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The Complete History Of WWF Jakks 1996-1997 · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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And put the show. Hey everybody, this is head Banger Made and you're
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watching the history of WWF Jackson nineteen ninety six from nineteen ninety seven, you
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know as simply tremendous collection. Yeah, here's a new Resting Daniel podcast shot
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March Ready, show let job. Welcome everyone to a very special edition of
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the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast. We are discussing Jack's nineteen ninety six and nineteen
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ninety seven. I am your host always Ready, the Internet Champion, the
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death Match King, the Indie God Matt Cardona, and I'm your host the
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most professional wrestler Brian Myers, and I'm ready for some bone crunching action.
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I was happy he said that. I'm also your producer of the show.
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Smart Mark Sterling Esquire, the most famous professional wrestling lawyer. But this show
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save ten percent. Excited to jump into this, guys, I'm giddy.
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I'm giddy like a child, and I'm thinking about you know, and it's
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because I'm surrounded by all these figures that I love and means so much to
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say the same thing. My room is covered, memories are flooding back to
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me. For the past forty eight hours as we've prepared for this, I
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just feel great. And it's like it's literally the essence of what we do,
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this entire podcast, this entire business. It's like these irreplaceable sentimental childhood
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feelings that if you're a collector, like you know, it doesn't need to
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be explained to you know exactly what I'm talking about, like how it feels,
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you know, to be rushed back to that time period in your life.
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And man, we're we're going deep down that rabbit hole today. Yeah,
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nineteen ninety seven was my favorite playing years. Yeah, favorite playing years
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with figures. My fig fed was the most professional ever was in nineteen ninety
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seven. We'll discuss the fig feds, but we're here to talk about Jack
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specific Mark. You were like in college when these came out, right,
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Yeah, like that's not true. What seventh eighth grade? But if the
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Hasbros. We've done the entire history of the Hasbro's w Taswell's figure So that's
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the basis. It's that's the beginning, right, this is the continuation.
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This is the maturity. Also have the history of the l Jam's right here
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on this very channel that you could check out if you enjoy this video.
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We we have the ben Dums, which these are after the Bendoms. The
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Bendoms filled that gap between Hasbro and Jack, but they weren't quite the same.
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Listen, we have a toy company called Major Bendy's. We love them,
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but they weren't quite wrestling figures. You couldn't quite have a fig fed
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with a just toys bend them. So when these Jacks Jack specific Bone Coach
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Ash Superstars came out, my world was rocked and changed forever definitely. So
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we got to talk about people's first memories of these figures and first, you
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know, realization that there was a new toy company making a WWF product.
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So do you want me to go first? I curtain like it was yesterday?
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Well, do we want to give a little history lesson of what was
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going on behind the scenes that we didn't know about that we can relay that
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the groundwork for people. But this is all hindsight information. It's not like
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we knew this at age eleven, of course. But Jack Friedman, Jack
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Friedman is the j in l JN. He and Steven Berman founded Jack Specific
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in nineteen ninety five. In early nineteen ninety five is when they got the
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license to WWF Wrestling. But like you said, Brian, I had no
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idea this was going on, you know, I mean like the Internet,
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ye, late ninety five. Yeah, So that's really it's funny that you
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said that, because that's how I discovered these, because I mean, he
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still works for Verizon. My dad's worked for Verizon for forty years or whatever,
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as long as you know, I've been, you know, known the
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man. And there would be certain times there was like you know, bring
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your kid to work day type things, and I would go with him.
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And then at his office they had this mysterious thing called the Internet, and
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like me and my brother would get so excited to like go with him for
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a day work and then it's your dad, you know, it's your hero
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whatever. You know, it's a great thing to do. But like to
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use the Internet. I remember we would use web Crawler and I would just
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look up anything rest obviously wrestling, because I'm obsessed. And one day I'll
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never forget. It was that summer of ninety six or maybe spring of ninety
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six, I was at his office and I found pictures of series one,
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and I'm just like I couldn't contain myself. I'm like, what are these?
