The BCA Line

As do I.

It's kind of funny in a way that most of my favorite BCA figures, or those I would consider to be among the very best such as Luna, Paul Wight, and Commissioner Michaels to a much lesser extent, are the ones that do not in fact have the "bone crunching" capability at all.

I think it's his best "BCA" figure, and it almost would have been his last ever had it not been for the arrival of the original Backlash series in the fall of 2000.

HBK also finished with the fifth-most number of figure releases in the BCA line behind only Triple H, The Rock/Rocky Maivia, Undertaker, and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

I loved that Luna figure as well. It might have had to do with the fact that she had the skirt accessory and just seemed like a completely original mold completely on top of the realistic hair. It makes me think of The Headbangers BCA figs as well. Those were my favorite for the longest time. I loved those early BCA 2-packs so much. We got so many tag teams like Headbangers, LOD, Godwinns, NOD, DOA and then the valet/women's packs like Triple H/Chyna, Goldust/Marlena and the Sable/Luna. Good times! 



I didn't have trouble finding the HBK's with the molded chaps. In fact, I personally hated the fact that his chaps were molded on and got tired of seeing it in stores. I only had one version of that figure and it was the Livewire one that Chicago posted. They painted jeans over the chaps mold lol. My first figures ever were the first HBK, Bret Hart and Undertaker BCAs. I just always used that same ring gear HBK fig for matches and hated the chaps mold like I said. The Commissioner Michaels figure was a nightmare for me to find though. If I recall correctly, that Slammers 2 Michaels was one of the easiest ones to find out of that set. I couldn't find Kane and Dude Love for the longest time. 

Chicago The paint apps on the chaps make the figure really nice on those two figures. I remember that Edge headsculpt being so bad but that series (7?) was amazing with a few first timers in the set. It took me awhile to find X-Pac, Val and Edge. 

Commish was easy to find for me because we had a scalper connection at our local flea market with all the new stuff and he'd leave stuff on the side for me because I was a loyal customer. I remember the scalper to this day, he was an elderly man with a white beard, a bit santa-esque, he had all the WCW and ECW guys too. I also hated the molded chap figure but the scan was great. I don't know why they didn't put that chaps head on his regular figures with new attires. I'd like to see an HBK headswap if anyone's reading this, just out of curiosity. I'd like to see the commissioner head on a ring gear body too. It's too bad he got hurt so his newer figures were outdated and neglected. I owned just about every BCA original figure besides DOA, Big Show, Sultan, and the manager figures. By the time it was all over in late 1999, I had quite an impressive collection for an 11 yr old and I loathed TTL(at first).

Where I live at in Canada there was no shortage of BCA HBK figures.

I got Series 2 in the red/white for Christmas in 1996, the Series 3 in the blue/white a few months later when out shopping.

The white/black one that came with Austin I seen at Walmart many times, and the WM 14 attire I bought around Christmas time 1998.

The Slammers one in red with chaps came with the Monster ring or on its own in stores.  And the commish HBK figure was out everywhere too.

So it was pretty easy to snag and  HBK figure if ya needed one for your figure collection.

All of Ahmed's kneepads and elbow pads/arm bands probably took up all of the budget.

Now i'm being spoiled, has anybody ever swapped the commish hbk head onto the series 2 hbk body? or any other hbk ring attire body for that matter?

Of course, no one would turn down these figures if we had access to them, but there's one question that has to be asked.

Would you give up the last year and a half of BCA figures as we know them to push the line back to January 1995?

In this case, let's say everything that was produced after June 1998 is wiped from existence.

No Superstars Series 6 through 9
No 2 Tuff 2-Packs Series 2 through 5
No Ringside Collection Series 2
No Signature Series 2 through 6
No Slammers Series 2
No S.T.O.M.P. Series 2 through 4 (Includes Camo Carnage)
No WrestleMania XIV Series 1
No Live Wire Series 1 and 2
No DTA Tour Series 1 through 3
No Fully Loaded Series 1 and 2
No Shotgun Series 2 through 4 (Includes Deadly Games and Road Rage)
No Sunday Night Heat Series 1
No Breakdown In Your House Series 1
No Raw Is War Series 1
No Grudge Match Series 2-Packs AT ALL
No Attitude Ring with Steel Cage and Catapults

Not to mention, you'd be passing up over 30 different boxed sets that were made between July 1998 and December 1999.

Would you still do it?