jason1980s
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Post by jason1980s on Sept 16, 2011 12:17:44 GMT -5
I kept having to guy Diesel and Razor because the arms came off. I can't remember having to replace any others but the arms sure were loose on most, if not all from the first two series.
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champofakind
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Post by champofakind on Sept 16, 2011 14:28:17 GMT -5
I know eventually they started adding accessories to the BCA line, but what did everyone use for accessories, weapons, etc before they started coming with the figures? Oh man this brings back memories. I'd use empty soda cans as trash cans, i used this jar of marbles that was rigged so if they hit a whole bunch of marbles would fall on them, i used allen wrenches as crowbars,,i would also use flour as powder they would throw into each other eyes.
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Post by fallbrawl on Sept 16, 2011 16:46:16 GMT -5
I don't think i used any weapons until they started making them.
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ellisd
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Post by ellisd on Sept 16, 2011 23:22:24 GMT -5
I know eventually they started adding accessories to the BCA line, but what did everyone use for accessories, weapons, etc before they started coming with the figures? Oh man this brings back memories. I'd use empty soda cans as trash cans, i used this jar of marbles that was rigged so if they hit a whole bunch of marbles would fall on them, i used allen wrenches as crowbars,,i would also use flour as powder they would throw into each other eyes. Those are some good ideas for weapons. I never would have thought about using the allen wrenches..but it makes sense, they would be about the right size for the figures.
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ellisd
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Post by ellisd on Sept 19, 2011 12:51:58 GMT -5
I remember using the baseball bats and golf club that came with my Turtles Casey Jones figure.
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Captain McKay
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Post by Captain McKay on Sept 19, 2011 14:46:49 GMT -5
I was always making stuff out of cardboard. Flat chairs, a fold-out table, that kind of thing. The table was basically the same as the Jakks one, except cardboard.
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Post by Chicago on Sept 19, 2011 16:36:26 GMT -5
Definitely cardboard tables, as Haggar mentioned, but most of my ideas for weapons and/or accessories came after Jakks released Grapple Gear.
It's hard to remember back to a time before that, especially prior to the Attitude Era, since I was barely 10 years old.
What does everyone think of the timeline of the so-called BCA era? From 1996 to 1999?
Do you think the line started at the right time for WWF figures?
What did/do you think of the line's demise in the fall of 1999? Looking back, was it an appropriate end or did it absolutely NEED to continue into the new millenium?
Of course, this doesn't take into consideration the KB Backlash BCA figures that lasted through 2001, and the newer BCA style after that.
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Post by fallbrawl on Sept 20, 2011 8:43:42 GMT -5
I wish the BCA line would have kept going in 1999. There were still a few things we could have seen made in the bca line.
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ellisd
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Post by ellisd on Sept 20, 2011 13:34:20 GMT -5
I was always making stuff out of cardboard. Flat chairs, a fold-out table, that kind of thing. The table was basically the same as the Jakks one, except cardboard. Thats cool. Reminds me of something I used to do with some of my figures. I don't know if I ever used it with BCAs, but I know I used it with some random superhero figures, Thundercats, and the mid 90's thick WCW figures. I would take the plastic frames that the pieces are attached to when you buy model cars. I broke off a big rectangle section so I had a big rectangle frame. Then I would tape some paper towel around it. Although I couldn't have them break through it like the tables used on tv, or it would break my frame, I could have them go through the paper towel. I also made a chair for my GI Joe wrestlers, using parts of those model car frames.
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champofakind
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Post by champofakind on Sept 20, 2011 13:54:04 GMT -5
Definitely cardboard tables, as Haggar mentioned, but most of my ideas for weapons and/or accessories came after Jakks released Grapple Gear. It's hard to remember back to a time before that, especially prior to the Attitude Era, since I was barely 10 years old. What does everyone think of the timeline of the so-called BCA era? From 1996 to 1999? Do you think the line started at the right time for WWF figures? What did/do you think of the line's demise in the fall of 1999? Looking back, was it an appropriate end or did it absolutely NEED to continue into the new millenium? Of course, this doesn't take into consideration the KB Backlash BCA figures that lasted through 2001, and the newer BCA style after that. Yeah the timing was perfect for these figures. It was the new era of guys like Bret Hart, HBK, Undertaker, Stone Cold, Mankind, and so on. I hated the TTL figures...didn't like the playability and the way they felt. After the BCA was pretty much done..I bought about 6 TTL figures to get a feel..didn't like them. So I pretty much stuck with my BCA figures til I stopped playing with them.
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ellisd
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Post by ellisd on Sept 20, 2011 22:16:46 GMT -5
Definitely cardboard tables, as Haggar mentioned, but most of my ideas for weapons and/or accessories came after Jakks released Grapple Gear. It's hard to remember back to a time before that, especially prior to the Attitude Era, since I was barely 10 years old. What does everyone think of the timeline of the so-called BCA era? From 1996 to 1999? Do you think the line started at the right time for WWF figures? What did/do you think of the line's demise in the fall of 1999? Looking back, was it an appropriate end or did it absolutely NEED to continue into the new millenium? Of course, this doesn't take into consideration the KB Backlash BCA figures that lasted through 2001, and the newer BCA style after that. It was a good era to start the line. The first series had the top stars of the 'WWF New Generation', and then were there to usher in the attitude era. Unfortunately, the TTL figures took over in the middle of the attitude era. I have to agree with champofakind that the TTL's sucked. I didn't really buy any until they started to use real scan, and then it was just one every now and then. I think even if they were gonna use the TTL figure, Jakks could have continued with the BCA's. They could have done it similarly to how during the last few years of Jakks making WWE figures, we had RA, DA, Havoc Unleashed in the Dollar General stores, and even Build n Brawls. They could have made the BCA's a secondary line, maybe a store exclusive or secondary store exclusive (Walgreens, Freds, Family Dollar, etc.) They could have slowly worked in the real scan heads (Billy Gunn - Backlash). I know they would have kept selling, cause I would have kept buying them over TTLs.
