ellisd
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Post by ellisd on Aug 12, 2010 22:31:57 GMT -5
The one Taker looks like they took a DOA member and put his head on their body. Then the what looks to be shirtless Taker with light brown hair looks odd. Which series is the first Taker from? Backlash Series 5 (with a great Al Snow repaint) -  Backlash Series 3 (with my favorite BCA Edge) -  Signature Series 6 (which has insane detail for it being the last "official" BCA series) -  There's a similar 'Taker in Backlash Series 4 as the Series 5 one which has a black vest, black jeans, and the same dark tattoos all over his arms. I love that Edge from the Backlash series. He was one of my favorites to use. It looked more like Edge than the HHH series 6 body did. I always wanted that Signature Series 6 Undertaker. I love the use of the series 1 head on the newer Undertaker body. And the painted details make it look great. I always wanted him, but never found him. I remember when I would wrestle with the Undertaker, I would turn my tv and vcr on and put the vcr on a channel that i didn't pick up, so the screen was blue. Then I would turn the lights out in my room and the blue screen would light up my room just like the blue-ish purple that Taker really came out to. I would use my WWF the music cd's and give my wrestlers music. I made custom entrance stages, using old playsets, like Castle Grayskull (Masters of the Universe) the Cats Lair (Thundercats), etc. |
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MakaiClub
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Post by MakaiClub on Aug 12, 2010 22:57:58 GMT -5
Wow, I just discovered this thread. What a blast of nostalgia. Some great pics guys. Most of my BCA collection is gone, either traded away or just plain "used up". I did hang onto some personal favorites that will always be in my collection. There were some real gems in this line. Also some real clunkers, but every time I got a new BCA it was a complete blast. Maybe it was just the excitement of the times, but I've never had so much fun collecting toys as I did with these. Just look at those box sets. It was impossible to bust one of those open and not have an awesome day.
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Post by Chicago on Aug 12, 2010 23:05:17 GMT -5
I would turn my lights off, too, and use a blue or purple light source lol.
I'd say 9.9 times out of 10 I would hum the wrestler's entrance music instead of having to fiddle around with CDs and/or MP3s on my old computer. I would chalk it up to laziness, not a dislike for the practice.
VHS tapes and other household items (construction paper, cardboard, scotch tape, etc) were used to construct semi-elaborate entrance set-ups in my later years, but I also used to incorporate pieces that Jakks had made such as steel cage walls, weapons, and the Trash Talkin' Stage. Sometimes, I was more excited for creating the entrance than I was having the actual event lol.
But, I found that simpler always works better, unless it's a WrestleMania-type show.
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zappa2510
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Post by zappa2510 on Aug 12, 2010 23:21:33 GMT -5
i used legos to make my titan tron entrance! pretty good one too. had speakers inside and hooked up to my cd player playing wwe the music vol 4!  |
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Post by jammer311 on Aug 12, 2010 23:45:10 GMT -5
I would put wooden blocks by the ring and put a giant platform on them to give up a ramp way and I would use the Ghostbuster house as my entrance way. (I was a mark for the WCW entrance ways of 1991 - 1993) It worked out perfect too cause of the layers inside it were used as various locker rooms.
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Post by Captain McKay on Aug 13, 2010 0:06:27 GMT -5
I would put wooden blocks by the ring and put a giant platform on them to give up a ramp way and I would use the Ghostbuster house as my entrance way. (I was a mark for the WCW entrance ways of 1991 - 1993) It worked out perfect too cause of the layers inside it were used as various locker rooms. Haha that Ghostbuster house turned into "The Smackdown Hotel" match between Rock and Mankind in my fed. Like Halftime Heat, but in the hotel instead of an arena. It was great! |
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Post by jammer311 on Aug 13, 2010 2:35:56 GMT -5
So just curious, but in Canada it seemed after BCA series 9 that is when the TTL's started to hit our stores. So that would be around early 2000. So where did all those other weird BCA figures come out?? Like Angle, and Taker in his DOA body and Edge with a new form and such.
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Post by slappy on Aug 13, 2010 3:09:47 GMT -5
I think I may pull out my BCA's and start playing with them.
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Post by Chip on Aug 13, 2010 9:01:05 GMT -5
To Chip: Are you sure you're not thinking of Edge's Deadly Games Series figure in blue attire?   Compare the two and make sure, because this particular Edge was only available in the KB Exclusive Backlash Series 3 assortment. then its definitley the Backlash one...I just honestly have no recollection of buying it. haha. So I broke out my BCA collection last night to figure out which ones I was missing pictures of...I'm adding them to the album today. I had forgotten... The Godwins, Skull & Chainz, The Headbangers, Ultimate Warrior, The Interrogator & Triple H with the purple pants. I've got 96 BCA's in all. |
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Post by fallbrawl on Aug 13, 2010 11:11:22 GMT -5
I remember using the Trash Talking Stage as my stage for a few ppvs. I would always play Raw Is War on Monday and then on Wednesday i would play a show i called wwf Attitude. I would always play my ppvs on Saturday after i got home from TRU.
My biggest arena set up was for Summerslam. I set up all the chairs i had and my Attitude ring sat in the middle of the floor. My stage was the bottom part of a shoe box that i cut a hole in so the wrestlers could come out. Then i took the top of a Summerslam BCA carding and glued it above where the wrestlers came out.
I have had a few BCA's fall apart on me:
The glow in the dark Undertaker's leg fell off while it was standing on my dresser.
My series 2 Bret Hart's leg fell off during a wwf title match (he still won the match).
I remember going into K-Mart and seeing a Livewire series Val Venis with a black towel. But by the time i got the money it was gone. Does anyone on here have that figure or know what i am talking about?
