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MWFP Rewind 37 - Anniversary Special! Edge! Mark Sterling Returns! The Rock and More! · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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I introduced their first episode of this podcast. I introduced the one year
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Here's rain the show, It's the top. Let's go. Welcome, Welcome
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everyone to the two year anniversary episode of The Major Wrestling For your podcast,
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I'm your host, Matt Cardona a k A. The thousand dollars bros y
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ak the Major oh Man already best up, Let's take a shot. Hey,
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hey, it's two years. It's two years, folks, let's celebrate.
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Hey, k hey, best of the order. Did I say thousand
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dollar brosk yet nobody cares? And then came Major King instead of Michael Jordan.
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Yeah, the Michael Jordans of wrestling re collecting ak the Major King.
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Oh yeah, wow, I can't believe it. Taking a shot of the
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two year anniversary only things so gun hole and trying to get Major King over
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that. He skipped over the stuff that people actually like. And I am
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your Home Impact Wrestling star, the most professional wrestler, the Scottie Pippen of
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wrestling figure Collecting, Brian Myers. I'm also here, producer of the show
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Doctor silver Ball's Smart, Mark Sterling uh, the Phil Jackson of Wrestling figure
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collecting. In this podcast is brought to you by our good friends Ringside Collectibles
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use code major to save ten percent and the guy who opened the first ever
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pod, who opened the one year anniversary and now who opened the two year
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anniversary episode h he us the Edge Edgehead, Ringside Exclusive, A little bit
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Ringside Exclusive. Rings Are you doing Okay, it's been a long day.
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We just we just recorded FF lost his voice. Full disclosure. We were
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all kind of uh in disagreement about if this was the two year anniversary or
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not it is. I think it was up to us. It's either this
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episode in the next episode before which we'll hear the call. Because you can't
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celebrate the anniversary afterwards. Like you're celeping your birthday before your birthday, you
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don't celebrat your birthday after I think that's like an official rule. But like
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you go to Christmas parties before Christmas, you don't go to christ party after
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Christmas. Sometimes Yeah, yeah, I disagreets today. Well, you made
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the call anyway, so here, we are here, we are We're here,
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still here, very excited, Thank you guys. And well, we
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almost forgot that we had an anniversary coming up because we've been so focused on
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FWF, so focused on our actual like lives and careers. And also we
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kind of really plugged hard episode A hundred a couple of weeks ago where we
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kind of did the celebration thing. Yeah, I feel like we don't have
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to really harp on it. Two years it was Summer Slam weekend. We
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uh finally bit the bullet. You finally convinced me to do this with you.
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Great decision, and the rest is history. Well, and we picked
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the picture of that first night. I know we sort of alluded to it.
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You guys were just watching Summer Slam at Brian's like you weren't planning on
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doing it right or what. No, we were. We were because we
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had Pat Buck's equipment, so we had already kind of decided. I know,
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the day before we went to Bruce Ritchard's show in the city, and
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then the next day we watched Summer Slam here at my house, and then
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the following days Rob Barclays where I introduced everybody where you were there as an
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extra right, and that's kind of like the three day event of what happened
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you already But by the time I had met Brokey, you are already recorded
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an episode. We must have had already decided to do a pilot because we
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had Pat lanked us the legendary Cobana podcast equipment that was lent down to him.
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So at some point we must have said, hey, I think we're
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going to try this out. And of course all these episodes available in the
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archive. Um I listened to episode one before the hundredth episode. It still
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holds up, but you could tell everything has changed. Like I remember somebody,
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uh I won't mention his name because he didn't actually come through, but
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he wanted to make us like a jingle for the show, and I was
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like, we can't have a jingle. We don't have any catchphrases. Now
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look at us. The whole thing is a catchphrase, you know what I'm
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saying. We had no bits, we had no inside jokes, and now
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that's what this whole thing has become. This this community, this this this
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brand. I mean, if we didn't evolve, that would be pretty bad.
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Huh yeah, So we have our own action figures several Oh no you
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are, yeah, several, um. But yeah, so guys, listen,
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we're not going to take the trip down memory lane again. And we
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want to thank all of you so much. And you know, we're super
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pup, we're super excited for the future. It's it's more. Uh,
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you know, at first it was a one day a week thing. Now
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you know it's a seven day a week thing, multiple days a week,
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multiple times in that day, just doing stuff business calls, plan and stuff,
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booking a figure fed, right, And I wouldn't have it any other
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way, you know, thirty thirty five years old. I'm you know,
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looking at my figure arena that's permanently set up in my office right now.
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It's permanent. It's permanent for now because I don't want to take it down
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every week. It could get taken down. I think it's cool looking at
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your video and we'll talk about that in a second, Like it looks really
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cool as part of your office, like as a setup part, right,
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So it's pretty I can't I can't do that because Mackenzie like pounces on it
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whenever I have mine mount and I purposely and which I love. It's so
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collapsible and condensable. It's just Brian, I have mine on a little table,
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so it just helps everything out. It's like, I don't know it.
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Actually it looks nicer because it's not on the floor. Yeah, got
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that bad knees, so for me to get down there all the times,
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you know. So I can't even you're You've rearranged that room so much.
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I can't even pitch it. So right now, we'll talk about it later.
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But right now it's in front of my title belt. This is the
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Bushman Mark Bushy, and up next is weekly Purchases. Well Mark the bush
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Man Bushy. Thank you very I can't believe you're a real voice. I
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thought it was like that. I doesn'el like one of those computer voices when
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you type something on the computer talks like a serie. The GM of raw
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voice didn't it have like the what when the GM of raw was like a
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computer for like a couple of months. Oh, I don't remember. You
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were definitely on raw. I feel like I wasn't watching this segments. Sorry
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all right, Brosky. Why is it such a big week for weekly purchases
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for you? Well, I got a lot of things. That's why.
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Um let's start off with Ringside Collectibles. Of course I got a couple things
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from there. We probably have very similar things, so let's just go for
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it. Mincewicmah elite, Yeah, give me your thoughts. Mincman Elite seventy.
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You opened this and I opened it. Okay, Um, the stand
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is cool but so bizarre, way too small. Bits better than nothing.
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I wish there was some kind of like branding on it, but it's literally
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a baby blue square. That's what it should be. Should just be a
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little taller. But beggars can't be choosing, Okay, and I feel like
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beggars can't be choosers can be said about the entire figure. I I wanted
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to just love it. I want to love that. There's just something and
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I still do love it. I think, of course, I think the
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thing, that little thing is that it doesn't look like mincewicmah. I think
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it. I feel like the true effects put on his face is from like
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modern day of insct Man and not nineteen eighties insct Man. I still think
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it's a great figure. I've been wanting this figure for years. I think
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the suits a little too dark. Also, that's really nip. That doesn't
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that Yeah, that doesn't bother me. I do like the interchangeable hands here
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that I literally have that left hand closed in my case with the mic to
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his mouth and his hand open something. It's still a great figure. I
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just wish the face is a little better, That's all I'm saying. I
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say I'm such a mark for Vince figures, and throughout the history of time
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we've kind of got them so few and far between. Besides that bone cruncher
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Arrow where they released that vincent ring gear like four hundred times, his figures
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are just so few and far between, and really having the Mattel era now
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if you think about it, nothing, Yeah, there's the two pack,
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but the basic two back with Austin. There's the Toys r Us like one
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of the suit, one of the suit, and then there's him with Punk
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two back right from that mash the head on row. Then there's the the
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Toys Rust where he's like in the street gear jacked up like rumble gear.
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And that's that's it. That's figure in all these years. That's kind of
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crazy, and one was a super rare Toys Rust. It's it's like a
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mail away. It's not even that you couldn't get it the story I think
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you could get in the store. I think later on it wasn't eventually,
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you guys, don't get me wrong. This is in the front of my
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Elite collection. I love it. I love it. I just think the
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face could have been a little better. Awful a little bit, but still
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great, still great. Um. I also got from ring Side. This
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is a funny story. So a couple of weeks ago on ring Side,
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I bought all the retros they had because I have rebuilt successfully the entire retro
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set Men on card. I'm only missing Superman punch moment. If you got
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that, I need it, um, But I'm not into the different card
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variations. I'm not gonna do it. No, that's I think that's Fromacho
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Man, my favorite. He has a variant with the arms. One of
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them has like the arms going the same direction. One has an up.
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I'm down. So I looked at the ones I had from Ringside, and
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I figured out the one I needed. I went on eBay, I saw
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it. I bought it. Um. I never looked who the cellar is
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when I buy something same, so I bought it. Now. Then all
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of a sudden, I get the Paypala notification you've sent blah blah blah to
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Ringside Collective Like what I immediately text John like do you even have this in
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stock? Like because the one you sent me last week wasn't this one.
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Yeah, And long story short, he had it in stock and uh,
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so I got it. Does it still have the tape like all the other
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ones I haven't even checked, honest? And of course I got a little
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case ski from Ringside for that. Well, you need to protect those flimsyes
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retro cartings. Uh what else did you get from ring Cyclis? That's it?
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Okay, So I'll keep going with my Ringside collectibles hall very impressive so
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um, as you'll hear on this show. I got EC three from Elite
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seventy. Great figure. You got to see it up close and personal.
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One of the best figures I've seen a long It's funny and I kind of
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say this to his face. It's like he's a very I don't want to
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say cartoony, but his face is very defined, like he's got a like
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very big big nose, big line, you know, like so, but
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it's all there. It looks perfect. Jack is af you know, he's
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got his shocker hand. Um looks great, very happy with that and also
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like just thrilled it. And I've said so many times here, like especially
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someone like a friend finally gets a figure, you know, it's cool,
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especially he's been wrestling a very long time. Uh, speaking of friends,
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I got good friend Friend of the Pod toy hater Dolph Ziggler Elite seventy one.
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Both I grabbed, Yeah, I was indecisive. I grabbed both.
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They're there. I had. I opened and displayed the hot pink one because
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I just think that pops and it's it's a lot more toytop umps pop coming
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out of Comic Con. This figure got a lot of like bashing people from
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the community to fat it doesn't though. It's great, So I think it's
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a huge improvement from Huge, the last Elite Ziggler I had with like the
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messy hair, brown hair. I mean, I guess at the time he
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did kind of look like that, but he's looked like this version of himself
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for so much longer, and then he's got like blonde blonde hair. It
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looks great. I think it pops. I think the jackets cool. A
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lot of detail on him, the deco and stuff, and then the unique
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things that go into his gear that I don't think even people really realize are
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all there. Um, and I kind of even dig the hands because you
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can do like the running his hands through his hair. Suppose you know he
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does. That's that's how I got him in my my my detail. That's
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pretty doing that a dolphin detail. Uh So, and I mean he's probably
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my favorite in the set, but that's like for completely biased reasons, so
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it's tough to really just a great set. It was very cool set,
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um, and then rounding out the ones from that set that I got,
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and actually this figure is pretty perfect to me. Johnny Garranger, no Garrange,
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you know, Johnny Gargano Elite seventy um, which John told me is
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the in Trevor that they both told me. He's the one that's like flying
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for them. Um. It's pretty badass. It's like loaded with Deco,
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the venom gear. It's great. Um. Another one with a hand works
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because he does that like Christian looking at the people crowd pose, you can
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do that with it. Uh. And then the other thing is I never
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I literally thought that whole Champions one was so bad that Timasso Champion and Gargano
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that I didn't buy them last year because I was like, these are terrible
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elite. You knew Bill would get h I know Bill is h A R
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D about n XT and these guys are on top of him, like he's
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gonna make so many of these guys. Well, he's in the hard foundation
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available now pros and ts dot com exactly. So like I made a gut
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decision to not pick up those elites, which actually like Skyrocket on the secondary
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market and stuff, because it was the only elites of uh, Chompa and
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Gargano, but kind of paid off because Elite sixty nine Champa is incredible,
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Elite seventy Gargano is incredible. I know people are pissy about his kickpads.
