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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 28, 2020 11:47:15 GMT -5
Well there was Series 1 (and Tag Teams), 2 (and Tag Teams) and 3, then there was a Monday Nitro series (maybe 2). Also some internet exclusives. All rubber figures. Oh also boxsets with ring. That series of 2-packs wasn't just internet exclusive. The blue Harlem Heat/Green Nasties/nWo Hogan and Savage/Blue Bloods set was offered in a catalog as well. Yes, still as exclusives; not in stores. |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 28, 2020 9:14:29 GMT -5
No, there was no name for the series. Well there was Series 1 (and Tag Teams), 2 (and Tag Teams) and 3, then there was a Monday Nitro series (maybe 2). Also some internet exclusives. All rubber figures. Oh also boxsets with ring. |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 28, 2020 8:15:28 GMT -5
Just four or five Series and Tag Teams, oh and a couple of internet exclusives (e.g.: nWo silver Savage & Hogan).
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 28, 2020 6:48:23 GMT -5
Thanks Ruby. What about humidity, light and displaying, do you have advice for protecting before oxidation ? I'd say a dark room and airtight boxes. |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 28, 2020 3:26:41 GMT -5
It's the same as what happens to video game consoles. It's a chemical reaction: oxidation. The plastic used for these figures is sensitive to UV light.
Now, there IS a solution, it's known as retrobrite. However, since you can't take Hasbro WWF figures apart without basically breaking them it's a difficult solution as you'll need to protect everything that's not discolored.
This video shows how to de-yellow MOTU figures:
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 26, 2020 9:28:47 GMT -5
Well, even Mattel ain't pumpin' out "legit" legends like Buddy Rogers, Pedro Morales or "Superstar" Billy Graham  However Masked Republic did show Hasbro-like AAA legends El (hijo del) Santo, Blue Demon (Jr.), Octagon and Máscara Sagrada. The Hasbro figures were customs they had on display at Expo Lucha. They have nothing to do with this line. Ok, I thought those could be luchas they have under license... |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 26, 2020 3:46:11 GMT -5
Any chance of legit, Legends of Lucha Libre? For example, Santo, Mascaras, Casas, Blue Demon, etc?? Or just more modern era guys? Well, even Mattel ain't pumpin' out "legit" legends like Buddy Rogers, Pedro Morales or "Superstar" Billy Graham However Masked Republic did show Hasbro-like AAA legends El (hijo del) Santo, Blue Demon (Jr.), Octagon and Máscara Sagrada. |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 25, 2020 15:54:23 GMT -5
Did they sell wcw osftm at toyrus cause I only remember seeing them at KB Toys? Also which came first the cmll or wcw figs from osftm? OSFTM ECW was also toys'r'us, so I guess WCW was also sold there before. CMLL: 1992. |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 25, 2020 3:13:48 GMT -5
Was this set exclusive to a store? Cause I don't remember seeing it. I honestly don't remember Galoobs at all as a kid. Played with LJN a TON and had about 50 of them as a kid... never got into Hasbros because i was too old. But I don't even remember the OSFTM line. Not sure if it matters, but I am in Canada... so maybe their release wasn't the same as the LJN up here Galoobs were 1990, same as Hasbro. OSFTM was mid '90s. First rubber figures, later more articulated figures. Anyway, this particular set might've been a store exclusive. However if memory serves me right, mine came from Jamaica. I know I've only had one huge package in my collecting carreer coming from Jamaica; it was either this set or the OSFTM ECW set with RVD & Sabu. I remember because the box was in a huge sack made of jute or a similar fibre.  |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 23, 2020 3:54:09 GMT -5
At one point they said he was rare, but nowadays he sells for as low as $20.00 loose. True, loose he doesn't sell for much anymore but his MOC's go for big bucks. Some of the last few I've seen sell on eBay went for over $1000 a piece. Ofcourse with many loose ones there are less MOC ones. The $1,000 one was most probably on a Summerslam card. Regular MOC ones sell for about $599 (near mint that is!). |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 22, 2020 6:18:43 GMT -5
Isn't dusty rare? Wasn't he at one point worth around $100ish loose & $250ish moc? At one point they said he was rare, but nowadays he sells for as low as $20.00 loose. |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 20, 2020 11:50:13 GMT -5
Well that's what the feedback is for.
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 18, 2020 16:16:09 GMT -5
Obviously the rarest would be the prototypes like R&B Valentine, green tights Macho, MM Brutus Beefcake, etc. For the ones that you could actually purchase at the store or through mail-away, I would say the mail-away Undertaker, not only hard to find but friggin expensive if you do. As for the carded ones (still MOC), I would say the green card series. After those, I would say the Series 3 figures, especially Warrior, Beefcake, Savage, Koko, Perfect (specifically on US cards). I left out prototypes since they weren't released carded or bagged. |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 18, 2020 11:55:00 GMT -5
WWE Hasbros don't exist ;-)
WWF Hasbros DO exist :-)
Rarest would probably be Kamala with a moon on his belly (while correct, these were only given out to employees), the one in stores had a yellow star.