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Post by Chicago on Aug 13, 2010 11:38:59 GMT -5
I don't recall ever seeing a BCA Venis with a black towel, but there is a Live Wire Series 2 Venis repaint in purple trunks like he actually wore (unlike the pinkish-purple trunks on Superstars Series 7 figure) and it comes with a white towel.
To jammer: The Backlash figures started hitting KB stores in late summer/early fall of 2000, I'm pretty sure, and lasted for a little over a year into the fall of 2001. The first series of the newer BCA style figures, Bone Crunching Superstars Series 1 (with Kurt Angle), arrived a few months earlier in the summer of 2001.
The new BCA figures had about a lengthy run until the summer of 2004 when the Backlash Series 4 assortment replaced the BCAs with the cheaper TTL repaints we've known for the past five or six years. Although, like most lines, the TTL Backlash figures weren't too bad at first, but the quality dropped off after a few series.
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Post by jammer311 on Aug 13, 2010 14:26:33 GMT -5
Just curious with this, but do you think that the reason Razor didn't get re-released in series 3 was because he had already signed with WCW?? I know Kevin Nash didn't sign with WCW when Scott Hall had, so maybe that's why Nash got a re-release??
Also, I know this is off topic but does anyone know why Razor Ramon got suspended by the WWE in 1996 to not be in Wrestlemania 12 against Goldust in the street fight?? I am guessing it had to be cause of some substance abuse situation that not too many heard of back then.
Also, thanks for the info on the BCA's Chicago, I honestly didn't know when the releases of the newer style ones came out.
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Post by Chicago on Aug 13, 2010 14:41:11 GMT -5
As far as I know, Hall and Nash both signed contracts with WCW before their Superstars Series 1 debut figures were released in stores, so I don't think it has anything to do with that. They were already in WCW by the time the Limited Edition 2-pack was available from the Puzzle Zoo mail-order company a short while later. The Series 3 re-release came so far after that that I have a hard time believing the WWF wasn't aware that they were supporting the competition by issuing a Diesel figure in the year 1997. I mean, it was pretty obvious at that point that either the WWF and Vince McMahon didn't care about it or it was written into some previous contract. Hall was suspended for substance abuse issues, as you said. I don't think the time difference would have mattered between Hall and Nash's departures since it generally took Jakks at least five or six months to produce a new figure, but there has to be an interesting story out there as to why Diesel was re-released as late as Series 3. Also, ask as many questions as you have about the line; that's why I made this thread in the first place. |
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Post by Chip on Aug 13, 2010 14:50:41 GMT -5
I need to track down a BCA Diesel actually...I paid something around $10.00 for a MOC Razor Ramon a few years ago...before his CS 15 figure came out actually.
I remember a time when the BCA Razor & Diesel were selling for upwards of $30 on Ebay (MOC of course)
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Post by jammer311 on Aug 13, 2010 15:03:34 GMT -5
Okay, well here's another question then haha
Yokozuna, he only came in that box set with Marc Mero and Ahmed Johnson, correct?? Why was there no singles release of that figure??
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Post by Chicago on Aug 13, 2010 15:25:13 GMT -5
There were two singles releases on Special Edition carding - one in red attire and the other in white. All of Yoko's figures were exclusive to KB Toys stores, including the Triple Threat 3-pack you mentioned. As you can see, the singles figures were limited to 18,000 each and the boxed set was likely produced in the thousands (only a couple), so it shouldn't be considered a rare figure. I would love to know why Jakks picked Yoko to headline the first Special Edition series and if there were any other wrestlers considered for that exclusive role. It seems like it was a perfect fit for him since he was not a regular on WWF programming, but maybe his figure had been planned early on and was delayed. That would make a little more sense as to why he was even made for a late 90s WWF figure line. |
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Post by jammer311 on Aug 13, 2010 15:33:12 GMT -5
Well for living in Canada, we only had Zellers, Toys R Us and Walmart. So we never got those kind of figures, to us they were definitely exclusives at the time. Plus that was like 14 or so years ago, and I was only in my teens, I didn't have a credit card to go ordering online from the USA to get figures haha
The only BCA box sets I seen here were the 3 Faces of Foley, cause I picked that up for the Dude Love and Cactus Jack figures. The only other time I seen box sets were the TTL ones, the TLC one with Edge, Bubba and Jeff, the Alliance one with Austin, Shane and Raven I believe it was, and the 2 man power trip with Austin, Triple H and Vince.
If we did get more BCA box sets, then they just sold really fast cause the only one I ever came across was the 3 faces of Foley.
I tell ya, this country has it's positives (like the whole health care thing) but I hate the fact we get ripped on getting certain figures that the USA gets.
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SlayKnotV1
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Post by SlayKnotV1 on Aug 13, 2010 15:34:22 GMT -5
Also, ask as many questions as you have about the line; that's why I made this thread in the first place. |
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Post by Chicago on Aug 13, 2010 15:42:02 GMT -5
Yep.
That's kind of a rough list that I haven't updated in a while, but everything mentioned there, besides the prototypes, were released.
I think there was a Matt Hardy proto shown at one time, but I don't have a picture of it.
I'll post pics of other unreleased prototypes in a few minutes.
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Post by slappy on Aug 13, 2010 16:03:29 GMT -5
To Chip: Are you sure you're not thinking of Edge's Deadly Games Series figure in blue attire? Compare the two and make sure, because this particular Edge was only available in the KB Exclusive Backlash Series 3 assortment. I wanted that Test and Godfather, but I went with Hardcore Holly instead. Stupid stupid me. |
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