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Post by Glorydaysofwrestling on May 23, 2023 16:09:06 GMT -5
I'll be honest. I am probably the only person on this forum who has a Wrestlemania 12 Jose Lothario in my top ten biggest wants. I can paint a Jose for you if you’re interested. Just pop the head on a Mattel suit body. |
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Post by kanepilk on May 23, 2023 16:10:03 GMT -5
If you're 12.
But anyway, just looking at the Attitude Era list, and jesus, I think I'd buy almost all of them, and additional variants (like a Chief Morley version of Venis, albeit I realise that's more into the Ruthless era). Luna, Mosh and Trasher are probably the only ones I wouldn't be overly bothered with. I would buy Kaientai though.
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Post by CM Tusk on May 23, 2023 16:13:20 GMT -5
If you're 12.
But anyway, just looking at your Attitude Era list, and jesus, I think I'd buy almost all of them, and additional variants (like a Chief Morley version of Venis, albeit I realise that's more into the Ruthless era). Luna, Mosh and Trasher are probably the only ones I wouldn't be overly bothered with. I would buy Kaientai though.
Sick burn. If you honestly believe Jim Cornette was the bigger star or was more important to the Attitude Era than Sable, you clearly didn’t pay attention to the WWF in 1997-1999. |
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Post by kanepilk on May 23, 2023 16:16:48 GMT -5
If you're 12.
But anyway, just looking at your Attitude Era list, and jesus, I think I'd buy almost all of them, and additional variants (like a Chief Morley version of Venis, albeit I realise that's more into the Ruthless era). Luna, Mosh and Trasher are probably the only ones I wouldn't be overly bothered with. I would buy Kaientai though.
Sick burn. If you honestly believe Jim Cornette was the bigger star or was more important to the Attitude Era than Sable, you clearly didn’t pay attention to the WWF in 1997-1999.
Attitude Era would have gotten by just fine without either of them. Cornette is a genius with his insights and ability to construct and assemble plots, twists and matches. Sable is a pair of tits (one of many and arguably not the best). I think Cornette is more valuable.
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Post by CM Tusk on May 23, 2023 16:26:08 GMT -5
Sick burn. If you honestly believe Jim Cornette was the bigger star or was more important to the Attitude Era than Sable, you clearly didn’t pay attention to the WWF in 1997-1999.
Attitude Era would have gotten by just fine without either of them. Cornette is a genius with his insights and ability to construct and assemble plots, twists and matches. Sable is a pair of tits (one of many and arguably not the best). I think Cornette is more valuable.
Sable for the first half of 1998, was only second in popularity to Steve Austin. Cornette had a great mind for certain styles of pro wrestling. Definitely wouldn’t consider someone who wishes death publicly on wrestlers that wrestle styles you don’t like a genius though, but that’s just me. |
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on May 23, 2023 19:08:24 GMT -5
80’s - One Man Gang, Cornette, R&R Express, Midnight Express, Brody, Ventura, Freebirds
90’s - Owen, Sable, Steiners
2000’s - I got nothin
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Post by GoCanes84 on May 23, 2023 19:34:29 GMT -5
Really cool. Thanks for putting that together. Majority are obviously huge wants - hope we can get a few.
Would’ve guessed Sunny would be top 5 in New Gen from when she bounced around between BD’s, Godwins and the Gunns. And IYH cameo appearances with Dok or even in a bathtub. The most downloaded person on AOL.
