[LJN Style] Big Rubber Guys

I hope they go Horsemen style … we need more old school Nwa era

There wouldn’t be much difference really … Arn never wore a suit very often, he had a more casual look outside of the ring … Tully had the casual look but also had the tendency to wear a suit sometimes … as far as ring attires there isn’t any difference between their Nwa days & Wwf days that I could ever tell besides them having jackets with the Brainbusters logo in the Wwf … the only things that would really differentiate the two promotions would be them giving the 4 Horsemen sign with their hand, putting them in a shirt with the Horsemen logo, or in Tully’s case giving him a black or a red robe like he wore to the ring in Jcp … another detail that would differentiate them since the R&R are coming with the Nwa tag titles would be to give them each a belt that they held in the Nwa, like say give Arn the Tv title (even though it’s more synonymous with Tully imo) & give Tully the National heavyweight title or have them come with the Nwa tag title circa 1987 - 88 version

Thanks for clarifying! I’m hoping for ring gear, so us collectors of either company from the era can win! I could take or leave the belts, personally, given my collection focus. I do wonder though- obviously they can’t do WWF/E style belts, but are the old LJN belts still exclusive to WWE merchandise? They didn’t look like actual title belts. Remaking them, but with a BRG flavor, maybe purple instead of black and brown, could be cool.

I hope their in tights and a molded BB jacket

The LJN belts were based on Sheik's title that Hogan won in 84, minus the green strap. The scale was a little off though, as I think the belt should have been bigger, especially on the strap part. So not exact replicas though of course but not sure how any of this would affect trademark and licensing etc. There are some customs made with the green strap that look pretty good.

To add to this - Johnny Rodz is the one who made that particular trophy style belt. Here he is talking a little about it’s creation:


According to one of the belt industry experts, Rodz didn’t seem to care if people made copies of his work. But it is unclear to me after researching it if there is any copyright to the design. To my knowledge, the Big Green Belt was never used in any of the WWE video games nor have they made official replicas. It might also explain why Mattel did such a questionable job with the detail on their version of it.


As for the original LJN belts, someone already answered that it was based off of the Big Green…and I imagine almost no one cared back in the day about how accurate things were so they used the same mold for the tag titles I guess. A few years ago, I purchased a couple just to paint green and gold/use for display. It felt too small for LJN figures but too big for retros:


As for the original Big Green Belt? Some say it was stolen, others say it was given away, and some claim it was thrown in the trash. Triple H used to (maybe still does?) have a replica in his office which I read was made by Wildcat Belts:

I think it would be great if BRGs could do this big-green belt at some point. I know on the pod a while back they expressed interest in doing Sheik in trunks if he ever became available.

That is heartbreaking. Definitely a Legend who deserves more figures to honor him.

As long as they don't have the "horsemen" hand gesture with the figures and they're just in their wrestling gear, they can pretty much pass for both WWF or NWA. I think they pretty much wore 3 different looks: red tights, black tights, and the white/red tights.