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Post by jrjumpshot on Sept 21, 2011 9:29:07 GMT -5
Definitely cardboard tables, as Haggar mentioned, but most of my ideas for weapons and/or accessories came after Jakks released Grapple Gear. It's hard to remember back to a time before that, especially prior to the Attitude Era, since I was barely 10 years old. What does everyone think of the timeline of the so-called BCA era? From 1996 to 1999? Do you think the line started at the right time for WWF figures? What did/do you think of the line's demise in the fall of 1999? Looking back, was it an appropriate end or did it absolutely NEED to continue into the new millenium? Of course, this doesn't take into consideration the KB Backlash BCA figures that lasted through 2001, and the newer BCA style after that. It was a good era to start the line. The first series had the top stars of the 'WWF New Generation', and then were there to usher in the attitude era. Unfortunately, the TTL figures took over in the middle of the attitude era. I have to agree with champofakind that the TTL's sucked. I didn't really buy any until they started to use real scan, and then it was just one every now and then. I think even if they were gonna use the TTL figure, Jakks could have continued with the BCA's. They could have done it similarly to how during the last few years of Jakks making WWE figures, we had RA, DA, Havoc Unleashed in the Dollar General stores, and even Build n Brawls. They could have made the BCA's a secondary line, maybe a store exclusive or secondary store exclusive (Walgreens, Freds, Family Dollar, etc.) They could have slowly worked in the real scan heads (Billy Gunn - Backlash). I know they would have kept selling, cause I would have kept buying them over TTLs. I too stopped collecting for about 5 years when they did away with the BCA style figures and replaced them with the TTL. They were awful figures that not only looked horrible, they had very limited playability.
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ellisd
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Post by ellisd on Sept 22, 2011 23:06:24 GMT -5
Yeah, if it wasn't for RealScan, I probably wouldn't have gotten many WWF/WWE figures after they switched to TTL. But once the realscans showed up I got a bit more interested even though TTL's still had no playability. I miss the playability of BCA's.
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Post by LeighD on Sept 23, 2011 8:32:31 GMT -5
I was big into BCAs when JAKKS started with WWE. My favorites were Warrior (green), Yokozuna, and Mankind! I do think it was a good time for the line to start. Looking back I wish JAKKS had kept the line going even on a low-level (dollar store figures) until the end of their WWE agreement. I think a nice blend of figures line would have been - BCA, RA, DA, CS, AD, & CSTT. I didn't care so much for the micros, Havoc Unleashed, BNB, and a few others.
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Post by dgnr8 on Sept 26, 2011 20:59:29 GMT -5
Here's a question:
Would you consider Camo Carnage figures BCA? Of course they're completely different and have no bone crunching features at all, but would you at least consider them a part of the overall collection of BCAs?
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Post by Chicago on Sept 27, 2011 12:27:19 GMT -5
Here's a question: Would you consider Camo Carnage figures BCA? Of course they're completely different and have no bone crunching features at all, but would you at least consider them a part of the overall collection of BCAs? Yes, I would consider it a part of the overall BCA figure collection, but I wouldn't consider them BCA figures. As you said, they are completely different and share no similar features (even down, or rather up, to the head sculpts). At least S.T.O.M.P. Series 1 through 3 and Slammers Series 1 and 2 are of the same scale and/or use BCA head sculpts. Camo Carnage, a.k.a. S.T.O.M.P. Series 4, is a part of the BCA era (CC was released in July 1999) just as the Legends and Ripped and Ruthless Series are, in my opinion, because they came from that 1996-1999 time frame. I included Camo Carnage in my BCA figure checklist AND uploaded pics of my CC figures to the BCA figure album on my Photobucket account, but I still wouldn't refer to them as BCA figures.
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Post by dsvoboda41 on Sept 27, 2011 13:24:41 GMT -5
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Personally I wouldnt
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Post by fallbrawl on Sept 27, 2011 17:08:20 GMT -5
I would. But then again i really liked the Camo Carnage line.
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Post by ellisd on Sept 27, 2011 23:48:13 GMT -5
The Camo Carnage figures actually werent that bad of figures. They had decent articulation and you could have a decent match with them. I wasn't a big fan of them, but I think thats just cause with my GI Joes and BCAs I didnt have much use for them, that and they only released a few names, so there wasn't much variety to the line. I didn't have any of the regular line, but my Grandmother got me the 3pack boxset with HHH, Stone Cold, and Billy Gunn.
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Post by fallbrawl on Sept 28, 2011 10:09:23 GMT -5
I had almost everyone from the Camo Carnage line. I was never able to find X-Pac.
I had a dream last night that i bought out a guys collect of bca figures. He had several figures that were never made. Then the bad part is i woke up.lol
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