Hasbro S1 Hogan Variant

That's very interesting. I'd never heard of it. I always believed the original mailaway was just the same as the carded series 1 figure, like you wrote.

I would suspect that, now that you mention it, we'll see at least one or two pop up for sale on ebay soon. "Rare mailaway" Hasbros seem to be a favorite of customizer trying to pass them off as "rare originals" lately, since they're so easy to fake.

Have only ever seen the "Hulk Rules" shirt as well.

I know that most of the mail aways were the regular Hulk Rules version because all the websites that talk about say it was just the normal Series 1 figure. I really am not lying nor am I mistaken, I was hugely into wrestling figures as a kid, I used to watch tapes of Prime Time Wrestling over and over and pause it when there was a good shot of the Hasbro ring and figures and I wanted some wrestling figures so bad that I may well have been one of the first people to send off for the figure. I have loads of the Hulk Rules version now and it still looks like "everyone else's" Hulk Hogan figure to this day as I played with my Hasbros all day everyday for the 2 or 3 years that I collected and I still remember every little scratch, weak movement and defect of all my 47 figures even though I sold them 13 years ago. I got back into collecting Hasbro figures a couple of years ago and at that time I started looking on the internet to find out more about them which is when I realised that not all of the mail aways were the same as the one I had. I've been kicking myself for the last 2 years for selling it and I thought it was time to ask if anyone else knew about it, I was hoping that at least someone else would have it so I wouldn't feel quite so gutted about not having it anymore but apparantly it was quite rare. I'm going to sift through some old family albums just incase there is a picture of it somewhere but it's a long shot but I promise you all it did exist.

I know "no pics no proof" but there's no way it was a custom, I was 10 years old and I sent away for my first ever wrestling figure. I had no idea what a custom was then and I very much doubt any customs had been made by the time the first series of Hasbros was released in the UK and if there were then I wouldn't expect Silver Vision to send one out for a mail away offer. As I said before it was no big deal when I was a kid but I always knew that my Hogan figure was different to my cousin's and all my friends'. I can't begin to explain how much I regret selling it and I know that no one has to believe me but when I read how much some people here knew about Hasbro WWF figures I thought I would finally mention it to people who might be interested as I know for a fact that I had that figure. People make up rubbish on message boards to fool people but I have no reason to do that and I haven't ever done that but I understand that probably no one believes me or thinks I made a mistake or had an LJN figure without noticing but my only reason for posting this was because I wanted someone to say that there were loads of them in existence so then I wouldn't have felt so constantly gutted about selling it.