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Post by Biff Slamkovich™ on Jul 29, 2013 14:13:25 GMT -5
I remember (and I may have already mentioned this at some point during this thread's 173 pages) I used to use Goldust and Jeff Jarrett as a tag team. The short haired 'Don't Tick Me Off' Jeff Jarrett as I didn't get the other Jeff Jarrett until years later. They were called Gold & Platinum, kinda playing off Jarrett's carrying around the guitar and his old 'singing' gimmick....although my Jeff Jarrett didn't sing. I had a lot of fun using them as a team. Reading this makes me want to start playing with my BCA's again. I'm 27 years old and have practically no imagination anymore so I don't know if I could play with them for more than 5 minutes lol.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 29, 2013 18:00:23 GMT -5
I remember (and I may have already mentioned this at some point during this thread's 173 pages) I used to use Goldust and Jeff Jarrett as a tag team. The short haired 'Don't Tick Me Off' Jeff Jarrett as I didn't get the other Jeff Jarrett until years later. They were called Gold & Platinum, kinda playing off Jarrett's carrying around the guitar and his old 'singing' gimmick....although my Jeff Jarrett didn't sing. I had a lot of fun using them as a team. Reading this makes me want to start playing with my BCA's again. I'm 27 years old and have practically no imagination anymore so I don't know if I could play with them for more than 5 minutes lol. yeah I'm the same way with the imagination when it comes to playing with my old Kenner Jurassic Park, Batman and Superman TAS figures.
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Post by Biff Slamkovich™ on Jul 29, 2013 18:19:41 GMT -5
Reading this makes me want to start playing with my BCA's again. I'm 27 years old and have practically no imagination anymore so I don't know if I could play with them for more than 5 minutes lol. yeah I'm the same way with the imagination when it comes to playing with my old Kenner Jurassic Park, Batman and Superman TAS figures. Isn't it so disappointing? I mean I'll speak for myself but damn, I used to be able to throw together stables, storylines, great matches and even cut promos with my figures back when I was a kid. Luckily, I had friends with BCA figures as well so we would always have these giant Royal Rumbles with hardcore rules or we'd make makeshift steel cages and have like a War Games thing with our individual feds. Just the other day, I was putting a Mattel Basic Y2J in a rubbermaid bin where I keep my wrestling figures and I spotted my old BCA's. I picked up Diesel and Owen Hart and tried scripting a quick match for the heck of it and after like four moves I was done lol.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 29, 2013 18:40:21 GMT -5
yeah I'm the same way with the imagination when it comes to playing with my old Kenner Jurassic Park, Batman and Superman TAS figures. Isn't it so disappointing? I mean I'll speak for myself but damn, I used to be able to throw together stables, storylines, great matches and even cut promos with my figures back when I was a kid. Luckily, I had friends with BCA figures as well so we would always have these giant Royal Rumbles with hardcore rules or we'd make makeshift steel cages and have like a War Games thing with our individual feds. Just the other day, I was putting a Mattel Basic Y2J in a rubbermaid bin where I keep my wrestling figures and I spotted my old BCA's. I picked up Diesel and Owen Hart and tried scripting a quick match for the heck of it and after like four moves I was done lol. I used to have obscure matches with my BCA's. I used to have this mini plush Barney The Dinosaur, and he was feuding with The Undertaker and losing
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2013 21:33:10 GMT -5
I think the reason why our creativity is gone now for even attempting to play with wrestling figures is because of the current product we see on TV.
During the BCA era there was so much happening for wrestling. We had the attitude era of WWE, we had WCW and ECW too on TV. There was always some creative juices flowing in our heads. But those days are gone.
If WWE can't put on creative wrestling each week, we have little help to do it for our own pleasure with toys.
