demolition1990
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Post by demolition1990 on Feb 11, 2014 12:44:59 GMT -5
Greetings guys and gals, & collectors of all ages.
I have registered on this forum about a week ago and have been spending the last 11 days reading through the entire (other figures/Hasbro) section. Firstly I have witnessed some truly extraordinary collections, and some truly unbelievable facts but also some screams of laughter from some of the crap I have read.
Anyways, I am Andy, Or call me Demo90 for short, whatever. I'm into my thirties now but have been in touch and collecting Hasbro and other WWF stuff since I was 9 (1991), So a long, and interrupted journey along the way buck this year is my missions to finnish off what I started some 20 Years ago.
I have not long moved into a new place and just getting round to getting everything out of boxes etc (including my superhaul of wwf stuff that has been in storage on and off for 10/15 years) and so I will get some photos taken of my collection for later in this thread.
I have hauls of figures loose, MOC, magazines, videos, ring MIB, trading cards, you name it. so I will do my best to get this sorted out for you all and share my collection.
Anyways, hope to get to know you fellow hasbroaires along the way on completing my journey.
I have some stone wall information for you guys that will clear up the wwf Hasbro 'uk mailaway saga' once and for all when I post in here next later on today.
Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 12:49:14 GMT -5
Welcome! Looking forward to your collection and your info!
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Post by fixedorbust on Feb 11, 2014 13:09:44 GMT -5
Cant wait! Welcome!
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Post by @Patriot_Dan_C on Feb 11, 2014 13:43:51 GMT -5
Welcome fella!
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Post by Hasbroandy on Feb 11, 2014 13:55:44 GMT -5
Welcome Andy! Will enjoy to see your pics and facts soon!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 14:21:50 GMT -5
Interesting... It'll be good to read what the other hugely experienced collectors on here think of the facts you'll share. There are some very knowledgable members of this forum. "UK Mailaways", that interested me
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Post by The_Nature_Boy on Feb 11, 2014 16:01:06 GMT -5
Very interested indeed, and welcome!
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Post by RollinsFan44 on Feb 11, 2014 16:48:15 GMT -5
Welcome to the forums buddy.
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Post by demolition1990 on Feb 11, 2014 17:05:58 GMT -5
Hey guys, Thank you.
So anyway, Being from the UK we had to suffer and wait nearly a year for Hasbro figures to reach us after they went out to US stores.
It was Aug 1991.. my 9th birthday, I rememeber it like yesterday. Summerslam 1991 was on sky in the background (I had followed wwf on tv for around 1 month already, wrestling as a whole for 4 months. I would watch power hour on the telly, buy the cheap rubber snap on wrestlers from pound stretcher and used a ring my dad made of wood, pencils and elastic bands with Blue tac balls as my turnbuckles. It was crapbut it was good!)
Anyway, I sit there on my birthday and to this day I cannot tell you for the life of me what I got for my birthday - except 2 things. My very first Hasbro wrestling figure and very first WWF Hasbro ring! I opened this present to see a jake the snake wwf figure.. I could not believe my eyes... where is this from.. did these even exist.. what.. how the joy of discovering new quality figures have now hit my planet was overwhelming enough... I moved onto the next present which I opened this big square box to find a wwf Hasbro wrestling ring! After moments of madness seeing the 4 wrestlers on the front of the ring box I automatically assumed I now had 5 figures! Hogan, macho man, rick rude, warrior and jake.. I was ecstatic, but calmness was soon restored when it came to opening and building the ring.. I opened to find only 2 figures and not the 4 on the front. I had Hogan and Warrior both in bags.. but no savage or ravishing rick. There were tears everywhere. My mum called the catalogue she ordered it from the day after to complain (to this day she still can't rememeber the name of the catalogue company she ordered it from). Anyway when she got through the lady told her that the box was an illustration and only 2 figures only got included by the manufacturers. I ended up keeping the ring anyway and got taken up to argos the next day where I seen even more new figures! Million dollar man and big boss man where the 2 my dad brought me to make up from the 2 missing ones out the box (so I thought at that time). Since then, I have been hooked.