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What is finally like? Because they, like we mentioned earlier, there
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was such a gap between Hasbros and Bendoms were slightly filling the void but not
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really. It was so exciting and then like then this anticipation was growing for
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me, like how do I get these things? And I made my dad
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print out like black and whites that day, like and I came home with
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them, like I know, these fit figures are coming out, and I
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was so excited. Yeah, I didn't have the Internet. I went to
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a compook story in my house LNS Comics, and they had some sort of
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like print out advertisement of it in black and white. But at the time,
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I had no idea these were gonna be what five six inches? I
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thought they were the same size as the Hasbros. Because why wouldn't they be
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you know that the just Toys Bendoms were. No, I mean that's another
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crazy thing, Like but not now because I'm grown up and my hands are
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ginormous. Right when I was a child, this felt like the biggest figure
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in the world what I got. I was like, oh my god,
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what am I gonna do? This giant Razor romot. This is awesome and
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he moves. It was just it was like a completely different world. You
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know, It's very exciting. So yeah, so Jack starts in early nineteen
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ninety five to get the license at the end of nineteen ninety five, and
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then at that toy fair in ninety six, which we don't even know what
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toy fairs. We're kids. I'm in sixth grade. I'm not I'm not
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going to rigside collectibles the wrestling. Please Special Board. Listen to the major
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uspare podcasts hearing about what's going on to toy fair. What you know,
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if you're a business man, if you're in the toy industry, you knew
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these were coming out. Other than that, there was no way to really
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know, right, So when did you obtain Series one? Summer nineteen ninety
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six. I'll never forget my dad. He came back from Toys r US
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with that. Sean Michaels. This was the time where like, you know,
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the credit cards were wrapped. You couldn't just put things on your card,
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you know, you use your credit card. So loosely, you know
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what I'm saying. So he only had enough cash for the HBK. He
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hid the other figures. He went back and got me. We found the
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figures and we bought them all. Wow. So my mom went to visit
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her. I mustly got him super now that we know more about toys now
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because she went to visit her best friend in California. So I'm assuming she's
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got them before. Like they even came to the East Coast, called me
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and said I found them. I found them, and she brought them home
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for me, and I was like out of my mind, losing it.
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So, Broskie, you didn't, Brian knew that they were coming in advance?
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You didn't. I did? I did. I did know that was
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coming. Saw something at LLS. I saw an advertisement LNS. But like
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I didn't have internet, you know. Sometimes I go to my friend's house
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and use like AOL or the Nickelodeon like chat Roob, you know what I'm
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saying, or WFL I but I didn't. I didn't go on these these
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wrestling figure Yeah, I didn't. I didn't know what that was yet,
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I believe it or not. The person who broke the news that that Jack's
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were coming out. Was John from Ringside Collectibles in what what's the what's the
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on that mark? Can you read that? Twelve nine ninety five? How
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does he know this information? Well, he's gonna buy him, right,
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That's really they have to pick his brain about this because I'm so curious what
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he was doing to get information, because John himself couldn't have been that old,
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right, you know, he's only a few years older than us,
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Yeah, like barely. So I don't even understand what he what lengthsy was
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going through to get information on WWF action figures, but he clearly knew what
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was going on because he describes is exactly how they are, that there'd be
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more realistic, not like Bendhams or stretchums, and that there'd be similar to
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like a DC comic book in Batman style six inch figure John three p.
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Sixty if you read it, just like him, new action figures are coming
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out soon, how he said it. And the deal that Jack signed with
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WWF was a ten year deal that was only struck in October of ninety five,
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so that had just happened. And I don't know if I mentioned this
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before, that the Jack Friedman is the j in Lja, so he had
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done he had done stuff with WF before. And if you look at that
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date nineteen ninety five, it explains why you know Razor and Diesel are in
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this set because when they come out, they're in the wo which made it
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all that much more exciting too write because in fact, the hottest pro wrestlers
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in the world. So let's say it. I think we take a look
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at the photos that were shown at the toy fair, the min on card
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photos of the set. You know, you see here you got Razor,
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Amone, Diesel gold Dust Undertaker Sean Michaels, Brett Hart. Now that's what
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was shown at the toy Fair, I believe, or in different like advertising,
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but this might have been what you saw online. I want to say,
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that's exactly what I saw. And I have to say this packaging stands
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the test of time. It absolutely does. And the insert, which I
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don't know if you guys are understanding, like when what I mean by that?
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That's the the actual photo of the talent that's stuck in between the blister
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and the bubble like game changing like just to me, like I was like
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awestruck by it, you know, I said, it stands, it pops,
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it still stands to test the time. We basically stole it for a
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big rubber guys the citation. And I don't know about you, Matt,
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but I was so obsessed with these and so obsessed about everything, I could
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never throw it out. I always saved them. I did throw the bat.
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I had a giant stack of them, like until you know there were
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no more bone crunches. I had to giants. I would have bet my
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house that Matt threw them out, ripped them in half as fast as I
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called the rest of the packaging up. But I always kept that insert because
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I just thought, oh man, I thought it was so cool. I
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recall the first images I saw were loose images of these figures, uh,
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like the ones we're gonna see right here. This is what I saw us
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Undertaker, Sean and Brett. And we'll explain later because I don't understand that
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the gold dust wig is going to come off, you know what I'm saying.
