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Post by bengalsredsbucks20 on Mar 4, 2016 10:53:03 GMT -5
I'm new to this forum been a browser but figured I'd join. For me I used to have all these wrestlers people bought me when I was a kid. Found them like a year ago in storage (well someone else did) they started collecting and I sort of just started buying them for him. Now I find myself being the one that likes to collect them. I just like the thrill of finding them at stores I guess mostly just collect the figures I like mostly today's roster but also flashbacks and figures that look cool. I'll have to post the collection one day.
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Post by Cons on Mar 4, 2016 10:56:53 GMT -5
Very cool welcome to the boards. I hadn't seen wwe toys in years before I was browsing some wwe sites and saw an ad for the newest exclusive cm punk figure and thought it was the coolest thing ever. After that it was over for me lol
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Post by qdogg on Mar 4, 2016 11:01:31 GMT -5
I collected BCA backin the day and kind of wished I had collected the Jakks classic ones but was too late in the game to catch up and decided to start buying again when mattel got the license.
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Post by Cyan on Mar 4, 2016 11:47:18 GMT -5
I've been collecting since the LJN line in the 80's. Went on to Hasbro and then the very first Jakks before taking break. Mattel Legends came out and I was hooked. Four Detolf display cases later and I"m still going.
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Post by Halloween King on Mar 4, 2016 11:53:20 GMT -5
The Hogan Era started me. As a kid I watched wwf and loved it, I wanted the toys so I got the big LJN figures and then the Hasbros. Then years later I saw Jakks Classic line and started collecting again.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 11:58:09 GMT -5
This Video Got me into collecting. Jk lol. In all seriousness, I started collecting Mattel in 2013 after a sub par experience with Jakks figures. I didn't start collecting Mattel right away because I thought that they wouldn't be very good. Boy, was I wrong.
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Post by Joe/Smurf on Mar 4, 2016 11:59:55 GMT -5
My cousin had some BCAs and playing figures with him was what got me interested in wrestling back in 1998. My grandpa brought us to Toys R Us and I got The Rock and Edge BCAs for myself. I remember having those two figures and a Monster Ring and then just using any random figures as characters in my fed for a while. Jasmine from Aladdin was women's champ. I had Power Rangers villains and Casey Jones and Buzz Lightyear. And it was all downhill from there for saving any money
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Post by mikey1974 on Mar 4, 2016 12:11:20 GMT -5
My cousin had some BCAs and playing figures with him was what got me interested in wrestling back in 1998. My grandpa brought us to Toys R Us and I got The Rock and Edge BCAs for myself. I remember having those two figures and a Monster Ring and then just using any random figures as characters in my fed for a while. Jasmine from Aladdin was women's champ. I had Power Rangers villains and Casey Jones and Buzz Lightyear. And it was all downhill from there for saving any money Kinda reminded me of what I used to do - when the Hasbro's started coming out, there certainly wasn't enough at the start! started using my TMNT figures in my own toy fed as well. my first big angle/swerve had Casey Jones turn heel on the newly minted UWF (Universal Wrestling Federation - before I knew such a thing really existed!) Champion Raphael and join forces with Shredder, Leatherhead, and Demolition to take down the Turtles and Hulk Hogan.
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Post by dylan on Mar 4, 2016 12:17:35 GMT -5
I was a little kid that loved wrestling, and my grandmother worked in the toy department at walmart and would always get new sets for me. Her and my mother built my collection for me while I was growing up. At Christmas I was just get boxes full of unopened figs that had been released throughout that year. It was a great childhood when it came to toys.
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Post by bengalsredsbucks20 on Mar 4, 2016 12:30:27 GMT -5
I'm not really sure what figures they were when I got started this was like in the late 90s period when I first started getting them I'm sure they were a lot cheaper than today's. All the ones I have are loose but have started saving some boxes for elites.
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Post by poindizzle on Mar 4, 2016 13:09:59 GMT -5
Welcome aboard! In some form I've always been into wrestling toys over the years. I'd say the only time I wasn't was between 2005-2010. I just wasn't watching. I didn't have cable and I couldn't really collect too much of anything. Mattel immediately brought me back in by summer of 2010.
As far as my collecting in general, I'm gonna say DNA. Both my folks are collectors.
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Post by J Man Graves on Mar 4, 2016 13:39:00 GMT -5
My dad was a wrestling fan before I was born and we've always watched together, so I literally don't remember a time when I didn't watch wrestling. I can't even tell you the first match I saw because I've been watching wrestling since before I was forming memories. So it was just kind of natural that I'd play with wrestling figures. As a kid, I'm not exaggerating when I tell you those were nearly the only toys I played with. For Christmas that was 95% of my gifts cause it was all I wanted. I remember the year that the tag teams BCA sets with the Godwinns, L.O.D, etc. came out, I got every team in the set for Christmas. When I started moving past playing with toys, my dad and I would still collect wrestling figures together cause we enjoy it.