So that's How I got started into wwf Hasbro collecting game.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 17:24:13 GMT -5
Hey guys, Thank you. So anyway, Being from the UK we had to suffer and wait nearly a year for Hasbro figures to reach us after they went out to US stores. It was Aug 1991.. my 9th birthday, I rememeber it like yesterday. Summerslam 1991 was on sky in the background (I had followed wwf on tv for around 1 month already, wrestling as a whole for 4 months. I would watch power hour on the telly, buy the cheap rubber snap on wrestlers from pound stretcher and used a ring my dad made of wood, pencils and elastic bands with Blue tac balls as my turnbuckles. It was crap but it was good!) Anyway, I sit there on my birthday and to this day I cannot tell you for the life of me what I got for my birthday - except 2 things. My very first Hasbro wrestling figure and very first WWF Hasbro ring! I opened this present to see a jake the snake wwf figure.. I could not believe my eyes... where is this from.. did these even exist.. what.. how the joy of discovering new quality figures have now hit my planet was overwhelming enough... I moved onto the next present which I opened this big square box to find a wwf Hasbro wrestling ring! After moments of madness seeing the 4 wrestlers on the front of the ring box I automatically assumed I now had 5 figures! Hogan, macho man, rick rude, warrior and jake.. I was ecstatic, but calmness was soon restored when it came to opening and building the ring.. I opened to find only 2 figures and not the 4 on the front. I had Hogan and Warrior both in bags.. but no savage or ravishing rick. There were tears everywhere. My mum called the catalogue she ordered it from the day after to complain (to this day she still can't rememeber the name of the catalogue company she ordered it from). Anyway when she got through the lady told her that the box was an illustration and only 2 figures only got included by the manufacturers. I ended up keeping the ring anyway and got taken up to argos the next day where I seen even more new figures! Million dollar man and big boss man where the 2 my dad brought me to make up from the 2 missing ones out the box (so I thought at that time). Since then, I have been hooked. So that's How I got started into wwf Hasbro collecting game. Really? I was under the impression the only ring that came with 2 figures inside was the JC Penney ring, which was not available here in the UK?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 17:25:06 GMT -5
Just to add, I've owned 3 hasbro rings, all of which I opened and set up and none of them contained figures
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 17:38:34 GMT -5
I thought it had already been established most of the bagged figures were giveaways from I video company, silver vision or something. Or event giveaways?
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Post by demolition1990 on Feb 11, 2014 17:41:37 GMT -5
Fast forward one year... 1992. By now I had a nice little collection forming.. All the series 1's all the series 2's, all the tag teams and just started getting through series 3 when we hit August 1992. I am taken up the town shopping centre one morning with my dad and we see these WWF jumpers in this market place. Ultimate warrior was the one I wanted badly.. but my dad told me it had to be the undertaker jumper or nothing. So I walked away with a black undertaker jumper! :/ The morning after we set off in the car.. now I have no clue what is going on.. but im forced to wear this undertaker jumper (I remember it being a boiling hot day too). We were going somewhere for my 10th birthday apparently. Anyways, we gets to this big industrial estate in Milton Keynes.. and All I see everywhere is summerslam flags, undertaker flags and wf logo flags with balloons and miles of metal railings for fans to que in?? I was still confused. But confusing turned to reality when we turned the corner behind this warehouse. It was a WWF Summerslam '92 Wrestler promotional signing event - with The Undertaker!! This all happened at Squared Circle in Milton Keynes.. This same place operated as an outlet for the wwf merchandise back in the day by Hasbro, silvervision, wf magazine publishing & classic/merlin trading cards etc. (aswell as being best known as Merlin Trading cards Headquarters). Now my fellow collectors, most of you will know by now looking at some of the silvervision giveaways it states sending away to 'squared circle' Milton Keynes etc. So here we are at the SS '92 undertaker signing (my mum was given a heads up by a close contact she was friends with at that time who worked there for many years (she wants to remain anonymous which is fair enough). So this is about to get a whole lot better where this is going! After nearly 2 hours of waiting (which felt like a month to me) DOOMB.... DOOMB.... The undertaker's music started blaring out... As the que quickly shortened and we walked into the warehouse through this big shutter door area.. the whole place was decked up as the 'funeral parlour' casket, candles, smoke everything.. it was an experience I will never ever forget! So it came to me and my mum and dad up next to meet the man himself... I was ing shitting it! We each got an autographed picture (crafty thinking), one was given to my cousin, I own the other 2.
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Post by demolition1990 on Feb 11, 2014 17:46:23 GMT -5
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Post by pamflit on Feb 11, 2014 18:38:21 GMT -5
Well that's cleared that up then. Someone tell prerrybeatle he was wrong all this time just as we aaaall suspected
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Post by demolition1990 on Feb 11, 2014 18:44:36 GMT -5
So As I mentioned, we got to hear about this event through my mums close friend at the time who worked here.
Through this I was given endless news, new figures coming out, cards, sticker books, videos etc.. months before anyone in my school even knew.
I was ripped the piss out of at school for being a 'liar' about being 'in the know' I guess. Anyway, I always got the last laugh..
So after the signing from the undertaker I stumble across a huge area with large tellys silently playing what I remember 'summerslam 89'. to the left of these screens we had a counter area with a wave of people in front of me queing to purchase wwf stuff..
When the cue cleared I seen behind the counter the biggest wave of wwf merchandise you will ever see... this huge wall of shelfing had everything.. warrior coats, wrestling belts, every single wwf video, figures galore, you name it, it was there to be purchased. Suddenly my eye is caught further left to the counter with a huge banner saying 'Available October 1992'.. I was brand new.. British Bulldog - Bret Hitman Hart - The Dragon and... The Undertaker figures.