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And I have no idea, so this, like I said, a
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whole new world. Undertaker's hats not not a stuck on his head like a
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Hasbro. That's an accessory right in our world, right there's no accessories,
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especially because you're looking at Razor, You're like, Okay, that vest in
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those chains ain't going nowhere. Brett's got hair over sunglasses, you know,
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that's the shades aren't coming off. Interest. Yeah, I was, dare
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I say, devastated when I got these home and I realized, oh my
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god, these are like not in skill at all with my has was I
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got start a whole new fig fed. Yeah, so that's what I was
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going to say. You know, you guys talked about your your beginning.
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I had the internets. First of all. I had the Internet as early
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as possible. You were in college, had a study. Yeah, my
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mom got a computer when it was like the first people to get computers in
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their house, right, So then we had internet dial up whatever, maybe
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ninety four, I don't know, very early. Wow, But I still
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knew nothing about this. Uh. Steve Neckron and I had our Hasbro bendy
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fig Fed right, and when I did not know anything about these until I
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saw them in store, and I in stores. I believe it was the
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series one because I remember seeing Sean Michaels and I just thought to myself,
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it's way too big. And that was it for me for a couple of
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years. I think it's like the big excited me like whoa, yeah,
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but I'm like, well, this doesn't fit in our fig fed but want
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to start over. No, not at all. It didn't make any sense
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to me. It was tough to have a six man fig fed, but
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I did it. Yeah, I think I've said before I mixed in uh,
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karate fighter guys because they're in as well. Yeah, just to kind
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of expand. And so these are the loose figs, the loose pictures that
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you were talking about. Of each one. This is from the Toy Fair
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painted ones. That's the Shawn Michaels right there, and the uh oh,
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we're going right for Razor Ramone. How Mar Mark, You're going all over
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the place. Mark, we're live here. Uh So there's the Diesel,
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the the Shawn. Those were from the Toy Fair, I believe. But
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yeah, let's let's do it a little deep dive. Let's get right into
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the figures. Let's start with the bad guy, Razor Ramone, my personal
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favorite. You know, he comes out, he's in the nw O.
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He is Scott Hall. And it's one important thing to point out about these
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figures designed by Terry Latimer, who wanted the arms and legs to almost be
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like Barbie dolls. You know that that that joint that we discuss the actual
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bone crunching actionness of these figures. Yeah, so as a kid, I
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didn't really utilize. I wasn't like, oh, Razor's leg is broken.
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Listen to that, and I mean, I'm sure I can even get one
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if we all quiet down. Oh yeah, HBK. So it has like
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the skin is almost like true to life skin. You know, there's there's
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structure underneath like a Barbie doll, like a Barbie, but it doesn't really
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get you any more playability. It's not like it changes the way that you
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know, the leg moves or well the arm moves. You can move the
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arms in you know what I'm saying. It's not like it's drastic like where
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it's like oh wow, like it's like, I guess nothing. I liked
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it because it felt like I don't know why, it felt like skin like
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and it was more realistic to me, you know. And we also should
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have mentioned so these are all my all the figures I have today are my
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legit childhood bone crunchers. Now, these are all all like got were and
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like you know, Fig fed love to them, so I'll never replace him.
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But but you have those like mint or No, no, this is
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all wow. I will say I was gonna save it for later in the
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show, but I think one of my biggest regrets is not Mick getting Series
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one minut on card and signed like Brosky did. Yeah, one of the
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coolest things that we've ever talked about on the show. We'll talk about that
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in a bit, but let's start with the original sculpts here from Terry Latimer.
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Now Terry very very talented. The sculpts kind of got lost in translation
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because they were re sculpted in the factory and dumbed down a bit, so
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like you know, the likeness isn't superb. But this was nineteen ninety five.
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I can literally even see as I'm holding this razor, like the curl
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in his hair is more of a curl than what this final product was.
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Like on that one, we just look, look who owns that prototype?
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Hey, you know that out of your dogs? But no, no,
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no, what I do have Also much of my dog did eat, but
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I got another one checked out an alternate head razor amone now also check out
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the body here. This all like concept dumbed down. You know, there's
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no well no, no, no, because there's no like boots or anything.
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They're just showing like how it was supposed to kind of look. You
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know, it's just concept. But the head on Razors different. Wow.
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Yeah, it's like a smile or whatever. I can't tell if it's the
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mold or what it looks like. Maybe it's a toothpick in his mouth.
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I can't quite tell, but I do like, I mean, the finish
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one has that kind of like his mouthing like that he could have a toothpick.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure. So I mean I also have this
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if it doesn't fall apart as I hold it. Hand painted Oh damn,
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hand painted Razor emone. I mean he was my favorite at the time.
