Zincdust
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 22, 2024 11:11:48 GMT -5
LJN Wrestling Superstars
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 21, 2024 18:36:13 GMT -5
Man, I remember watching this on PPV at the time. I marked out pretty hard when Macho won.
This thread also made me realize that of Macho's six world championship reigns (2 WWF and 4 WCW), three (1 WWF, 2 WCW) were ended by Flair, and three (1 WWF, 2 WCW) were ended by Hogan.
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 21, 2024 17:23:38 GMT -5
Harley Race
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 13, 2024 12:21:09 GMT -5
KISS Demon
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 11, 2024 13:55:32 GMT -5
wasn’t this an issue at release time? Some figs even had tape on the bubble holding it to the card from memeory Yeah, I remember seeing their cardbacks hanging on the pegs at Walmart, whereas the figured & bubble themselves were down on the shelf below. Series 6 (I think?! The wave with Nakamura) was shipped to me, case-fresh, with their bubbles taped to the card. Personally, the only one of my MOC Retros that has popped off the card is Reigns (because OF COURSE it was him).
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 9, 2024 14:59:54 GMT -5
G.I. Bro
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 9, 2024 14:30:31 GMT -5
Blackjack (Barry) Windham
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 9, 2024 13:52:35 GMT -5
A hunchback could only ever lose a match by submission I'm pretty sure that it was Jim Herd who wanted a wrestling hunchback character for that exact reason.
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 9, 2024 13:37:05 GMT -5
HOLY HECK!!!! I live in the Portland metro area (Vancouver, Washington. Just across the Columbia River from PDX), and I saw this story on the local news broadcasts last night, but had no idea. I'll keep my peepers close on the situation.
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 9, 2024 10:20:48 GMT -5
Retro style commercial coming soon?! PLEASE tell me that Cardona's gonna bust through a wall, shouting "BRING HOME ALL THE ACTION, BRO!!"
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 8, 2024 15:45:53 GMT -5
Barbarian
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 6, 2024 11:58:33 GMT -5
<glances over at profile pic> Yep!
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 5, 2024 12:13:26 GMT -5
Went to an out-of-the-way Walmart in my neck of the woods over the weekend. Was greeted by a single Superstars peg with DiBiase on the front. Started looking at the ones behind it: DiBiase, DiBiase, HTM, DiBiase, NASH?!
I snagged that Nash, as he was the only one from S2 that I was missing. Sure, he's still available on their site, but there's always the thrill of finding one that you don't have in the wild.
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 2, 2024 23:06:24 GMT -5
From what I understand, the talent are compensated much better than they are for current Mattel WWE toys/legends deals. They ARE doing business with the Thousand Dollar Broski, after all.
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 1, 2024 19:15:43 GMT -5
Just got a shipping notice. Love the same day shipping! Just checked my email, and my Hulk/Studd/Richter/Ali set has also been shipped!
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 1, 2024 14:31:01 GMT -5
Ordered the Hogan/Richter/Studd/Ali set plus a ring this morning. If they decide to ship the figs with the ring in May (or whenever it was), that's all right. Not in a big hurry, as I wasn't a massive fan of this set.
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Post by Zincdust on Feb 1, 2024 14:24:38 GMT -5
Ordered standard Hacksaw and Magnum TA. Glad that they are now giving us the option of which version of a wrestler to order (if not both), as opposed to having the luck of the draw. I wanted the standard Demolition set, but I received the chase versions instead.
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Post by Zincdust on Jan 31, 2024 0:06:11 GMT -5
Nice, got my shipping notification a few hours ago. In case anyone's keeping track, I ordered the full set of three, and I live on the west coast.
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Post by Zincdust on Jan 22, 2024 15:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by Zincdust on Jan 22, 2024 12:34:40 GMT -5
Orange/Grape Crush for me
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