The Orange Card Series was supposed to have:
Diesel, Jeff Jarrett, Men on a Mission and possibly two others I forget who. Just an FYI aftrer th green cards came out a friend of mine started talking about the Orange Cards in person. Then when I got the net like 4 years later other people on the net were talking about the orange cards, so it might be true.
Okay, but this my question: What's the source for whom was supposed to be in the Orange series.
Not one person from Hasbro, that I know of, has ever confirmed the existence. From reading Action Figure News magazine for years, I've never seen it there. WWF Magazine never made a mention of it. No prototypes have ever been released. I don't even think that could possibly be the real line-up anyhow, minimally.
In case anyone has yet to notice, Jakks got really lazy after series 7 (Yellow card) where 4 new guys came out, and 2 in an absolutely new character transition.
Series 8 was fairly lame. It was a cheap Mr. Perfect repaint, the same Bret Hart (who looks super cool, but still a cheap repaint), and the Undertaker. We did get Bam Bam Bigelow, Lex Luger, and Yokozuna. I couldn't really mark this as a bad decline though. Yokozuna was rather new in terms of how he was produced.
Series 9 was of nearly the same pattern, though, it was good. What really manifests the fact that Hasbro stopped caring was repackaging Tatanka. They could've easily, in the wake of Beefcake being cancelled, replaced him with a new repaint of someone else.
Series 10 was hideous. That set might've been the first Hasbro set ever where more than half were already done. There was zero originality. They came out with the Headshrinkers, Giant Gonzalez, and Marty Jannetty--which was good; but, they came out with two lame Bushwhackers (basically the same extra hats were added, and a repaint was done), two repackaged figures of Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon, along with two cheap paintjobs of each. Jakks never did that except for the Macho Man Randy Savage in series 3, which still had a different encryption on the back of the tights. Nonetheless, the set was still awesome with so many new people.
Now to close this off....
Green Card, Series 11
Hasbro cared so little about this product that it only made two stores which is barely mentioned anywhere but with toy collector sites for exclusives. Crush was simply a repaint. Yokozuna was too. They came out with five new figures who could've easily sold out en masse had Hasbro cared.
Given the proportion in these last few sets, could you honestly believe in reason Hasbro would've released 4 new figures and 2 others (both of which would've needed new scans?)
MOM could arguably required new scans. Jeff Jarrett probably would've gotten a new body, for Hasbro had a habit of releasing wrestlers in their pre-ring gear, and Hasbro never painted it on. It was molded on. You could feel Jarrett's suspenders. Owen Hart would've needed a new mold; you couldn't take the King of Hearts and repackage it from the Yellow card. Lex Luger would've needed a new scan for the figure to be remotely passable. Diesel probably would've been easy to make.
Now, given how Hasbro completely mishandled the Green series out of apathy (releasing it in two stores not very well known), I doubt Hasbro would've invested that much more money into 4 new wrestlers, and 2 needing a new mold by its nature. It's not plausible in the least from a business standpoint. Hasbro felt, by the time of series 10, the set was finished, based on empirical evidence.
Case in point, I don't even think Stom believes in the Orange card.
If there is a lesson here, it's one which epitomizes how good the line-up was (Hasbro entirely).
I also followed enough of Jakks BCA to know enough that for almost a half decade, even the most well known posters would lie their asses off just to get a giggle. That can't happen now, and hasn't happened in quite some time because there are enough legitimate insider people.
Forgive me if I made any typos. I'm tired.