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And why I have all this Razor stuff now is because you know, Brian,
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these are your original figures. These are not my original figures. There
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was a lot of quality control, lack thereof black thereof, and they were
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like Woody from Toy Story. The joints were all messed up. They would
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break. We'll talk about it later. You would get guys with the wrong
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arms and legs. But painted correctly, right, so it's hard to tell
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and if you really like well. Also, we're not emphasizing that Jackson is
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a startup little toy company at this time, right, They're not this powerhouse.
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They're just taking on this fairly big license and trying to make some money,
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which they do. But yeah, so there was there was definitely some
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growing pains, especially with these early on ones. I have a couple of
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error examples that I'll show later. Okay, but now, bro key you
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I mean you My One of my favorite stories is that you hated them.
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I hated them, bro I you returned them. I returned them, I
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got rid of I quit the biz. So this famous story of dad,
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your dad buying it with your cash, You just got that cash back,
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so you just returned He didn't buy it with my cash. He had cash.
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Yeah, he bought Shawn Michaels. He went and got at the rest.
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I played with them for a couple of days. They were breaking them
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like these suck like fuck this, I'm scared holding this razor right now that
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that's gonna fall apart, like I got. I didn't feel that secure.
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I'll tell you that I got somebody who worked in retail. I can't imagine
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a family coming in with these two day played with toys and just being are
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they gonna do? And I was I was tapped. I said, you
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know what, I'm in sixth grade. I'm too old for this ship.
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You know, I don't need these and and they're junk. I don't need
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them. And I was out. I quit the biz. But now you
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know, and we'll explain later why you know these Razor and Diesel so set
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to meddle to me, but like these I love these figures. They're they're
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iconic to me. Superstars Series one, It's iconic. What are your thoughts
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on this Razor amment? I love it. I love the chain, I
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love the gold necklace, the vests, I dig it. Now that the
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decal, He's not my favorite, but I do love it. Yeah,
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I even love that he has the alternate color elbow pad painted. They really
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they did a pretty good job here for nineteen ninety five nineteen ninety six.
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Absolutely top guy in the biz, like like Brian said too, the most
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probably the most relevant pro wrestler in the world at the time. Right up
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next, Big Daddy Cool Diesel. Big Daddy Cool is back. I love
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this figure. I love the detail. I love the the tassels on the
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sides of the pants. Here the one black glove kind of looks pretty good.
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I mean, this is Deesel good. He looks great. I mean,
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if you look at the original Terry Latimer sculpt it's a little more detectionable,
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but it's say better. It looks more like Kevin ash Well because the
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factory messed up the nose on Diesel and Shawn Michaels when they re sculpted.
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That's for sure. Yeah, but there's also acknowledge the scale. Everyone's the
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exact same size. Honestly, I don't really necessarily mind that. I never
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never even noticed as a when I was a kid, it didn't bother me.
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But I mean the fact that Diesel and showing the same exact tit is
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even today, it doesn't quite bother me. Like, unless you're like the
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big show of raymis cereal, they can all be the same size. I
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don't know, they're toys. Actually is a tall someome bitch guy. You're
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right, I mean, you're right. I mean the biggest problem with the
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Jack's Classics is like that Paul Barr was the same size, right, that's
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like that's fifteen years later. Like I think Paul Bear is actually taller than
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most of the Yeah, right, which a problem, but when you we'll
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talk about it later. The manager's stuff are actually a little smaller and more
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petite, so it fits. Yes, so the diesel and raiser, they're
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great figures, but at the time, like we said, they're fucking Hall
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and Nash running WCW in the nWo. But it's still cool to have it,
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and it makes sense. These were planned in ninety five. Yeah,
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did jacks maybe WT know that they were leaving, you know what I'm saying.
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But if you put the money and investment into tooling and sculpt and not
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to mention, like you said, they're so relevant, why would you cancel
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them? You know? Plus they were still on WWTV, you know,
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fake diesel, fake raisor characters also true. I wonder what that diesel actually
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looks more like fake diesel. I wonder how or if the big Kevin uh
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rais or royalties were paid out for these. I'm sure they were, but
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who knows back in the day, who knows. But these figures they flew
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off the shelves. These weren't peg warmers by enemies people were, they were
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they were dying for new figures. They wanted to scratch that figure. Itach
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before were school, because you know, the Hasbro is long gone. I
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say long gone. It was only like a year or two. It wasn't
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that long. But it's a kid at the eternity. We've we've discussed an
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the Green Cards weren't so known, so it felt longer than what it was.
