling loads of figures and accessories. If we had those steel chairs, ladders, breakable tables and belts etc. back then, I think we would have been in heaven! So cool. |
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RedDevil
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Post by RedDevil on Aug 16, 2017 17:13:23 GMT -5
Sounds great! I had a small shoe box (I think from shoes bought for my young cousin) that I covered in brown paper and very carefully measured and marked lines on to look like wooden planks (complete with nail marks at each end of the planks) similar to the style in the Undertaker's match with Kamala. It was a little too big, but this was at the time of the extra-large casket for the feud with Yokozuna, so it actually worked quite well - the Yoko figure fit into it very well, but also allowed Taker to win handicap casket matches A few years later I tried to make a new casket out of wood to resemble the later black casket, but it never looked as good as the shoe box original - I blame the poor quality of the scraps of wood I had to work with, rather than my atrocious caprentry skills In terms of booking, I can't really remember much before I started customising in the early Attitude Era - I can remember masses of storylines after I started doing that, and could bore you all for hours with my genius booking at that time With the original toys, I would tend to re-start the fed back to whatever was going on in reality when I got bored, so maybe that's why I can't remember too much pre-Attitude Era booking - the thread of booking would often get broken. Also when I got a new figure then the fed would tend the revolve around him, basically until I got in the next new figure; for example I remember Tatanka being VERY overworked in his first week or so in my fed Brilliant! I love the Undertaker handicap casket matches! I was just looking on another thread where a collector is selling loads of figures and accessories. If we had those steel chairs, ladders, breakable tables and belts etc. back then, I think we would have been in heaven! So cool. Absolutely - can you imagine having something like the ladder that was used in the early ladder matches like Bret vs. Shawn? Hell I would've settled for the other damn title belts - I used the Galoob WCW title for the tag titles simply because I had two of them, but I was still lacking a good Intercontinental title, which was my favourite belt at the time (I remember I had a very cheap, small plastic belt that came with one of those cheap He-Man-style wrestling figures you'd get at Poundstretcher - not quite good enough really, especially since the belt buckle snapped almost immediately. The lack of accessories did though force me to be a little creative and proactive in building accessories of my own - the belts went through a couple of versions, ending-up being made of Velcro so they could fasten, with the plates being cut-out of Coke cans. I remember being very proud of myself when I worked-out an idea on how I could make break-away tables, and that it worked on my first attempt - I was less proud when I saw the same (obvious) concept appearing on numerous custom sites in the months that followed, but still  I built two cardboard Titan Trons as well - the first was the simpler one that was used in '97, but when they changed it in around '98/'99, then I made a second one and I remember being amazed at how well it turned-out. The second one should still be somewhere, though I don't know where - probably in the loft, but I remember I carefully cut it to flatten it for transporting when we moved abroad briefly in 2001, so maybe I cut it again to store it somewhere else when I finally retired the whole set and pretended to "grow-up"  I hope it wasn't thrown-out anyway  |
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Post by mcfclee on Aug 16, 2017 18:15:30 GMT -5
I vividly remember holding a giant royal rumble and g tying down to slaughter and hogan and accidentally dropping hogan out and ruining my whole years worth of booking haha. Slaughter 2nd title run was not on the cards at that time!
