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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 11:45:16 GMT -5
anyone have pics of these ads from the toy fig mags? I used to have them all, but lost all my pics last year and cant seem to find them again. series 1-28  |
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Post by The Sexy Psychotic on Oct 31, 2013 12:20:53 GMT -5
Man I loved these, really made the early series' seem like a huge deal - not just some other line of figs.
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Post by LeighD on Oct 31, 2013 12:47:34 GMT -5
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Post by June on Oct 31, 2013 15:58:46 GMT -5
There was a site that a member here made a while ago that listed all the classics as well as the accompanying posters for each series.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 17:57:12 GMT -5
yes thats where I found all the pics june? anyone know this site?
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Post by Wicked on Oct 31, 2013 18:56:16 GMT -5
Man. Thank you. That brought back so many great memories from my childhood. |
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Post by June on Nov 1, 2013 5:23:15 GMT -5
Here's the site
sites.google.com/site/classicsuperstars/
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Post by LeighD on Nov 1, 2013 6:38:02 GMT -5
Man. Thank you. That brought back so many great memories from my childhood. Yeah the OP in that thread did a lot of work scanning those pictures. I was more drawn to the CS ads as it was such a fun and exciting time to be a collector (IMO). |
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Post by June on Nov 1, 2013 6:46:17 GMT -5
Two things kill me about this set pictured:
1. Damn I miss the Classic Superstars line
2. mattel will likely never make figures of Blassie, Brody & Strongbow, because "they won't sell".
Blassie is one of the greatest heels of all time and an integral part of the WWWF / WWF for decades most notably the 70's and early 80's.
Brody is a legend that traveled the world as one of the top attractions in wrestling.
Strongbow was the perennial #2 babyface up north for decades and drew big money.
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Post by LeighD on Nov 1, 2013 7:53:24 GMT -5
Two things kill me about this set pictured: 1. Damn I miss the Classic Superstars line 2. mattel will likely never make figures of Blassie, Brody & Strongbow, because "they won't sell". Blassie is one of the greatest heels of all time and an integral part of the WWWF / WWF for decades most notably the 70's and early 80's. Brody is a legend that traveled the world as one of the top attractions in wrestling. Strongbow was the perennial #2 babyface up north for decades and drew big money. I too miss the CS line. It hurts double knowing JAKKS could be giving us RI-styles legends via LOTR figures, even if they were only 1 per DI set. I knew JAKKS would never be able to turnover LOTR figures as fast as their CS figures, but the LOTR line would've been a great line to fill in the CS voids as well as get new attires from previously made (Andre, Hogan, Flair, etc) or un-made figures (Sting) |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 8:58:34 GMT -5
I miss the hunt for classic figures. And I hate the fact that with mattel I have to rebuy all my classic's
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Post by LeighD on Nov 1, 2013 12:46:32 GMT -5
I knew when Mattel said they wouldn't produce obscure names, their Legends line would never match the depth of JAKKS', which for collectors never got past series 6.
The two biggest things I miss about the CS line is new prototype and MOC images. I think these actually excited me more than line-ups and actually obtaining the figure.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 15:25:39 GMT -5
I knew when Mattel said they wouldn't produce obscure names, their Legends line would never match the depth of JAKKS', which for collectors never got past series 6. The two biggest things I miss about the CS line is new prototype and MOC images. I think these actually excited me more than line-ups and actually obtaining the figure. same here. even just the news on jeremy.com every couple days of who's signed and what not. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2013 15:39:50 GMT -5
I knew when Mattel said they wouldn't produce obscure names, their Legends line would never match the depth of JAKKS', which for collectors never got past series 6. The two biggest things I miss about the CS line is new prototype and MOC images. I think these actually excited me more than line-ups and actually obtaining the figure. same here. even just the news on jeremy.com every couple days of who's signed and what not.      |
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Post by June on Nov 1, 2013 17:58:30 GMT -5
Thank you for sharing these beauties!!! |
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Post by AJ Hardy on Nov 17, 2013 5:38:41 GMT -5
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Post by Nivro™ on Nov 17, 2013 15:01:03 GMT -5
Best part of those ads is across the top where it says "Best of the 70s, 80s, & 90s"....Mattel's should say "Best of the Attitude Era till now"
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Post by June on Nov 17, 2013 17:22:19 GMT -5
Best part of those ads is across the top where it says "Best of the 70s, 80s, & 90s"....Mattel's should say "Best of the Attitude Era till now" It's gonna be sweet when they start making flashbacks of Cena, Orton, Sheamus & Mysterio, which is likely to happen once they exhaust all the Attitude Era characters that "sell". |
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Post by Nivro™ on Nov 17, 2013 17:36:55 GMT -5
Best part of those ads is across the top where it says "Best of the 70s, 80s, & 90s"....Mattel's should say "Best of the Attitude Era till now" It's gonna be sweet when they start making flashbacks of Cena, Orton, Sheamus & Mysterio, which is likely to happen once they exhaust all the Attitude Era characters that "sell". Sadly that's already started...we got Defining Moments Cena, 2 basic Heritage Ortons and RSExclusive Flash Rey. |
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Post by Old School Collector on Nov 17, 2013 18:21:20 GMT -5
Thank you for that site !
I do miss the Jakks Classic Line, but the detail on the majority of them were sub-par to what Mattel delivers, imho. However, Mattel doesn't, nor will they ever, have the depth that Jakks had in terms of the awesome amount of names that they put out!
Regardless of which you prefer, we should be grateful that these two companies have given us such a variety of attires/figures to choose from. I mean between the two we can pretty much pick and choose which ones we want the most.
I collect both Jakks & Mattel, but just think about when it went from Hasbro to Jakks !?!?! At that time we didn't have the internet and I'm fairly sure that the majority of this board were between the ages of 5-10 (I was 10 in 96'), so it didn't really matter to us then, but think about that time frame without the internet !!! I'm pretty sure that collectors were scratching their heads as to what to collect anymore and debating on if they even wanted to "Re-buy" them all again... so it's really just a matter of how much you enjoy collecting these things and what they mean to you.
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