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Post by Mr. Old School™ on Mar 17, 2012 4:42:23 GMT -5
^ Speaking of 'The Best of the WWF', that's one of my personal favorites. Volume #1, to be exact. Most because of the incredible match between The Cobra vs. The Black Tiger for the vacant WWF Junior-Heavyweight championship. Man, what an incredible match that was. I loved it!!
Matter of fact, here's the rip of it from a DVD-R I made of it. Enjoy!!
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Post by HuskerTornado on Mar 17, 2012 4:42:32 GMT -5
Can't forget about the WWF Hasbro ads that began all of the Coliseum videos from 1990-on. And Mean Gene's creepy/cool voice-over here (skip to :24) Nice!! Can't believe all the positive results in this thread that I started. Very awesome stuff, and I am loving all your stories. @husker, you have a sweet collection of Coliseum Videos. Are you gonna try to get any of the Best Of The WWF Volumes in your collection?? No immediate plans, but if I see them for a great price, I'd get them. Not all of them have great cards on them, though. Buying 20+ year old vhs tapes can be a gamble, too, so they really need to look like new and prefer them to not be former rentals. I'm pretty picky on what condition I get old tapes (I try to buy only new or like new, although that's not always possible). When I started buying used tapes on ebay years ago, it seemed that I would get tape after tape with problems. Especially if they were former rentals. Audio fuzz, video fuzz, tracking issues, etc. I ended up returning plenty of them (which they took back and sold to someone else that was less picky, I suppose). I bought a vhs rewinder that cleans the tape as it winds it which does an outstanding job, I couldn't believe the difference it made on some tapes. Anyway, a lot of the tapes I have were bought new (in the last 10 years) and they have the "bonus gifts" included that the old WWF Magazine ads used to boast about (and left you wondering what treasure could be inside). Most are pretty cheesy keychains, iron-on patches, etc., while a few other came with nicer items like a large-sized 10 pack of postcards. They never came with anything you wished they had, like a t-shirt or theme song tape.  While buying used tapes can be a gamble, they're also still the best way to get the old material. The Wrestlemania tapes I have are the original releases, not any of those re-releases they put out a few times through the 90s which cut some of the interviews and extras. And of course, all of the old tapes have WWF intact, no blurring.  |
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Post by apollocreed on Mar 17, 2012 7:13:37 GMT -5
we used to rent Wrestlemania IV to pass a long winter day here, with the double VHS tape ha, also love the old Coliseum video intro with the music peaking when Andre was fighting I think Killer Khan Ha I was wrong it was Kamala was a long time since I watched that video lol |
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Post by jammer311 on Mar 17, 2012 15:04:43 GMT -5
@mr. Old School, that light heavyweight match definitely made that Coliseum Video. I felt the matches on there were not the greatest, but maybe if it was 1985 and that was out to rent, it would look fantastic.
@huckster, I totally know what you mean about bad quality for those tapes. I had a bunch of Coliseum Videos from 89 - 92 and they casing was ruined, so they took the sleeves and put them in a white generic plastic case. I ended up selling them cause I just didn't like them in my collection. It wasn't anything that I cared to keep though, just Mega Matches, Wrestlefest 91, World Tour 92, and a few other ones.
I am definitely loving the responses on this thread though. I hope it keeps up. I gotta feeling this is a topic that everyone could chime in on from time to time.
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Post by fallbrawl on Mar 17, 2012 19:19:33 GMT -5
I never rented any videos. I always bought them. I still remember going into a Flea Market and buying Royal Rumble 1991 for $2.00 in the orginial uncut case. I must have watched that video at least 30 times since i bought it.
I also remember going into a video store that was closing down and bought Summerslam 1991 for $1.00 I marked out when i found it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2012 22:47:16 GMT -5
I loved those old Hasbro commercials.
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Mar 17, 2012 23:19:14 GMT -5
Coliseum Videos helped me become a huge fan of the WWF. I was lucky enough to have a couple grocery stores that rented VHS tapes in my town, and both of them began offering Coliseum Videos right when they first came out.
I was becoming a fan already thanks to my dad letting me watch every weekly show. The association with stars like Mr. T and Cyndi Lauper further interested me. I remember the hype for WrestleMania in 1985 and I knew the results due to watching the weekly TV shows, but when I saw the Coliseum Video of WrestleMania I for rent at my local store, I begged my dad to rent it. I had to see it for myself.
Over the months that followed, we rented all of the other early Coliseum Videos too... Biggest, Smallest, Strangest, Strongest, the Best of the WWF series, Andre the Giant, and others. My favorite was Rowdy Roddy Piper's Greatest Hits, but the original WrestleMania has the most sentimental value for me.
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Post by jammer311 on Mar 18, 2012 2:13:56 GMT -5
The only time I seen the Andre The Giant coliseum video was when the WWE released it on dvd back in 2005. I watched it and it seemed so brutal to me. I think even back then if I rented the VHS version and watched it, I still wouldn't have liked it. Just seemed like a lot of older style Andre matches that I didn't care for.
Though, on Best of the WWF Volume 4 they do a 3 match series on Andre. The cage match he has with Studd is sweet, it's one of the rare times you see him jump off the top rope and land down with a sit down style splash on him. The other two times you can see him do that is on the Inside The Steel Cage video release.
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Post by Nix Hex on Mar 18, 2012 2:22:43 GMT -5
I used to love that Razor Ramon tape they had,,I watched it like every day when i was younger,,It was one of the only ones I had at the time bc they were pretty expensive back then, unless you found them used..I remember having a pretty sweet Warrior tape too.
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Post by jammer311 on Mar 18, 2012 11:13:56 GMT -5
The Razor Ramon video is pretty solid actually for matches. And it's 2 hours long too, so you definitely get a good dose of Machismo with that Coliseum Video.