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I get it, but guys, it's a toy. No, I mean,
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I understand, but like from the look of it, you can't really
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tell. Right. Also, if they use like an existing mold or something,
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he'd probably be way too tall and I hate to break through, but
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John Gargano is not a tall human, So that to me, I think
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maybe eventually they need to make a special kick they're gonna have to him.
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I'm assuming that's what they're gonna have to do, But I'm a huge scale
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snob. So I had a giant Johnny Gargano standing in my collection, I'd
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be like, it's like a Paul Bear and your classic Superstars, Like,
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okay, that's a perfect example. Think about how annoying that is. But
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if you had that for this, it wouldn't be worth it. You'd rather
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just have this whatever boot painted like a kickpad is what it is. Um
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anything else from Ringside Yes. I picked up two two packs really of how
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Gets It Rider Battle Pack? Nope, because that doesn't existicons, which is
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cool. Uh. I guess the other one Peyton's hair is different, so
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that's change your hair like every week, so she's gonna be out there.
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Who whose fault is that? So yeah, I grabbed one from my collection
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because it's there one and only figures and they don't have elites. It looks
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like lined up at the moment. Uh. And then I got one another
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step from Mackenzie because I get her all the female extra figure that's great.
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Yeah, anything else from Ringside Yes, And actually, dude, pick I
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was out of dude with that. Yeah, I pick my god, the
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brand new retro Fast. You're gonna go dude, dude, you know how
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many times. I performed that song in my Figure D one of my absolute
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all time favorites. I don't many people notice, but Lawkins was named after
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cru Henning. I purposely picked the name. Uh, mister perfect. Retro
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Fest available only at Ringside Collectibles at the moment, or for a million dollars
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on eBay if you want to pay Scott must be game stop exclusives. That's
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what even more bizarre. But they're at Ringside first. Still amazing. Yeah,
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so I got mine, I let it breathe. It's on display,
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but I brought yours to you. Oh they open on the show. Wow,
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Um, you know I am let him breathe the guy. Let's talk
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about how many how many phrases we've coined from this podcast him breathe. I'm
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not a mental card guy. But this retro Fest package is incredible. Looks
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at the old school video game. It's the most fun packaging Hotel has ever
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done for ww I think this is even better than the slim gym overall.
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Yes, because there's so many of them. Yeah, if there was just
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one of these, you I don't think you can say that. I do
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because I've set the mental feelings for this video game. I was slim gym
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guy. Okay, I'm not tough the old guy either. Okay, now
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we know. Um, so here it is. So the screen, if
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you will, has the actual figure, which I think is really cool.
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Um, so I'm gonna open them up retro fest the back. The back
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has like kind of like the Royal Rumble esque, uh, like graphic for
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like the bios if you gonna play like Royal Rumble Robinsdale, Minnesota. We're
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so close right, um? All right, why do you do that?
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I'm gonna google maps? How close do you think we are to Robinsdale?
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I have no idea. I met very close. Oh my god, it's
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a twenty seven minute drives hard to get out, Yeah, because it's very
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hard to get out because the bubble it's it's it's uneven and it gets stuck.
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Wow, I'm looking at it right now. Uh. Interconfidental title.
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So I have only one gripe with this figure. Well, I have a
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couple of gripes, but my main right is this is clearly as a Mister
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Perfect super fan, this is to me. This is clearly. Late nineteen
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ninety two, baby Face returned Mister Perfect, judging by the single that he's
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wearing what is it? Would you agree? Deep as towel? I like
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it actually, to be honest, I like it better than the first towel,
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more accurate, way more active. It was a hand towel. It
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wasn't like bath. It wasn't a valvee in his bath towel. I love
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this figure. I love the decko on the back. It's different. They
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made this in Jack's form. I believe. Here's my two gripes in They're
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very minimal. No chest air. That's sway too A lot of motels can
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be more tan, right, Um, but that's that's a prima don too
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big. Now, I'm okay with that. I think mister Perfect had a
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way bigger chest, Like he needs to be more barrel chested. I see
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that, you know what I mean? Um, he's Jack Mofault. But
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also, if this is baby Face Perfect from ninety two, he didn't have
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the icy title. Didn't even sniff it. Yeah, but an access for
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you need the I understand why it's in there. It's a selling point cooler,
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but whatever. First of all, he's he's holding the towel in the
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package. I just ripped it out of the box. He's still holding the
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towel. Yes, and I honestly that grip is so good at it.
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I have the best with it either that. Yeah, I will not pose
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him with the intercon same here I put it in my baggy. I think
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this is definitely a must buy figure. Also, he hasn't he's on one.
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His mattails have been few and far between. It's a brand new scan,
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which I think is a big improvement. Great scan. I'm assuming some
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kind of true effects. I love the back. I love how it's all
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black in the backs. Is missed? It perfect. A lot of the
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the good deco you can't see from the packaging, so be appreciated. But
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this is a great figure, incredible, miss perfect vable Now Ringside Collectibles,
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where's Iron Cheek? You know? Ringside? I don't know if they have
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like a lead on this too, if they can order that, you don't
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know. And they were surprised that they were able to get this. Uh
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what else did you grab? I have a couple other ridiculous stories. You
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go, you go? You say one? Okay? Also, uh,
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the friends, uh that you're probably texting right now. The Elite Squad sent
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us over live and Sonya the chase Uh, extore exclusives right to these elites.
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Um Sonya is a great cool figure or whatever. The live is like
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unreal, like Oscar level that she comes with the dean ambrose plant, right,
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Mitch. I don't say it's a gripe, but it's like a head
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scratcher, like well, because don't they come in They trash things when they
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walk by and pretas yes, And I think when they first started, that's
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she's the riot. She's a spray can in her hand and she has that's
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what it means. And yeah, she has bitched the plant and a table
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and it's all breakable and stuff. Cool, but it's almost like like I'm
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not complaining about it, but it's like a Jackson Bone country. Yeah,
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and the figure is so unbelievable, like perfect that there's no need for you
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know, like if it stands on its own, you know, it's incredibility.
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So either way, I want to make those guys. For those I'm
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glad to have him. Anytime someone gets an elite, I'm glad to add
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them to my class. What about the when something strange your neighborhood, who
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are you gonna call? Ghost busters? There is a whole YouTube video where
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we got these, but we got we got him, we got him,
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No, you finally let him breathe what I mean? I got him this
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week too, but we got them a month ago, but we didn't actually
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get them until we have the Bit of Possession at one point, I as
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a Ghostbuster fan, as a w fan, I love them. Um.
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I think it was the best character choices possible besides okay, we had the
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one of one Hawkins and Rider, um, but really, like I think
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it works best as flashbacks legend guys. You know, so you got Austin,
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you got Shawn Michaels, you got Sena, you got Rock and you
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got Undertaker. Basically it is the whole basic series one hundred lineup. Knock
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them like modern day superstars. But if it was like Finn and like Roman,
24:56
oh my god, who kind of suck the coolness out of it?
25:00
Um, and then it would suck the nostalgia at yes, exactly. And
25:03
I think the figures are great, Um, they're all unique. I thought
25:06
the Undertaker holding it was really really cool. It's the translucent purple, he's
25:10
got the translucent green title. Um, and uh watch the YouTube video mark
25:15
on box of them all. I love them the Proton packs are the old
25:19
Mattel Ghostbuster one, but the straps are redone. He told me that.
25:22
But the confirmation confirmation the shops something that only like Ghostbuster. There's there's no
25:30
problem. Why why would they be tool? So I guess they're a little
25:33
too small, But come on, they're fine. They're they're highly detailed.
25:37
They're great. Um. I love them, and we've talked about the pop
25:41
before. I will display them proudly in my Ghostbuster collection. About what's weird
25:45
is that Zach won't be with them. There's because he's with the Zach guys.
25:51
Because Zach's with the Zach guys, you know what I'm saying. I
25:53
think it is funny that you had to like decipher where they go. Yeah,
25:56
they go in the Ghostbuster section, but the turtle aren't with the turtles.
26:00
The turtle like turtle Ghostbusters are in the turtle section because they're technically turtle
26:06
toys. I'm talking about the turtle WW guys. Those are in the Turtle
26:10
section. Okay, so I'm breaking the rule here because these are technically WW
26:14
toys, not Ghostbusters toys. But they're going in the Ghostbuster shelf. I
26:18
see what you're saying, because they get totally lost in the shuffle of my
26:19
wit section. Yeah, there's no point, um, but those are really
26:23
really cool figures. It's something fun, it's gonna be. It has to
26:26
be one and done, like I'm assuming. I hope they don't do like
26:29
a series two where they just read, you know, like they like they
26:32
did with the Turtles. There's like more guys the same happen like, Um,
26:36
I love them and they're gonna be exclusive to Walmart any day now,
26:38
so I hope, hope, hopefully they do well. Yeah, um anything
26:41
else that you got? Yeah, so last year at this time, do
26:47
you know how many LJAM figures I have at this time? I don't have
26:51
the exact count now because it was zero zero. This show has and you
26:56
and whatever and the itchiness that occurs from you know, talking things out here
27:02
on this show. I I went, I embarked on this journey that started,
27:06
uh on figure it out for real? Like you know, there was
27:10
you show. There were seven guys there and decent enough condition. That was
27:14
always my thing. They had to be immaculate because I feel like anyone could
27:18
have a beat up dog figure everything. The point of my wife just sees
27:27
them sitting on the take of fig Bath on the edge of the sink,
27:30
where she's like Jesus fig Bath again, Big Bath, Bay Bath. I'm
27:37
down to three guys, okay, and after this week, I'm down to
27:41
two because I found actually I didn't find Zoro. Mendez slid into my DMS
27:47
and goes, hey, check out this auction for ax Woh, which was
27:52
a very tough one. Man, Like every time I've ever seen it,
27:56
his face is all messed up, the face paints messed out, and it's
27:59
just not worth it to have a crappy ax sl He goes, hey,
28:03
man, this is a decent price. I'm gonna I'm gonna hop on this.
28:06
If you don't, of course, then I also best offered the guy
28:08
and got a little lower All right, there you go. You know those
28:11
Zoro prices, I don't know, but I got that axe, and uh
28:15
I'm down smash though no Smash because they don't make him. Nobody seems to
28:18
have him. But I'm down to black Strap, Andre and big bus Man.
28:22
Well, good luck with that. Let me which is crazy to think
28:26
in a year I've got every almost every single There's a couple of things I
28:30
think you need, But can I get some credit here for what I've I'm
28:34
very proud of you, geez it's it's it's great that you finally manned up.
28:38
You scratch that LJ and Figure Rich. I'm very very proud of Deep
28:42
Scratch. Let me just bang out a couple of things, um little uh
28:47
Trade Sky of the Week Official Holtster on Instagram. He listen to this.
28:52
He banged both these out for me. I've been in search of these for
28:53
years. The plastic Mister America mask I had it, but I it got
29:00
cracked. He had it for me in my condition also when it came out
29:03
yea. And also the sleeveless white Mister America shirt I got. I think
29:10
I ripped it by accident as a teen, when you like order those in
29:15
the catalog, like when that's going on, like just marking out for it.