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Yeah, and this was like, okay, maybe we're gonna get you
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know, get going here, a new a new lineup, a new fig
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fit. So it was exciting times for sure. So also in the set
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was the bizarre gold Dust. It was a super exciting one for me because
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he was also so relevant, so relevant, and you know, he didn't
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didn't have a Hazzard. All these other guys in this whole set had a
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Hasbro, so that was pretty exciting. Ben was yet So this is his
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first figure or the exact same time, I'm not quite sure. When a
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little bit but awesome figure. It's kind of the look at the playwear on
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this like from this is my original one. Look like if you see if
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the leg went up, it would chip a little bit of the paint there
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m because it gets stuck in his crotch. I thought that one of the
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better likenesses in the whole line was as gold as in the traditional you know,
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like original kind of style. Look, the the wig fits perfectly.
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Yeah, it's an incredible figure. I absolutely love it. And when we
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take a if we go back to that man on card photo, I want
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people to take a look at the uh the the butterfly peg at the top,
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just just take note of that, which was such a pain in the
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butt. Really, I don't know why any toys have butterfly pegs. Just
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think about it when you're at the toy store. If that's in the back,
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you got to take off every other figure. Godamn figure man. So
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keep it, keep that in the back of your mind because we will show
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later how they did switch the packaging. This has the bone crunching sound in
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like a silver in the back of the packaging says bone crushing sound. But
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it is what it is, So up next, what up, dude?
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The phenom the undertakes really awesome figure. I always love that his hand was
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kind of like in the Shakespeare like absolutely the right hand. Well I would
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say choke slam hand, baby, but that would be the left, I
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would say, but the right is more of like a Shakespeare unbelievable figure.
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I never noticed that. Holy shit, I never that never crossed my mind.
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Super cool, he's got the the removable hat. And what I loved
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about these figures first time, which is kind of mind bog with this first
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time in WWF figure history. Besides like the Hasbro earthquake, typhoon and bam
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bam, you can move the fucking legs. That's you could throw a kick
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tour. So, I mean, this was like unbelieve I mean, nowadays
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we live in the world is supremes and ultimates and stuff, but this in
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nineteen ninety six. The amount of playability on this compared to previous wrestling figures.
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Look l JN articulation zero ro has Bro maybe two or three. Now
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you're going five to six. It's like life altering, Like, oh my
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god, we'll get to sew Michaels. But the first time ever you could
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do the superkick. Uh. The undertaking of Likeness by Terry Latimer pretty damn
23:34
good. Here, look at that sculpt looks incredible. Terry is a great
23:37
guy. I still I still talk to Terry every now and then. Through
23:41
email. What a pioneer in not just the wrestling figure business, but the
23:45
toy business as well. And I think the likeness of this Undertaker, it's
23:48
pretty damn good. You know, it's a good likeness. Accept I think
23:52
it's I think it stands the test of time. Yeah, well, I
23:55
think we got to mention next. He's in the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast Hall
23:59
of Fame Kid Sean Michaels, I'm the greatest thing going. Check this out.
24:07
Mark, Like you said, he could finally do the super kick.
24:12
Yes, it's so good, Bro, I wish you could see my arms
24:15
and now I have goosebumps right now. A superkick with all HBK. I
24:22
love this figure. I know they're they're going for that trademark kissy face.
24:26
I love it. The original scullpe from Terry Latimer is way better. It's
24:30
still awesome. They kind of fatten the nose in the factory when they remolded
24:34
it. I love the Shawn, He's all ripped up. It's always been
24:41
something that I always stare at. He's in a Summer Slam ninety five.
24:45
I love that gear. So when this was what it was depicted in Series
24:48
one, maybe even more excited, like to know it was that and you
24:52
know obviously this series one, so everyone has unique parts. I don't think
24:56
there's any reused parts on series one. I'm mistaken unless you get bread and
25:04
Razor's right arm was the same, but I don't think it is. Well,
25:08
I'll show you an example of what a second because I got a bunch
25:11
of errors here. Yeah, I don't even think that's the same. Well,
25:15
speaking of Brett bread the hit Man bread Heart, it's crazy that a
25:19
figure that was really you know, came out in nineteen ninety six. Brett
25:23
Hart has more accuracy then I'm gonna tell Brett the hit Man Heart that comes
25:30
out in twenty twenty three. Look at this they have this. The likeness
25:33
is way better. He's got the correct color shades, the correct shape of
25:37
the shades, and he's got the hair just the just going over the front
25:41
of it. Just the coolest dude. It's it's it's just such a great
25:47
figure. He's also doing a clothesline with these was great. You could you
25:52
could bend the legs so you can put their foot into a sharpshooter. Yeah,
25:55
oh god, I mean these are my absolute favorite figures. Everyone loves
26:00
the Hasbros. And I do too, but these are my absolute favorites,
26:06
especially in nineteenninety six ninety seven, I was thinking about it. It's like,
26:10
at least for our age, right when we play with Hasbros, you're
26:12
just kind of like you're a little kid. It's like I remember putting Hasbro's
26:17
in a ring and just shaking it up like this, and whoever didn't fall
26:18
out last one of you? Roy Rumble right these I was like calculating,
26:25
like this was a true first time ever, like a fig fed where I
26:29
was like building things and great storylines and like it was true play play right,
26:34
like calculated play. Well, I think that's what makes it even more
26:41
or a different kind of sentimental. Well, once me into nineteen ninety seven
26:45
and I start buying a back, but I agree, like my fig fed,
26:48
it's very professional. I finally get a computer, I finally get the
26:52
internet. I can keep records of my cards, my title history, I
26:56
can download the music. I was very very professional with my my my fig
27:00
bed, which I call the new w w F. And the reason why
27:06
the roster was so slim because it was the elite of the w w F.
