Latest Vintage Jakks Receivings (Pics Included!)

Maaaaan, that ref looks nothing like Harvey Wippleman.

They actually weren't scans. I know "headscans" have sort of become the phrase when describing the facial likeness for figures, but the "Real Scan technology" was not used by Jakks before TTL. In fact, no one was using it at that point outside of Playmates toys for their Star Trek The Next Generation series. Even then, it was still in it's very early stages and didn't yield the lifelike appearance of the newer scans at their best.

The Bone Crunching Action figures feature old-fashioned head SCULPTS, 100-percent hand created by a sculptor.

Most of the sculpts weren't bad, I would say, although some might disagree. Yes, there were the occasional cheap tactics used by Jakks, such as repainting a Jeff Jarrett sculpt for an Owen Hart figure, and repainting the Patriot's head for the Blue Blazer figure, but they worked with what they had at the time.

As for the Referee figure again, it was released in at least one box set that comes to mind; the King of the Iron Rung set featuring Bret w/no glasses, Ahmed Johnson and Steve Austin came with a Referee figure, although every one I've seen has the original black hair. But, you never know, their might be some out there in somebody's collection. If you remember, the Signature Series 2 Billy Gunn figure was released in both blue and purple kneepads, Series 6 Steve Blackman occasionally featured no logo on the back of his shirt, and several others had details about them that were changed that could be interpreted as chase figures. Although, I doubt any of them really were.

Oh, and I took some updated collection pics yesterday while sorting through all of mine, so enjoy:










Basically, these are all mixed up singles and tag team figures, and the figures pictured on the right side of the ring are all of the loose Backlash series figures I have in my collection.