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Post by JimRiga on Mar 11, 2018 5:59:10 GMT -5
Wrestling is my number 1 interest.
When I was 11, I got my first Hasbro’s for Christmas: Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Jake Roberts, Roddy Piper, Jim Duggan, Ted DiBiase, Big Boss Man and the blue Galoob Ric Flair.
That was the start of growing collection of wrestling figures. I ended up getting a lot of them, but never got Andre or Dusty Rhodes. I stopped collecting when the Hasbro line ended as I got into video games and didn’t really like the new Jakks style of figures, although this was mainly due to them not being in scale with the Hasbros.
It wasn’t until I was an adult with my own personal income that I started seriously wanting to collect things. I got a huge amount of custom Habros and started collecting Top Trumps and Manta Force and old video games. Eventually I had to sell the Hasbros, Manta Force and video games, and when I got back in a position to collect, I decided to stick to one thing and obviously chose my number 1 interest and I got the Jakks Ruthless Agression and Classic series a few years back. This calmed down when my kids came along and I sold my figures and switched to collecting Playmobil for them. After I got plenty of that in and my partner got sick of me stockpiling it (I may have a problem!), I turned my attention back to Wrestling a couple of years ago and the wonderful Mattel figures. There is such a huge range with constant releases and having to play catch up as well, I can only afford to collect wrestling figures, but as a kid, especially before I got into wrestling and even whilst I started getting Hasbros, I had all sorts of different toy lines that I had a decent amount of.
These included:
Transformers
He Man
Micro Machines
Ghostbusters
Gi Joe Action Force
Ninja/Hero Turtles
Manta Force
Matchbox scale cars
Model areoplanes
Action Man
M.A.S.K
Thundercats
Battle Beasts
M.U.S.C.L.E Men
Visionaries
Lego
Playmobil
I’ve probably forgotten some, but, not including video ganes, what did you have as a kid and if you could afford to, what would you like to collect out of them that you don’t or can’t currently? Wrestling is my number 1 thing, but believe me, I would happily collect those other toy lines if I could afford to!
Sorry for the long ramble!
*Edit: add Dino Riders to my list of toys I had a collection of.
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Post by pauloso on Mar 11, 2018 6:29:25 GMT -5
Cool thread idea Jim. Oh Lord, what didn't I collect! Share a lot with you.
Starcom, my absolute favourite.
Manta Force (what an amazing toy line, and with no movie/cartoon tie in irrc).
Hasbro WWF.
M.A.S.K
Dino Riders.
He Man.
Thundercats.
Bucky O'Hare.
Braveheart.
Visionaries.
Lego.
TMNT.
Star Wars (was born in 1982, so my Dad hoarded a load of last 17 figures mint on card for me, that went a long way towards buying my house).
And plenty more.
I would love to collect M.A.S.K again but cost, space and just the annoyance of once having owned most of it is just really aggravating.
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Post by wayneyb on Mar 11, 2018 6:45:09 GMT -5
Christ I had forgotten all about Manta Force When I was a kid in the 80s my older brother had a huge collection of Star Wars, Transformers and Action Force and he really got me into collecting toys I collected He-Man, MASK, Subbuteo, Thundercats, Ninja Turtles, Bravestarr, Batman the movie toys, world of Simpsons, and WWF Hasbros mainly I had a few Battle Beasts, Visionaries, Power Rangers, Micro Machines, Centurions and there will be others I cant think of right now Does anyone remember Ring Raiders?  Little aeroplanes attached to rings, there was a comic also. The name always makes me chuckle now, not sure a toy line would be released these days under the same name Nowadays I only collect WWE Mattels but I so wish I had kept most of my toys from back then - it was a golden era for toys in the 80s/early 90s I never got into Jakks figures at all. I got into Mattels in about 2011-ish, bought a few for my son to take on holiday to play with and I got into buying them for him TRU did an offer at one point spend £25 on WWE figures and get the Road to Wrestlemania Rock figure. We ended up with 2 so the spare I posed on my DVD shelf and started from there, I have hundreds now. Probably have about 80-90% of all elites including exclusives, just missing some from Elite series 4-10 but pretty much have the rest. Got a load of basics too Ill never collect them all but I like hunting on ebay to fill some gaps now and again. I dont collect as heavily as I did the first few years and I do lose i interest now and again, but there are worse things I could spend my money on |
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Post by pauloso on Mar 11, 2018 8:23:47 GMT -5
Completely forgot about Ring Raiders, I loved them. As you say that name would not fly now, far too much innuendo!
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Post by ahunter8056 on Mar 11, 2018 9:44:22 GMT -5
Doctor Who toys and Jakks WWE figures were really the only toy lines I had a collection of as a kid. I had a few Mattel Elites bought for me in 2010 when they were first starting, but I stopped playing with toys/doing stop motion soon after.