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thehasbrohunter
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Post by thehasbrohunter on Aug 16, 2017 18:17:26 GMT -5
Brilliant! I love the Undertaker handicap casket matches! I was just looking on another thread where a collector is selling loads of figures and accessories. If we had those steel chairs, ladders, breakable tables and belts etc. back then, I think we would have been in heaven! So cool. Absolutely - can you imagine having something like the ladder that was used in the early ladder matches like Bret vs. Shawn? Hell I would've settled for the other damn title belts - I used the Galoob WCW title for the tag titles simply because I had two of them, but I was still lacking a good Intercontinental title, which was my favourite belt at the time (I remember I had a very cheap, small plastic belt that came with one of those cheap He-Man-style wrestling figures you'd get at Poundstretcher - not quite good enough really, especially since the belt buckle snapped almost immediately. The lack of accessories did though force me to be a little creative and proactive in building accessories of my own - the belts went through a couple of versions, ending-up being made of Velcro so they could fasten, with the plates being cut-out of Coke cans. I remember being very proud of myself when I worked-out an idea on how I could make break-away tables, and that it worked on my first attempt - I was less proud when I saw the same (obvious) concept appearing on numerous custom sites in the months that followed, but still I built two cardboard Titan Trons as well - the first was the simpler one that was used in '97, but when they changed it in around '98/'99, then I made a second one and I remember being amazed at how well it turned-out. The second one should still be somewhere, though I don't know where - probably in the loft, but I remember I carefully cut it to flatten it for transporting when we moved abroad briefly in 2001, so maybe I cut it again to store it somewhere else when I finally retired the whole set and pretended to "grow-up" I hope it wasn't thrown-out anyway Awesome! very innovative too,I just made my belts out of Paper and pencil/crayons. Also made a breakable Table out of legos,it tended to break too easy,but it still got the job done. |
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Post by thehasbrohunter on Aug 16, 2017 18:28:39 GMT -5
I think I did this with my Hasbros.... definitely did with my GI Joes but I had Christmas tree matches when the tree would be up. This consisted of two wrestlers fighting from top to bottom with the loser being the one to be thrown onto the floor below. This allowed for wrestlers to fall and catch the tinsel to add some suspense, land in branches, slam his opponent into baubles, that kind of thing. Kept me amused for ages. In hindsight, maybe the match should have been won by the wrestler who reached the star first? I did cut out some little cardboard steel chairs for hardcore matches, along with thumbtacks and wrapped some paper clips around a bat that came with a Little Dracula figure, I believe, to make a barbed wire baseball bat. I made a terrible ladder by chopping and taping drinking straws together. After seeing the getting slammed through the ring gimmick, I made a ring using a cardboard tea box, some pens for ring posts, wool ropes and a big paper towel mat. With this I cut a rectangle out of the cardboard box ring base, covered it with the paper towel mat and then wrestlers could get slammed through the ring. I cut pictures of other title belts out of magazines to make up for the lack of an Intercontinental and tag team titles. Good times. Awesome memories! Love the festive themed match ups! My Dad made me a wooden casket for buried alive matches, which was so cool. My friends would love it when they came around and brought some of their own figures, too. I remember some matches starting in the lounge and making there way up the stairs! Warrior #2 doing a gorilla press on some poor victim who would end up falling several stairs at a time. Gotta love the Holiday matches! haha. I used to do something called a stair match,first one to the top would win the match. It involved being told to move out of the way many times by my parents,many Wrestlers tumbling down the stairs,and my favorite aspect of the matches,having the figures perform aerial finishers(such as Tatanka's diving chop) from the top of the stairs to the bottom. although i'm pretty sure I never hit spot-on it was still loads of fun. |
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Post by RedDevil on Aug 16, 2017 19:42:05 GMT -5
Absolutely - can you imagine having something like the ladder that was used in the early ladder matches like Bret vs. Shawn? Hell I would've settled for the other damn title belts - I used the Galoob WCW title for the tag titles simply because I had two of them, but I was still lacking a good Intercontinental title, which was my favourite belt at the time (I remember I had a very cheap, small plastic belt that came with one of those cheap He-Man-style wrestling figures you'd get at Poundstretcher - not quite good enough really, especially since the belt buckle snapped almost immediately. The lack of accessories did though force me to be a little creative and proactive in building accessories of my own - the belts went through a couple of versions, ending-up being made of Velcro so they could fasten, with the plates being cut-out of Coke cans. I remember being very proud of myself when I worked-out an idea on how I could make break-away tables, and that it worked on my first attempt - I was less proud when I saw the same (obvious) concept appearing on numerous custom sites in the months that followed, but still I built two cardboard Titan Trons as well - the first was the simpler one that was used in '97, but when they changed it in around '98/'99, then I made a second one and I remember being amazed at how well it turned-out. The second one should still be somewhere, though I don't know where - probably in the loft, but I remember I carefully cut it to flatten it for transporting when we moved abroad briefly in 2001, so maybe I cut it again to store it somewhere else when I finally retired the whole set