29:18
I either order from the catalog or bought them at MSG. When he
29:21
did Mister Americans one or the other, I would assume that one or the
29:23
other. So I finally got those in my collection, brought up in the
29:26
moment and did that well. I would have either done it at MSGU or
29:30
on shop anyway. I love Hogan. I guess that's true. Also from
29:34
Justin Walsh. Listen to this. You know when we go on these these
29:37
overseas tours and we get these lanyards, these like backstage lanyards with the pass.
29:42
Yeah, he had a WrestleMania ten press pass. It's pretty cool.
29:48
And I was at wrestle at ten obviously not backstage, but I got the
29:51
pass. Why not? That's cool. That's a cool momentum. If like,
29:55
I've actually beat around the bush. That's some ECW lanyards pop up on
29:57
email. Yeah, I've beat around the about him? Uh real quick?
30:00
Also, uh Jeff Springer, Uh em, I'm just scored Jeff ninety.
30:04
He is the guy who got that Mega Maniacs Brutus for me. He's the
30:07
guy who gave you those Brian Pillman cars I gave you earlier. Oh yeah,
30:11
he gave me Latred Sky a inflatable WWF blimp. Not not life size,
30:18
folks, but it's it's still pretty big. It's probably like a foot.
30:23
That's cool. I'm holding my hands out any back backstory to it or
30:29
anything or year he said he got it in a package at doc Hendrick sent
30:33
him. Interesting. Yeah, another other ear why doc He wrote me a
30:41
whole note I forgot. Sorry, good story. Yeah. Also I got
30:47
from Lapel, Yeah, Lapel. Yeah. They sent me their WCW Disney
30:52
World like shirt m and they also made like a similar Landyard two. Actually
30:56
I saw that. I thought that was really cool. I'm gonna wear that
31:00
sure this week when I go to uh Galaxy's Edge. You want to go
31:03
up to two at Disney's Hollywood studios. God bless you. Um. And
31:08
then the last weird thing I got Disney related m Jeppetto's Underscore workshop Underscore NYC.
31:15
He makes these like miniature replica Disneyland and disney World signs, and he
31:21
made me a sign they said major Land. Do you see that? No,
31:25
what do you mean signed? You didn't see this? I said it
31:26
to you. Do you not read our tax or check by social media?
31:30
Not always? Dude. I waited this week. Well you're not gonna hear
31:33
from me for six days you. Oh, maybe I just didn't understand what
31:41
this was. That's like the sign that's outside Disneyland like in the seventies,
31:45
though, isn't it still? It's still there, So that's just like a
31:49
little statue kind of thing. Yeah, Wow, it says major Land.
31:55
I can read interesting. I thought those guitar picks. No, then he
32:00
made these little like Mickey Mouse ear things to see scratched that figure. Rich.
32:02
So if you're a big Disney there was a big Disney check out Jeppetto's
32:08
Underscore Workshop Underscore NYC. There's still more stuff for me. I have one
32:15
more thing, but it's a little bit of a story, so should hang
32:19
out some more things? Sure? Uh. I have rebuilt my Classic Superstar
32:22
collection uh through this pod. Uh. And now I'm trying to do the
32:25
Ruthless Aggression Tron collection and Tron a lot of collections. I'm trying to do
32:30
the Ruthless Aggression collection. And I'm gonna take my time on this, kind
32:34
of like you do with the LJN's, but even even slower. I'm not
32:37
gonna try to get him on eBay. I've got a lot already, though
32:42
not as much as you think. What's what is September? Are you gonna
32:44
tell everyone what September is? What September? September? What do you what's
32:49
your goal? Oh? My goal is to organize my toy room, my
32:52
garage. It's a mass, yes, um, but I literally will buy
32:57
ruthless aggression guys on the road if we hit these like shops, and most
33:00
time he goes I don't even know if I have this or not, but
33:01
I'm just gonna go too nervous, like it's too good to pass up Linkum,
33:05
But I know for I don't exactly know everyone I need or don't need,
33:07
but there's some I know I definitely need, and those are the ones
33:10
I'll look for on eBay. So I got this week the Edge and Mick
33:14
Foley two pack with the Hardcore title and from the Mania match. Well,
33:20
Edge is kind of like that Mania match. Foley is not like that Mania
33:22
match. Yeah, okay um. I also like that open shirt, yes,
33:25
yes um. I also got Renee not not Renee Young, Renee Duprie,
33:31
Kenzo Suzuki and Fifi Good Dog. Good price, I'm pretty good price.
33:36
Yeah, I'm in the package this Maybe this is before the pod or
33:39
I remember thinking that Renee and Kenza was so rare and then I saw it
33:43
and it was like not very affordable. I couldn't I couldn't believe it.
33:46
Um. Also, speaking of Jack's Class Superstars, I got an unreleased sensational
33:52
Sherry She was supposed to be in a three pack with El Matador, Tito
33:57
Santana and Shawn Michaels. Now they made a very moo Shawn Michaels and a
34:00
very similar Sherry you got a booger? That blew my mind, right Wrestle
34:06
Media, Sam. I've seen that eight eight, and I've seen that match
34:08
so many times, and I know that moment, but I never read his
34:13
lips and realized that. Anyway, Rowski found on Instagram like a little like
34:16
gift of that man wrestle botch. Right before it starts, there's a face
34:22
off, and Sean walks away and like rubs his nose and he does it
34:24
all arrogantly. But right at the face off, Tito goes, you have
34:28
a booger, and he mouths it to him, and then like they put
34:30
you have a booger, and they put it the text at the bottom,
34:34
and you like and it's timed and you're like, oh my god, that's
34:36
definitely what he says. And then Sean spins away and he's definitely getting a
34:38
booger amazoes before his Wrestle Media match. Right, So it's supposed to be
34:43
a three pack depicting that match. Like I said, they made a similar
34:46
sean a similar sherry than they for the uh the lux class SUPs was they
34:51
made Almattador, but not for the regular. So I got this unreleased sherry.
34:54
I got it from Dwayne Jamie and Easton Price and Prices Collectibles in Newing,
34:59
New Jersey. I want to say thank you very much. I think
35:00
you got some TENA guys from them last week. See you in New Jersey.
35:04
You're in Kentucky takes shot. Yeah, I do that from the top
35:07
of my head. I'm not breading your notes. Also, we could we
35:13
couldn't do this anniversary pod without talking about how much I want to lick Jeremy
35:15
Padowars bleep that Mark and I want to like get like Ato pop after this
35:22
week when he set me. Mike canceled unreleased Micromaniacs, Zach Ryder one of
35:30
one hand painted hand paint. Oh baby doing the l I I grabbed those.
35:36
I didn't. Oh. I also have to Macho Man Michael manas from
35:37
Ringside that talk about that last week. I don't think so well. I
35:40
got it from Residins. We said, okay, I grabbed well, I
35:45
didn't grab it. Mackenzie grabbed uh, Ron Drowsy and Alexa Bliss of those
35:50
when we were walking around. Yeah, I can't. I can't believe how
35:52
it was small. They are so like rumblers. Yeah, smaller, I
35:54
think a little smaller. Yeah, I was blown away. But Jeremy,
35:59
he didn't have to do that. But that's cool. Allah like he used
36:01
to do back in the day. He sent us out prototypes. Uh.
36:05
And it's it's cool because the Treacher's Trios that I unboxed review on our YouTube
36:12
channel, I have the prototype to that. Well, you have yours,
36:15
I have of mine and I show it on the YouTube channel. So Jeremy,
36:19
thank you very much for that. It's it's so cool because this was
36:22
a canceled item. It's not gonna come out, and Jeremy like knows I
36:25
want it. He knows like I'm not selling you or anything. I want
36:29
it from my personal queestion and things like that should be in the hands of
36:32
people who deserve them, you know. And it will follow from last week.
36:36
I hope Bill mckeena is sending Matt Hardy that ultimate deletion. He should
36:39
absolutely should guilt because you know, there's more than one. I feel like
36:45
there's cases of them, but I agree, Um, now you tell your
36:50
story, brother, sure. Um. So obviously I watch Kurt Hawkins items
36:57
on eBay like a hawk. I have alert like a hawk. Let see
37:00
what you did there. I didn't mean to do that, um, but
37:02
yeah, I watched things like a hawk on there, and I'm very aware
37:06
of everything. And then I want to say, like ten days ago in
37:09
our Patreon Facebook group, somebody posted, oh, just one whatever Kurt Hawkins
37:16
autographed tops card with piece of his shirt, and I was like, are
37:22
usual way? What? And then let's just back up for a second.
37:24
That's what I love about this Facebook Patreon group that we're learning from our fans.
37:29
Yeah, of course, it's it's incredible, and we're interacting, we're
37:31
selling stuff. I've sold some things personally, they're telling us what we need,
37:36
they're giving us alerts. It's it's amazing. But I'm literally like,
37:38
what what is this? Like? How do I not know about this?
37:42
Or uh? And then the other thing that's funny about it, the person
37:45
wrote, oh my god is and now I have both you my other my
37:50
last autograph card, which is two thousand and ten, and he goes his
37:52
autograph hasn't changed a bit blah blah blah blah, and it was all just
37:55
I was just going, what the heck? And I'm like, I know
37:59
for a fact that I have not signed for TOPS since I've been back,
38:01
or since then even thousand and ten. So I was just so baffled.
38:06
I had to the point where I had to ask people in the office,
38:09
like, how is this possible? Like this guy? And I think the
38:13
one that was posted was a one of twenty five, and then since then
38:17
ones of five have come up. Um, so then I and now I
38:24
am stalking anybody even more alertally, and another one pops up. But I
38:29
have to like best off, for Dave, for Dago, to get my
38:30
own card, broly do all the times. I know. That's why now
38:34
when Top sends me something, I just did a lot of it. I
38:36
just didn't think it was possible. I didn't think Tops we basically I found
38:38
out I got to the uh, the root of it. They still had
38:44
the sticker sheet that I banged out. Whatever you signed, like you said,
38:47
hundreds of thousands, I remember being a lot. But they had at
38:52
least thirty to make these thirty cards, right, And I think that's all
38:55
there is in a set that we're not even in the set, but not
38:59
even the basic We're not in the basic mind of the set. But we
39:01
have these inserts where you as well have a signed one with your T shirt.
39:06
So I have one, uh where it's signed with the T shirt and
39:09
then like with the T shirt but not signed. Maybe that's no, no,
39:13
because definitely I don't want to go if that first one that guy posted,
39:15
no I have I have both. Oh, okay, you know what
39:19
I'm saying, Yeah, I have something. Remember what I was saying to
39:21
you both, I was saying these look identical. Yeah, it's because like
39:27
one sign one's not. Okay, So maybe I do you think I have
39:30
a non signed one that I have to be able to look out for.