For Doctor Who toys, Character Options figures and RC Daleks produced from 2005 - 2008 were the main part, though I did have a Product Enterprise RC Davros and a talking 80s Cyberman figure, which were produced a few years prior.
As for Jakks WWE figures, it was all the main lines. RA, DA, CS, CSDA.
My older brothers were playing with toys in the early 90s, and so I still have a big bag full of WWF Hasbros of theirs from that time period, which I've always found interesting.
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Post by 👑🇵🇭⭐️ on Mar 11, 2018 20:15:23 GMT -5
The list of what I didn’t collect would be shorter.
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Post by JimRiga on Mar 12, 2018 19:44:08 GMT -5
Cool thread idea Jim. Oh Lord, what didn't I collect! Share a lot with you. Thanks! We do share quite a few of these! Also Dino Riders! Forgot about those! I remember watching the video that came with one of the toys and watching it loads. I remember looking in the Argos catalogue and wanting all the Braveheart stuff and Power Ranger stuff, but never got round to them 😆 Also, I know what you mean in regards to M.A.S.K and being too annoyed about previously owning them! Did you have Boulder Hill? I never did 😔 You were really lucky with your dad’s Star Wars collection! Centurians was another one I never had, but I got my fix as a few pals had them and Ring Raiders!? Ha! I was too innocent to notice anything dodgy about that name back then! I did have quite a few though. I had quite a few Subbuteo teams. I used to play matches by myself and kept the scores and league table saved on my dad’s PC. Definitely a golden era though. I’ve always said that toys were better than some of the crap that’s out these days! |
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Post by JimRiga on Mar 12, 2018 19:45:03 GMT -5
The list of what I didn’t collect would be shorter. Did you have anything we haven’t mentioned? |
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Post by 👑🇵🇭⭐️ on Mar 12, 2018 20:25:17 GMT -5
The list of what I didn’t collect would be shorter. Did you have anything we haven’t mentioned? I got a little bit of everything and a little bit more of everything else. I mean, I’ve been into toys since 1979. Anything I saw on TV, I just had to have. I can say that I never really completed any set. I’ve completed sub-sets, but never “got them all”. |
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Post by JimRiga on Mar 12, 2018 20:30:24 GMT -5
Ah right, cool! Did you have any A-Team! I just remembered I had BA and Murdoch. Would have loved the van!
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Post by 👑🇵🇭⭐️ on Mar 12, 2018 20:50:51 GMT -5
Ah right, cool! Did you have any A-Team! I just remembered I had BA and Murdoch. Would have loved the van! You’re really making me think here. HAHA!! Some of the toys I had were: Transformers G. I. Joe He-Man and the Masters Of The Universe Star Wars Thundercats DC Comics Super Power Collection DC Comics Super Heroes Marvel Secret Wars The Real Ghostbusters Dino-Riders M.A.S.K. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles SilverHawks Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light Army Ants Battle Beasts StarCom Centurions Sky Commanders Ring Raiders Exosquad King Arthur and the Knights of Justice Voltron Super Soaker Zap-It Power Lords COPS Chuck Norris and the Karate Kommandoes Air Raiders Batman (the movie) Batman Returns Batman Animated Series X-Men (90s line) Marvel Super Heroes (90s line) And many many more!! I’ll add more to this as they pop in my head. |
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Post by pauloso on Mar 13, 2018 1:37:41 GMT -5
Cool thread idea Jim. Oh Lord, what didn't I collect! Share a lot with you. Thanks! We do share quite a few of these! Also Dino Riders! Forgot about those! I remember watching the video that came with one of the toys and watching it loads. I remember looking in the Argos catalogue and wanting all the Braveheart stuff and Power Ranger stuff, but never got round to them 😆 Also, I know what you mean in regards to M.A.S.K and being too annoyed about previously owning them! Did you have Boulder Hill? I never did 😔 You were really lucky with your dad’s Star Wars collection. Definitely a golden era though. I’ve always said that toys were better than some of the crap that’s out these days! Boulder Hill I did indeed have, and I remember them being a weekly sight at Car boot sales in the 90's. Could have picked up loads of them. |
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Post by King Richius on Mar 13, 2018 2:23:54 GMT -5
I don't know if it counts as collecting but I had a 12" Six Million Dollar Man doll (yes, it was a doll and not an action figure in those days). It was pretty cool. Cloth running suit like from the show opening. You could look through the back of his head to see thru his "bionic eye" - actually a very crappy magnifying glass. And he this rubbery skin you could peel back to reveal the bionics in his arm.
I collected the original Star Wars figures but played with them so much they wouldn't be worth much now so I don't mind that I don't know what happened to them.
