The BCA Line

Taker BCA Series 7 was a must, much like I think everyone would agree that Triple H Series 6 was a must if you wanted to use Hunter in the main events. The Series 4 Triple H was good for his IC Title reign and if you wanted him to take stunners from Austin or wrestle Goldust or Rocky Maivia. But that Series 6 Triple H was WWE Title material.

Did anyone ever copy the ppv matches with their BCA figures?? Like take In Your House International Incident for example. Did anyone have Vader, Owen and Bulldog vs. HBK, Ahmed and Sid when playing??

Cause I know for me, the odd time it would happen but by accident, not because I was copying the WWE product with what I was seeing.

Billy Gunn in the Signature Series blue trunks was IC Title material and Tag Title, but when I got the 2 Tuff tag set of him and Val, and he had on those silver tights with the kisses on them, I actually put Billy Gunn to the WWE Title then.

Same with Jeff Jarrett that came with Debra. That was WWE Title material, but the other figures of him were definitely IC, Euro or Tag Title material.

I still preferred the Series 4 Austin figure over his bulkier figures. I used the bulkier figure as Goldberg actually. I preferred Series 5 Shamrock over the Series 8 version of him too. But Series 5 Rocky Maivia sucked once the new Rock figure came out.

I used most of the bulkier figures as I got them, the only one I didn't upgrade for a long time was Mankind (I liked his brown attire more, I guess). Plus, the Slammers version could hook around another figure's arms for a great double arm DDT, piledriver, and an assortment of other moves...just more playability for me.

But my "main event" HHH was the metallic purple DX one (Fully Loaded, I think?) and once I got 2 Tuff 3 Rock and one of the bigger Austins, they main evented for a while alongside Slammers Bret Hart, Superstars 7 Undertaker, and WMXIV Shawn Michaels (I never liked the newer HBK figures in chaps, for some reason).

The series 6 HHH was a must have for me....well I didn't have that one but did have a couple of repaints of the same mold. I was a huge HHH fan, but his first figure sucked, was kinda hard doing anything with him, except making him take powerbombs because of how he landed with his arms kinda out.
So when I finally found the new mold of HHH, I had to get it. After getting it Hunters career really took off, multiple time IC champ, multiple time tag champ, and then when I got the Backlash repaint in the black pants with the silver logo on the crotch, he won the WWF World title many times.

I'm kinda in the middle when I think of the 'Bad Boys' Steve Austin and the bulkier Steve Austin. I like the face of the bulkier Steve Austin, but thought he may have been a little bit too big. I always thought his legs could've been used to make a decent Rhyno figure though. But I thought that the 'Bad Boys' Austin didn't look good enough.
I think possibly the perfect Austin figure should have been made from the following parts:

Head:---bulkier '2 Tuff' Austin Head
Torso:--'Bad Boys' Austin torso (better known to me as the Sid torso)
Arms:---bulkier '2 Tuff' Austin arms/Series 6 HHH arms
Legs:---I personally would prefer the Sid style legs, but the 'Bad Boys' Austin legs would work fine.

yeah, I hated the Ahmed legs. The other legs that the bulkier Austins' had weren't as bad (the ones with the shorter boots and bigger knee pads) but I thought they were just too thick for Austin. But as I said earlier, they would have been perfect for a guy with a thicker build like Rhyno.

I definitely like the series 1, 2, WM14, and DTA Shawn figures better than the Slammers style Shawn. Like Austin however, I did think it was time for an updated Shawn figure, but wasn't thrilled with the Slammers head. I would have liked to have seen a Shawn made using the the Sid/Billy Gunn torso, and a new/better head.

If you haven't noticed, I've suggested using the Sid/Billy Gunn torso on both Shawn and Austin. It was my favorite torso of the BCA's. It was very simple, not to defined, yet still looked muscular. It worked for bigger guys like Sid and smaller guys like the Backlash Edge in blue tights that we were talking about earlier in the thread.

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I've just recently gotten back into figure collecting (again, after the 47th time it seems like), and this time around, I've noticed BCA prices are more jakked up than previously, when before, users on the boards here couldn't get rid of them fast enough at a measely $.50 - $1 each. This time around, people are charging $3 and up for them (and that's just for played with ones, the mint ones are a bit higher).

Anyways, the BCA line has always been my favorite line because I always looked at them as the Hybrid wrestling figure of LJNs (big rubber figs) and the Hasbros (tiny plastic figs) -- sorta morphed into the perfect figure at just the right size (and the right price, $5 was great!).

When TTLs came out, it was a big disappointment that BCAs were being phased out.

Then the 2002 newer BCAs were pretty cool, but they were too large to be compatible with the original BCAs.

My all time favorite line was definatly the Superstars 9 line (Hardcore Holly, Vince McMoron, Undertaker w/ robe, and the rookie figures of Gangrel & Christian, aswell as Paul Wight aka Big Show's first WWF figure). The summer these came out, I remember people online buying one of them at current Mattel prices, they were so hot & indemand, especially the Gangrel & Christian figures, I think the highest I seen them go for on eBay or Yahoo! auctions at the time, was like $20.50 .. So as a collector, when you had all 6, it was pretty badass and I can honestly say that was the most hyped I've ever been in figure collecting (next to hearing about the Hasbro series 3&4 when those came out).

Man reading this thread for the first time and hearing how hard to find some of the BCA figs were and realizing that I had every single one of them makes me hate how i got rid of them when i was younger. I have no clue how my parents managed to get me all of these figs but they deserve a lot of credit.

There does seem to be a growing interest in some of the earliest BCA figure releases (Superstars Series 1 and 2) from what I've seen on eBay in the past six months.

Someone just bought a MOC Owen for $25, Diesel went for $26 and, yet, the Razor/Diesel 2-pack can still be found for under $20.

Not a lot makes sense with the supposed value of these figures, but I guess now would be the best time to sell if you were looking to make a decent profit.