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Post by J Man Graves on Mar 4, 2016 13:42:42 GMT -5
This brought back so many memories, my dad and I would actually go on toy hunts together when I was a little kid. We'd hit Wal Mart, KB, Toys R Us in the same day looking for the new stuff. I was so lucky in that regard. Obviously, I couldn't have gone by myself but it was our thing so he'd make sure we made the rounds.
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Post by Mongo Bears on Mar 4, 2016 13:47:54 GMT -5
I was a little kid in the 80's and I had just about every action figure line except wwf. I loved action figures up until video games took over as the main source if entertainment. I've always loved wrestling but never desired the figures. Flash forward....three years ago my son was turning 3 and was getting too old for baby toys. It was time to come up with more grown up toys like action figures, and since I had been playing wwe video games with my son, I randomly googled the number one action figure I would want if I was gonna buy one for me......the honky tonk man. I fully expected to hate it but I fell in love. I paid $25. Then I found ringside collectibles website and they had a few macho king and nwo savage in stock for $35. I got in just at the right time. I will be fully caught up once I get my bossman. My son still loves them too even though he doesn't play much. He was so happy to finally get Nash this week, it was his first favorite wrestler from the video game back when he was 3.
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Post by BestLookingInTheWorld on Mar 4, 2016 13:57:30 GMT -5
I can't remember a time where Wrestling wasn't a part of my life. I collected the Hasbros growing up and later Jakks figures. Became too cool once middle school hit plus I wasn't really feeling the product at the time. I believe it was 2001ish. In 2010 when I was working at King Soopers (Kroger in Colorado) I would always browse the magazines on breaks and lunch. One of my faves to look at happened to be Toyfair as I'd been reading it since I was a kid. I seen that Mattel was getting the license to produce WWE figs now and I was absolutely blown away by the product and the quality, scale, you name it. And it's been an addiction ever since. Ps welcome to the boards bro. Now upload an avatar/profile pic cause you look suspect ha ha jk b
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 14:04:59 GMT -5
When I wad younger, I collected Jakks figures. I remember having a lot of them from various series. After I stopped watching wrestling, I gave them away.
When I started again, my brother and I decided, why not start collecting again. We started with whatever we found at our local target which was the elite Sheamus, Brodus Clay and Mark Henry. It just snowballed after that. Other Targets, Toys R Us, Amazon, eBay and the Frank and Son's event. We have over 200+ figures, at least from the last time we checked from the past and current. I'm glad we got into this, otherwise we'd be bored and indoors majority of the time.
Sidenote: Whenever we see Jakks figures, we can remember which we had. Recently find a Ric Flair from the McMahon/Flair two pack and it brought back the memory of playing with them.
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Post by Mark Martin on Mar 4, 2016 14:15:48 GMT -5
I had a lot of Toybiz WCW and Jakks WWF figures when I was a kid but even as I got older and naturally stopped playing with toys I still had the itch to have a big toy collection. It wasn't until I met my wife and we both got good paying jobs that I could finally pull the trigger and start buying WWE/TMNT/DC figures again.
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Post by Bandalero on Mar 4, 2016 14:16:07 GMT -5
Just like BestLookingInTheWorld I can't remember when wrestling wasn't a part of my life either. But I was very particular about my toys and loved the standardization of 3 3/4" G.I. Joe ARAH figures in the 80s so they were my wrestling toys back then - even made really rudamentary rings out of wood and elastics for them, plasticine (remember that?) shaped as belts with foil for the plates. My first wrestling toys were Tito Santana, JYD, Jake Roberts, Corperal Kirchner, Jesse Ventura and George Steele from the LJN line. I didn't get back into toy collecting until 2001ish when I discovered eBay and had disposable income. So I started with Hasbros. Tried to get into Toybiz but the wonky scales, action features and over-articulation killed it for me. I tried Jakks but the inaccuracy to scale, thunder thighs and the inability for these wrestling toys to not even be able to perform a simple looking boston crab also killed it for me. Then I saw these Mattels. Purchased Ricky Steamboat and was amazed at how far wrestling action figures have come. Attention to scale, just the right amount of articulation, detail, etc. love it. Best time for being a wrestling toy collector. The sad thing is, it's 2016, so all the figures I'd love to own like Freebirds, Steiners, Midnight Express, Koloffs, etc. will probably never see the light of day because it's going on 25-30 years and none of these new fans really appreciate the older guys (see proto-hell Magnum T.A. and shelf warming Horsemen). I wish what we're getting now was avaialable 15 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 14:24:35 GMT -5
As far as the Mattel line, I actually started collecting a few years ago because I wanted to try to get back into running an action figure fed. I went out and bought $200 worth of basics in one day, then got home and started playing with them and realized it just wasn't fun. Then, I had serious buyer's remorse and started selling everything off. Ended up coming back later to collect flashbacks, thinking that I would have more fun playing with them if it was guys from my era. Again, playing with them wasn't fun anymore. Sold off my collection... most of it, then ended up collecting again and displaying. I never thought that I could enjoy collecting and displaying. Seemed like a waste of money... but I love it!
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Post by BROKEN on Mar 4, 2016 14:27:59 GMT -5
My brother got me hooked on wwe around 10 years ago
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