Mail-Away IN sealed bag Undertaker as well as purple heart Bret Hart (this one definitely in sealed bag! Also existed carded, so easy to find loose.)
The last series (green cards) with 1-2-3 Kid as the rarest.
Somehow Ultimate Warrior with purple trunks is rare WHEN on U.S.-card.
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 16, 2020 2:54:30 GMT -5
$300? A pretty desperate collector...
The OSFTM WCW rings with sound & cage and figures aren't common, but not that rare. I paid below $100 (including shipping), today I guess I could make decent profit IF I sold it...
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 15, 2020 16:30:53 GMT -5
I have it, bought it in 2003 or so.
Nice set.
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 9, 2020 6:58:31 GMT -5
Yes, they're different and it's obvious why they're different but you're arguing just to be obtuse. Taking a check to do a documentary where she gets to tell her story without any actual wrestling promotion or wrestling people having any involvement with how she tells the story and also where Vice is going to make minimal money because advertising on that show to begin with isn't an easy sell, much less on a network like Vice is different than her handing her husband's likeness over to a toy company to make action figures of her husband depicting his career that she was never a fan of specifically so the toy company and the wrestling promotion they're presumably a licensee with can make a ton of money. One of those she's not helping the wrestling business, the other she is. I look forward to your next reply further showcasing that you don't understand how this works. If she was okay with letting wrestling companies profit off of Owen, she'd have licensed him off years ago, she'd have opted out of suing WWE for the Hart Family DVD and publicly speaking out against the Owen DVD they did. But she's not. You don't seem to get this. And again, it's another thread breaking down into the same  ing discussion. How many times in a six month span does this exact topic have to be argued in the exact same circles before these threads get shut down before the stupidity commenses? The one in the AEW board got to like four pages. It's insane. We're all chasing our tales here. you’ve changed your narrative big dog and are using long explanations to try and rationalize it. Owen figs are coming. Martha slapping you silly is a bigger chance. So yeah we're going to lock this and ANY future Owen wish topic. |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 9, 2020 3:05:05 GMT -5
I never said that. There's a difference between letting someone do a tv documentary and licensing his image to a toy company to mass produce products with his likeness. She's willing to tell his story, she's not willing to hand his image over for a company to produce merchandise and profit. Again, every Owen thread becomes like three pages of this exact sh*t. I don't understand why this same discussion has had to happen like six times in the last few months, or why these threads stay open as long as they do. It's the same discussion every time. Martha accepting a check from VICETV so they can PRODUCE a PRODUCT with his LIKENESS and then PROFIT off said product by selling advertising during the aired time slots is different to you than her receiving a check from a toy company that’s going to make money selling his figs? Oof It's about the product... Documentary vs figure. In a documentary she has control, probably portraying Owen in a more beautiful way than he was in reality. Being confronted with a figure of a loved one who died in a horrible way in the ring just rips that wound! But you heartless collectors are like: "I want the damn figure, the heck with Martha let her bleed in her sorrow, she gets the money!" |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 7, 2020 3:31:41 GMT -5
That's the problem with kids today: "1:12 or nothing". Heck, when I was a kid I didn't even have wrestling figures, but my 3 3/4" Galoob B.A. could still whoop 5" Mattel Skeletor's ass! When I was 15 or 16 I had 2 wrestling figures: Wrestling Champs bootlegs of Studd & Hogan (still have them!). As an adult collector I started with some Hasbros, added 8" LJNs, then some Japanese 5" figures, some WCW Galoobs, 16" LJN Hogan, 14" Star Toys, discovered 5.5" Popys (STILL my only complete series), lucha arena figures, ... I have a skyline of figures. If you talk to a lot of toy reps, the choice to go to 6 inch scale is that there is very little difference in cost to produce the figures( I'm only going on what I've heard). It's why so many major companies are at 1:12 scale and have abandoned 1:18..namely hasbro. Arguably you also get a better application of paint apps for a larger canvas. Kickstarters like the four horsemen mythic legions originally started out to be 1:18 scale but they decided to make the switch. There is a market for 1:18 but it's very niche. All your major top selling lines are 5-8 inch range. If cost is that big of an issue, that'll get made up in sales because you'll appeal to a larger audience. That said, if you really want a wrestling line to have a shelf life, why go against the grain. I don't know that too many people would be thrilled with the idea of matching their 3.75 inch NWA wrestlers against their 6.5 inch wwe/aew/ super 7 wrestling figures. Still, I don't think you can compare a startup against (major) companies that have been around decades (Four Horsemen) or even over half a century (Hasbro, Mattel)... Besides, many people collecting 1:12 still have POP! vinyls (deformed 3 3/4") in their collection. |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on May 5, 2020 2:31:12 GMT -5
Guess that old thread was mine as I planned on 3D designing and printing my own stands for my loose Hasbros, however I never ended up buying a Jakks stand to measure for myself so never got to print my own stands.
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