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Post by SteveHulk on Mar 13, 2018 10:16:49 GMT -5
I don't know if it counts as collecting but I had a 12" Six Million Dollar Man doll (yes, it was a doll and not an action figure in those days). It was pretty cool. Cloth running suit like from the show opening. You could look through the back of his head to see thru his "bionic eye" - actually a very crappy magnifying glass. And he this rubbery skin you could peel back to reveal the bionics in his arm. ...yeah, I actually had quite a few Bionic things growing up - the 6M$ Man, the Bionic Woman, Maskatron (which was awesome!), Oscar Goldman, the Bionic Repair Station...  |
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Post by JimRiga on Mar 13, 2018 14:16:41 GMT -5
Ah right, cool! Did you have any A-Team! I just remembered I had BA and Murdoch. Would have loved the van! You’re really making me think here. HAHA!! Some of the toys I had were: Transformers G. I. Joe He-Man and the Masters Of The Universe Star Wars Thundercats DC Comics Super Power Collection DC Comics Super Heroes Marvel Secret Wars The Real Ghostbusters Dino-Riders M.A.S.K. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles SilverHawks Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light Army Ants Battle Beasts StarCom Centurions Sky Commanders Ring Raiders Exosquad King Arthur and the Knights of Justice Voltron Super Soaker Zap-It Power Lords COPS Chuck Norris and the Karate Kommandoes Air Raiders Batman (the movie) Batman Returns Batman Animated Series X-Men (90s line) Marvel Super Heroes (90s line) And many many more!! I’ll add more to this as they pop in my head. Wow, you did have loads! I bet that your memory working overtime! I didn’t even know you could getChuck Norris toys in the UK or back then. I haven’t heard of Captain Power, Voltron or Power Lords, I might look them up. Look forward to seeing what else you add to the list! |
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Post by wayneyb on Mar 13, 2018 14:29:11 GMT -5
I had some A-Team toys, I had the van and BA. Remember he had a solid plastic body but a rubber head you could squash
I also recall I had Karate Kid figures - Daniel and Mr Miyagi with chopping action plus one of those wooden training trees that broke in half
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Post by JimRiga on Mar 13, 2018 16:55:09 GMT -5
I had some A-Team toys, I had the van and BA. Remember he had a solid plastic body but a rubber head you could squash I also recall I had Karate Kid figures - Daniel and Mr Miyagi with chopping action plus one of those wooden training trees that broke in half Awesome, you had the van! And BA did have a squishy head, I remember now. He was wearing John Cena jorts too! I forgot about the Karate kid toys! I always wanted one so that I could chop the wood up with those spring action arms!! Wow, this is a right ol’ trip down Memory Lane! |
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Post by NMC on Mar 14, 2018 7:59:23 GMT -5
This is funny, because I never actually properly started "collecting" anything till my later years.
As a child I just got random toys lol.. When I started watching wrestling in 2006, I was 14, and remember getting Jakks Angle and Benoit in my local Argos. My Jakks collection continued from there.
As an adult now though, I have a few collections, still have nearly 400 Jakks, which I don't buy anymore, and just over 200 Mattel, which isn't bad going for only starting in 2014.
I've also completed the Batman Animated Figure series that DC Collectables started releasing a few years back, and currently collecting Funko Pops, and The Walking Dead McFarlane Figures, although I've kinda stopped buying those.
So I guess at the minute, my two active collections are Funko Pops, and Mattel.
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Post by 👑🇵🇭⭐️ on Mar 14, 2018 8:56:38 GMT -5
You’re really making me think here. HAHA!! Some of the toys I had were: Transformers G. I. Joe He-Man and the Masters Of The Universe Star Wars Thundercats DC Comics Super Power Collection DC Comics Super Heroes Marvel Secret Wars The Real Ghostbusters Dino-Riders M.A.S.K. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles SilverHawks Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light Army Ants Battle Beasts StarCom Centurions Sky Commanders Ring Raiders Exosquad King Arthur and the Knights of Justice Voltron Super Soaker Zap-It Power Lords COPS Chuck Norris and the Karate Kommandoes Air Raiders Batman (the movie) Batman Returns Batman Animated Series X-Men (90s line) Marvel Super Heroes (90s line) And many many more!! I’ll add more to this as they pop in my head. Wow, you did have loads! I bet that your memory working overtime! I didn’t even know you could getChuck Norris toys in the UK or back then. I haven’t heard of Captain Power, Voltron or Power Lords, I might look them up. Look forward to seeing what else you add to the list! UK?? I'm from the US. HAHA!! |
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Post by JimRiga on Mar 14, 2018 15:37:37 GMT -5
Wow, you did have loads! I bet that your memory working overtime! I didn’t even know you could getChuck Norris toys in the UK or back then. I haven’t heard of Captain Power, Voltron or Power Lords, I might look them up. Look forward to seeing what else you add to the list! UK?? I'm from the US. HAHA!! I think I knew that and forgot! 😂 You must have seen all kinds of toys in the shops over the years. Except Kinder Eggs 😆 |
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