39:32
I don't know, crazy, I'm blown away, But anyway, I spent
39:37
a significant amount of money to buy my own card that I didn't know existed
39:42
that I can believe that I signed almost ten years ago. Well, speaking
39:45
of significant amount of money and a little uh call back to your LJN's,
39:52
I got an LJAN that you definitely don't have. Oh baby, let's let's
39:54
see. This is the grand Finale of Grand Finale his name? Okay,
40:00
can I before you start this. Yes, I think one of the wildly
40:05
under I don't want to say underrated things about this show. Something like that
40:10
I'm trying to say underappreciated. Maybe is how many things in this past year
40:17
of we uncovered uncovered like it's unbelieved, articulated orange cards, ECW psychopath psychopaths
40:28
about these toys. And I prove it in that he's episode literally obsessed to
40:32
the where you there's no way if you told me a year ago that we'd
40:37
uncover something like, no way unless it was a pre production thing or something
40:39
we found that no news new Jack and cause like sure, all this hysteria
40:44
in my collecting life and it's I appreciate it, it's great, it makes
40:46
it fun, but I can't believe it. I mean, I found the
40:50
tug boat two up and now we have Tugboat Guy. We've we have a
40:53
character on the show based off a figure I bought from him, actually got
40:58
unreleased El Jane Bendy. Some talk about Guy or LANs with articulation, right,
41:04
Um so when I bought those Ljans with articulation, I was dealing with
41:07
someone He does not want to be known. He's a former Ljan employee,
41:10
That's all I will say. And he had a large quantity of uh of
41:16
figures H l Jan preproduction uh prototypes. Now, some were hand painted,
41:24
some were not painted at all. Like I got the naked Elizabeth. I
41:30
don't understand why I needed it, but uh, but a lot of these
41:35
figures, like some of them, um like are slightly different, like like
41:40
any prototype, like the deck goes a little different color wise. So but
41:45
yeah, it's to be expected, right. So nothing that really shocked me,
41:49
you know what I'm saying. A couple obviously, the articulation, The
41:52
articulated figure shocked me. The naked Elizabeth shocked me. Just shocked me too.
41:57
But uh, keep that EAC three figure. Yeah, yeah, no
42:04
hair, no player who I think that was something I was gonna be said
42:09
four times now. But when I saw his pictures, he had a Killer
42:15
Khan who obviously unreleased, not in the lineup, wasn't even rumored that I
42:22
knew about. He had the wax figure of it now like the arm was
42:27
broken off and like the fingers were cracked up and he had no leg,
42:30
but it was clearly there now for me, Like I didn't really want to
42:32
make an offer on it because he had no leg, Like even if he
42:37
found the leg, it was all broken. Still pretty cool though, Yeah,
42:40
but like I knew he wanted big, big, big, big bucks
42:44
for you're uncovering something though, right and if that's all there is, then
42:46
that's all there is, you know, right? Um? But I'm like,
42:52
you know what it's I was never First of all, I don't full
42:53
disclosure. I don't really remember Killer Khan being in WWF Wrestling Psychopath. I
42:59
don't. I have like nothing to say, right. Yeah. He also
43:01
had his little hat like this is legit and like you know, it's not
43:05
a customer anything like that. So time went by tim and bye, and
43:07
he told me about this idea. Well, first of all, he had
43:12
a few ideas, like because these these prototypes were I assume like in his
43:15
garage or basement and they were like scratched up. He's like, hey,
43:19
what if I get one of my old LJ and friends to like repaint these,
43:22
Like, no, do not touch these up. These are like right,
43:25
it's like if someone were to repaint the Mona Lisa or something, you
43:29
know what I'm saying. So I said, absolutely, do not do that.
43:30
But he came to me and said, hey, well, what if
43:34
I can get the old LJN team together, a couple of guys who worked
43:37
with me at LGM, we can fix this wax killer Kahn. Remold it
43:45
in the same way they made lj and prototypes and make five of them,
43:50
number them, label on the bottom one of one, one of two or
43:53
you know what I'm saying, yeah, or I'm sorry, one of five,
43:55
two or five and get one of the Old Jane guys to paint it.
44:00
Would you be interested as inside me, because that's the that's the closest
44:07
I'm gonna get to this figure. I agree. Now is it a custom?
44:12
I guess it's up for debate. Though it's it's technically a custom El
44:15
Jane guys are making, it's still technically a custom. It's in the same
44:21
it's the exact mold of the figure that was, but it's still technically a
44:24
custom. It's not it's not officially it's technically custom. I know, I
44:28
know, but that's man. That's definitely like. I posted a quit a
44:31
quick picture on their Instagram story because I wasn't even sure if I was allowed
44:36
to share this, but I already shared it on the Instagram story, so
44:37
it's probably gone by now, like this is this is the production process.
44:42
It's pretty damn interesting. What how did they go with the coloring? I
44:46
guess it's never painted. I guess they use like reference photos. And there's
44:51
that card. Yeah, okay, so it's highly detailed. It's incredible.
44:57
It looks just like an algebl It's so cool. I'm blown away by this.
45:02
And it was a little pricey um, and even I thought, like,
45:06
as I was getting it first, I was on the fence abound,
45:07
do I really need this custom? Then I'm like, I knew my guy
45:09
Jim Rose was getting one. Well, if Jim Rose get one, I
45:13
know I need one. Yeah, and already I've had offers for it.
45:15
Okay, So I got a couple of questions there. I want to read
45:19
you the CA I got. Can I read that to you? Sure?
45:21
Before I ask? Yeah? So the CoA, of course, this guy's
45:24
a professional, made a CA for this, and I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm
45:31
gonna not say his name. He doesn't want to be named, but his
45:34
name is included on the CoA. Okay, um, okay, I'll call
45:38
him Mark Bushy. Okay, let me call him silver Balls. Um,
45:44
now, let me call him something funnier. What can we call him?
45:47
I don't know. We'll call him this special edition Killer con three of five?
45:53
Okay, I have three or five. I'm also gonna read very very
45:55
slowly so I don't stutter. People will get drunk. Yes. Made in
46:00
July twenty nineteen, is a hand painted prototype molded from the original wax Killer
46:06
configure sculpted in nineteen eighty eight for LJN Toys as part of the WWF Wrestling
46:13
Superstars line and cast in the traditional method done for all of the LJN figures
46:17
from nineteen eighty five to nineteen eighty eight. Killer Khan was intended to be
46:22
part of the Series five collection, but was never completed and never went into
46:28
production. The shot the original wax sculpting has been in the sole possession of
46:42
Blank since nineteen eighty eight. Silver Balls Johnny Geronimo Blank was the product design
46:51
manager for the LJN WWF Wrestling Superstars line of toys between nineteen eighty five and
46:57
nineteen eighty eight, and was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the creating,
47:00
posing, sculpting, casting, model making, paymaster, etc. Of all
47:06
WWF wrestling Superscos toys created between nineteen eighty five and nineteen eighty eight from their
47:10
initial concept to license or approval to factor production of retail goods. So it's
47:15
signed by him. It has the picture of the bottom of the foot set
47:17
in three to five and when the guy was making those custom rhythm and blues
47:22
great Balentine's I want him to do something like this a little a little stamp.
47:24
I do agree with that. Yeah. Um, how about Killer kna
47:28
is still alive and he's seventy two years old? What I love is I
47:30
posted this and I think Bill was trying to say it was like fake bills,
47:32
like Killer Conn war boots, and I said, not in WWF man
47:37
anyway. Okay, Can I ask my questions? Yes? Uh? Okay?
47:40
One who has the legit broken prototype? Blank? Okay? Where is
47:50
one? Two, four and five? I know Jim Rose has one,
47:53
another LJAN collector. I don't know who has the other ones, Okay,
47:59
but I know they're they're gone. Yes, because someone tried to buy this
48:01
already for me. Wow. So so you think this team of LJ and
48:07
people that made this knew other diehards like you, and they contact them and
48:13
just got rid of all five. Yes, because the Blank, who does
48:15
not want to be named, he has all this stuff, but he doesn't
48:19
you know how it is. We get bombarded all the time on like Instagram,
48:22
blah blah blah, like people will come after you for stuff, especially
48:27
with like lowball offers. And this guy doesn't want to get bombarded. So
48:30
he's only dealing with like professionals who he would trust and he can deal.
48:35
That makes sense. And then and I think he's no intentions that it's over.
48:39
There's no intentions to make another batch, and I certainly hope not.
48:43
I'd be pretty pissed off. Yeah, that's true. I mean there's no
48:45
guarantee, I guess, yeah, but I have a crazy thing. Yeah.
48:51
And it's great. The hats removable obviously, and it looks amazing.
48:54
It looks just why you like if the original San Francisco toymakers guys offered to
49:00
like complete a road kill for me or something. Right. Yeah, But
49:04
what I was gonna say is, Okay, so there's this wax killer kan
49:07
out there. Is there a wax brother Love? Is there a wax We've
49:15
had this guy Blank stopped working for all jan in eighty eight yeah. Oh
49:21
so he didn't even doesn't even have those answers. Yes, that's very interesting.
49:23
Yeah, we could ask Bruce Richard and get a fake BST to answer
49:25
tomorrow if you want me do that kill some time. Yeah. Um,
49:31
so that's it for weekly purchases. And I know that first of all,
49:37
I don't even want to tell you how much I've spent all weekly purchases all
49:39
year. I don't know. Let's not letter left unset on that or thought
49:45
of that. All right, shallow, I'm Tommy boy from Massachusetts here,
49:52
and I just wanted to wish Matt and Brian a very happy when you anniversary
49:57
of the podcast. I was thinking about, see, we have to go
50:00
get squashed by the Viking raiders, so we should probably go. I don't
50:04
like your negativity, all right, guys, so let's let's not end this
50:07
episode right right now. Let's let's keep it going a little bit. Um.
50:13
Obviously, there's no more bone crunchers to talk about. Maybe later on
50:15
we'll do the sub series. I guess you want to call him sub series?
50:20
That what you call him sub series? You know, like the two
50:22
Tass and stuff like that. Is that a sub series? We got do
50:24
eventually, but for now, we'll just we'll continue this episode with a little
50:29
Q and A. We went to you guys on Patreon. Um, so
50:31
we're gonna just answer some rapid fire questions. Um, okay, here we
50:37
go. This from Jerry Ward. What's the one figure accessory or merch that
50:42
you have gotten rid of that you still haven't been able to replace anything that
50:45
you've sold that you can't buy back yet? Good question? Why? I
50:52
mean, both of us, we didn't like we got rid of garbage.
51:00
I wouldn't say garbage, but we didn't go full David c Anderson like loose
51:02
kr and fire, so like we kept our hats. You know, might
51:07
have all my originally guys that I had like as a right right, Um,
51:12
so like things like that. I have all my bone crunches even as
51:15
a kid, and they're all in like good condition because I was so nuts.
51:17
So I sold all my ruth as aggressions. I'm trying to buy some
51:21
of them back. So I haven't gotten those back, but not because it's
51:23
super hard, whause I haven't really been trying that hard. Um, you
51:28
know what I'm saying, If that makes sense, I think, and it's
51:31
probably not a great answer, but right now, it would be re getting
51:36
all these TENA toilets guys that I at one point have everything, so uh
51:40
and it's hard stay together and it's not easy, and it's it's not inexpensive
51:45
either, so it's kind of I think for me, I'm gonna go shirts.
51:49
There's this Brett Hart shirt that I had as a kid. It's when
51:52
he finally becomes them the ww champion. Well not finally, but it's a
51:58
shirt where he has like it has him. I can't even describe it.
52:00
He's has all the titles on him and it shows all these different title rings.
52:05
I don't even know when it came out, maybe like ninety six ninety
52:07
seven ish, and I had it as a kid, but then I tried
52:08
cutting the sleeves off and I ruined it. And then years later, you
52:12
know this story, I bought it and I of course I washed it.
52:15
It's like one of my first episodes. Yeah, and then it disintegrated.