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Post by Biff Slamkovich™ on Jul 29, 2013 23:39:30 GMT -5
I think the reason why our creativity is gone now for even attempting to play with wrestling figures is because of the current product we see on TV. During the BCA era there was so much happening for wrestling. We had the attitude era of WWE, we had WCW and ECW too on TV. There was always some creative juices flowing in our heads. But those days are gone. If WWE can't put on creative wrestling each week, we have little help to do it for our own pleasure with toys. That's a great point. It makes me sad for today's younger wrestling fans that will never know the quality of product that we were lucky enough to experience live. They're accepting what WWE is feeding them now and taking it as their standard. However when we look at it, most of the time it's mediocre at best. Just out of curiosity, what is everyone's favorite BCA to play with? That one figure that when you sat down to play, you almost always grabbed first. That one figure who was your preferred wrestler to be your champion. For me, it was my "Blackheart" Owen Hart figure. I used him in all sorts of scenario's, matches and story lines. Story lines ranging from feuding with my Corporate Big Boss Man for the Hardcore Title, or having an epic 7 match series (a la Chris Benoit/Booker T) against The Patriot.
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Post by 3Lephant (Naptown Icon) on Jul 30, 2013 0:08:45 GMT -5
I think the reason why our creativity is gone now for even attempting to play with wrestling figures is because of the current product we see on TV. During the BCA era there was so much happening for wrestling. We had the attitude era of WWE, we had WCW and ECW too on TV. There was always some creative juices flowing in our heads. But those days are gone. If WWE can't put on creative wrestling each week, we have little help to do it for our own pleasure with toys. That's a great point. It makes me sad for today's younger wrestling fans that will never know the quality of product that we were lucky enough to experience live. They're accepting what WWE is feeding them now and taking it as their standard. However when we look at it, most of the time it's mediocre at best. Just out of curiosity, what is everyone's favorite BCA to play with? That one figure that when you sat down to play, you almost always grabbed first. That one figure who was your preferred wrestler to be your champion. For me, it was my "Blackheart" Owen Hart figure. I used him in all sorts of scenario's, matches and story lines. Story lines ranging from feuding with my Corporate Big Boss Man for the Hardcore Title, or having an epic 7 match series (a la Chris Benoit/Booker T) against The Patriot. BCA Series 2 Bret Hart vs the World.... ...OSFTM WCW the new world order
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 30, 2013 9:30:19 GMT -5
How many different Owen Hart figures were in the BCA line?
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Post by 3Lephant (Naptown Icon) on Jul 30, 2013 9:49:24 GMT -5
How many different Owen Hart figures were in the BCA line? BCA Series 2 BCA Champions Box Set with Bulldog/Undertaker/Rock BCA 2 Pack with Bret Hart BCA Series 6 Blackhart BCA 2 Tuff 2 Pack with the Rock (In Danger gear) and possibly a Best of 97 with a Hart foundation jacket but I can't recall if he was in that set or not. I think thats it!
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 30, 2013 16:33:36 GMT -5
How many different Owen Hart figures were in the BCA line? BCA Series 2 BCA Champions Box Set with Bulldog/Undertaker/Rock BCA 2 Pack with Bret Hart BCA Series 6 Blackhart BCA 2 Tuff 2 Pack with the Rock (In Danger gear) and possibly a Best of 97 with a Hart foundation jacket but I can't recall if he was in that set or not. I think thats it! It's sad that those will be the only figures we will ever get of him
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Post by 3Lephant (Naptown Icon) on Jul 30, 2013 17:39:45 GMT -5
BCA Series 2 BCA Champions Box Set with Bulldog/Undertaker/Rock BCA 2 Pack with Bret Hart BCA Series 6 Blackhart BCA 2 Tuff 2 Pack with the Rock (In Danger gear) and possibly a Best of 97 with a Hart foundation jacket but I can't recall if he was in that set or not. I think thats it! It's sad that those will be the only figures we will ever get of him Also, Blue Blazer Owen Bend-Ems Owen STOMP Thumbwrestler Hasbro Rocket But yeah, I'm really looking forward to the project going on on the other figures board to get an RA sized Owen head. It will be great!
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Post by fallbrawl on Jul 31, 2013 14:58:16 GMT -5
My favorite bca figure to play with was the series 3 Mankind. I remember using him in almost all of my story lines.
