doubled
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Post by doubled on Mar 4, 2016 14:32:09 GMT -5
I started collecting at age 29. I'm not sure why. When people ask me about it, I just say I like what I like.
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Post by JC Motors on Mar 4, 2016 14:37:19 GMT -5
I bought SVR2010 then I saw a Maryse figure at Kmart when they had the cube. I was going to try to make a Lady Gaga Custom out of it but decided not too. I then bought a RRH and B8 Kane during their B2G1 sale
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wachito79
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Post by wachito79 on Mar 4, 2016 15:37:50 GMT -5
I was born. My grandfather watched wrestling when I was little, got reeled in when I watched this Steamboat guy.
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Post by SporeSpam on Mar 4, 2016 15:45:07 GMT -5
Got back into WWE last year during Wrestlemania season and I walked past a Hulk Hogan DM at Meijer and I thought that was the coolest thing I have ever seen. Then I started to buy more and more figures and well...It got out of control.
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grandmasterPRA
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Post by grandmasterPRA on Mar 4, 2016 15:53:18 GMT -5
I remember it vividly. I was about 10 years old or so I think. My mom took me to some craft show thing, this person had a set up with toys and I saw a three pack of Steve Austin, Andre the Giant, and The Undertaker. I had just gotten into wrestling and wanted it badly. So my mom got it (big mistake), now over 1000 figures later here I am with no life or money. It's a fair trade IMO
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Post by PJ on Mar 4, 2016 16:25:09 GMT -5
I never stopped buying toys.
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champofakind
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Post by champofakind on Mar 4, 2016 16:33:07 GMT -5
I used to collect and play with BCA figures when I was a kid. Stopped buying jakks when they started TTL had a few didn't like them. Fast foward to about 2004-2006 didn't collect figures but still wanted to buy a few of my favs.. but when I seen them in person I just passed they looked bad. Then in 2009 when I heard mattel was taking over and seeing pics I was interested. Saw elite 1 CM Punk in feb 2010 and instantly bought it I remember it was like $14.97.. and fell in love and have been collecting ever since.
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Post by Vamp55 on Mar 4, 2016 16:42:15 GMT -5
Well I live in Australia - so it's a little different experience over here.
In the 80's when I was born, it was dam near impossible to watch wrestling. We used to get 1 show a week, that went for an hour but I only remember it being on really late at night.
Fast forward to the early 90's and I was about 10 or 11. This is when I really got into wrestling, I was allowed to get the WWF magazine each month, but the world was bigger back then and it cost like $8-9 (which was way over retail) and was 2/3 months behind. I was also allowed to hire wrestling videos from the store every now and again. This was the closest I ever got to an allowance (we did it pretty tuff back in the day, but others had it worse)
Anyway, for my 11th or maybe 12th birthday, I wanted some wrestling figures. So my mum went searching for them. Now u must understand, it was dam near impossible to find wrestling figures in Australia at this time, she spent a couple of weekends driving around and chasing them up. I believe she even have stores calling other stores getting them to check etc. so on my birthday there they were - must have been 6/8 Brand new hasbro figures. I don't remember them all but I know I got Texas tornado, 2x hulk hogan, the hammer and typhoon.
Fast forward to 1999. I was walking along one day, and looked in a shop and saw WCW toybiz smash and slam Sting. I couldn't believe it. I brought that bad boy, and though wow looks amazing. So I didn't open it. I brought it with the intention of just getting it. That was about 800-1000 MOC figures ago... Lol.
So for me, it started with Hasbro as a child, but really took off as a very young adult when I started to earn my own money. Now I collect other stuff, but wrestling figs will always be number 1.
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StylesClash
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Post by StylesClash on Mar 4, 2016 17:30:58 GMT -5
Been a fan of wrestling for over 25 years. Left it behind a few different times but I always had figures and collectibles growing up, I still have my loose Big Bossman hasbro from when I was a kid. I'm almost 30. So I remember when I was old enough I would buy a lot of JAKKS BCA and others like that when I was a early teen. I stopped collecting for most of my late teens and early 20s. I started back up 5 years ago, and have quite a collection now, all MOC on display. Mostly current MATTEL as they come out but I bought a lot of JAKKS CLASSIC SERIES, singles and limited edition two packs and others and filled my collection a little more that way too. My favorite part is the actual hunt for current figures. In my opinion there's not much like the feeling of coming around the corner in your local retailer and seeing something you've been waiting for or need on the shelf. It's like a high man. Love it. Keep collecting and glad you signed up!
