T-Phunk
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T-Phunkamania Runnin' Wild!!!
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Post by T-Phunk on Oct 2, 2008 14:06:38 GMT -5
Originally I liked wrestling. As an adult I saw that Bret Hart had a collection and I figure if could do it, why can't I. Oh yeah, and because I still like wrestling.
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Post by thebatmiz900 on Oct 2, 2008 14:12:52 GMT -5
i started 2006 i broke 5 figures but in 2007 and 2008 i managed to take care of all of them
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Post by Chicago on Oct 2, 2008 14:19:09 GMT -5
My parents bought most of the first series of Hasbro WWF and Galoob WCW figures back in 1990/1991, and I've been collecting ever since (stopped for a while between 2001-2004, though).
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rvd+sabu=greatness
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68 good trade references/ Former Classifieds MOD
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Post by rvd+sabu=greatness on Oct 2, 2008 14:36:08 GMT -5
My dad bought me my first 2 figures ever back in 1990, galoob brian pillman and ric flair. Ever since then, I've been hooked.
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Post by Cassa Nova Kid on Oct 2, 2008 14:44:56 GMT -5
I 10 years ago I was walking through a walmart and saw BCAs
Edge Val Veanis Undertaker Triple H and Billy Gunn
I bought all of them and they were awesome, so I started collcting my first TTL were
Big Show Tazz Raven Buh buh Ray Dudley
then My first RA's were
Tommy Dreamer Rico Scott Steiner Batista I think Jamie Noble Billy Kidmen
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Post by bluebathory on Oct 2, 2008 14:57:36 GMT -5
i got started collecting because i was amazed by the guys back in the 80's (wwf, wccw, nwa, awa) and i just wanted to do that so bad. I remember christmas 1984 so vividly. I got the original ljn line complete and the ring! I was in heaven. but yeah i miss those days and regret giving my loose collection to my nephew although he enjoys them as i did. but the ljn's and awa remco galoob wcw, and little figures called m.u.s.c.l.e. is what got me going. anyone remember the m.u.s.c.l.e. toys?
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Post by "Vintage" HBK Still Rules on Oct 2, 2008 15:00:03 GMT -5
As many of you WFIGS.COM veterans know, or should know by now, I started watching WWE on Summerslam 2002 and kinda got hooked since then. And about a year later, I stumbled upon this site as someone made a custom steel Hell in a Cell and rifled through the forums and saw "Ruthless Aggression 5 Prototype Images" in the wrestling figure talk. I saw Kane and Kevin Nash and I was SOLD!! Bought Nash on eBay for about $20. Been somewhat hooked ever since.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 2, 2008 15:00:53 GMT -5
I watched wrestling and had action figures so wrestling figs soon followed.
I think I got a matt hardy sunday night heat fig first.
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Post by kev85hasbro on Oct 2, 2008 15:04:36 GMT -5
I started collecting Hasbro's in 1990 from series 1. It was weird, I was only 5 and I watched WWF not too much. Warrior was my first figure, then Jake the Snake. I didn't complete the figures until early 2008 In 1995 the Hasbro's disapeared from the UK and nowhere to be seen. It was like as if the blue series was the last series. I only had Billy Gunn from the green series. Then in 2001, I got connected online and started searching for wrestlers, then it kicked off with me getting Bezereker. (MOC)
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Post by DK Almighty on Oct 2, 2008 15:09:01 GMT -5
because its to hard to kidnap a person
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DKR
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It's all good...
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Post by DKR on Oct 2, 2008 15:53:19 GMT -5
my brother collected them and he got an adam bomb ljn and i played with it i was a about 1 or 2 and i really wanted one and i got ludvig borga What Adam Bomb LJN figure did you have? Cause I have most of the LJNs...but Adam Bomb was not even a WWF thought when that line ended...
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DKR
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It's all good...
Joined on: Feb 13, 2008 13:23:53 GMT -5
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Post by DKR on Oct 2, 2008 15:55:52 GMT -5
i got started collecting because i was amazed by the guys back in the 80's (wwf, wccw, nwa, awa) and i just wanted to do that so bad. I remember christmas 1984 so vividly. I got the original ljn line complete and the ring! I was in heaven. but yeah i miss those days and regret giving my loose collection to my nephew although he enjoys them as i did. but the ljn's and awa remco galoob wcw, and little figures called m.u.s.c.l.e. is what got me going. anyone remember the m.u.s.c.l.e. toys? Hell yes, I had TONS of M.U.S.C.L.E figures...ah, memories.
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Post by Joe/Smurf on Oct 2, 2008 15:58:13 GMT -5
My cousin had them, so... I guess I just started cause I had so much fun playing with his.
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Post by Dan on Oct 2, 2008 16:21:48 GMT -5
Was given a Hasbro Macho Man Figure when I was about 6, and collected from then. From about 2003 onwards, I grew an obsession for being a completist and MOC Collector, discovered ebay and the Wrestling Figure Community, and soon got a Collection Room in my House with a good 500 MOC Figures, over 1300 in total.
At the beginning of last year I had to part with the whole lot though to find money for a Car and to fund University. Makes me gutted to this day, but I still come on here and look at every new Proto and Release.
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Post by GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy on Oct 2, 2008 16:32:22 GMT -5
It all started when my father was watching wCw and I got into the Sting character, so my father rewarded me with my first wrestling toy,a slam n' crunch Sting after I got 100% in a spelling quiz, which my little brother destoryed two days after!
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Oct 2, 2008 16:40:23 GMT -5
Pretty much like most people said. I was a kid, I liked wrestling....so buying toys of the wrestlers I liked seemed like a pretty logical conclusion.
I've been through Hasbro, BCA, TTL, R3, RA and now collect DA.
I don't play with them anymore because honestly I don't have the time. I kinda miss it. Like once every 4 months I'll throw some of them in the ring and mess around and have little matches....but that's about it.
Pretty much now I just buy them, display them, and put the title belts on whoever happens to be champion in real life if I have a figure of them.
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AKI Man
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The Hunt Is On
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Post by AKI Man on Oct 2, 2008 16:43:52 GMT -5
in 1999 when my cousin had his big brothers old hasbros out and i started playing and asking who was a "goody" and who was a "baddy" so i went down to a local toy store and bought a wcw ddp and got loads for my birthday a few weeks later
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threehgame
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Beyond Bored By You and Your Wrestling
Joined on: Sept 22, 2008 19:09:45 GMT -5
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Post by threehgame on Oct 2, 2008 18:18:45 GMT -5
It was ten years ago, I was 13 and I got some BCA figures to play with. Then I got some WCW figures and then some ECW toys, it rolled from there. Stopped with wrestling and sold some of my RA figures. Got back into it and now I'm building up the collection.
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GrimKid
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Whattya want from me?
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Post by GrimKid on Oct 2, 2008 18:55:03 GMT -5
started collecting because im a kid that likes toys
continue collecting cuz im an adult with no life
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HappyChappyInc.
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Post by HappyChappyInc. on Oct 2, 2008 19:15:22 GMT -5
Back in 2005, I started watching wrestling then I saw a few figures at a store & it began all right there. I now have about 100 figures since 2005.
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