27:08
They would go to the new w w F. You know, they
27:11
would do both. They would do both in there, and those pay per
27:15
views would be on a Saturday before the w w F paper, which I'll
27:18
Sunday because they're already in town, you know. So they were able to
27:22
do. Yeah, I had to make sense of it all. And of
27:26
course Danny from Last Action Hero played myself Mac Cardona as the president, so
27:32
because that's how it scale. Yeah, talking about scale, So let's let's
27:37
talk about the the the packaging switch they switched to. The the J hooked
27:44
and the bone crunching sound really really paps there. And I got an example
27:51
right here. Check this out. Razor Ramon signed. That's right. I
27:57
have this entire set signed the bad guy Razor Moone. I have them all
28:03
in this yellow paint pen. And I know what you're thinking. I do,
28:08
actually I do. I know you're thinking, why did I use the
28:14
second packaging and that the first? To me, this really pops with the
28:17
with the yellow you have. I mean, that's the real packaging. Anyway.
28:22
I don't think the I think the butterfly. I mean, obviously the
28:23
butterfly came first, but it's meant to be in that right. The jay
28:30
is this When they fixed the woody stuff, the figures are still Who will
28:38
survive the greatest Federation superstars in the world. The thrills and excitement of professional
28:42
wrestling come to life with these remarkably detailed, ultra realistic World Wrestling Federation Action
28:48
figures. You can almost hear the crowd roar as your favorite superstars wrestler Superstar
28:53
wrestlers slam each other with unique bone crushing sound effects from invisible joints trademark in
29:00
Visible joints your own royal rumble to crown the next World Wrestling Federation King of
29:04
the Ring. And this is also important. It tells you do not move
29:08
near your elbow like this the correct way to UH to do the bone coach
29:14
ashes features activate with elbow or is moved like this, So don't get on
29:18
side the side. You can rip it through. You ever see a broken
29:19
one you can rip it through the skin. I have not. You've never
29:22
seen that. Yeah, you get that's crazy. If you jack it up,
29:26
you know you can rip it right through. You'd have to be very,
29:27
very violent. I think it's easier than you think. Man. I
29:33
just I'm looking at this, raise this I mean, this is a nineteen
29:36
ninety six toy right here, just colorful everything. Yeah, it feels fantastic.
29:41
I'm telling you that packaging the test of time. It's friggin perfect.
29:47
Specifically the change packaging out. Yeah, big daddy cool Diesel. Pretty much
29:52
like I said, same exactly your here's my signed version of Diesel. Of
29:56
course, I'm gonna show these all off. I'm gonna show them all off
29:57
right here because I'm proud of this. This is like my favorite, one
30:02
of my favorite things in my collection is this signed series one. Let's take
30:06
a look at the gold Dust, who is again the same figure. But
30:10
look at this beautiful autograph I got here. My good friend smart Mark Sterling
30:14
picked this up for me. Well, you went to a w one of
30:18
the one of the most nerve wracking things I ever did in the beginning of
30:21
my time in AW. I had never spoken to him in my entire life,
30:25
and I was like, Matt, I will do this. If you
30:26
text him and tell him that the gray haired man that manages Jade Gargill is
30:30
going to ask you for an autograph or whatever ended, it'll be in phenomenal
30:34
and Ethan page saw how nervous I was, and he recorded it for one
30:37
of his vlogs, so it's on there in the past. Nothing beats a
30:41
nervous Mark Sterling. It's a beautiful, beautiful figure. And then of course
30:47
we have the Undertaker. What again, these are the same figures. We
30:51
just want to show off the different carding. How did you get signed?
30:53
By the way as the mail in a mailing sig? So I got them
31:02
all, all six of them signed. Pretty awesome. And how do you
31:07
get Michaels When you redo your room, you gotta hang those up right?