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Post by GoCanes84 on May 23, 2023 19:44:11 GMT -5
Pre Golden Era & Golden Era - 1.&2. Steiner Brothers (NWA/WCW) 3. Dynamite Kid 4. Billy Jack Haynes 5. Jesse Ventura (pink flower pring tights) 6. Pedro Morales 7.&8. Terry Gordy & Buddy Roberts 9. David Von Erich 10. Hercules Hernandez 11.&12. US Express 13.&14. Mr. Fuji & Mr Saito (ring attires) 15. Tony Garea 16.&17. The Executioners (Studd & Kowalski) 18.&19. Ivan & Nikita Koloff (NWA/WCW) 20.&21. Midnight Express (Eaton & Lane) 22. Ken Patera 23. The Barbarian 24. Haku 25. Paul Roma 26. Jim Powers 27. Dino Bravo 28.&29. Killer Bees 30.&31. The Rougeaus 32. SD Jones 33. Ron Bass 34. Bad News Brown 35. The Genius/Lanny Poffo 36. Adrian Adonis 37. Tonga Kid 38. The Fabulous Moolah New Gen Era - 1.&.2 Steiners (WCW & WWF) 3. Buff Bagwell (WCW) 4. Cactus Jack (WCW) 5. Chris Benoit (WCW) 6. Kevin Sullivan (WCW) 7. Jim Cornette 8. Mr. Fuji (Tux) 9. Jeff Jarrett 10. Marc Mero 11. Sunny 12. Owen Hart Attitude Era - 1.&2. Steiners (WCW) 3. Chris Benoit (WWE) 4. Shane Douglas (ECW) 5. Tazz (ECW) 6. Lance Storm 7. William Regal 8. Val Venis What is this list? Just what you want? Not sure that had anything to do with the OP. |
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Post by Apocalypse on May 23, 2023 20:09:50 GMT -5
From your list these are the wrestlers id love to see
Hercules
Dino Bravo
Haku
The Barbarian
Paul Roma
The Mountie
Owen Hart
Kona Crush
Luna Vachon
Gangrel
The ones missing that i would add
Giant Gonzalez
Adam bomb
Golga + Kurrgan (just before they went tye dye)
And then id like to see re makes
Rick the model martel u.e in pink
Rick rude u.e ravishing tights
Mr perfect u.e blue singlet
Papa shango u.e
Slaughter camo u.e
Rr92 flair u.e
Natural disasters u.e figures
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Post by LA Times on May 23, 2023 20:26:24 GMT -5
NWA/WCW Eras
Golden Era:
Ron Garvin (Superstars on the Superstation 1986)
Al Perez
Midnight Express (Great American Bash 1990)
Early 90s WCW:
Shane Douglas
"The Natural" Dustin Rhodes
The Patriot
Monday Night War:
Buff Bagwell
John Nord
Silver King
Milano Collection AT
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Post by PJ on May 23, 2023 20:30:39 GMT -5
Pre Golden Era & Golden Era - 1.&2. Steiner Brothers (NWA/WCW) 3. Dynamite Kid 4. Billy Jack Haynes 5. Jesse Ventura (pink flower pring tights) 6. Pedro Morales 7.&8. Terry Gordy & Buddy Roberts 9. David Von Erich 10. Hercules Hernandez 11.&12. US Express 13.&14. Mr. Fuji & Mr Saito (ring attires) 15. Tony Garea 16.&17. The Executioners (Studd & Kowalski) 18.&19. Ivan & Nikita Koloff (NWA/WCW) 20.&21. Midnight Express (Eaton & Lane) 22. Ken Patera 23. The Barbarian 24. Haku 25. Paul Roma 26. Jim Powers 27. Dino Bravo 28.&29. Killer Bees 30.&31. The Rougeaus 32. SD Jones 33. Ron Bass 34. Bad News Brown 35. The Genius/Lanny Poffo 36. Adrian Adonis 37. Tonga Kid 38. The Fabulous Moolah New Gen Era - 1.&.2 Steiners (WCW & WWF) 3. Buff Bagwell (WCW) 4. Cactus Jack (WCW) 5. Chris Benoit (WCW) 6. Kevin Sullivan (WCW) 7. Jim Cornette 8. Mr. Fuji (Tux) 9. Jeff Jarrett 10. Marc Mero 11. Sunny 12. Owen Hart Attitude Era - 1.&2. Steiners (WCW) 3. Chris Benoit (WWE) 4. Shane Douglas (ECW) 5. Tazz (ECW) 6. Lance Storm 7. William Regal 8. Val Venis What is this list? Just what you want? Not sure that had anything to do with the OP. They are the biggest names from those eras that haven’t had a Mattel figure that I feel are missing. |
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Post by humbruh on May 23, 2023 21:17:32 GMT -5
The best enhancement talent of all time from the New Gen era:  |
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Post by SteveHulk on May 23, 2023 22:15:23 GMT -5
Honestly, if they'd just release:
Dynamite Kid
Marty Janetty (again)
The Barbarian
Steiner Brothers
Jesse Ventura
Jim Cornette
Owen Hart
Jeff Jarrett
Chris Benoit
Fabulous Moolah
Luna Vachon
Marlena
Sunny
Sable
...then I feel my collection would be pretty complete. Obviously there are other guys/women I'd buy - but if I didn't have them, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
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Post by AxelSmackdown on May 23, 2023 23:11:09 GMT -5
whole cogan
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Post by The Assassin on May 24, 2023 3:21:55 GMT -5
