The BCA Line

I just don’t understand how Mattel is so good at it though lol. Mattel May release alot the main stars but they are good at making NXT, Mid Card and Female Superstars. To be honest, they have pretty much done everyone on the main roster for the past five years EXCEPT for Aksana. I’m still mad they never made Aksana. Other than her, they made everyone on Raw and Smackdown plus some.

I can give Jakks the credit that they made some BCAs and some TTLs. Jeff Jarrett, Taka, Jackie, Terri, Mark Henry (and a bunch of others) all made it in BCA but not TTL. Then you got people like Mideon, Rios, Buchanan, The Kat and Malenko who never got TTLs. The roster wasn’t so huge that Jakks couldn’t have made these people who were featured every week. Even into the RA era they still missed regular stars.

Mattel is just killing it out there. I wish Jakks would have had the same mentality. They certainly had enough sub series to produce at least one figure of each person.

Mattel has had 3 main lines running for 8 years, no new body styles (only off shoot sets), a new assortment of figures every month.

And Jarrett almost had a TTL though so did Shawn Stasiak and Dean Malenko.

Bull Buchanan technically did get a BCA figure as a member of the Truth Commission.

As for Mark Henry he got a figure during the time period TTL were still being produced in the Final count line.

My point is Jakks really could have done more in each series. They covered a lot of talent in BCA but a lot of them had potential to be TTL figures. Heck Buchanan was featured on television from 2000-2003 in various gimmicks and never got anything.

I think Jakks focused way too much on weird sub series, rereleased ect to make anybody but Triple H, The Rock, Taker and Austin. And take Henry that we mentioned. His last BCA figure was what 98? That Final Count was in 2002/03? That’s way too long between figures. Granted his Sexual Chocolate gimmick probably wasn’t kid friendly, he was featured heavily (no pun) on tv.

I’d rather take Mattel’s body reuse over having a lack of roster. Sure BCAs had a wide character range but Mattel has kept it real with covering everyone.

mark Henry had a figure in late 99 in live wire series 2 but after that he was sent to ovw until the finishing moves one came out in 02 then we didn't get a ra of him till ad series 19 in 06 but jakks really wasn't missing that many people from the bca and Titan Tron line it's when we get to the ra and classic line's where we are missing a lot of the one's that matter on filling the roster gap's for era's and that line and style which Mattel will never compare to unless they start signing people on there own for figure deal's

Nope. Closest would be Backlash Series 4 in dark wash jeans with no shirt.

Anyone else have trouble finding loose ones in the flea markets for decent prices? Five years ago, I remember guys giving batches of BCAs away. You could easily make a deal for 5 for $10. Now I’m coming across 3 for $10 and most of the time they are beaten up and loose jointed.

Maybe I’m cheap but not many of these are worth much sans for some mentioned in the above post. There are a few CL lots for sale but they’re like 20 figures for $120. Way too much imo.

In the UK you get the rare seller selling off a bunch of them for cheap (usually mixed with TTL and RA) but honestly you never see them around anymore - not half decent ones anyway that's why I gave up collecting them

Picked up the June 1998 issue of go figure! magazine on eBay for $5.99 because I knew there would be some Jakks S.T.O.M.P. coverage within, but little did I know I'd track down another pic of the unreleased shark cage for Series 2.

Yeah, it sure seems that way. Jakks experimented with this concept on a much smaller scale in the series after that; if you bought any two male figures in S.T.O.M.P. Series 3, you could assemble a bonus vehicle, or as Jakks called it "an interlocking battleboard." My guess is that it just wasn't feasible for Series 2, for whatever reason. Probably the size and scale of the shark cage pieces proved difficult for them, especially in the packaging department. If they were considering a buildable item or vehicle as they did for Series 3, maybe make it a gnarly surfboard instead lol.