52:19
Yeah. Um, so it has to be a ninety six style shirt.
52:22
And just to rehash, I bought Mackenzie like a met vintage Mets like Alfait
52:28
was like little baby shorts and shirt and it was like Mike Piazza, and
52:30
I thought it was the coolest thing, right, And I got off eBay
52:34
washed it four and it had it was the same thing, like literally to
52:36
the touch, it like would evaporate in your hand if it was washed.
52:39
So I don't know what the heck that is or how that happens. Um,
52:44
yeah, so I don't do you know what shirt I'm talking about?
52:45
The bread heart shirt. Um, I'm trying to find it on this situation
52:51
and whatnot, but I don't recall exactly. I'm gonna put it in the
52:53
old eBay machine, Bret Hart shirt. I'll go to the probably highest price
52:59
because it's definitely up there, I think. For there's there's one up there
53:01
thinking an excel and the reason you want is because you had it as a
53:04
kid, right, And I'm trying to get all those shirts back. There's
53:07
also this razor a Moan shirt that I'm looking for. It's like, all
53:10
it's just a picture of him and he's all yellow. I can't even find
53:14
this bread hard shirt to describe it should have been more properly prepared. But
53:16
hey, that's what we're doing with these rapid fire questions. We're just doing
53:20
it off the Cuffsky. I can't even find this thread the questions. It's
53:24
tough. I have it right here here. So this this is another question
53:28
from Jamie Ogden, very similar to the question we just talked about. What
53:31
makes you decide to sell off parts of your collection and what generally inspires you
53:36
to rebuy. So we said it before, like when Jack's lost the license
53:38
for me, I'm like that. I was like, oh, you get
53:42
everything I just bought for years, It's done. So I didn't sell the
53:45
bone Crunchers, but I got rid of I rid of the Titan Trons.
53:47
I got rid of the R three He's. I got rid of the finishing
53:49
moves, the final counts, the maximum sweats, the ruthless aggression, the
53:52
luxe aggression, Class superstars. I got rid of them all. And I
53:55
had no intentions of collecting anymore. I wasn't gonna collect with tels until I
54:00
saw them and I was like, God, damn, these elites are so
54:01
nice. And I just kept going and I try to convince you to do
54:06
it with me, but you didn't pick up for years later. Well,
54:08
I was offended that there was no Zach Ryder, so I kind of boycotted
54:15
Mattel. Yeah, and then eventually I got the zach Ryders and then eventually
54:17
I broke down and out. I only get the legends and the flashbacks.
54:21
But do you trickle into like friends and things, you know? Yeah,
54:23
I mean there's no there there's no denying. There's tons of things. Yeah.
54:28
Oh yeah, there's no denying that Mattel's not the best slammobile. I
54:30
do have a slam I do have that. So that answers the question because
54:35
for me, like now, buying these class superstars back and the aggression back
54:37
is because now they're nostalgic to me. Yeah, so that's why I'm buying.
54:40
That's the problem. You can't predict it when you get rid of it,
54:43
how are you going to feel about it years from now? So that's
54:45
the big risk you're taking. And there's so many things that I bought through
54:49
this podcast. I bought back for the second or third time, and now
54:51
I'm like, do I really need this? And I'm like, you know
54:52
what, matt just you're not selling it. Just keep it, keep it
54:54
in a tote, Keep it in a tote. Um, okay, this
54:59
is a funny one. Um, hardy heft. If you knew each other
55:02
back when you were younger and had to book a figure fed together. Who
55:06
would have been your champions and feuds? That's very interesting because, like,
55:09
I guess that'd be a we'd be the booking committee. Sure we going bone
55:14
crunchers here, I gotta go a bow country, Yeah, because because that'd
55:15
be the time when playing with was just dumb. I mean we did meet
55:19
while we still played with toys. We're eighteen, were play So I guess
55:22
I guess it'd be Digression secret secretly playing with Aggression guy. Uh. I
55:27
don't know if I'm we you know, we're very different. That's why this
55:30
podcast works. I think I don't know if we could. Uh, it's
55:32
it's it's hard enough to get this podcast to question how could we even?
55:36
I don't think we'd decide on champions. We have different styles, you know.
55:40
I'm sure you would be just Billy Gunn on top, like crazy Billy
55:43
Gone on top, Billy Gunn on top, maybe test Ic Channel, Oh
55:47
my god, not in my fed. Who do you have? I don't
55:52
know who that would? Well, how about this, here's a good question.
55:53
So I I've said that I've used uh Danny from Last Action hero to
55:58
be Matt Cardona the president, if you were gonna be the co president Brian
56:00
Myers, what toy out there in history would represent a young Brian Myers.
56:05
Well, there's no real one because I didn't do that. But fantasizing for
56:07
fantasizing, Let's say, do you think of something funny? Um, I
56:12
don't really know what you look like as a kid. I mean I kind
56:14
of do, But you didn't have the hair like I did. Did you
56:15
ever have for a while everyone in the bowl cut the Jonathan Taylor Thomas hair.
56:22
Yea, so to Danny's just a little customization I used to. This
56:29
is very weird if I can google it super quick. I collected James Bond
56:34
junior figures when I was a kid. Okay, are you familiar at all?
56:37
I know what it is. I didn't play with them. And there's
56:39
one guy and I can't remember his name, but he would He could probably
56:43
fit the bill. I'm thinking of it right now and then I'll get this
56:45
and everyone can google it. It is this guy. Oh yeah, this
56:54
is perfect Gordo lighter. That could be me. That could hold on.
57:01
I think I need to buy this guy at eBay. Gordo Lighter. See
57:06
what's his name? Gordo Gordo Jameson Junior. There was a cartoon. I
57:09
liked it. I got into the James Bond movies for a while when I
57:13
was a kid. I thought that, you know, they are pretty timeless.
57:15
They're cool. Oh right now, best offer, aud eBay, make
57:20
up a four to nine best offer. I'm gonna go to fifty. You
57:22
need to get one. Maybe. I definitely had it when I was again,
57:24
I have a whole set at one point I loved them. But the
57:28
pink shorts. Yeah, let's because of the skateboards. Would be mad if
57:31
you're taller than me, Oh, that would be awesome. Um, all
57:35
right, that was a great That was a great question. Um. Okay,
57:38
Seth Merritt says, what SDCC reveal were you most excited for and which
57:44
you see maybe not seeing the light of day O tough evil question I'm most
57:50
excited for. Um. I can answer that with one answer. What's that
57:55
the Natty? It's already been canceled, okay, and I'm very excited proved
58:00
one. It's a little different, okay. Either way, there's so many
58:04
elite female wrestling figures now and I think it's kind of ridiculous that like,
58:07
pretty much like the first lady of the roster hasn't had an elite and she's
58:13
and I'm we're completely biased because she's like our good friend and known her for
58:15
years. So I would love to have Elite Natty, and it's already been
58:20
canceled, and I'm going to assume that, you know, maybe whatever's going
58:23
on, she gets screwed again. I think my favorite one that I'm looking
58:27
forward to is maybe the Christian Brood. See, I'm looking forward to that
58:31
Christian for sure. And and what's not gonna get released? I mean,
58:37
who's to say that. I didn't want to predict anything, but I'm just
58:39
saying that Natty's already been canceled, So like that's a layup to say.
58:43
But I wouldn't want to look look forward to something. I don't want anything
58:45
to terrible terrible attitude. Yeah, I'm not even gonna put that negativity into
58:52
the world because I don't want anything to be canceled. I want everything to
58:54
come out A good question, though, Scott Yeager says Dream Podcast guests from
59:01
a figure perspective, and why I've said from day one, slowly grail of
59:07
interviews, and I would love to just shoot with him and talk about the
59:12
inception of the Ljan line at the time, you know, what the thought
59:15
was behind it and stuff, and the business model and maybe any you know,
59:20
little anecdotes that he remembers, because I feel like when people get the
59:22
chance to interview with sickman, that's not something they bring up. So and
59:25
we would that's an obvious one. Also, of course, we keep saying
59:29
we want to get Jeremy Padour and as much as we give him, I'd
59:32
love to interview Bill McKenna. Yeah, and not a Mark, not a
59:37
Mark interview like Sam Roberts, like really asking the heart to him a questions,
59:39
but I also want to learn about his journey. Loves great The dude
59:43
loves a great Bill. I haven't seen it and I don't own it,
59:45
but it's a great figure. Um okay, Tommy, I'm sorry. Tony
59:51
Lewandowski he posted a picture of the Ring Giant Batista and said how big is
59:54
Ring Giant Patissa? Is Dick pretty bigger? That's twenty four figure. It's
59:59
a big figure. I can only assume it's to scale. Yes, to
1:00:01
scale, so it's under those blue trunks under the blue. There was many
1:00:05
ring giants, but he says, I'm sure repainted ring Giants is a little
1:00:09
underrated. Set Ski, I think some of those are pretty cool. I
1:00:12
have some of the classic ones. We were just at a store that had
1:00:15
a lot, right, men in box ring Giants, Emonmrigan Okay, double
1:00:22
question, Brian, what is the one figure mats collection you want the most?
1:00:25
And same vice versa question. I think we discussed last What did I
1:00:30
pick? I don't know. I think I would want your I don't even
1:00:38
know. You have some great stuff that I don't have. But um,
1:00:44
your WCW Galube luger, the twelve inch I don't even know if I have
1:00:49
that. No sting. You just have sting? Right? Did you get
1:00:53
fair too? I think I just have sting. Um, so I'll add
1:00:59
that luger to the mix. You know what, No I change it.
1:01:00
I want your one of one Kurt Hawkins Ghost Bust. I think Bruski is
1:01:06
kind of subtly hinted at that that he wants that for me about about three
1:01:09
times now. Um, that's so, I obviously would want your Greg the
1:01:15
good looking Greg Prototype Rhythm and Blues. Okay, um at this point,
1:01:22
Oh man, I would love your Brett or Taker mail away in the bags,
1:01:28
and I would love just your black strap Andrew, so I can complete
1:01:30
my LJ and collection. Um, that would be a simple that's that's a
1:01:35
simple, simple, simple one. Okay. Um, A lot of people
1:01:43
asking repeats, So here we go. Okay, Zach Webb, what is
1:01:45
one figure or set that has been canceled at both of you all want to
1:01:50
see come to production minus retros? Hollywood Hogan, uh, Elite, So
1:01:58
one something that's been canceled that we want that we've seen that would be nice
1:02:02
to round out a collection. I feel like that's definitely a missing character that
1:02:08
was on the table. And when it's Hollywood Hogan saying that, it's a
1:02:12
pretty big name, I think who was like a major that was canceled?
1:02:17
Hooven too ruthless aggression. Yeah, like yeah, I think the probably that
1:02:22
that that Hollywood version of Hulk is probably the biggest missing piece. You know,
1:02:27
everyone else is just kind of supporting character type guys. I guess,
1:02:30
So I guess there's no one else that they've like Wendy Richter. Yeah,
1:02:34
but I would like it, but I can live without it, Like Hollywood.
1:02:37
Hogan's pretty like you need especially there's so many nWo in late nineties WCW
1:02:43
guys in the Elite collection, you know it would really fit rather nicely.