and pretended to "grow-up" I hope it wasn't thrown-out anyway Awesome! very innovative too,I just made my belts out of Paper and pencil/crayons. Also made a breakable Table out of legos,it tended to break too easy,but it still got the job done. I think the evolution of my title belts went something like: 1. all made out of paper-> 2. still paper, but all covered in sellotape for strength -> 3. still paper and sellotape, but with foreign coins as the title plates (the Spanish peseta I remember being popular in this line ) -> 4. full re-design, with Velcro and drink cans. If only Hasbro had included the IC and Tag titles along with the WWF title and the ring then a whole lot of time could've been saved. Or if they'd evolved the original idea of having Warrior 1 with the IC title by making it a removable accessory; Ax and Smash could've had the Tag titles and we would've all be happy I'd completely forgotten about the idea of a stairs match - now I remember having a 8-man tag or something across a couple of steps; I think I even remember doing a similar chop to you with Tatanka in that match, though only from one step down to the next one |
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Post by Taylor on Aug 16, 2017 22:30:29 GMT -5
I vividly remember holding a giant royal rumble and g tying down to slaughter and hogan and accidentally dropping hogan out and ruining my whole years worth of booking haha. Slaughter 2nd title run was not on the cards at that time! Haha! This does bring back memories! Me and a friend would hold Rumbles and every now and then, our favourite wrestler (you'll never guess mine), would catch a clothesline or be caught from behind accidently and go over the top rope. The looks we'd then give each other when we realised they had been eliminated! |
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Post by Taylor on Aug 16, 2017 22:33:00 GMT -5
Brilliant! I love the Undertaker handicap casket matches! I was just looking on another thread where a collector is selling loads of figures and accessories. If we had those steel chairs, ladders, breakable tables and belts etc. back then, I think we would have been in heaven! So cool. Absolutely - can you imagine having something like the ladder that was used in the early ladder matches like Bret vs. Shawn? Hell I would've settled for the other damn title belts - I used the Galoob WCW title for the tag titles simply because I had two of them, but I was still lacking a good Intercontinental title, which was my favourite belt at the time (I remember I had a very cheap, small plastic belt that came with one of those cheap He-Man-style wrestling figures you'd get at Poundstretcher - not quite good enough really, especially since the belt buckle snapped almost immediately. The lack of accessories did though force me to be a little creative and proactive in building accessories of my own - the belts went through a couple of versions, ending-up being made of Velcro so they could fasten, with the plates being cut-out of Coke cans. I remember being very proud of myself when I worked-out an idea on how I could make break-away tables, and that it worked on my first attempt - I was less proud when I saw the same (obvious) concept appearing on numerous custom sites in the months that followed, but still I built two cardboard Titan Trons as well - the first was the simpler one that was used in '97, but when they changed it in around '98/'99, then I made a second one and I remember being amazed at how well it turned-out. The second one should still be somewhere, though I don't know where - probably in the loft, but I remember I carefully cut it to flatten it for transporting when we moved abroad briefly in 2001, so maybe I cut it again to store it somewhere else when I finally retired the whole set and pretended to "grow-up" I hope it wasn't thrown-out anyway Very creative! Would love to see these if you ever found them again. |
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Post by Taylor on Aug 16, 2017 22:35:52 GMT -5
Awesome memories! Love the festive themed match ups! My Dad made me a wooden casket for buried alive matches, which was so cool. My friends would love it when they came around and brought some of their own figures, too. I remember some matches starting in the lounge and making there way up the stairs! Warrior #2 doing a gorilla press on some poor victim who would end up falling several stairs at a time. Gotta love the Holiday matches! haha. I used to do something called a stair match,first one to the top would win the match. It involved being told to move out of the way many times by my parents,many Wrestlers tumbling down the stairs,and my favorite aspect of the matches,having the figures perform aerial finishers(such as Tatanka's diving chop) from the top of the stairs to the bottom. although i'm pretty sure I never hit spot-on it was still loads of fun. I did top of the stairs match ups, too! It took your post to reignite the memory! Very good. The thought of my nice mint Hasbro's being thrown down the stairs makes me wince a bit now as a collector. |
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Post by rxchrisg on Aug 16, 2017 23:18:55 GMT -5
We used a piece of electric tape sticky side up with a quarter in the middle and pennies on the sides for a belt.
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Post by mcfclee on Aug 16, 2017 23:27:04 GMT -5
I vividly remember holding a giant royal rumble and g tying down to slaughter and hogan and accidentally dropping hogan out and ruining my whole years worth of booking haha. Slaughter 2nd title run was not on the cards at that time! Haha! This does bring back memories! Me and a friend would hold Rumbles and every now and then, our favourite wrestler (you'll never guess mine), would catch a clothesline or be caught from behind accidently and go over the top rope. The looks we'd then give each other when we realised they had been eliminated! I'm gonna start by guessing repo man? Haha |
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Post by Taylor on Aug 17, 2017 2:10:27 GMT -5
We used a piece of electric tape sticky side up with a quarter in the middle and pennies on the sides for a belt. This is so good! Fantastic. |
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