I had to have the undertaker for obvious reasons the minute I seen it. The lady behind the counter had none of it though and so I left with a copy of survivor series 2nd annual and earthquake Hasbro figure. (It was originally planned that for each person that turned up at the signing promo was to be given one of these figures of the new upcoming Undertaker release, however Hasbro ordered against the idea and it never did happen). Somehow my mums friend got hold of one 2 days after the signing and gave me it MOC and ordered me to stay hush! I had the Undertaker 2 months before general UK release.
I went to school the day after the event telling everyone undertaker and british bulldog figures are coming out in 2 months time - again I was laughed at.
You can imagine what happened the day after when I took my new Undertaker figure into the playground a day later - boy was I the Jam of the wasps that day! My mum even wrote a note to the teacher telling her to look after it until after school incase it got lost or pinched! lol. How stupid when you look back!
Which now brings me onto the UK Mailaway saga that has caused discussion after discussion. I was onto everything first in this country that got ever released which was super wicked at my age, yet super crapas no one ever believed me!
(photos in my collection will follow later in this thread) but for now I would like to clear this whole saga up once and for all.
Firstly A WWF Mailaway is only classed as a mailaway if it has been released by a wwf brand, company or promotion in the Hasbro figure era. i.e silvervision, Hasbro itself etc. The only true mailaways for collectors to give a crapabout are the JC Penney Exclusives (macho & Hogan - #1), The silvervision hulkster mailaway (started as HUlk one but then changed to Hulk Hug when stocks ran out), the magazine 3 known mailaways and the ultimate warrior bagged ring figure along with hulk #1 figure (which I guess would have all been in the Hasbro mailaway bags). I believe CDP owns one of the warrior? Well only the warrior #1 is legit.. anything else. forget it.
The rest I am afraid are aload of bullshit! There is no summerslam 92' mailaways, they don't exist, never have, never will. The same goes for all the other piles of crap posted on a popular auction site that go for hundreds of pounds/dollars and are actually not worth anymore than grass from a field! My contact had privy to a lot of stuff back in the day and these supposed 'new mailaways' were never mentioned once. And as for your dj catshow sgt slaughter. that's alod of crap too and not worth shit. Sorry to shatter dreams like this but it is utter nonsense.
Yes people might have got a slaughter figure in a bag but it was not from a 'wwf known run promotion' and the figures were bagged in different ones to those used at Hasbro for there 'mailaways'. DJ kat show would have got nothing more than a stupidly huge container full of loose Sgt slaughter figures and couldn't just send them out like that to competition winners so had to stuff them in sealed bags but I am afraid to say they are also worth as much as a loose sgt slaughter!.
Believe of it what you like. That is what I know and got from as close as the horses mouth that your going to get in my opinion.
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Post by demolition1990 on Feb 11, 2014 19:01:55 GMT -5
*The warrior #1 mailaway was a UK exclusive with wwf rings from this certain catalogue company at the time. (and after reading this entire board) would seem in a very very limited batch. There definitely was no JC penney savage/Hogan sticker on the front of the box as I still have the very ring in the box to this day, even though battered and tattered. Il never part with it no matter what condition it's in, it was my first ever ring. Hulk Hogan Hug is known as the Silver vision European Mailaway - even though Hulk Hogan #1 was used first in the run, Hulk #1 mailaways will be known always to collectors and myself alike as the JC Penney US exclusive!
And yes.. still to this day I kick myself for opening the bagged figures, but at the time I was not thinking about value in 20 years time, at the time I remember thinking... why are they in bags for? why not on cards like jake the snake is, and so thought it was (A - crap they were in silly bags, and (B - {what I thought at the time} I was still missing 2 wrestlers!) lol.
The good old days!
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Post by Ry_D on Feb 11, 2014 19:05:24 GMT -5
The JC Penney figures are not mail away's though. They are simply bagged generic figures that came with the ring that JC Penney stores exclusively sold. You did not have to send away for them so they cannot be classed as mail away's. Same goes for other bagged figures that came with rings, eg. the UK promotions. Also, if a bagged figure is given away or is available at an event it can't be classed as a mail away either because again you did not have to send away for it. It's just a bagged figure.
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Post by demolition1990 on Feb 11, 2014 19:08:20 GMT -5
Okay, well the official bagged figures then, but you know what I mean. I call them all mail aways just through an old habbit as to me they are all in bags (which all mail aways came in).
You know I make sense Ry_D lol
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Post by tibbo on Feb 11, 2014 19:11:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the post and the trip down memory lane If the Warrior figure was an exclusive with WWF rings from that certain catalogue company at the time, then surely it falls under the same jurisdiction as the DJ Kat 'mailaways' as it wasn't an official Hasbro promotion? *Edit* - I see Ry_D beat me to it lol
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