31:10
Yeah? Here, here's why. Shawn Michael's in a nice uh protective case.
31:14
Nice that looks so good, man, God, I have the extra
31:17
acrylics. I got to put them in here. But this Shawn Michaels with
31:19
the big penis. Guys, if you don't know by now, Shawn Michaels
31:22
draws the dicking balls on his autograph. If you don't believe me, just
31:26
just check it out. Dick balls right there from the Heartbreak Kids. Good
31:30
one. Sometimes they're even crazier. Yeah, I'm the greatest thing going.
31:37
Sean Michaels, the Heartbreak Kid. And then of course the best there is
31:42
the best there was look at that one that Brett head is looking the other
31:48
way. This hit Man beautiful signature. Yeah, look that Brett had,
31:52
but that's glued on the head doesn't turn. I mean mine's kind of a
31:57
well that's stuck the wrong way. Then, yeah, that's crazy. So
32:02
I have a couple just examples of errors. These aren't variants by any means.
32:07
There were just so many errors. So for instance, here is a
32:10
razor moon with Brett Hart arm. See that with the wrist both arms,
32:16
Yeah, both arms are Brett Hart if you could see there. So that's
32:21
just one of the many errors. Another error we have here is this is
32:25
a funny one gold dust with undertaker arms. Can you see that? Oh
32:30
my god? So he has the gloves. And then another example, what's
32:38
this example here? This is like a weird like gold as where like the
32:44
silver and gold paint just isn't like where you can't it's like a it's just
32:49
not a good paint job. But that's just you know, that's just how
32:52
these were. The quality control wasn't the best, Like the gold and silver
32:54
kind of got blended together, so you can't tell like what the glove is
32:58
and what the arm thing is. Right. These figures were you know,
33:00
they were the best. They were not high quality. Also on the back
33:06
of this Patrick, we saw the microphone, which was super cool in my
33:08
opinion. I love this thing. I actually have one right here, the
33:13
ringside microphone featuring the actual voices of the World Wrestling Federation superstars. Not quite.
33:22
I mean I learned that a couple of days ago. I always thought
33:25
it was the real voices. Oh, give me a break ad because I
33:28
played with that thing so much like when I was pretending to be a wrestler
33:31
in my basement. Yeah, I used it for look at the back.
33:37
Yeah, I'm the greatest thing on God's greener. Unfortunately my buttons don't work
33:44
anymore. But did you use that in your backyard? Fed or? Of
33:52
course imagine a fa The fake little chord is ridiculous. It was ridiculous.
33:58
Yeah, it looks like the tail in that possum that was in my garage.
34:05
What a cool accessory, I thought. Yeah, it actually looks great.
34:07
It's it's really really, it's really one it pops. I think you
34:10
kind of have to maybe display that with your series one. I absolutely have
34:15
them on display. Yes, it's an iconic figure. I think I need
34:17
to repurchase that. I don't have that anymore, and to get it in
34:22
this original package is pretty tough. And even with batteries like that's not gonna
34:28
work. No, oh maybe it would. This is look at KB.
34:35
It's awesome. Sometimes that old stuff works as long as there wasn't batteries in
34:38
it, right, So if that package blown up or oxidize or whatever,
34:42
that is yeah, and then ruined it. Yep, exactly. So the
34:45
the lineup for a series two was actually shown really before any of us got
34:51
Series one. It was online. Just saw the new assortm of listening for
34:54
series two of Jacks Frestling figures Sean Michaels Repaint, Bred Repaint, The Undertaker,
35:01
Owen Hart Vader and the Ultimate Warrior. So when did you know about
35:07
series two, Brian? I don't really remember when I found out about it,
35:13
but I got him for Christmas that year, okay for sure. So
35:17
I don't have an exact, like vivid memory of getting them like or them
35:21
being in my radar. But it might have been something my mom was big
35:25
on, like getting something. Maybe she got it like in November but made
35:30
me wait the Christmas to you know, that kind of thing, right to
35:32
actually have them in my hands. I like, I said, sold my
35:37
figures, got rid of from quit the biz, and I went to Survivor
35:42
series nineteen ninety six and Masaquare Garden and at the souvenir stand they were selling
35:47
Brett and Sean. They might have been selling otherwise, but those are the
35:52
ones. I for sure saw them, Like that's weird. Brett different color,
35:55
Shawn different color. Like that's pretty, it's pretty cool, I guess
35:58
like I didn't know anything, didn't think anything of it. And on the
36:00
train ride home there was a kid on the train who had ones. Hey
36:04
can I look at that? And on the back I saw they made Ultimate
36:07
Warrior Vader owen Hard. I said, holy shit, I'm back in crazy
36:15
because is long long gone again. I'm save as Razor and Diesel Warriors already
36:22
gone. So I asked my parents for all series one and two for Christmas.
