Face that $ells the Place

This is a funny question because it used to be easy: a 1000th John Cena, a Randy Orton with limited deco, etc etc. Those are always tough to call out but I almost feel I'm better at making people excited about those than you'd think because they are usually 'A-list' characters. If anything I've made some of those 'crap' ones more worthwhile, pushed people towards thinking about head swaps or customizing, etc. But I would say nothing gets as hard to push as those final waves of Adrenaline 2-Packs with Jakks once the Mattel stuff had started to flow in.

But now that I am not particularly as connected to the current product as I used to be, which I know is the difficulty with many people here, it's a similar challenge of a different type. So someone like Shotzi Blackheart, who has an incredibly detailed look and interesting toy is just not a wrestler (or worse, a 'character') that I am personally a fan of, so I don't really know exactly what to say about her, even after watching a couple of YouTube clips. No disrespect to Shotzi or any of the other folks on any roster, of course. It just can be much easier with modern day folks who are a little more impactful.

Then of course there is Alexa Bliss who I have no ill will towards as a person but am less than no fan at all of her possessed/supernatural/mental patient character to the point that I think it's bad for wrestling as a whole, so her Ultimate Edition figure (and Bray Wyatt's for that matter) was hard for me to put on a happy face for.

Thanks Scott!

That's a great question. I don't remember, honestly, but it possibly being sold loose is a good guess. The other possibility is that the videographer at the time who is also a wrestling fan may have ended up with it.

Has there been a great moment you've had when you met a certain WWE superstar?

Is Trevor still there at RSC?

I noticed that Ringside stopped doing their whatfigurewednesday on IG. Why did they stop?

Yo, Tom. My first RSC purchase was the Jakks BCA Championship Box Set with Undertaker, Rocky Maivia, Owen Hart, and British Bulldog that came with the sculpted World, IC, European, and Tag Team belts. Do you remember what your first RSC purchase was?

Wow, that's an interesting thought and question. To be honest I don't know if I ever ordered any figures from RSC during that time-frame which is kind of unimaginable because I was checking out images there just like everyone else. But I was 10-14 or 15 at my absolute wrestling peak so I was more into playing than collecting and I basically got what I needed/wanted at KB Toys, etc. Let's just say my BCA Stone Cold and Dr. Death Steve Williams came from RSC.

Yeah, I found RSC by looking for pictures of the toys on the internet back then. But when I saw that box set and the title belts, I begged my mom to let me use the money I saved up to buy it. I think that was the very first purchase my family made on the internet, actually. It’s nuts to think how shopping has changed since then.

Tom belongs in the Ringside Collectibles Hall of Fame.

One of my earliest Tom memories was watching the Jakks Money in The Bank Ring insider video, and him telling us to go outside and do "Jumping Jacks for 20 minutes" while he put it together.
I'd always check in every day on the Ringside Youtube page to see if there would be a new RA, DA, Classic, or Adrenaline Figure Insider video. One of my favourite parts about those videos were the posing shots at the end.

To this day, i still go back and watch the old videos sometimes, and remember how cool i thought Tom was because he always had access to these figures that (most) i would never get.