1:02:45
Gotcha? Um, Okay, let's see here. Zachary Allen with Funko creating
1:02:52
movie moment pops recreating a specific scene from a movie. Do you think a
1:02:57
wrestling moment popps would work? If so, which match would you like to
1:03:00
see in pop form? I would love to see a Hogan versus rock stair
1:03:02
down in pop forn. Have you ever seen these movie moments? No,
1:03:06
I was just gonnas. So they're kind of like they're two pops, but
1:03:08
like they're not more particularly but more detailed. Like the arms are doing something
1:03:13
and it's like a Mowana one and there was that target and we looked at
1:03:15
it. Yes, um, I actually like it. But the problem is
1:03:20
for me, like, for instance, if I have uh Luke and Darth
1:03:22
Vader like doing something like just standing, I don't need the cool moment and
1:03:27
they don't come off you know what I'm saying, don't come so like here's
1:03:30
an example of like the school Ghostbuster one where they are like slimer like slime
1:03:34
and slimer. That's pretty cool. No, No, they're really cool.
1:03:37
Big difference because you can't really pose a pop as I'm learning as i'm collection,
1:03:40
Like, for instance, look here's Han solo and Greed. Okay,
1:03:44
now I already have regular Han and regular GREEDO. Do I need this?
1:03:47
I think so, because that's way cooler. I disagree that that's I think
1:03:52
the one you just said is a great idea. The Hogan Rock. I
1:03:57
just think Hogan uh Andre like the slam test of strength. That's what I
1:04:01
was going to say, Um Brett Sean and a sharp shooter, yeah,
1:04:06
or even just the stair down like with the rep holding the title or yeah,
1:04:11
and then John Coe would have to get it. Yeah. I think
1:04:15
a lot of potential that so much that becomes a reality. Actually, Um
1:04:19
okay, Landing bum Garner, you get to help design the next Ringside collectible
1:04:24
exclusive one modern and one flashback. Who do you pick? All right,
1:04:28
brosk, just give it to him. I'm not gonna say the Edge thing.
1:04:30
Mine would be one of you from Mania and then flashback we restuming X
1:04:34
seven vents. I've said it before. I think there should be an Edge
1:04:36
figure with his edge heads. Uh hawk is a writer of removable head So
1:04:42
you can buy one or three, but I'm not gonna say that. So
1:04:44
one current and one retro um the fiend, I mean, that's yeah,
1:04:53
but that's gonna be out. I would want them to go to the route
1:04:58
like they did the jacks, like someone who would normally come out, you
1:05:00
know what I'm saying. So I would like a Mike Cannellis and Maria Cannellis.
1:05:04
I was gonna say two pack a Drake Maverick with the belt and like
1:05:08
his ring his new ring gear. I'm gonna say cannell Mike and Maria Canell's
1:05:12
two pack with the twenty four seven title the other way to Drake Maverick.
1:05:15
Okay. And as for Bud As for a throwback, I would love to
1:05:18
see a good old chainsaw, Charlie. How about somebody's work walking around these
1:05:25
halls lately? Metem back? I still want like a ninety seven It's sleazy
1:05:32
easy w cw Ark Bishof with leather jacket nWo jacket shirt underneath. Are Van
1:05:40
Rose this for you? Brian Myers? Is there all answer it too?
1:05:43
Is there anyone from ECW that you wish San Francisco, Tornmakers Mate. We've
1:05:45
talked about this, recovered this plenty of times. Obviously we saw that Roadkill
1:05:50
was on the table, so obviously I'd love that and the Danny Doring to
1:05:56
go with it. I kind of feel like the two guys that really got
1:05:59
screwed on that set that should have been in where Spike Dudley and Mikey Whipwreck
1:06:03
for sure. I definitely want to my TV like the whole time, pretty
1:06:06
much pretty and pretty like prominent roles too. I would love that. Uh.
1:06:12
I think that's about it. I think those are the ones that really
1:06:14
really stick out to me. I mean I think for sure, Mikey Doring
1:06:16
and Roadkill for sure. Yeah, Spike did Spike. It's like working awesome
1:06:21
for the title, Like for a good point um portion of that whole time
1:06:26
those figures are out. This is from Elizabeth Most Overrated, most overrated figure
1:06:31
sought after in collector Circles hard Mode pick one from LJ and Hasbro Jackson Modern
1:06:36
Elites Overrated. I mean like a mailaway bread, a mail away taker.
1:06:41
I mean, there you go. I mean those figures suck. Very rare
1:06:44
figures that technically suck. There's nothing special about them, right, Umret's like
1:06:49
a inaccurate figure in a bag and the Undertaker. Yeah, the Hogan's great
1:06:54
because it's different. Rustuman and nine win the title saving Brett. Yeah,
1:06:58
Warrior Warrior, I'm sorry, Warrior Brett sucks. It's like a less detailed
1:07:01
number. You know, it's a number one, like number two had already
1:07:04
comeut the number two to recommend. And it's a nice favorite figure. So
1:07:08
Ljan someone hits like maybe like a bearded corporal Kirshner, like who cares?
1:07:13
Like? Who cares? Um, It's hard to answer for every other toy
1:07:18
line, but I think you nailed on the head with that. Hasbro.
1:07:23
Mayloways um okay band at Montoya no relation to Eldo. I don't think if
1:07:29
you and Kurt could pick one figure that defines your whole childhood, what would
1:07:31
it be? The Rockers Hasbros. I think, um, they're my favorite
1:07:41
team. I thought they were so cool, it was so important for me
1:07:44
to get those they I just I don't know, I just think of being
1:07:45
a little kid with those. I would have to say, uh, Hogan
1:07:51
and Macho l Jan like, that's those are my my favorites. Hogan definitely
1:07:58
my favorite as a little little kid. Eventually, Macho Man and those ljns
1:08:00
are just iconic, iconic figures, and I still think they hold up.
1:08:05
And Macho Man was in the Macho Man make the Hall of Fame this year,
1:08:09
Yes, so I'm hoping Hogan goes in next year. We totally forgot
1:08:12
about the major Hall of Fame in our recap out the one year. Damn
1:08:15
it um. Okay, this is from Sean Rogers. If Mottel came out
1:08:23
with a w W E unreleased line figures that they have not released yet,
1:08:26
who love be in it? I love it? A lot of these questions
1:08:29
are derived from Mattel's cancelation, stop canceling. Um, guys who w CW
1:08:33
have not made Jeff Jarrett slop hoods, slap nuts, Eric Bshof. As
1:08:38
we said already today, this this fantasy, Big Papa Pump, that'd be
1:08:42
a dream. Um, I would love bagwell buff daddy. Um, that's
1:08:48
some good ones right there. Uh, there's no Kurt hennigg like representing that.
1:08:53
There's no bread heart. There's no bread heart representing that time. There
1:08:56
are some good ones right there, Hollywood, Hogan. Yeah, of course
1:09:00
we can't forget Hollywood. Um, that's a great question. All right,
1:09:03
we got more here. Um, John d Elina beards, how do you
1:09:10
trim them and line them up? Wow? Good, great question. Well,
1:09:13
as of recently, we have the Maestro's backstage. Um, it's kind
1:09:17
of game changing. They were coming a lot more frequently. Now they only
1:09:20
come pay per view weekends. So if you pay close attention to w W
1:09:24
Superstars on pay per view weekends, they're going to be their most well kept.
1:09:30
Um. I have two guys in Long Island. Bride Biz is my
1:09:32
main go to cut my hair for a year. It's just really the only
1:09:35
one I trust to cut the hair on the top of my head. He'll
1:09:38
like trim it and layer it every couple of months. Yeah. I mean
1:09:41
I can do my beard with a razor, but it's never as good as
1:09:45
doing it. Yeah. There's a barbershop I go here right by my Walmart
1:09:46
and La Fitness usually bang out all three the Triple Threat Barbershop, Walmart,
1:09:53
Wow, Jim all in that La Fitness parking lot. Yeah. And then
1:09:57
I have another guy named Mike. It was close or to my house.
1:10:00
That Deluxe cuts who I like to hit two. He's very good. But
1:10:04
there's a lot more work that goes into a beard than people think. You
1:10:08
don't just have it. And if you have it, if you get a
1:10:10
groom to see the difference, you kind of like, oh God, I
1:10:13
have to keep doing this because it looks so much better. And I'm so
1:10:15
Harry than you have, like a Harper beard, and I'm so Harry that
1:10:19
I get the hair like right under my eyeballs and like on my neck.
1:10:23
Harry. Harry's man I've never met, So I got to clean that up,
1:10:26
not necessarily where I need to be, Harry, though, you know
1:10:28
what I'm saying. Oh Gay, Okay, we all know Michael. We
1:10:32
all know Matthew cart Is from Oh my God, David Sirianni. We all
1:10:35
know Matthew Cardona is a Michael Jordan of wrestling we're collecting. But is there
1:10:39
a baseball player that Brian Myers is a wrestling collecting um? And then John
1:10:45
de Lana said, Kirby Bucket, Kurbye, there's a Kirby Pucket statue outside
1:10:50
the stadium that I'm going to tonight. I'm gonna get a picture in front
1:10:54
of um. Hmm, let's see my one of my favorite players growing up
1:11:00
was Joe mckewing, and he was a utility player of the Mets. You
1:11:02
know what the utility players. No, he's a guy that can play any
1:11:06
position at any time. So that that's how I see myself in the collecting
1:11:11
world. I can I dabble in everything and um as far as pro wrestling
1:11:15
action figures go, and I can, you know, not give you some
1:11:19
knowledge on anything or any line ever. And I am pretty h astute and
1:11:24
all of it. And I'm a jack of all trade. So there you
1:11:26
go. I'm a utility player, a star utility player. All right,
1:11:29
that's a I understand that this is from Michael Scarnadi. If TAZ finally signed
1:11:32
a Legends deal with WW what elite would you want? First? The human
1:11:35
superblux bean or are in prison jumpsuit? Easy machine, come on, easy,
1:11:41
don't even have to make the jumpsuit whatever. No, was so disappointing,
1:11:45
Uh, Scott Yeager, can each of you name pick one foam finger
1:11:49
style arena item that was never made that you wish was You're not really a
1:11:53
foam guy, I'm not, and the only ye but to recently when you
1:11:57
show me that ECW had them, where I had that little bit of a
1:12:00
niche like going a crap, do I need this? Which still not sure
1:12:02
about that. I might. I'm a big foam guy, especially like uh,
1:12:05
not quite the attitude there. But like the two thousand and one two
1:12:09
thousand two they made some weird foam fingers. I always wanted them to make
1:12:13
a foam h Eddie Guerrero Rose like Eddie and China Mamasita pretty cool, but
1:12:18
they never did that obviously. Um And if you want to go like back
1:12:23
in the day, I mean like I want to foam. He's Slater guitar
1:12:25
for the One Man Rock band. I've a foam Jeff Jarrett slap Dar signed
1:12:30
by Mike Awesome and Medasia. I was at that same signing. That's so
1:12:33
scary. That was just upstairs haways in Nitro. But I have like a
1:12:38
really nice Mike Awesome epy ten from that. You don't have that. It's
1:12:41
probably extra money. I probably it was like this. Really it's like the
1:12:44
color apy ten right, Yeah, like the ones that we have with like
1:12:46
the the hologram in the corner. Yes, James Jackson, has there ever
1:12:50
been a figure you've dreamed about finding in store that never existed, but you
1:12:55
really wanted Mine always seemed to be a fourth Hasbro crush and is russelming a
1:12:58
ten outfit? M Well, I think the crush they made at the Green
1:13:01
Card it's very similar to that job done. Um. I mean I always
1:13:06
wanted a tug boat, which I later found and I've talked about it on
1:13:11
the unboxing that I heard rumors, but it was just people not knowing the
1:13:15
difference. And I remember being at the Toys of Russ and some employee saying,
1:13:17
oh, we have tug boat in the back. I was like,
1:13:19
while you have tug boat and they brought out Typhoon. I was so bummed
1:13:23
out. So tugboat is definitely one of them. I mean we eventually got
1:13:27
it. But and this is back to the how obsessed I was with the
1:13:30
Rockers, Like when they broke up, I wanted like different of them,
1:13:32
so like to finally make the heartbreak kids Sewan and the and the Marty singles
1:13:38
run Rockers was like a big deal for me. This kid, I just
1:13:40
felt like forever the weight for that, you know, right, Ashton Kutcher,
1:13:44
thanks kidding, Ashton, decent. What figures have you come across and
1:13:47
regret not buying at the time. M. That's a big M. I
1:13:55
was like, what I'm looking for even on eBay? There are some things
1:13:58
that like, I mean, if I ten years ago decided to just scoop
1:14:02
up mail away hogans in the bag and then sold them now, right,
1:14:06
how much money would have made? Right? For sure? Regrets like that,
1:14:10
Like I could have pieced together this LJAN collection I'm doing right now.
