Bought this Hasbro Hulk Hogan Prototype

Not sure if it can be graded. I first want to check in with some other collectors and hopefully find a Hasbro employee who might know a thing or two more about the piece.

I remember when that got unearthed for the first time in recent years. Didn't see closeups of the mechanics though. What an odd piece. I probably would have gotten it as a kid though, had it been released! Cool pickup.

wow never seen anything like this before. great pickup!!

the original Pump N Flex!

Nice pickup, very neat.

I once owned the Chest Beating Warrior/Conan Mock Up as it’s known

Yes dude that’s a cool piece, I use to have that in my collection, has a cool pull cord on back

I ended up retreading it to a friend who sold it on to another collector who I know , it’s in the uk 🇬🇧, from what I read when it was first surfaced by Hasbromaniac, it was going to be part of a possible new line and they were floating around the ideas of a Conan style line, others speculated that it was going to be a shaking ropes Warrior figure, it’s been around many collections, it’s a cool piece, I’m not sure 🤔 if it had anything to do with the talking ones, maybe message Ron Rudat he’s quite good at talking, I’ve had brief chats with him on Facebook many years ago for some confirmation on items.

It’s definitely a funny 😁 creation it was the warrior 2 head screwed into a Demolition Smash torso with Duggan 1 legs painted over with black, the arms I’m not sure 🤔 there from, people said Conan figures?, plus the cord on back which moves the arms, it also had writing/notes ✍️ on the arm.

Yeah dude he may know some information, he did at one point own and sell a lot of Hasbro Pre Production work back in the day, was how a lot of these things ended up in the general public’s collections, I’m sure he was around in contact with all the other few who were working on the production sketches and moulds, concepts at that time.

I think an old collector sold up years ago and another collector bought certain prototypes from him and then that collector sold up and the next collector I picked it up from, first time I saw it was around 2008 and that was the background back then on the item, there’s a collector in here called Hasbromaniac who might be able to tell you how he acquired before he had it.

I’ve had fair amount of these things over the years dude, I’ve got a few friends who also do or did collect the rarer pieces so it’s usually through one another we find these pieces, just mail me if you need any info or help sometime if your interested in these things, I’m pretty much retired but happy to help.