36:25
And that's when I got, you know, series two, which you
36:30
know, let's start off with the King of Hearts Owen Heart. I absolutely
36:37
love this figure. What I thought was interesting They go back to the bone
36:43
crunching sound and the silver, but keep the jay hooky, you know,
36:46
So they go back to that old original bone crunching sound on the top instead
36:51
of the red and yellow go back to the Jay Hook owen Heart King of
36:54
Hearts. First time getting a King of Hearts figure, to me, this
37:00
is an iconic figure, and like, yeah, like just to get him,
37:05
man, think about how many how many years he'd looked like this,
37:07
but we all we had was the Rocket has Right. Yeah, it's a
37:10
big payoff here and a big deal to get owen Hart. This was a
37:15
top guy in my fed. It's a great, great figure. The details
37:21
on the boots like the King of Hearts on the side. Listen. The
37:24
likeness is not the best, but it's nineteen ninety six, guys, it's
37:29
nineteen ninety six. It has a cute likeness to it though, like you
37:32
know who it is, Like hmm, for sure. It's kind of dissimilar
37:37
to all of them really, yeah, the whole series, they all have
37:39
that. Yeah, but like Brian said, like you know, we never
37:43
got a heel owen Hart figure. There were rumors that, oh it was
37:47
going to come out in the Hasbro days, and yeah, he should have
37:50
gotten one. But this is the first time we have a King of Hearts
37:53
owen Hart. I absolutely love this figure. It's a maybe my favorite figure
38:00
from series two. Maybe, but actually I don't know because the next figure
38:05
we're talking about, so toy, the tan on, this tan is so
38:13
great. The tan on this thing is insane. Every time a toy company
38:16
asked me what I want for a Tanner to say, look at Superstar Series
38:20
two Ultimate Warrior to the tassels that the shoot soft good tassels. Mind blowing
38:27
and I still don't know to this day how they do it where it just
38:30
talk out seamlessly. Yeah, so awesome, So like kind of ahead of
38:36
its time, because you know, when it's wrapped around the arm, it's
38:38
molded, but then it's you know, soft good and it it's great.
38:45
Yeah. I wish perfect, I wish kind of Mattel would do something like
38:47
that. Yeah. Actually it's better than the we just looked at that bulldog
38:51
this week. It's it's better than that, yeah, or at least it
38:53
makes more sense than that. I don't know why he has face paint in
38:59
the hair. No, I think that's his the roots of his like die
39:02
job. No, I don't think so, that's what I always thought.
39:07
That's like the root the root of his hair. Uh, I mean maybe,
39:14
I guess, but they're not doing other hair colors for other people multi
39:17
color hair. Maybe that's just their way of like doing his. And then
39:22
I don't. I've always that's what I've always thought that was. And I
39:24
don't know if you want to count this as a variant or an error,
39:28
But there's also an Ultimate Warrior. Show your butt, Brian, not your
39:30
real butt Warrior butt. I'll show you my butt, babe, white a
39:34
plane, white logo on the back. That's clearly a mess up to me.
39:38
I I don't I have it because this is like my childhood one.
39:43
So it's like I might as well keep it and get inside, because it's
39:45
really it's it would be hard to get whatem in on card. I guess
39:49
you could if you were looked at the right angle, could see the butt
39:52
A lot of work, be a lot a lot of work. What about
39:55
Well, before we move on from Undertaker Ultimate Warrior, I I will say
40:00
this Ultimate Warrior figure is what made me sort of realize the complicating nature of
40:07
booking. Right, So, like when I got into this and I had
40:10
the Ultimate war You're looking at this figure, this is the best figure of
40:13
all time. Oh my god, but how do you book it right?
40:15
So it was so challenging to me getting older, booking this thing by myself.
40:20
It's like, he either beats everybody and then you can't really beat him,
40:23
and then what really happened. It was a very challenging thing and that's
40:29
when I realized, Man, it's hard to book the Ultimate Warrior. But
40:31
little aside, what's next here, let's just talk about the Warrior for a
40:37
second. Yeah, you know, like Razor and Diesel, this comes out
40:40
Warrior is gone. Yeah, he's gone, That's what I said. But
40:45
but he's so iconic that it like you're losing your mind to get him.
40:50
And the figure is awesome. We touched on the figure, so Toyatak and
40:52
Sick, I mean, not a problem, A good problem, Nolf.
40:58
Next up Vader. Now, I always thought that the joints were a little
41:01
tighter on series two. Not like drastically, but they were. They were
41:06
tighter. