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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 10, 2017 2:26:05 GMT -5
I was young in the late 80s and early 90s and would have my Dad call me into the living room when Macho Man was on. I didn't start watching heavily until the Attitude Era/Monday Night Wars days. Even then I would flip channels when Hulkster was eating up airwaves. I can dig it brother. When you were too young, Hogan was the champ. Even when Hogan wasn't the champ he was the champ. Wherever he was, whatever he was doing Hogan was the champ that's cuz there's nothing without him. he made everyone watch the first time AND the second time. NO hulkster, no WWF. NO hollywood hogan, no A/E. Imagine no nwo and the wrestling world had to just go with the new generation and dungeon of dooom wcw...< shudder> The Horror. Hogan was the champ regardless. The way Andre was the man even when Hogan was the champ until he turned heel "I am the champion but you're the champion!"... That was a true passing of the torch. This and WM 17 to Rock (although there's been some almost's with hogan goldberg, hogan warrior & rock cena). Andre was the man but never the champ. He was the Boss but not the champ. Hogan made the wwf belt his and the wcw one as well. I didn't matter who held the belt because they were just holding it for Hogan. He must be part of a rare list of - if not the only guy - holding multiple versions of the same title. He's had 5 different wwe titles (original green, 2 more black strapped ones, winged eagle and undisputed). Anybody else had that?
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 10, 2017 2:21:57 GMT -5
I would too. I'm referring to different characters or "faces" if you like, on who has 2 or more figs represented... WCW Ron Simmons would be amazing. Historically important and it would look badass. As far as the old Galoob figures go it is still one of the best ones. Translate that figure directly into Mattel's parts and you'd have gold. Hopefully we get a HOF simmons.
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 10, 2017 2:18:43 GMT -5
Totally agree. So cool to finally have a figure of Tugboat. Mattel really knocked it out of the park with that character, perfection. One of my favorites. Tugboat isn't perfect until he gets a headswap with Shockmaster. Not sure why Shock got the "toot" head and Tug didn't. It's not the toot. It's a oops face. My Tugboat came with a brown mark on his cheek so the headswap was a lucky break for me lol
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 9, 2017 21:55:52 GMT -5
I think its awesome that tugboat got a figure. He is a little bit of a collectors figure but thats good. They cant all be hogan and warrior figures. Im more than happy to buy obscure 80s/90s wwf figures Everyone who got an ljn and hasbro deserve a mattel figure.
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 9, 2017 21:33:57 GMT -5
I'll still never understand why 4 of the same figure is needed I collect MOC and loose. TRU had 3 packs of Lost Legends for $30 Canadian so I bought 3 packs all with Taker. I opened one as my loose figure and he was loose around the waist. I had planned to hold onto the other two to resell in a few years time, but I opened them to find one that wasn't loose, and they all were! I'm planning to use some super glue to make the joint tighter 30$ When was this? x-mas week they were 79$ what sale did i miss lol
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 9, 2017 21:26:00 GMT -5
No kidding. Same with Hogan. We didn't even get his second biggest gimmick, yet Ottman gets all 3 in an extremely short span. BUT DURRRRR ITS NOT BAD CHOICES ITS JUST BAD DISTRRRRIBUTION Yeah but Tugboat wasn't caught with his sheets down. I have no idea what that means lol
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 9, 2017 20:39:49 GMT -5
I'll still never understand why 4 of the same figure is needed Agreed. I got two of these purple ones both with tnf basic brown hair. One with coat n mask and one to show tattoo progression. That's it.
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 9, 2017 20:36:45 GMT -5
I'd rather have these three
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 8, 2017 19:54:23 GMT -5
Poor form.
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 8, 2017 13:42:28 GMT -5
Liz also had a figure in WCW, a 2 pack with Macho. Looked nothing like her though. You're right, I recall that one... None of them 'look' like who they are but they look like who they are. We didn't give a crap about that back then. You could play the crap out of these things. Amazing toys. Did nothing but beat them up. That's what sucked I really got lucky with the black cards and the line was done lol and got a lot of missed guys like AX... got all the black card series except possibly bossman. I can't remember him...but I REALLY wanted and loved the hasbro one so that makes me believe I missed out on the ljn one lol Anyways, I just didn't want them to be scratched up BEFORE I bought them lol
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 8, 2017 8:43:06 GMT -5
Here you guys go making me reminisce about all the awesome places I used to be able to go to buy toys when I was a wee'un. Children's Palace, KayBee, Hills, Best, Service Merchandise, Ames, Jamesway...damn...so many old stores have been gone for years now. My dad was from the us so went every year...and these places you speak of I remember them too. I got my own here to remember in Canada (Woolco, Toy City, Pascals, Toy World, Zellers - man this was place for some serious x-mas shopping. Their thing was "Zeller's Law of Toyland..." and it I guess to never be outpriced or outstocked (something I wish I knew the meaning of back then NOW lol) or whatever... Anyways the commercials (you can youtube them) were with an animated batman and robin foiling riddler and joker (and others) from I dunno jacking up the prices...whatever. It was SO awesome though!!! Best store commercials EVER), Consumers, K-mart, both Sears and the Bay's Toy isles/sections), so many have fallen... but that Palace was amazing, kaybee was the bomb all the red slashes (so many figs I bought there). We'd stop back through wattertown and go to salmon run mall and that's where we;d buy the majority of stuff. Some trips back my brother and I were literally surrounded with parcels and stuff - packed to brim lol (oh I;d give anything to ebeneezer scrooge those days if only for a moment "take me spirit, show me the vacation of 85...") So service merchandise was your guys consumers (wonder if the same company owned them?), Hills I remember OMG I've been TRYING to remember that store, that's like a fake-ass kmart right? I think the one I went to every years was in spotslvania mall. I got many figs over the years from them. If it's the place I think it is. Red sign motiff, sections like kmart and target? Don't know if I ever went to jamesway (I must have at some point), and the ames was I remember (again a trip back home, stopping through wattertown. My dad's goal was to get from Baltimore to Wattertown before the mall closed at 6-8 pm? Long driver anyways...) looking for a catwoman figure from batman returns and finding a robin and tons and tons of these fireproof batmans and deep freeze batman and macguyver batman lol I got mine and 4 of the places you mentioned memories - I feel fortunate to have experience both sides of the boarders toy isles... Ok people c'mon keep it going, this place gets dull sometimes... I might start a nostalgia thread lol
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 8, 2017 8:23:41 GMT -5
You know what makes me sad - when I was kid I remember going into this toy store near my granparents place in Frederickbergs VA. It was like a 'poor man's' toys r us. Also if anyone could tell me the name if they know it, I'd love it. It was in business the time the ghosbusters (filmation) toys were on shelves. Anyways I remember going in there (I got eddie, tracy, fangface & ghostbuggy!) - and they're prices were real cheap - and rounding a corner (prob 1986/7) and there was a WALL of ljn figs. a WALL. IT was the endcap I believe but the shelves went so high and it was rows of figs...my jaw just dropped, it was the coolest toy sight Ive ever seen...now TRY and find stuff...and if you do, it's been there for a year at least. Ah, you're talking about the days when everything was easy to find and distribution didn't seem to be a mess. I remember walking into Children's Palace (remember how awesome that place was? It was better that freaking Toys R Us!) and Toys R Us and getting ANY LJN or GI Joe figure my little heart desired. None of the same ol same ol. The variety was amazing. Yeah I gotta agree on the place being better than tru. I said in another post I've been dying to know what that place was called for years cuz I only went there once on vacation. Place was amazing, a giant TOWERING end cap of LJN figures (I remember a lot of big john studds) but I opted for a whole bunch of ghostbusters stuff instead. It was harder to find some toys in canada and ghostbusters was one of them. Never saw those figs up here ever, nor the Defenders of the Earth figs. Even after 1992 I found the hasbro wwf figs harder to find as we didn't have raw. After the saturday show was left in the dirt for raw on the usa network...they dwindled. I don't even remember seeing anything like the yokozuna and up stuff but others might have. Anybody know what year we first got raw? But yeah the thrill of checking the toy lasted with some of us for longer than it should have lol but twas the time. Imagination ruled in the 80's and it contrasted perfectly by simplicity. I think that love of the toy isle dwindles pretty quick nowadays. I think a rush to the game section or electronic section takes over sooner. I faintly remember it but I know what I liked and what I was watching in 1981-83 (man from saturday supercade to dungeons and dragons things were sweet baby!) so point is i'm old and I ramble lol The nostalgia can be quite contageous. The 90's - thanks to Batman (lol) was dark... I don't have huge nostalgia for that time. The tous shelves were sweet when Batman started having different versions of himself and cloneamania was running wild in 1992 lol That was more variety though. Like this Palace place, when I rounded that corner and saw ALL those LJN figures - crapblew my mind. There might have been two cases of variety at the lost but just tons and tons of figs and this was '86 so maybe the wm 2 slump caused a small misstep but WM III was coming soon and crapwas about to pop off!! Anyways yeah.... I don;t even know how kids can get excited going to TRU nowadays. It's so expensive how can any parent justify paying 28$ for action figure? Regardless of inflation that just seems outrageous to me. I can justify it for myself - I appreciate it. Like this - how many people remember one of your figs breaking and going to your parents upset like "look what happened..." and they fake concern and there's probably a little of bit of urgh in there...and basically the only thing you know is it's not gonna be replaced LOL Well at 30$ I'd hate to see the look now of some dad's faces lol You know what - someone should start a thread of 'you child's battle damaged' figures' so we can see the horror of play ring war.
