mtime989
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Post by mtime989 on Apr 1, 2018 21:51:04 GMT -5
Does anyone have an explanation or reason why the series 3 consists of a lot of hard to find figures? I would have thought series 3 would be right around the sweet spot for sales. A lot of these figures rarely are available on eBay with English cards. There are more figures in this series than the green cards, but it looks like series 3 will cost a collector more than series 11. I just find it odd.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 12:56:12 GMT -5
I think some stores had so much stock of Series 1 and 2, that a lot didn't bother picking up Series 3 until 1 and 2 had cleared. I remember my local Coop Department Store had loads of 1 and 2, 3 and 4 were pretty non-existent and then loads of series 5 onwards.
I think the Woolworths stores had Series 3, but I only seem to remember Greg Valentine and Hulk Hogan. No Savage's or Warriors anywhere.
I have only 10 MOC figures missing from my collection and 6 of them are from Series 3. Pretty much given up on getting them to be honest with the ridiculous prices.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Apr 3, 2018 9:27:12 GMT -5
I think that's about correct. I don't remember really seeing much or any of Series 3 at the big toy stores like TRU and Kiddie City. Only place I found them personally was KB, and I think it was only once I saw them and was lucky to get all but Warrior, Koko and Slots.
Relatives found me Koko and Slots within a few months as birthday or Christmas gifts, not sure where they came from though. And I found Warrior later on with Series 4 at TRU. I think he was later added into S4 cases in the U.S. after he came back to the company.
Most stores were loaded with Rockers, Bushwackers and various S1 and S2 figs for a while like waltonadam said. Also probably same reason Demoliton, LOD and Nastys were so hard to get.
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Post by larryarms82 on Apr 3, 2018 12:47:38 GMT -5
My local stores in NY/NJ got Series 3 and 4 in SUPER late into 1992. Shelves were stocked full of S1 and 2 and the first tag team wave for a long time to the point where my KB Toys had them in large bins at 3/$10 to get them out of the stores. I never saw LOD or Nasties because of it. I remember finding series 4 BEFORE 3 (sometime in the fall) and then series 3 was available in full force at my TRU's around Christmas time, right as Series 5 was appearing (I got Anvil, Warlord, Mountie and Virgil for Christmas that year and had no idea they even existed yet). Past that, it always seemed my area would get the newest series on the shelves months after their releases came. For example, I didn't get my hands on the yellow or red card stuff until mid-1994, and then the purple cards much later into that year, light blue sometime into 1995. Never saw the green cards in a store, anywhere at any time.
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Post by TheRockers on Apr 3, 2018 20:54:43 GMT -5
It adds to the mystic of the Hasbro line. I can't speak for everyone but I remember it being so hard to find certain guys. I never seen the Nasty Boys in stores and that haunted me until around 1999 when I finally got a computer and bought them off ebay. A very close friend of mine in the early 90's his Mom worked at Hills and should would bring him home figures all the time and he never even had the Nasty Boys, just strange.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2018 3:14:10 GMT -5
It adds to the mystic of the Hasbro line. I can't speak for everyone but I remember it being so hard to find certain guys. I never seen the Nasty Boys in stores and that haunted me until around 1999 when I finally got a computer and bought them off ebay. A very close friend of mine in the early 90's his Mom worked at Hills and should would bring him home figures all the time and he never even had the Nasty Boys, just strange. That's really weird because the Nasty Boys were real shelf warmers here in the UK. I remember Index the Catalogue Shop had to discount them to £1.49 to move them in their clearance catalogue because they were so unpopular. Another theory on Series 3 and 4, is the fact that foreign cards seem to be more evident in this series, I wonder if Hasbro cut down on the production quantity of English cards for these two series, that's why they are harder to find because they were released in English speaking regions only? From Series 5, English cards were released across the world and these seem to be much easier to source.
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Post by MKSavage on Apr 4, 2018 10:41:32 GMT -5
It adds to the mystic of the Hasbro line. I can't speak for everyone but I remember it being so hard to find certain guys. I never seen the Nasty Boys in stores and that haunted me until around 1999 when I finally got a computer and bought them off ebay. A very close friend of mine in the early 90's his Mom worked at Hills and should would bring him home figures all the time and he never even had the Nasty Boys, just strange. Same here. I never saw the Nasty Boys or the Legion of Doom in stores. I was mad too because I really wanted both sets. I also never saw Koko B. Ware in stores. I saw Ultimate Warrior 3 in stores once but picked up Texas Tornado instead since I already had a Warrior figure. After that I was never able to find him in stores again. Took me about 20 years to finally get him, purchased him off eBay. Also, I never remember seeing the Yellow card series or the green card series in stores either. I didn't find out they had a green card series until the late 90s when I saw them on eBay, at first I thought they were customs. Still trying to purchase a loose Evil Crush and 123 Kid to finish my loose collection (other than rare prototypes and bagged Undertaker and Hulk Hogan).
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Post by cwf84 on Apr 7, 2018 13:10:32 GMT -5
I was able to see every figure from this line on the shelves except for the Nasty Boys. Was never able to get them anywhere.
We got series 3 here, but I never saw the line as a whole. They filtered in throughout 1992 and into early 1993.
Specifically, I remember getting Texas Tornado on the day he died. The cashier at Hills mentioned Kerry had died that day and someone else there brought up Andre - who had died a couple weeks prior.
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Post by Grenouille on Apr 7, 2018 19:16:25 GMT -5
This series was where most of the holes in my collection were. Mr. Perfect, LOD, Nastys, Texas Tornado, and Koko I never saw in stores. I considered myself lucky to have gotten Earthquake, Typhoon, and Slaughter who I only saw once and was able to pick up.
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Post by Don't Go Down on Jul 31, 2018 19:39:54 GMT -5
Dude great points jogging so many memories. Later there was the removal of Beefcake that led to loads of Tatanka figures absolutely clogging shelves
Pretty much up to the year it went out of business, my Hills had The Rockers on clearance. All the way down to $1 but I never found the Nastys or LOD. A friend had LOD, lucky punk lol
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Post by whossideareyouon on Aug 1, 2018 2:40:33 GMT -5
It adds to the mystic of the Hasbro line. I can't speak for everyone but I remember it being so hard to find certain guys. I never seen the Nasty Boys in stores and that haunted me until around 1999 when I finally got a computer and bought them off ebay. A very close friend of mine in the early 90's his Mom worked at Hills and should would bring him home figures all the time and he never even had the Nasty Boys, just strange. Same here. I never saw the Nasty Boys or the Legion of Doom in stores. I was mad too because I really wanted both sets. I also never saw Koko B. Ware in stores. I saw Ultimate Warrior 3 in stores once but picked up Texas Tornado instead since I already had a Warrior figure. After that I was never able to find him in stores again. Took me about 20 years to finally get him, purchased him off eBay. Also, I never remember seeing the Yellow card series or the green card series in stores either. I didn't find out they had a green card series until the late 90s when I saw them on eBay, at first I thought they were customs. Still trying to purchase a loose Evil Crush and 123 Kid to finish my loose collection (other than rare prototypes and bagged Undertaker and Hulk Hogan). That's so weird. Have vivid memories of the Nasty Boys and even more so the Legion of Doom just FILLING the store pegs here in the UK. I bought nearly every figure as a kid, except the green cards. So maybe I was lucky, but I did have GREAT parents who helped me hunt as well. I had a few holes that I couldn't find - bushwackers with hats, Giant Gonzales, Purple Razor...thankfully no filled. I specifically remember sitting in McDonalds as a kid...we'd just come from a large independent toy shop next door. They had a flyer out. On it were the series with the headshrinkers etc (which I'd just bought and was opening in McDonalds) and coming soon were the green cards. But I never got them. They simply never showed up for me. Sad.
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Post by drnickriviera995 on Aug 1, 2018 8:38:03 GMT -5
Crazy to hear of folks having a hard time finding any S10 guys outside Razor and Shawn. I remember tons of them sitting at KB forever, at least Bushwackers and Headshrinkers.
Very hard to find the 1992 Tag Teams around here, I saw the Nasty Boys once but didn't have the money to get them, and found LOD once at TRU the same day I saw S4 for the first time. Picked up Bret and LOD that day, speaking of McDonalds, similarly I opened Bret and LOD and had them out at Original Hamburger Stand after TRU.
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Post by hbkjason on Aug 1, 2018 10:52:59 GMT -5
I grew up in Scotland and had no trouble finding any Hasbro figures all the way up to the Purple Card series. The only figures I can say for sure that I never once saw in any stores here in Scotland (but I am not saying they were never available) were Dusty Rhodes and the re-releases of Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon on the blue cards.
Series 3 I remember seeing in quite a few toy stores. Actually one of my best Hasbro memories was when I was getting taken by force by my mum and dad to get braces. I really, really did not want braces, but despite what you may think some of us from the UK do take care of our teeth. Anyway, the bribe to get me not to be a little jerk was that I could get Texas Tornado and Mr Perfect. To say I was good as gold is an understatement!
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Post by whossideareyouon on Aug 1, 2018 13:55:33 GMT -5
Dusty was never actually released in the UK was he?
We went on a family holiday to Flordia, and we went EVERYWHERE looking for him, all the toy stores we could find. After exhausting our search in the UK. This would have been right after he was released (a few months probably). But nothing, even in America.