I had mankind and the british bulldog have a small fued that ended with mankind winning and becoming the #1 contender for the wwf title against HBK. The HBK/Mankind match was set for mindgames (I copied what the wwf did because i liked there fued). I turned that match into falls count anywhere and had mankind win after he superplexed hbk thru the entrance way.
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Post by ellisd on Jul 31, 2013 19:51:22 GMT -5
I remember (and I may have already mentioned this at some point during this thread's 173 pages) I used to use Goldust and Jeff Jarrett as a tag team. The short haired 'Don't Tick Me Off' Jeff Jarrett as I didn't get the other Jeff Jarrett until years later. They were called Gold & Platinum, kinda playing off Jarrett's carrying around the guitar and his old 'singing' gimmick....although my Jeff Jarrett didn't sing. I had a lot of fun using them as a team. Reading this makes me want to start playing with my BCA's again. I'm 27 years old and have practically no imagination anymore so I don't know if I could play with them for more than 5 minutes lol. I've wanted to do this for years. Unfortunately I don't have all my old BCAs anymore, I kept some but sold part of them on ebay a few years ago. (Kicking myself over that now.) But I've wanted to go back and if nothing else do one last show with them. Maybe a reunion show of sorts, like a ECW One Night Stand. I have tried to bring back my BCA fed through other means though. I've made some CAWs on one of the SmackDown vs Raw titles of some of my favorite BCAs. Its not the same though lol. I was really big on tag teams back then. I tended to use the Rockers/Hart Foundation rule in which todays tag teams can become tomorrows World/Intercontinental Champions. In addition to the earlier mentioned Gold & Platinum duo of Jarrett and Goldust, I had Al Snow and Hardcore Holly as a team. They were thrown together to round out a tag team tournament and that was even the storyline I used, the company needed another team and put them together just to fill the void. They weren't expected to win, and I don't remember if they won the tournament, but they surprised everyone by being one of the best teams in my BCA fed history. I also had Mankind / Marc Mero as a team similar to Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck. Mankind took the smaller less experience Mero under his wing and they won the tournament to crown my first ever BCA tag champs. I remember being really big on the Headbangers. Another good pairing was Sid and Brian Pillman. Sid had just won the World Title, Pillman had won the Intercontinental Title, and they came together to win the Tag Titles. They were kinda like a crazy HBK/Diesel, Sid being the big dominant guy and Pillman being the smaller quicker and more technical guy....and they were both crazy like their Psycho Sid and Loose Cannon gimmicks in WWF/WCW.
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Post by 3Lephant (Naptown Icon) on Aug 1, 2013 0:21:06 GMT -5
My favorite bca figure to play with was the series 3 Mankind. I remember using him in almost all of my story lines. I had mankind and the british bulldog have a small fued that ended with mankind winning and becoming the #1 contender for the wwf title against HBK. The HBK/Mankind match was set for mindgames (I copied what the wwf did because i liked there fued). I turned that match into falls count anywhere and had mankind win after he superplexed hbk thru the entrance way. I remember I used to have a bca mankind that I put a Bret hart head on and took to school with me in my back pack in elementary school.. Memories.
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Post by Biff Slamkovich™ on Aug 1, 2013 0:44:36 GMT -5
I was pretty big on tag teams too. I used to put all my BCA's in a big pile, close my eyes, then one by one randomly pick out figures to form teams. Had some interesting combos that made for great matches and interesting stories.
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Post by WCWA Online on Aug 1, 2013 6:12:16 GMT -5
I got a Rock at a yard sale on Saturday for $0.25. It was kind of odd to find him there because the rest of the sale was pretty much just electronic baby toys, and pretty modern ones, so to find a BCA there was pretty strange.
Standard black trunks, red writing that says "THE ROCK". Nothing too special.