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 7, 2017 21:58:15 GMT -5
Honestly You know what makes me sad - when I was kid I remember going into this toy store near my granparents place in Frederickbergs VA. It was like a 'poor man's' toys r us. Also if anyone could tell me the name if they know it, I'd love it. It was in business the time the ghosbusters (filmation) toys were on shelves. Anyways I remember going in there (I got eddie, tracy, fangface & ghostbuggy!) - and they're prices were real cheap - and rounding a corner (prob 1986/7) and there was a WALL of ljn figs. a WALL. IT was the endcap I believe but the shelves went so high and it was rows of figs...my jaw just dropped, it was the coolest toy sight Ive ever seen...now TRY and find stuff...and if you do, it's been there for a year at least. We have to be around the same age, because I remember KMart being like that too. It was even a goldmine for me in the Hasbro days too. Now I've only started collecting figs again last summer. Every trip to every KMart (3 or 4 in total different stores) has yielded the same thing. Depressingly empty shelves. Going into them during this past Holiday season was even more sobering. NOTHING new on the shelves. Empty toy sections too. And on top of that, really old product for insanely high prices. It was crazy.[/quote] LOL yeah this year was SO depressing, empty shelves and crap that no one wanted but yeah WAY overpriced to boot...
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 7, 2017 21:58:02 GMT -5
HE did. I'm sure everyone has a memory of going to look for ljn and they only have blassie, slick, albano or jimmy hart etc... The managers were the only figs that sat on shelves. Opposite agenda nowadays, they'd sell...maybe not in droves but would sell regardless... Yeah, well we grown now so we see the bigger picture. Personally I'm thankful for the ignorance lol but yeah now we know the part they really played. Now I'd love a Slick...
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 7, 2017 18:13:44 GMT -5
My Wal Mart: Not pictured: Probably 20 more of these and a few Diego's. That's almost 60 Daniel Bryan's at 1 store.... You cgi'd that crapbro but seriously, I threw up in my mouth a little.
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 7, 2017 18:01:20 GMT -5
I saw these at Walmart today. I was going to get Kevin Owens and then- if they were made- I'd likely have to buy other characters I like such as AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Samoa Joe and Finn Balor. But I decided to pass because I just don't care. I'm going to focus on Basics and Elites and very little else to do with wrestling figures and I think it still might be bad for the ol' bank account. This is the smartest post I've ever seen on here.
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 7, 2017 17:59:33 GMT -5
They're a bit thicker but in every other aspect those ROCK. NICE pics, thanks for those. If only I'd Have kept the others...
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 7, 2017 17:48:12 GMT -5
both in the lawsuit (I believe)! Never gonna Happen! No Classic! Agreed. With Slick, it was said as with Power and Glory, he was taller than them and wrestlers didn't like when the manager overshadowed them. I think he may have gotten a LJN, I'm not sure but he definitely needs a more present place in figland...and with any other past manager for the most part... HE did. I'm sure everyone has a memory of going to look for ljn and they only have blassie, slick, albano or jimmy hart etc... The managers were the only figs that sat on shelves.
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 7, 2017 14:47:33 GMT -5
2 pack one man gang & akeem! Jive soul bro!😂 Classic! Definitely! both in the lawsuit (I believe)! Never gonna Happen! No Classic! But that track - BEST WWE SONG ever. Not best entrance music but actual track. It's GOLD. Girls in Cars in great too. Strike Force using the instrumental was better but still not good enough for strike force. Demolition (which radios stations actually played in some areas), Honky feel like right in betwen song and theme. Piledriver more a track than a theme... All American Boys goes in that golden top spot too... SUCH an awesome song and if you took out the words it would be a great entrance them. See THIS is a manager thing they just don't get nowadays. Bossman, Akeem, Rick The Model Martel ALL came down to slick's music. No one else had that. Slick gets no respect as a manger cuz he always managed the loser but his losers were GOOD losers not jobbers. They jobbed but none of those boys were hurt by it - ironically only slick was lol But the drum roll... to the horn burst at beginning and slick dancing in the ring - that IS F'n CLASSIC bro! I loved the time Martel danced with him. It's just awesome if you can find that match (I believe a clip is shown of it in the later SNME intro). Slick was actually a pretty great - an in the sense of entertainment as a whole - underrated as a physical comedian of sorts. Same with Jimmy Hart. Like Bobby took called bumps but Slick and Jimmy just get manhandled and try to escape. Both very funny physical comedians. That art is so long gone... but Slick also took HUGE bumps. Bobby got tossed by warrior and hogan but slick was just destroyed some times. Is it WM 4..? Or maybe some other ppv - any ways someone will correct me - where slicks get beaten up in the 2nd match and since he manages a bunch of dudes on the card, every match he comes out with his suit still destroyed. It's f'n hilarious and he looks utterly ridiculous but he's tryin to keep his dignity... man wwe can eat a fat one. wwf was the pinacle.
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Post by rustyjohnson on Jan 7, 2017 14:34:16 GMT -5
I'm not as excited about the Mean Gene BAF coming out now that I have recently bought a Ricardo figure with the Jakks Gene head put on it on eBay. Though I do like the suit on that BAF. I wasn't too fond of the suit myself at first but after watching some interview segments on youtube I get it. It kinda makes him diff from ricardo I guess but...the black suit just screams MEAN GENE
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