1:14:15
This is a kind of recent regret, but it works. Someone contacted us
1:14:19
on our major pod email and said they had a Ultimate Warrior Resident LGN prototype.
1:14:28
They give me picks, they give me a price, and they're like,
1:14:30
we're about to puss on eBay, but we'll sell to you for this
1:14:31
blah blah Blah'm like listening. Too rich for my blood. I passed it
1:14:34
along to another LJNU super fan who ended up getting it and got it for
1:14:41
more than half the price. Well, if that was an option, I
1:14:44
would have got it. Well, this is a story that you've told me,
1:14:46
and I said to you in private about this. I feel like the
1:14:49
person is selling it didn't truly want you to have it, but they contacted
1:14:55
us. I know it doesn't make any sense. How would they know that
1:14:57
I have LJ and friends that I can just hook them up with. You
1:15:00
know what I'm saying. Okay, there's gonna be some repeat. A lot
1:15:02
of people ask a lot of questions, which is fine. Scott Yeager again,
1:15:05
what's one wrestler under a Legends deal that has a presctitious gimmick, A
1:15:10
precious, precious gimmick you'd like to see done as a figure? I think
1:15:15
I just talked about the Ring Side collectible exclusive Chase Charlie. Yeah, I
1:15:18
would love that. Um, that's like or that could be like a comic
1:15:23
com one. I think that'd be cool. I also think we need a
1:15:26
Jerry Lawler like as an announcer, like ninety four ninety five style style whatever
1:15:31
you like. Why don't we have that? It's a layup. Yeah,
1:15:35
there's so many like that. I think I think we like, for instance,
1:15:39
we finally get the Christian um this row. We should get an M
1:15:42
to the A to the b el like men on a Mission Mabel. I
1:15:45
think, yeah, UM really wanted that, and it's retro form. But
1:15:48
I think to your point, we could do a w c W. Mister
1:15:50
w c W. Brett Hart. Yeah, there's so many options. And
1:15:55
that's what's so great about Mattel is that they have the potential to do all
1:15:58
these things. Let's let's bang them out. And we saw that this year
1:16:00
with the Vista and the Brute Christian. So we're gonna get something now that
1:16:03
the booker t Chin. Well, China's brand new. I'm just saying that
1:16:08
there's gonna be a lot of incarnations of dominations with China. Um Joe I
1:16:14
ed. Why is the boot to go to place to hide random locker room?
1:16:17
Uh? Um my idea behind So we actually we're talking about this recently,
1:16:24
the hiding stuff in someone's bag game. It only works if the person
1:16:29
finds it later on your own. You don't want to You want to hide
1:16:30
it good where they don't see you right away. But that's super good,
1:16:33
but they'll never find it. So recently there was a certain item that I'll
1:16:36
remain nameless that was being passed around and somebody hid it in the lining of
1:16:42
someone's bag. So unless you're a psycho path that there's like some reason nobody's
1:16:47
unpacking their bag each week down to the liner and feeling through it to find
1:16:51
something. So that's like that's a say to play the game. It's got
1:16:55
to be something you know in your I like the toilet tree kit. That's
1:16:58
a good one. I like that. I mean the boot. It's just
1:17:00
easy because if you have time to dick to guys stuff and get it in
1:17:02
a toiletcut, that's good. Things like that. The boots just fast.
1:17:06
And you know, if a guy has already worked and his boots are there,
1:17:09
they knock the chance of them putting him back on a pretty slim So
1:17:12
he put something in there and then the next day they finally go shit.
1:17:15
And also, by the way, I put that Ricky Ortiz WTF vinyl figure
1:17:19
in Gallo's boot this week. Yeah. Oh, I put in his sneaker
1:17:23
actually, and I just happened to be getting another shower and I saw him
1:17:26
power and addressed and he that thing's got that Carlito spiking there and he went
1:17:30
to the moon. So it worked. Travis Jenkins, when you think back
1:17:34
to when you were a kid and who your favorite russo was, did it
1:17:38
change as the business did and as you got older. My favorite growing up
1:17:41
as Bret Hart, But I was at the age when he was feeding with
1:17:43
HBK where they go against the system, resonated for me, so stone cold
1:17:47
was the icing on the cake. At resume of fourteen. That's a super
1:17:50
great question, super easy question for me to answer as a little little kid.
1:17:54
Hulkogan number one. Then as I was getting older and I thought Michaels
1:18:00
and like the bad guys were cool, Shaw, Michaels became my favorite.
1:18:02
And then, like you said, the anti authority Austin was definitely my favorite.
1:18:08
But then when I realized, Okay, I'm really going to get into
1:18:11
this business, and I was looking at it from a different take a shot
1:18:15
on Patreon, a patrol shot We're in the bar actually, so we could.
1:18:17
When I was looking at it from a different perspective, I was looking
1:18:20
at guys who I thought I would look like if I when I got older
1:18:25
in like five or six years, like Edge, Christian Jericho, and those
1:18:28
guys became my favorite. Yeah. I mean even when I was really really
1:18:31
little, I kind of always I don't know how or why, but I
1:18:35
under somehow, I understood that the heels were doing their job by being heels,
1:18:40
and I appreciated it. So I always kind of did like the bad
1:18:42
guys a little bit more. And maybe I didn't know why. When I
1:18:45
was younger, but I just did and then kind of similar to what you
1:18:47
just said, I just thought guy's with long hair were so cool, and
1:18:53
you know, I gravitated towards those guys. Danny TANCREDI if you guys weren't
1:18:57
to tell creative, what would be the number one thing to change the most
1:19:00
distribution problems? The length of time to get a new fig or lines we
1:19:03
love being put on hiatus. Just a few examples that get negative reaction from
1:19:06
fans. Distribution stuff like I've I didn't even know how to fix that.
1:19:12
I wouldn't know. I did, like way out of our wheelhouse. But
1:19:15
the one thing I don't understand is the time it takes to get a figure,
1:19:20
the planning to to retail. Like I get it, and I don't
1:19:26
get it. Like we were talking about this reason they like bone crunchers.
1:19:29
They're pumping them out right, you know, eight months, seven months are
1:19:31
on shelves from guy debut on TV. But it's like the quality of a
1:19:35
bone cruncher. You're excited to get it because it's a new guy, but
1:19:39
you look back on it, it's like, was Evan Alven's really that great
1:19:42
figger? I mean, no, Mattel's are pumping out these elites that are
1:19:44
like next level beautiful. So I do think there's a way to cut down
1:19:47
the between Like I don't think. I think about it, like if they're
1:19:51
planning it lines a year and a half in advance, how how relative and
1:19:57
timely are the figures are gonna be when they come out, you know what
1:19:59
I'm saying. And sometimes it works great, uh, like an NXC guy
1:20:02
who's finally getting called up by the time it comes out, or sometimes it
1:20:04
doesn't work where someone like friends like Aid in English, who's like killing it
1:20:09
doing the roost of day stuff and then he comes out and he's already off
1:20:11
TV. Yeah, So I mean, and that's the that's just the toy
1:20:15
business. But if he were up to me, of course I'd want to
1:20:18
speed up the time. And of course, you know, the retros,
1:20:23
they're on hiatus long al than I We hope they come back. But at
1:20:26
the end of the day, this is a line for kids and for collectors,
1:20:29
So I think they need to find that happy balance and I think that
1:20:30
they're working on that right now. So you know, let's just be positive
1:20:34
that the retros will come back. He's got to keep them alive, their
1:20:38
spirit alive, and hopefully you know all that positivity amounts to something. What
1:20:41
do you think? One more question? Two more questions? All right,
1:20:44
two more questions. Um, let's see here. Okay, us from Emon
1:20:53
American. I think he already asked something, but that's fine. Don't you
1:20:56
think the biggest oversight in wrestling for your history is the Tonga kid? Tomah
1:21:00
the biggest oversight in history? Yeah? No, no, absolutely no.
1:21:04
We've discussed so many guys who should have or could have gotten figures. Uh
1:21:10
Glacier, Norman Smiley, the Big Wiggle himself. We talked about this the
1:21:15
other day, build him out humors. Yeah, it's plenty of guys.
1:21:17
I mean, EC three we interviewed this week is in wrestling fifteen sixteen years
1:21:23
he just got his first figures. Well, now you're letting the people in
1:21:25
know this. Q and a's a little old, sorry, folks. Spoiler
1:21:30
podcasts aren't live a spoiler many of times in this past year. All right,
1:21:32
and one last question before we go, Let's find a good one.
1:21:36
Um, this is good from Rob Wilson. What is your favorite? So?
1:21:42
What is your favorite non wrestling figure? Yeah? Probably a Mike Piazza
1:21:55
starting lineup two thousand. Huh No. Now I collect a lot of different
1:22:00
things, so I'm trying to rack my brain around it. What's the my
1:22:03
favorite? The best? Um? I would have to say my favorite figure
1:22:11
is the real Ghostbusters back in the day, the Slimer like the ninety eighty
1:22:19
nine. No, it's like before eighty nine. It's like mid eighties.
1:22:23
It comes like the pizza, like a watermelon. No going away over my
1:22:28
head here. If I show it to you, you'll know, uh,
1:22:30
real Ghostbusters Kenner. But like the Kenner is what I was thinking. It
1:22:34
doesn't It was weird, like it doesn't look like Slimmer in the cartoon they
1:22:36
later made that it kind of looks more like movie Slimer. But it's the
1:22:41
real Ghostbusters. You definitely know it. Okay, Yeah, he's got the
1:22:46
watermelon, the pizza and like some meme or eat food. Why come yes?
1:22:51
Oh that you've never seen Ghostbusters? Who? I have no idea that
1:22:56
the first scene of Slimer is they're in a hotel. We actually used to
1:23:00
stay that hotel in LA for summer slams back in the day. Yeah,
1:23:03
I know what you're talking about. The one with the mall in the back
1:23:05
of it. More different one, I think a different one. Okay.
1:23:09
Anyway, and that's where this is filmed. And they're like they're patrolling like
1:23:14
the hallways of this hotel and they see like a room service car and just
1:23:19
why is her? Oh my god, we gotta we gotta do that.