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PunkAlchemy
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Post by PunkAlchemy on Mar 4, 2016 18:58:39 GMT -5
Well, I always loved wrestling figures. But the Over the Limit CM Punk (I think? It was the SES one in the green attire) drew me in. I was just kinda getting back into wrestling (But I never hated it or anything) and have always been a huge Punk fan. But that didn't really drag me in yet, but it changed my opinion on the Mattel figures. Next I got the Punk/Savage battle pack and it was great! Really loved those figures. Got a Drew Mcintyre, too. But Elite 13 Cody Rhodes is really what got me. It was my first elite and... It came with the hoodie, the paper bag, the face protector. It had me sold. Took a while but eventually I got dragged in and kinda just started... Buying figures. I think the first figures after that that I got were the WM XXX Shawn and Bret. That's what finally got me buying figures consistently.
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LuisTX
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Post by LuisTX on Mar 4, 2016 19:16:10 GMT -5
I think like most, you start off as a kid, but also I'm sure like many, your collection as a kid is probably much smaller than it is now that you can buy it yourself. I went through different phases of getting different types of things signed by wrestlers, DVD covers, replica belts, posters, 8x10s. Then when the Elite figs started coming out, I turned that direction. For the longest, I was only buying MOC Elites that I wanted to, and could theoretically get signed, i.e., I could surely meet HBK someday (and have many times), so I buy his figs, but I was too late to buy a Macho Man or Warrior Elite, so I never bought those. But a few weeks ago, I decided to start buying a bunch of Basics figs that I would open and display somehow someday. I don't really like the idea of spending $20 on an Elite and opening it up, I really like just seeing them kept MOC. Whereas the Basic figs, I don't mind, I just want to have those display loose, so now I have a tub full of Basics, and I will eventually display them somehow once I completely my wishlist of them.
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Post by fzmadness on Mar 4, 2016 21:35:47 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. Exactly what he said to a tee!! And welcome to the board!!
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Post by LA Times on Mar 4, 2016 21:52:24 GMT -5
I love wrestling and I love toys. I had a few Hasbros, Jakks BCA and Toybiz WCW, but I didnt consider myself a big collector until I bought a RA1 John Cena. Jakks RA/CS still makes up the bulk of my wrestling collection.
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Post by FBtagteamsrule on Mar 4, 2016 22:41:19 GMT -5
been watching wrestling on and off since i was a kid. been collecting different toy line nearly that long but never got into jakks. mattel sold me on the legends line with scsa, road warriors, demolition, warrior, rock, rude, mr perfect, bulldog, and others. started off only going to get the legends and modern ppl i knew but snowballed after punk showed up at mattels sdcc panel and i started watching again.
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Post by JNH2248 on Mar 4, 2016 23:10:24 GMT -5
Never had one wrestling fig growing up, mainly Transformers. My first ever fig was a gift in Dec 2013 from a co-worker, E23 Macho Man. The following spring on Easter day I started with my first self purchased fig off of eBay, mainly for something to pass on to my son when he gets older and it has skyrocketed from there profusely!!
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goodolzr
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Post by goodolzr on Mar 4, 2016 23:27:19 GMT -5
I had dug out my old Final Count figures from when I was a kid and was playing with them and decided to get one elite on Ebay. I loved it and couldn't resist getting more... and more... and more...
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Post by Browser Brody on Mar 4, 2016 23:29:31 GMT -5
wrestling figures have always been part of my life. my brother had ljn's when i was born so they have always been in my house. i enjoyed playing with them when i was a kid and now i'm 29 years old and never grew out of it.
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Post by Old School Collector on Mar 4, 2016 23:47:54 GMT -5
My mother got me a Hulk Hogan, M$M Ted DiBiase and Hacksaw Jim Duggan Hasbros for a Christmas present, back when I was 8 years old. She also got me Jakks BCA Series 1 the same year and I was hooked ever since then
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Post by bengalsredsbucks20 on Mar 5, 2016 1:46:31 GMT -5
Some interesting stories reading through here. I've been a wrestling fan most of my life the attitude era peak was like when I was 7 still remember watching some of it on tv not a whole lot but some. Seems like I quit watching for about 3 years after the alliance storyline was through then I picked it back up a little before John Cena and Batista started getting big. Watched until about 2009 and then when it went PG got out of it but CM Punks pipebomb got me into it and ever since then I've followed wrestling again. Never really got serious about the figures until like a year ago.
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Post by originalniceguy on Mar 5, 2016 5:27:34 GMT -5
I'm 24 but I got my first ever wrestling figure just under 2 years ago. Been a wrestling fan since '97 but never got any wrestling figs when I was young. About 2/3 years ago I started looking at TTL figures on the bay in my spare time and started reminiscing about old times. After a while I caved in and decided I had to see what I was missing out on. I told myself I'd buy a couple of job Lots as well as the electronic entrance stage/real sounds arena for a quick test and then sell them afterwards.
... I never sold them.
Now I have a small collection of Mattel AE and WCW figs from 97-02 as well as the Shield and Wyatts from the current gen.
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