How serious are Hasbro collectors?

Even tho' I'm a wrestling collector, I don't think the Hasbro WWF-line is in the top 5 of most sought after toy collections.

I think the top 5 looks like this:

5. Lego
4. Hotwheels
3. Matchbox
2. Action Man (the big GI Joes)
1. Barbie

pretty sure that wrestling collectibles are a small niche in the toy collecting market compared to other figures.. even here in Canada...i go to the 80's collectible Toy shows they have here in Toronto pretty often (once every 3 months) and of the probably 100 vendors that are at these, there are barely any wrestling sellers.. maybe 5-7 of the vendors sell anything that is wrestling related, and here in Canada, most of those vendors sell LJNs...i barely EVER see hasbros at these toy shows, and i been going the last 2.5 years.. probably 1 vendor each show maybe has a good 10-15 loose hasbros and thats it..kind of sad...

so here in Canada, LJN is definitely that most collectible wrestling toy set.... not sure how it is in the USA, and i assume in the UK and elsewhere, it was all about Hasbro..

In my post above I mentioned prototypes which are going to be rare and sought after in any toy line.
I guess if you look at the regular Hasbro releases, there aren't too many that are that high value when you compare them with other toy lines.
The like's of Dusty is not really that big a ticket compared to a lot of other toy lines that have many regular released figures fetching $1000+.

I don't think nearly as many people are into the Hasbros as they are even the other wrestling toys, like the LJNs. Which I don't personally get, but to each his/her own. I think the Hasbros are more like that TV show that gets canceled midway through the second season. There's a small, but fiercely loyal fan base; Yet it's not enough to make any real difference in the grand scheme of things.

Welcome to the boards mate. Have you got any figures to share with us?

Hello Kev thanks bud. I have a few bits but no idea how to share with you guys I'm afraid. I'm just being nosey and desperate to get hold of a few things and just curious on a few things I've seen recently. 

personally I think the Hasbro line is popular I like them because they really captured the 1990's and our childhood. They were unique in design snd just a fun figure I just wish I would of saved them all from childhood

I seem to think Hasbro collectors are unique. Quite a number of them did not go on to OSFT(M), Justoys, Jakks or Mattel, they stayed with that product.

I remember that the Mc Donalds Happy Meal toys are the most selling toys at all, stated in "Supersize Me". We really can't count them in because these are mostly licensed toys and the collection of one 4-8 toy line can be bought easily at once. As i asked in the Hasbromaniac post, i really want to know how many figures of each line were actually made, Hasbros are still everywhere on the planet and the rarer ones didn't even get much higher through the last 10 years.
As you might know i'm a Hasbro Customizer myself and i love the figures to death, even thought i never even collected them. I had some of them in my childhood but i was more into TMNT and comics back then and recovered my desire for wrestling during the Attitude era in early 97 when the BCA line was the current toyline for WWF figures. Some of them were really nice but i never really got into BCA, when Toybiz came around, i got more into collecting new stuff but you couldn't get them easy over here in germany these days so i bought almost everything i could get in a store. Jakks put out the first TTLs and i got the ones i was interested in, moneywise i couldn't get all of them anyway. When my dad finally got the internet working, i was obsessed by wrestling figures, i still wasn't a real collector with around 30 figures but i spent hours in front of the computer just looking at figures. I read all info about all kinds of lines and my passion for Hasbros never died so i came across Quirks Hasbro Customs (RIP) and i was even more obsessed about Hasbros. With the fact of figures beeing to expensive and my desire for art, i decided to make them on my own. The hunt on Hasbros begun! For some reason i never collected the real Hasbros, i only made my own Hasbro Custom collection.