1:23:23
Watch your spirit animal, that's why you're so hungry all the time when you're
1:23:27
this is not an iconic figure. It looks I mean that does look vintage
1:23:29
and cool. Yeah, but uh, what's really annoying about this? And
1:23:31
it sucks for me? So a slimmer's host to fly. Uh so now
1:23:36
you can't stand that. Now, all the figures they have like clear stands
1:23:40
for slim understand, but this is like, yes to land his belly,
1:23:43
but it's not a flat surface yea, so he kind of like you can
1:23:45
you can balance him and getting like an extra one of those clear stands and
1:23:49
flows them up. I've I've learned to balance them. Okay. So that's
1:23:53
that's my answer to that. Great question. Great Q and a those ikea
1:23:57
detail supportable except bucks, Yeah, very affordable. You have one eye about
1:24:01
ten, but they're a lifesaver. I've convinced a couple of my fellow like
1:24:08
collectors, like, hey, it looks cheap, it looks great, it
1:24:10
looks good, it looks so good. Yeah, it's easier to the other
1:24:14
two. I wouldn't go that far. We on time there almost twenty.
1:24:19
We're fine for our to give people a little taste of what we're talking about.
1:24:24
Yeah, it's gonna be all about wrestling. Like a new thing that
1:24:26
we've kind of been talking about the past couple of days is wrestling T shirts,
1:24:30
old school t shirts. Yeah. So we went to that wrestling for
1:24:33
Sale pop up store in New York City and then we saw these old shirts
1:24:36
and then made me go to my parents attic and find all my old shirts.
1:24:41
I know you've been collecting some, by the way, we talked about
1:24:43
it yesterday. So we went to this and I'm like, back to what
1:24:45
I said, I'm extremely organized and like OCD. So like I left the
1:24:51
house, they say, wearing a Summer Slam ninety eight Highway to Hell shirt
1:24:55
that I bought at the event. My wife was like, you just knew
1:24:57
where that was. I'm like, yeah, the you know, I had
1:25:00
a ready to go And then I said to him like where's all your shirts?
1:25:02
Oh man, they're my parents. Though I'll never be able to get
1:25:05
to him. I'll never find him, they're so buried. And then a
1:25:08
couple of hours later he sending me pictures. I'm like, really, however,
1:25:10
yeah, I'll admit my mom went through the attic and got them out
1:25:15
for me. Come on, it was too much, it was too messy,
1:25:17
there was too many boxes. I told her what I was looking for,
1:25:19
and she knew where the boxbus is. She moves because it's like Christmas
1:25:23
ornaments in there and uh, Halloween decorations and stuff like that stuff. But
1:25:27
she was able to get you know, what else is there? Like I'm
1:25:29
not even getting hundreds and hundreds of purple Zach Rider sung glasses from the shop
1:25:33
hundred because like I just was buying it where they were cheap. Oh,
1:25:39
I'd like literally have hundreds. You used to like do that, like just
1:25:43
buy anything up Kurt Hawkins just to have. But I demanate anymore. I
1:25:45
just I don't know if anybody wants some purple Zach Rider or some guys like
1:25:48
maybe do a little get away off from like some of my trading cards to
1:25:51
hand out to like those Deluxe Aggressions, Jack Zach riders like they were.
1:25:56
They were on sale at ringside ones and I think I got the whole.
1:26:00
I still got Landy run I got rid of those. It's pretty quick.
1:26:02
Yeah, but god, yeah, so we'll talk about everything. I mean
1:26:05
we are. Let's talk about the Elite squad, w elite squad. We
1:26:10
got a little bit of inside horse. I'm not gonna say we're the leaders.
1:26:13
There's I would say a J's were the leaders. Well you know,
1:26:15
there's Aj, there's Renee, there's Kathy Kelly. Um. I think we
1:26:19
are the ones who are we were the top draft picks, I would hope.
1:26:24
So, actually I heard it was supposed to be heat Slater, which
1:26:27
is which? Which is? I don't think that's true. Maybe somebody just
1:26:30
saw like a picture Broski joke. Oh yeah, maybe some picture of usn't
1:26:35
thought it was the same guy. But I've been really trying to get away
1:26:39
from the heat Slater. Mike Canellis and Buddy Murphy look alike comparison. So
1:26:45
but yeah, so like being a part of the Elite Squad, we do
1:26:46
get some upcoming news um before everyone else. We're not gonna spoil things here
1:26:51
unless we're you know, given the green light for sure. And I just
1:26:56
think this worried Bill Bills out there like sweating it out, relax wherever he's
1:27:00
at, of course, but h I want to encourage people to listen to
1:27:03
this, whether they're like a vintage collector, because we'll for sure get into
1:27:06
playing that all the time. And if you're a modern day collector, you
1:27:10
know, so it's a little bit for everybody. Yeah, we're definitely gonna,
1:27:13
you know, go from Ljans to Mattel. We're gonna talk about everything,
1:27:15
and which reminds me support the Mattel retro line. Oh my god,
1:27:20
please, these things are my absolute favorite, and I feel like the fans
1:27:25
aren't giving it enough love because the more love the fans give it, the
1:27:28
more love Mattel will give. And it's guy's our age that need to support
1:27:30
it because it's sentimental to us growing up and I don't love it and it's
1:27:34
so similar. The ring is twenty bucks on Amazon. Look, it's amazing.
1:27:39
Come out of this ring right now. It is. I just kiss
1:27:42
the mic perfect. I don't know how that sounded, but I just kiss
1:27:44
the mic because these figures are beautiful and I'm getting my own retro figure,
1:27:46
so I'm a little biased. True, you're getting two elites, so that's
1:27:50
that's kind of cool. I got a smile ear to ear a baby,
1:27:55
you got that? What is that? That Chase Chase variants, which is
1:27:58
very cool. Mattel's are from Chase variants this year. Uh. I won't
1:28:00
be the first, I'll be the second. And that's what's cool about my
1:28:02
tell you know, because I know we're it feels like we're kissing their butt
1:28:04
right now, but honestly like they're the best figures of all time, which
1:28:09
okay, if you guys won't proof of I was gonna tap out completely to
1:28:14
collecting when like that two thousand and nine ten switch over, and then I
1:28:19
saw the first set of Elites. I was like, huh, I bought
1:28:23
him, took him the package up. There's another thing we left to get
1:28:25
into. We open toys. Oh yeah, a lot loose collectors. But
1:28:30
anyway, I took them out, and I know for a fact I told
1:28:33
you, I said, look, man, these might be the greatest rescigers
1:28:36
all the time. You're going to collect these and hard headed broth scrip here
1:28:40
didn't do it for years. I was years and I'm telling him one time
1:28:45
lost license. They're making these legends. They're un leave when Jackson's the license
1:28:50
like it broke my heart life too. I had my long term girlfriend broke
1:28:54
up with me. It was like a double women. Yeah, you know,
1:28:56
because they were they were around his night ninety six over ten year.
1:29:00
It was a big round. And then to tell me my collection was not
1:29:01
going to continue. Yeah, oh my god. But diagraph the same way.
1:29:05
But I just quickly got over it when I saw him, and I
1:29:08
try to convince you, but you weren't hearing until ye years later. I've
1:29:11
since gone back. I pieced together and spend a lot of money and doing
1:29:15
stuff that he should have been doing. But they are incredible toys. So
1:29:18
support the line, support the podcast, and uh yeah, and we'll keep
1:29:23
this podcast family friendly so the kids can listen, you know, the kids
1:29:26
who like your basics. Sure, let's do it. I'm not I'm not
1:29:29
a basic guy. Posted that I'm trying not to curse anymore anyway, because
1:29:31
I have a daughter. I do try not. I have two cats.
1:29:34
You can curse round cats. True, true, that's probably fine. All
1:29:40
right, folks, we are signing off we're gonna wrap it up for episode
1:29:43
one, the pilot of um this podcast, hope you guys. So eventually
1:29:46
they'll be like a little jingle right here. Yeah right, we don't think.
1:29:51
But here's what I was thinking earlier. Are we going to have like
1:29:55
an official like podcast Twitter? I think that's too much. We don't need
1:29:59
that. Our twitters are so especially you are so big and popular, Like
1:30:02
what what's the point? So keep like our twitters? Like, yeah,
1:30:08
anytime you want information on the podcast, there's not gonna be like at the
1:30:11
major wrestler on Instagram followed, we post pictures thirties and we're we're posting pictures
1:30:17
of the action figures at least me on a weekly basis. Can I admit
1:30:21
I'm so bad? Like so, we just had our good friend Pat Buck
1:30:25
teach us out a podcasts. Pat, I appreciate shape bad a couple of
1:30:28
minutes ago because I don't know anything about technology. I'm real bad. I
1:30:31
don't play video games, I don't do anything to do Why that's what kids,
1:30:34
bro like, You're way more tech savvy than me, Like I don't
1:30:39
know anything. I mean, that's not saying much. I was telling Finn
1:30:43
in the car. I was like, yeah, I can't run the Creative
1:30:45
Pro Instagram because I don't want to be logging in and logging out and change
1:30:48
the fasts and stuff. And he goes, dude, it's right there.
1:30:51
It's a click. Like I didn't realize, like you can just like you
1:30:55
can bounce back and forth between him without like signing in that I had no
1:30:58
He blew my mind like something that at That's how far off I am anyway,
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you know it? None of that stuff. Um, yeah, we
1:31:11
gotta we gotta come up with a little goodbye not today, Zigler later marks
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all right, MD it there, that's it, and that folks wraps it
1:31:25
up for the five year anniversary special of sorts. It's not a special,
1:31:30
just another episode of The Major Rewind. But it's not done yet. It's
1:31:35
not over. We have more to come. Next week we're gonna keep a
1:31:39
train roll in celebrating five years of the Major Wrestling Figure podcast, and maybe
1:31:46
eventually down the line will celebrate five years of the Major Rewind. Who knows,
1:31:53
Um, listen, nobody's listening anymore. Somebody put you in on a
1:31:56
little secret. You're not nobody else. Listen, Nobody listens to this.
1:32:00
But if you do, if you do listen to this, then I got
1:32:03
something for you. Come to my merch table July thirty, Creator pro Breaking
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Boundaries and I'm gonna give you something for free. I'm gonna give you a
1:32:11
free stick or how about it? What do you say? Because at the
1:32:16
end of the day, in this podcast, it's not about angriness or bitterness.
1:32:24
It's about love. A love for our passions, a love for collecting,
1:32:28
a love for our past. There's a calm surrender to the rush of
1:32:41
day, when the heat of a rolling wave can be turned away, an
1:32:51
enchanted moment, and it sees me through. It's enough for this restless warrior
1:33:02
just to be with you. And can you feel the love tonight? It
1:33:15
is where we are. It's enough for this wide eyed wonderer bad we've got
1:33:31
this far. Can you feel their love tonight, how it's laid to rest.
1:33:53
It's enough to make kings and vagabond believe the very best. That's what
1:34:09
it's all about. So in those times where it goes away, just remember
1:34:14
you could still feel it out there, just like we're feeling it tonight.
1:34:17
That's what it's all about. Love. There's a time forever everyone, if
1:34:28
they only learn that the twist and collideoscope moves us all in turns. There's
1:34:40
arrive and reason to the wild out doors. When the heart of the star
1:34:48
crust voyasure beats, and time with your and can you feel you their love
1:35:01
tonight? It is where we heart. It's enough to make for this wide
1:35:16
eyed wonderer that we've got this far, And can you feel the love tonight?
1:35:34
How it's late to run. It's enough to make kings and vagabonds believe
1:35:50
the very bad. It's enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the bear feeble