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Post by honeybear 619 on Mar 5, 2016 5:37:37 GMT -5
I've always collected simpsons stuff, but I got in to wrestling around 1998 when they started showing wcw worldwide on uk channel 5 on fridays at 6pm, as soon as I saw Kevin Nash Powerbomb Sting I was hooked. I was more in to wcw, but I got in to wwf when I saw Wrestling with shadows. Soon I was collecting old wwf colliseum videos, wcw videos, magazines and one day I saw a jakks Steve Austin figure I don't know why but I brought it and I've been collecting ever since. I gave up collecting when Jakks lost the license, I tried mattels basic triple pack of Batista, Cena and Jericho and I thought they were trash so I gave up, But I never brought a Jakks CM Punk Figure and I needed one to display so I got Elite 6 cm punk, the 1st sheamus elite. I gave up again until 2013. I was checking what figures were on amazon and I saw king macho's elite for £10 I had to have him, I've been collecting non stop ever since, I've slowed down alot from e39, but I'm not quitting I'm waiting for dm Austin to come out and boss man.
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Post by jsmells on Mar 5, 2016 5:41:05 GMT -5
Lack of adequate mental health care.
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Post by Jonnyh 3:16 on Mar 5, 2016 7:50:43 GMT -5
Long story short, first saw Saturday Afternoon World of sport here in the UK when I was a kid. I absolutely loved watching it I was in awe watching these behemoths fight in the ring.
Once I saw my first wrestling figures in a toy store catalogue, I had to get them! it was an LJN Hulk Hogan and Iron Sheik. I played the living crap out of them as a kid, loved em!
After that came Hasbro and Galoob, started to get income by then and WWF was on Sky TV UK. I loved the WWF that much by then I had to have the figures!
The rest is history as since then I haven't stopped collecting all the different wrestlers from different companies. I just can't see myself stopping anytime soon.
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Post by Seoul Survivor on Mar 5, 2016 8:49:25 GMT -5
Back in 2007, my parent got my brother and I Smackdown vs Raw 2008, which came with a Rey Mysterio figure as a gift. After playing the game for a while, I decided to actually start watching WWE. My brother gave me his Rey figure, and you can't have just ONE figure, so I got more. Started trading with friends and got a nice little collection going with Jakks. Then Mattel took over, my first figure was Elite 2 HHH, and it blew Jakks out of the water. Then I started collecting up until Elite 18, when I just stopped. Just recently picked up the TRU Seth though because that figure is just too cool to pass up on.
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Post by mikey1974 on Mar 5, 2016 14:46:46 GMT -5
I never really kinda stopped...
Started getting the LJN figures in the 80's. then there was a gap where they stopped, but ten Hasbro started in 1990,and I was getting them up until 1993. Then in 1996 I started with the Jakks BCA figures. stopped collecting "modern" figures around 2004-2005, but then started with the Classic Superstars line up until 2010. Then I started up with Mattel on day one, January 1st,2010.
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Post by Manson's inverted cross on Mar 5, 2016 17:26:43 GMT -5
> in 1998 be into original GI Joes and collecting them used from hobby stores > joes were hard to find > got to the point that GI Joes angered and sickened me > ppl at school talked about wrestling and how awesome it is > phoned up my buddy who was super into wrestling and the figures and asked him if it would be a good change for me > decided to try out a few figures and watch wrestling on tv (WWE) > mom took friend and I to TRU and I bought my first two wrestling figures, forget which ones, they were BCAs > went home and watched wrestling, got hooked > got into WCW a while later > kids at school stopped liking wrestling and I was the loser who liked wrestling > been collecting on and off since
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Post by alwaysbelieve on Mar 5, 2016 18:50:01 GMT -5
Used to collect Jakks BCA in elementary and middle school and I always had an affinity for Warrior. I even have the two warriors (green and blue) that I owned bad then, as well as Razor Ramon and Diesel. Recently, around 29, my good friend got me back into wrestling. Naturally, I took to eBay to buy some old BCA figured, which led to older Jakks warriors, then into Mattel. Now it's a full blown obsession.
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Post by Chicago on Mar 5, 2016 19:08:52 GMT -5
For as long as I can remember, wrestling action figures have been a part of my life.
I've seen pictures of me between the ages of 3 and 5 playing with Galoob WCW and Hasbro WWF Series 1 figures in my little dollar store ring.
This was back in the very early 1990s, which means I missed out on the Remco AWA and LJN WWF toy lines, but I cleaned up on most every other line throughout the decade.
I took the occasional break in collecting because I would move on to other sports-related hobbies, but playing with wrestling toys was among my favorite things to do even as a teenager.
Now, I'm mostly a collector of toys from my childhood (Jakks BCA figures, in particular), but I also try to keep up with Mattel.
I wish I could say I knew who it was that introduced me to wrestling toys, but if I had to guess it was my parents or grandparents who allowed me to watch it on TV and my love for the product grew from there.
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Post by dadlife316 on Mar 5, 2016 19:14:08 GMT -5
Browsed ffor years but never bought anything, until a few months ago I bought an Eddie HOF for a friend. I was so impressed with it that I finally started collecting.
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Post by China Claus on Mar 5, 2016 19:43:10 GMT -5
I think I was around 7 or 8 years old. I got the OSFTM WCW ring and the OSFTM Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage for Christmas. I also got Diesel, Bret Hart, Razor Ramon, Doink and Lex Luger WWF Bend-Em's. I collected just about every wrestling figure up until midway through the Jakks Classic line, then sort of fell out of collecting until the very end of Jakks tenure. Mattel picked up the WWE line, and I became an addict all over again.