Interesting data using the PPV appearances as a guide. Would love to see one for NWA/WCW era (1988-1994), and another for WCW/NWO era (1995-2001), if you're interested in doing them. Those are how I'd personally split the WCW years into distinct eras anyway. I just added the WCW & ECW guys in the years they were active. Example WCW Cactus Jack in the New Gen era. Similar to what GoCanes84 said, I was also confused by what your lists are supposed to be, since they mix promotions and are clearly not comprehensive. Are these just your personal wantlists? The OP was putting together top 25s based on PPV appearance data, not his personal opinion. Anyway as I said before, if grandmasterPRA (or anyone else) is interested in putting together a full list for the NWA/WCW era (1988-1994) and the WCW/NWO era (1995-2001), based purely on PPV appearances (not personal opinions) that would be most welcome. |
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Post by PJ on May 24, 2023 5:19:26 GMT -5
I just added the WCW & ECW guys in the years they were active. Example WCW Cactus Jack in the New Gen era. Similar to what GoCanes84 said, I was also confused by what your lists are supposed to be, since they mix promotions and are clearly not comprehensive. Are these just your personal wantlists? The OP was putting together top 25s based on PPV appearance data, not his personal opinion. Anyway as I said before, if grandmasterPRA (or anyone else) is interested in putting together a full list for the NWA/WCW era (1988-1994) and the WCW/NWO era (1995-2001), based purely on PPV appearances (not personal opinions) that would be most welcome. No like I replied to GoCanes84 they are who I feel were the biggest names from those eras that hadn’t had Mattel figures regardless of the promotions they were in. And they were in no order other than who popped into my mind next. As you can see as I had been adding to it all night. And like I mentioned for the Golden era I had added pre golden age to it. Basically they are the wrestlers who I thought were the biggest names in wrestling from when I started watching wrestling in the mid-70’s until the Attitude era who hasn’t had a Mattel figure. There’s plenty on my list that I wouldn’t buy, but they are there because they fit the OP’s question. And there’s a bunch I did not add from his list because I don’t feel they were as big of stars as people like to make them out to be. As for PPV’s I didn’t factor that in because there was no such thing as PPV’s prior to WrestleMania (or Starrcade ‘83) so then you are just ignoring any of the greats prior to ‘83 or ‘85 because there were no such things as PPV’s then. A guy like Jesse Ventura he’s an all-time great, but i don’t recall him wrestling on any PPV. He announced many of them. So should he be ignored as a ring geared figure because of it? If that’s the case then we should have never gotten the Billy Graham which is arguably the best figure Mattel released that year. |
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Post by stc13 on May 24, 2023 8:16:01 GMT -5
Very interesting list. I'm not surprised to see the New Gen so low. A lot of the wrestlers from those years were guys who really didn't have much of an impact before/after those runs or in other companies. A WCW list would be interesting - lots of 90's PPV mainstays who haven't been made.
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Post by humbruh on May 24, 2023 10:36:45 GMT -5
I don't think that's ever going to happen unless some miracle 11th hour testimony that places her not behind the wheel happens. I would add her to the list of the unmentionable blacklisted names. |
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Post by grandmasterPRA on May 24, 2023 12:30:37 GMT -5
I just added the WCW & ECW guys in the years they were active. Example WCW Cactus Jack in the New Gen era. Similar to what GoCanes84 said, I was also confused by what your lists are supposed to be, since they mix promotions and are clearly not comprehensive. Are these just your personal wantlists? The OP was putting together top 25s based on PPV appearance data, not his personal opinion. Anyway as I said before, if grandmasterPRA (or anyone else) is interested in putting together a full list for the NWA/WCW era (1988-1994) and the WCW/NWO era (1995-2001), based purely on PPV appearances (not personal opinions) that would be most welcome. Just finished the 88-94 WCW era and added it to the post. Will work on 95-01 next. |
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Post by mjhawkins on May 24, 2023 12:33:38 GMT -5
Haku
Adrian Adonis
Hercules
One man Gang
Dino Bravo
Jesse Ventura
Lord Alfred Hayes
Killer Bees
Rick Martel Strike Force
Mr.Fuji
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