voicesinmyhead
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Post by voicesinmyhead on May 13, 2018 19:11:23 GMT -5
Hi all. I was wondering... What is Jakks had the rights for Macho Man when the Classic Superstars line began? We know how many Warriors they made and which ones, but we will never know about Macho Man. How many do you think they would have ended up making, and which ones?
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garbagemon
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Post by garbagemon on May 13, 2018 21:36:53 GMT -5
I'm bettin' Wrestlemania 3 would have been high on the list, as well as the Slim Jim sellin' Macho. "Oh yeayuh!"
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Post by Rated [R] NinJa on May 14, 2018 2:13:23 GMT -5
WM3, WM5 and WM7 were hands down the most demanded by Jakks collectors during the CS days so those for sure. I think we would’ve seen NWO B&W and Wolfpac versions too had Macho signed.
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aboyes1989
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Post by aboyes1989 on May 14, 2018 4:17:48 GMT -5
Maybe Team Madness/Midlife crisis Savage at some point?
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Post by aggressiveperfector on May 17, 2018 2:17:35 GMT -5
I personally think a lot of the mistakes we saw the last few years and things like that were just Jakks mailing it in knowing that the license was going somewhere else, along with Jeremy taking a higher position in the company and having less to do with the line is what made everything so horrible at the end. I think their Macho's would be great if they had the line still knowing that they were keeping the license AND if someone passionate like Jeremy was on the team like he used to. Remember, Jeremy was one of us. He was a guy who was an encyclopedia of wrestling knowledge going into the 70's. Basically as much crapas Jeremy got. Without him we wouldn't have had so many great CS figures. Could you imagine the Macho's we'd have by now standing next to every other character in their VAST collection of names in the CS archives? Perhaps with backs not painted and little oopsies from proto to production on some, but this is Jakks we're talking about here. Not to mention they didn't have the whole "Have to be under contract with WWE" to make figures. We'd certainly have our Jakks Ricky Steamboat, Jakks Stings, Jakks Von Erichs (perhaps more members of the family than just Kerry and Kevin), but we might have Dino Bravo and Hercules. Out of scale mind you, but Jakks didn't do scale for the most part. We're lucky we have Mattel and Bill (someone who knows his wrestling inside out, ask him) with his hand on the product (unfortunately also he's moved away a bit and has been focused on the elite line only from what I understand, which could explain the dip in quality and cut back in articulation in the basic line). Okay, this turned into one of my infamous nostalgia posts, but to answer your questions, Macho Mans, Macho Mans, and Kings as far as the eyes can see, they, too, would have rode that Mother ing Macho Train until it derailed (profit)
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King of Harts
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Post by King of Harts on May 18, 2018 12:47:33 GMT -5
I was pretty much off the boat by the time the RA and Classic lines really took off, but man - there was nothing I wanted more growing up than a WCW line compatible with the BCA line. At the height of the Monday Night Wars the (completely impossible) prospect of Jakks just exercising full reign across both promotions was the ultimate fantasy as a kid who care for little more than wrestling or action figures at the time.
Naturally, Savage would have been in one of the premier launches of this little pipe dream of mine, alongside Hogan, Hall and Nash (the other two of my OG BCA holy trinity that I never owned), Sting, The Horsemen, etc.
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