@nixhex, was the Warrior tape showing his 88 - 89 stuff, or his 92 stuff?? Also, I seen 311 in concert a few years back, they used to be my favourite band.
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Post by sideeffect on Mar 18, 2012 14:45:01 GMT -5
I remember during that time WWF tapes were expensive, some up to $65. Wrestlemania 4 double set was $40 that came in a Hulk Hogan Pop-up.
When i was a kid, there was a video rental store near my house and every weekend use to rent out couple of the WWF and WCW/NWA tapes…good times! Then when i got older, it started to close down and they were getting rid of everything. I bought majority of the wrestling tapes that were remaining from the 80s to early 2000s (WWF and WCW). They even had the ultra rare Bash at the Beach 2000 that only cost me $2.
In 2001 then started to collect DVDs, and never looked back. Anyway i still have those tapes in a box in my basement. Haven’t watched them in ages.
The mom and pop rental stores, especially near my house, was were all the goodies were at…they had a bunch of coliseum videos like best of wwf volumes 1-10, British bulldogs, demolition, Ricky steamboat and all in their clamshell cases too. They also had a bunch of ppvs but the boxes were cut up to fit in the hard shell cases, especially the oversized boxes they used from 90-92.
Good times!
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Post by mikey1974 on Mar 18, 2012 15:33:51 GMT -5
I loved those old Hasbro commercials. oh,goddammit those bring back memories!! i just about crapmy pants when i first saw that one advertising an Undertaker on one of those tapes back in early 1992!! sadly,i never,ever did find him at retail....   but man,were those the golden days...i can still remember getting as many as i could from Hills Department Store and K-B Toy Works here in town when they'd come out....and the occassional TRU trip,too ( where i got my Series 1 Ultimate Warrior - ONLY time i ever saw him!!) |
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Post by HuskerTornado on Mar 18, 2012 15:42:07 GMT -5
I loved those old Hasbro commercials. oh,goddammit those bring back memories!! i just about crap my pants when i first saw that one advertising an Undertaker on one of those tapes back in early 1992!! sadly,i never,ever did find him at retail.... but man,were those the golden days...i can still remember getting as many as i could from Hills Department Store and K-B Toy Works here in town when they'd come out.... and the occassional TRU trip,too ( where i got my Series 1 Ultimate Warrior - ONLY time i ever saw him!!) I remember on a family vacation in 1990 to the Portland, OR area, we went into the Toys R Us there and it had the biggest WWF aisle I've ever seen, much larger than the other TRU's I had been in. It was pretty much an entire aisle (which was a really long aisle), and both sides. They still had the old LJN's in there (and looking back I could kick myself for not knowing I should have stocked up on the black cards...), as well as the new Hasbros. I was in heaven. I got the Koko B Ware LJN...and accidentally dropped Frankie down some hole at the Portland airport before the plane ride home... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2012 16:03:28 GMT -5
I had a VHS tape from 1996 called "Confirmed Hits" hosted by Handsome Doc Hendrix.
It had some pretty good stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2012 16:19:54 GMT -5
Invasion of the Body Slammers anyone? EDIT: Found a pic!  Also own this.One of my fav's,was at the taping of Quake vs Yoko in San Jose. I also loved those Best Of The WWF vol 1-20 |
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Post by jammer311 on Mar 18, 2012 16:27:56 GMT -5
I had a VHS tape from 1996 called "Confirmed Hits" hosted by Handsome Doc Hendrix. It had some pretty good stuff. I had that one!! It came with Amazing Matches and Shawn Michaels: Hits from the Heartbreak Kid. Confirmed Hits had the Bulldog vs. Bret Hart match from the Dec. 95 IYH on it. And that was the only way I ever seen that match at the time, so to me that tape was awesome! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2012 16:35:16 GMT -5
Yup! That's the 3 pack I had too!
Hits from the Heartbreak Kid has his great IYH match against Owen Hart.
Amazing Matches had a good steel cage match with Bret Hart vs. Isaac Yankem. Plus, it also had Kiss My Foot Match between Bret Hart & Jerry Lawler.
Good stuff!
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Post by jammer311 on Mar 18, 2012 16:38:25 GMT -5
That 3 pack was sweet to own, especially if you didn't have any other wrestling tapes in your collection. That is a solid 3 pack to start out with.
The Shawn Michaels tape is really good too. I do remember they had on the back of it, a clip of his match with Jarrett at IYH 2, and yet that match wasn't on that tape. But having Shawn/Razor ladder 2 from S.Slam 95, and Shawn vs. Owen from Feb. 96 IYH definitely made up for it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2012 20:17:49 GMT -5
I moved to New York back in 1998 and wrestling was HUGE. I was attending acting school at the time. Well...Being a young guy of around 20 I ventured into one of the MANY sex shops prevalent in Times Square at the time. Apparantly Coliseum Video went out of business or it was that WWE home video had started because the sex shops were LOADED with Coliseum home videos. I think they got them at a discount. So in my first week in NY I bought ALL of them for $5 a piece. I had every single Coliseum video ever released and set 3 huge boxes back to my home in Atlanta. When I left school I came back home and watched them all. Tragically my father passed away in 2003 so I sold them all on Ebay. Big mistake but I was grieving and was not thinking clearly.
VHS are pretty cheap in comparison to DVD´s now so I may collect them again one day but now I live in Mexico so it will probably be in the FAR future.
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Post by jammer311 on Mar 19, 2012 1:05:08 GMT -5
Man, if I had every WWF Coliseum Video I would have totally kept them. They would look sick on display. Those clam cases are just very cool to see all in order on display.
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