My brand new "complete" BCA collection
Jul 30, 2017 20:18:43 GMT -5
Nick Maniwa, Chicago, and 6 more like this
Post by marklud on Jul 30, 2017 20:18:43 GMT -5
Hey y'all. So over the past month or so I've gotten the itch to focus on some other lines now that I feel pretty good about my Mattel collection (partly inspired by Zack R's collection photos from recent months). I already had a complete Hasbro loose collection from when I was a kid, but I got out of the game for a while so I missed out on some pretty cool sets. I was crushed when WWF changed from Hasbro to Jakks, so even though I had the first couple of BCA series I stopped after that (and stopped watching wrestling for a decade or so starting around then). While I was never a fan of the modern RA/DA Jakks figures, in hindsight I realized that the BCA line looks pretty great and is a fun representation of the Attitude Era.
So ... with some help from Chicago (thanks again!) and some other research, I went on a little spending spree. The best part is that these figures haven't gone up in price like LJNs and Hasbros; I originally bought two large loose lots on the bay but was deeply disappointed by how damaged they looked. Luckily, because of the reasonable prices, I went nuts and bought the best carded versions of each character; right now I'm missing only two (Brian Christopher and Skull, and 3 if we include "Cameraman") ... I've got a few multiples for my favorite characters but I'm glad that I've been following the 1 per character rule lately with lines like these (and modern Mattels), it makes a lot of sense to me when the whole idea of a "complete set" gets a bit out of hand. I got really lucky in that there was a local seller from the Bay whom I bought like 20 figures from and was able to do so in person to cut out the shipping.
It might be a little crazy to buy carded versions of all of these and open them all but to me they look 1000 percent better this way (I've been doing this with some LJNs and that is borderline insane on my part, I admit).
Anywho, here's what I've got (I don't include the pre-Attitude Era ones here, I've got those elsewhere):
Now it's on to finishing sets of LJNs, Galoobs, OSFTM and Bend-ems!
So ... with some help from Chicago (thanks again!) and some other research, I went on a little spending spree. The best part is that these figures haven't gone up in price like LJNs and Hasbros; I originally bought two large loose lots on the bay but was deeply disappointed by how damaged they looked. Luckily, because of the reasonable prices, I went nuts and bought the best carded versions of each character; right now I'm missing only two (Brian Christopher and Skull, and 3 if we include "Cameraman") ... I've got a few multiples for my favorite characters but I'm glad that I've been following the 1 per character rule lately with lines like these (and modern Mattels), it makes a lot of sense to me when the whole idea of a "complete set" gets a bit out of hand. I got really lucky in that there was a local seller from the Bay whom I bought like 20 figures from and was able to do so in person to cut out the shipping.
It might be a little crazy to buy carded versions of all of these and open them all but to me they look 1000 percent better this way (I've been doing this with some LJNs and that is borderline insane on my part, I admit).
Anywho, here's what I've got (I don't include the pre-Attitude Era ones here, I've got those elsewhere):
Now it's on to finishing sets of LJNs, Galoobs, OSFTM and Bend-ems!
