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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2016 9:38:05 GMT -5
My son and I do it together. I had the LJN figures when I was a kid and we missed the Jakks phase but Mattel has us hooked!
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Post by wwebasicscollector on Mar 25, 2016 1:38:00 GMT -5
I started when my class and the teacher were really into wrestling and I just thought it was the "cool" thing. Then I went to a Walmart and saw a basic John Morrison and was like "What the heck" and bought my first figure. Then I stopped for a little while then got back into it after getting them for Christmas.
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#SHOWOFF
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Post by #SHOWOFF on Mar 25, 2016 1:49:56 GMT -5
I always loved wrestling figures as a kid, then, like most, I stopped. But then when Rey Mysterio came to WWE, I decided to collect Rey Mysterio figures starting with Ruthless Agression 1. Then a few more characters joined the party, eventually it was a whole cast with real scale rings, accessories and custom modifications. So I skipped the TTL generation and went from the last of BCA to the beginning of RA.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 7:26:20 GMT -5
It was fate. The very first wrestling I saw was in 1984 when my babysitter was watching a sports segment on the news, and they showed Hulk Hogan pining The Iron Sheik for his first WWF title. I got hooked. My GI Joe and Star Wars figures immediately got re-purposed as wrestlers. I skipped the LJN figures because they had no poseability, but got every one of the Hasbro (Savage was my first). Continued collecting other things for a few years, then started with the "bone crunching" Jakks (Warrior was first this time!), ToyBiz WCW, San Fransico ECW, and eventually Mattel when they got the license. I still collect other things (6 rooms of my house are filled with shelves of action figures), but I think wrestling figures will always be my favorite. Going out today, in fact, just to see who's hanging on the pegs at my local stores!
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Post by YES! YES! YES! on Mar 25, 2016 7:43:12 GMT -5
I watched SmackDown every friday at my aunts house with my best friend. So, for Christmas, she and my uncle got me Undertaker, Batista, and a ring.
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justwright316
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Post by justwright316 on Mar 25, 2016 8:06:48 GMT -5
Started collecting in 1996, first figure I bought was the Shawn Michaels JusToys Bendem and never looked back.
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wayneyb
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Post by wayneyb on Mar 25, 2016 8:18:25 GMT -5
I loved wrestling as a kid and had a ton of Hasbros and also a WCW ring (with red steel cage) but I think I gave them away to a younger cousin when I got a bit older. I dipped in and out of wrestling and started to collect WWF/WWE dvds in my late teens and picked up a couple of Jakks figures to display on my dvd shelves. About 4/5 years ago we were going on holiday and I wanted a few toys for my little boy to keep him busy on the plane and at the hotel so I came across a few Mattels at TRU, picked up the Randy Orton/Edge 2-pack, a basic Kofi, basic HHH and E7 Cena. My son was hooked on wrestling and the figures so I kept buying for him. A few years ago TRU had the offer on where if you spent £25-£30 or something you got a free RTWM Rock figure, we ended up with a second free Rock so I put it on my dvd shelf. It was head and shoulders above the Jakks I had so they got given to my son and that Rock figure got me personally hooked on Mattels. Not looked back since.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 8:30:38 GMT -5
Ted Arcidi.
Yup, mom found Ted Arcidi at a yard sale and brought it home.
Thankfully, a couple weeks later, she bought a whole box of 1995-96 Jakks for like $5.
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DestroyerOfNations
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Post by DestroyerOfNations on Mar 25, 2016 12:34:44 GMT -5
As a kid I always had wrestling figures, starting with the BCA's. TTL's were my favorites, and the last figures I had were the Triple H and HBK that came with that huge chamber. Not too long after that I outgrew the hobby. Jakks CS got me back into the game late, but this time as a collector. Secondary market prices for earlier series turned me off though and I was happy with my select little collection of about 30-40. I wasn't interested in Mattel's till around Elite 19 with HBK. Him and DM Bret were my first two Mattel's and I've been hooked ever since.
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