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Post by Chicago on Aug 1, 2013 8:31:26 GMT -5
I've wanted to address this topic for so long, but never knew how to approach it. Still don't. For as much as I've loved the BCA line, I've considered it a curse. The curse of being in my twenties and having hundreds of ideas for a BCA figure fed that will likely never come to fruition. I always have a good reason for starting one up, but I couldn't keep one going for more than a few weeks for the life of me. I guess that quasi-creative part of my childhood will continue to run on fumes until I've exhausted every opportunity, but I hope it doesn't come to that. I want to make it happen and I understand that it will never be as fun as it once was. So then, how does someone make it work and keep it thriving over an extended period of time? I should be looking to my own books for the answer, as I successfully ran an RA figure fed through most of high school until burning out on the hobby just before college started. I had a great run and was able to integrate Classics in with the current guys, but I think I got to a point where it stopped being fun and became a chore. So, I nixed it. I've attempted various BCA and/or TTL figure feds over the years, but none took off quite like the RA figure fed from when I started collecting again in the fall of 2004. Now, I'm still not going to rule out the possibility of a new fed coming in the near future (preferably featuring a 1996-97 roster), but it doesn't look promising when I've questioned its existence before it's even begun lol. Oh well, one of these days I'll smarten up and find another outlet for my creative impulses ...or maybe you'll see me hunched over at the age of 80 with a plastic ring before me and no recollection of the past.
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Post by fallbrawl on Aug 1, 2013 9:41:30 GMT -5
My favorite bca figure to play with was the series 3 Mankind. I remember using him in almost all of my story lines. I had mankind and the british bulldog have a small fued that ended with mankind winning and becoming the #1 contender for the wwf title against HBK. The HBK/Mankind match was set for mindgames (I copied what the wwf did because i liked there fued). I turned that match into falls count anywhere and had mankind win after he superplexed hbk thru the entrance way. I remember I used to have a bca mankind that I put a Bret hart head on and took to school with me in my back pack in elementary school.. Memories. One of my friends in elementary always carried his series 3 bret hart and british bulldog to school with him and he would switch there heads.
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Post by 3Lephant (Naptown Icon) on Aug 10, 2013 0:33:35 GMT -5
jakksbca.blogspot.com/p/bca-checklist-work-in-progress.htmlSeries 3, 4, and 5 are a lock, but Series 1 and 2 are not quite as easy to differentiate. Since you've reminded me of it (even if for the 100th time ), I will look into this again to hopefully put this issue to rest.Oh, and I'll add the newer BCA style figures to my checklist soon. Edit: In case the link above doesn't work (which, for some reason, it hasn't worked since I just updated the page), use the quote window below as a reference. Click the hyperlinks for photos. I finally had a breakthrough while doing some late night research, and I have no doubts that these are the correct Backlash Series 1 and 2 assortments. Series 3 through 5 (posted above ^) have not been changed, but here are the revisions to Series 1 and 2 that I've added to my BCA checklist. By the way, as it turns out, the original BCA Backlash Series figures were also available at Family Dollar Dept. Stores in the Northeast U.S. from 2000-01. News broke of the Backlash line in early June of 2000. Reports indicated these figures were going to utilize the Real Scan technology of the time. All of the original BCA Backlash Series figures were produced in limited quantities, though I don't know any exact numbers. They were generally discounted to $3.99 (from $5.99) at KB Toys stores for most of their shelf life. WWF Backlash Series (KB Toys/Family Dollar Dept. Store Exclusive):Series 1 (Peach Carding) (Released September 2000) Big Boss ManThe RockRoad DoggX-PacEdgeHardcore HollyStone Cold Steve AustinTriple HSeries 2 (Peach Carding) (Released November 2000)The RockShawn MichaelsUndertakerX-PacStone Cold Steve AustinTriple HKaneAl Snow
Thanks for this post! I've been wondering the answer to this since the sets were released. You should PM me I want to talk some specific BCA questions. So back in 2002-2004 (time frames hazy now) I bought this BCA Boss Man in a toy collection along with some other great customs. I sold it a couple years later when I got out of collecting. This is the only image I have of the figure, I sincerely regret letting this thing go so many years ago. If someone finds it, tell me!
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Post by ellisd on Aug 10, 2013 18:52:19 GMT -5
Thats a cool Bossman. I actually just finished a Classic BCA custom Bossman.
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