The BCA Line

my favorite head sculpts:

1. Mankind's series 3/Slammers
2. Shawn Michaels DTA/Shotgun
3. Owen Hart - series 2
4. Undertaker - final 2 Tuff series
5. Kane
6. Henry Godwinn
7. The Big Boss Man
8. Triple H - first non-pony tail sculpt
9. Billy Gunn in bandana
10. Gangrel


Here's an interesting bit. I never had any of the Maximum Sweat figures, because I thought they were ugly and stupid, but I liked their weapons. I had the sledgehammer, concrete blocks, and the crate. I always liked to use them in my hardcore matches. I loved the sledgehammer. I didn't use it as a sledgehammer. I bought the Sunday Night Heat Austin specifically to get the sledgehammer. I used it as a "block on a stick" and it was generally a match ender if it got used. I had Kane as a psychopath for a while, and he'd try to hurt/kill his opponents with the block on a stick. I used to do my best to talk my friends out of their cool weapons. I'd trade an extra Austin, Undertaker, Billy Gunn, Rock, whatever popular guy that I had 2 or 3 of in a heartbeat to get some cool weapons. I remember trading my bend ums ring (which I used as an entrance cart for big events, circa Wrestlemania 3) for like 5 chairs, a table, 2 buckets, a super soaker, 2 crutches, like 10 of the WCW toybiz small crates, and 2 trash cans. Definitely think I came out on the better end!

Back in like 1999/2000, I got an announce table from a friend of mine, I traded him an extra Toybiz DDP I had.

I thought that having an announce table was much more important than having 2 DDP's.

Not BCA or TTL, but a story anyways about a Jakks product.

My 2nd cousin bought his son the first Elimination Chamber that came out. We lived down the block from them. I went over there one day and my great aunt asked if I wanted the EC. She said she would give it to me for free because her grandson, my 2nd cousins son, was being bad and she wanted to teach him a lesson, so she gave it to me. So, she gathered all the pieces and gave them to me and I walked home quite happy to have the Chamber.

Another story since we don't have an RA line post.

The same 2nd cousin, decided after my grandma died that if I got a new wrestler, it would take my mind off of the sadness of my grandma's death and I'd go play and be happy. He got me Eugene. I took it and thanked him, I opened it up and threw it in my tub of wrestlers and never used it. I didn't want to be reminded of my grandma's death every time I used it.

Ever any plans for Los Boricuas or Jim Neidhart or Furnas/Lafon or Tom Pritchard or Salvatore Sincere? They all (with maybe the exception of Neidhart) probably would have sold badly, but they were apart of the roster for a while anyways during the first few years of the BCA run.

We talked about this a few pages back. I wondered the same thing, but some people filled me in that Neidhart in 97 was a pay-per-appearance deal, so they probably didn't do a toy because no one knew exactly where he stood with the company.

Shame too, they had Vader's body which would have suited Anvil very well. If you go back a bit, someone made a Hart Foundation custom Tag Team set with Bret and Jim that looks really nice.

I had a chance this past weekend to get the Undertaker/Viscera 2 pack MOC for $25.00 from a flea market. Is this a good price?

I asked the lady if she would take any less and she said "No they go for twice that price on ebay". She also had a stomp series 2 Austin and Rock they were $10.00 each.

Chicago, how much should 2 packs of BCA's go for?? My buddy just got the HBK/Triple H 2 pack for $5 on ebay. It seemed like quite the deal!

That is a great deal.

I always try to keep in mind retail prices when I buy BCA figures nowadays. $5 for singles and $10 for double packs is/was the standard, so I always try to keep it somewhere inbetween $5-10 for 2-packs (under $6 for singles).

I would follow this simple chart for buying 2-packs:

$5 and under - Great deal, as you really couldn't ask for a better price.

$6 to $10 - Good deal, but there are cheaper options if you stay patient and keep an eye out for them.

$11 to $15 - Fair deal, but it had better be worth paying more than you would in stores for it (see: exclusives).

$16 to $20 - Poor deal, as you shouldn't have to spend twice the retail price for BCA 2-packs in the year 2010 (although there can be an exception with the Razor/Diesel, Hart Family Feud exclusives).

$21-25 - Bad deal, and I would try to avoid this at all costs for regular 2-packs (even the exclusives aren't quite as desirable in this price range).

$26 and over - You're getting screwed and that's all there is to it.

In this day and age, if someone told me something goes for "twice that on the internet", especially for BCAs, I'd pull out my phone, go on eBay, and prove them wrong right there..

Whenever i look at wrestling figures i always get the crazy person who thinks they are going to try and screw me on the price.

One time there was an ad in the local newspaper that said 25 wrestling figures for $15.00 I called and the lady was nice. She said they were her sons and he no longer played with them so he was looking to sell them. I asked her on the phone if it was $15.00 for everything and she said yes.

I got to there house and she had everything setup in the garage.It was mainly RA figures with maybe one or two bca figures. A broken down spring ring and a titan tron. I handed her the $15.00 and she said "Which figure do you want?".I then told her that she told me on the phone that it was $15.00 for everything. She then said "No i didn't, I told you they were $15.00 each". I then took my money back and left.