I finally saw him years later at a Toy Fair at the NEC Birmingham. He was either £60 or £100...my memory fades. But either way, I had stopped collecting at that point as Hasbros were no longer being made, and I had a brief period out of wrestling (the new era). But he was cool to see, it was the first time I'd ever seen him. It was like finding a mystical part of my childhood.
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Post by hbkjason on Aug 2, 2018 2:21:10 GMT -5
One other memory of this series that I have is The Ultimate Warrior. The first few times I saw series 3 in stores in Scotland I could have gotten everyone, but the Warrior. Of course not being able to get him made me want him even more (he was such a tease) I eventually got him in a toy store in this little seaside town called Bridlington here in the Uk, it is near Scarborough. Of course, when we went back home, I would see Warrior all the freaking time after that!
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Post by kev85hasbro on Aug 2, 2018 2:39:23 GMT -5
Yes difficult to find here in north wales/Chester. The figures like warrior and Brutus were harder to find than perfect or tornado. Series 11 didn’t exist in the uk or well to me it didn’t.
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Post by RedDevil on Aug 2, 2018 4:14:41 GMT -5
Dusty was never actually released in the UK was he? We went on a family holiday to Flordia, and we went EVERYWHERE looking for him, all the toy stores we could find. After exhausting our search in the UK. This would have been right after he was released (a few months probably). But nothing, even in America. I finally saw him years later at a Toy Fair at the NEC Birmingham. He was either £60 or £100...my memory fades. But either way, I had stopped collecting at that point as Hasbros were no longer being made, and I had a brief period out of wrestling (the new era). But he was cool to see, it was the first time I'd ever seen him. It was like finding a mystical part of my childhood. Similar story with me - I completed the rest of series two quite quickly (I think Honky was my last pick-up at a street market in Spain), so Dusty became the longstanding frustration target for me. I didn’t even know him as a character since he’d left before I started watching, but he was on the backing card so therefore I had to have him, but never did. The first time I saw him was at a toy and trains fair at an army museum in Beverley, East Yorkshire in late 1997 where this guy had a booth of all sorts of MOC and rare figures from different lines. The Dusty he had had a different arm from being repaired, and I can’t remember the price he wanted for it, but he also had a MOC Dusty he was asking £335 for. I of course confidently said that nobody would ever pay that much for a £4 toy... I’d love to be able to go back to the times I was buying my first series 2 figures just to see if Dusty was there as well but I just didn’t notice him because of the bigger names. There were a few other figures on the pegs at Heathrow airport when I got my first wrestling figure (Hogan 2); there were a few others around when I got Roddy Piper and Ultimate Warrior 2 on a trip to Glasgow; Macho King was in a bowl of figures in Spain when I got him; Superfly was on the pegs of a packed toy section of a supermarket in Spain (my friend got Honky at the same time, well before I got him at that market a year or so later) - could Dusty have been at any of those locations as well and I just ignored him? Likely he wasn’t, but I’d love to know for sure.
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Post by RedDevil on Aug 2, 2018 4:25:06 GMT -5
One other memory of this series that I have is The Ultimate Warrior. The first few times I saw series 3 in stores in Scotland I could have gotten everyone, but the Warrior. Of course not being able to get him made me want him even more (he was such a tease) I eventually got him in a toy store in this little seaside town called Bridlington here in the Uk, it is near Scarborough. Of course, when we went back home, I would see Warrior all the freaking time after that! Bridlington is about an hour away from me; my dad got me Jake The Snake there as my second ever figure, I think at a Woolworths. I already had a Warrior from the second series by the time the third series hit (the third or fourth figure I ever got, at the same time as Roddy Piper in Glasgow) so I wasn't ever looking for another Warrior since I very rarely bought second figures of a guy I already had (the Rockers were the only exceptions I made to that rule, other than figures that broke) meaning I don’t really have a clear memory of the series 3 Warrior in stores, but I do think I saw him at some point on the pegs in England. Probably not in Bridlington, but in the region anyway, probably at Woolworths again.
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Post by ozz on Aug 2, 2018 7:40:38 GMT -5
To add to the stories, my series 3 experience from Massachusetts, prime WWF territory:
Had: Brutus Earthquake/Typhoon Valentine Hogan Slaughter
Never saw: Koko Mr. Perfect Warrior
Passed on: Bossman (already had series 1 which I liked better anyway) Macho (not sure I saw this one, but if I had I would have assumed it was Macho King again w/o his accessories...which I had already. Texas Tornado
Not sure why Koko and Mr. P were impossible to find, but Warrior makes sense.
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Post by kev85hasbro on Aug 2, 2018 16:24:47 GMT -5
thinking on. Thinking on. Series 1 & 2 have butterfly hooks and were exclusive to the UK market. We don't see butterfly hooks after series 2. Was there a UK shortage of series 3 action figures? Maybe a contract had run short with the Hasbro companies. Something must have been a miss with the distribution centres globally.
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