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Post by ARUN on Mar 5, 2016 21:57:20 GMT -5
When I grew up my parents would buy me and my brothers the ljn figures. Eventually we started collecting Hasbro. From there it was the jakks BCA line up until they lost the license. I'm currently as hooked on Mattel as I was as a kid collecting ljns and hasbros. Now my kids are getting into collecting as well, which is awesome. There's no end in sight for me
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 22:02:27 GMT -5
I use to play with wwf figures 1998-2002 2003 gave them to my mate then I was becoming a huge orton fan as walking into town I say a orton/Batista 2 pack so I bought it and started to play with figures again until 16 I collected orton figures loose got my own council house at 19 bought a orton deluxe figure but this time I kept it moc and looked amazing on my wall I thought so I started to buy orton figures and keep them moc ever since that's how I got into collecting figures
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 23:24:48 GMT -5
I'm new to this as well. I have always watched wrestling back to the Monday Night War days. Sting was my guy, and when I saw the Defining Moments Sting, I was hooked. Now I can't stop spending all my money on figures.
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Post by kgchampion on Mar 11, 2016 0:58:55 GMT -5
I don't collect toys, I play with them. To me there is nothing more pointless than buying a toy just to put up on the wall. Toy collections are for people whose imaginations have died.
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Post by venusflytyr on Mar 11, 2016 1:49:40 GMT -5
I had this idea, that toys are a new thing, and how old is plastic? like if you have parents that are in there 60s now, when they were kids they didn't have toys, just bicycles and balls. people in their 60's 's parents had toys though. they were those tin wind up toys that were so fragile they broke right away and it was not feasible to think they could exist , so toys existed for a blip and then didn't come back till plastic was invented, or mass producible. (you could watch (kevin smith's) Comic Book Men on TMC for this history) so toys started in the 70's and evolved since then, uuh but anyways my idea is that there was a big shift that happened in my (generation?) which is like the 90's, where you had more mature toys being made for comic book store and more young adult type, and I guess its a Mall culture thing too. So for me to be old ish, and love action figures, its more and more a human adult, or more in the male , the human male, is more and more into toys, but if you look at ancient artifacts, those are figures/toys, stuff where people on Antiques Rhodeshow tell you this ancient thing was used for mashing corn, but who knows if corn existed back then.
So, if it is specifically Mattel WWE , it started in little unrelated-ish events. I big one I forgot about was seeing a Sergeant Slaughter GI JOE on tumblr, and thought wow, that looks so cool, is that new, wow, a new series of updated GI Joe (small scale Star Wars scale) And I was never into GI Joe as a kid, nor Star Wars (as a kid I had He-Man pre 4 years old, then had GHOSTBUSTERS pre 5 years old, then teenage mutant ninja turtles and x-men forever until Spawn/todd Mcfarlane came out, and that's where the shift I thought took place. then there was , eh its too long a story. lonely story eh. But I thought this Sgt. Slaughter was really cool, I looked it up and it was too expensive, but then i saw the WWE Mattel Sgt. Slaughter (target exclusive HOF) and thought wow that is even cooler, but still kinda expensive but a lot less that the little figure, and then I saw all the others ones, and it was overwhelming because I didn't know where I was to miss out on all these great figures, just in terms of toy quality, aesthetics/etc. but little by little though really quickly, I synched up with it, and focused on what was what, and i feel like I get it, like I never watched WWE or wrestling before, though I saw a brief segment when I was little of the Undertaker putting someone in a coffin in the ring, and it was baffling to me, and my parents were like this is fake, its bad, its dumb, and so I mostly avoided it, plus I only had cable tv when I was really young, and not at all until recently, though I saw some WWE clips that showed a FOX logo, so i don;t know. and I saw the netflix documentary Making A Murderer, where one of the convicts mentioned Wrestlemania and that got me interested in actually watching it now. and one of my favorite movies is the Wrestler,
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Post by Bret_Hart_Mark™ on Mar 11, 2016 2:01:47 GMT -5
When I was a kid I had a lot of the LJNs and Hasbros that I played with. Years later I found a book in a bookstore that listed the value of those figures. I literally played with thousands of dollars worth of figures lol. That same year Jakks released the Classic Superstars line. I bought the complete first series, and every series after that. It helped that my best friend was an assistant manager at Toys R Us lol. When the Classic Series ended so did my want to collect. I had seen the Mattel line, and really didn't like it. I sold my entire collection (they were in storage), and only kept 3 (because they were autographed).
Then I saw HOF Warrior, and back at it all over again lol. Although this time around I'm being more selective, and getting the ones I really, really like.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Mar 11, 2016 2:03:54 GMT -5
Became a fan in '97 after playing Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game on SNES. Had a dedicated fed until I was 16 or so, had my 1st girlfriend, started high school, all that jazz that takes priority. Decided that I didn't want to let go of something I still enjoyed, but I needed to approach it in a way that made more sense to my life at that point. Haven't stopped since, though I only buy maybe 7-8 figures a year these days.
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Post by @.@ Hempsterdance @.@ on Mar 11, 2016 7:24:27 GMT -5
I started collecting right at the end of the ljn run. My father had a few and bought me a few. I remember seeing kamala in stores and begging my dad for it.
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Post by Balor Club on Mar 11, 2016 8:23:23 GMT -5
The actual collecting started after I randomly picked up a few Jakks Micro Agression figures then I gradually got into the Ruthless Agression series then started again with Mattel.
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Post by metallica90 on Mar 11, 2016 8:41:10 GMT -5
Always had played with figures. Once I got older I decided to keep them in the package.
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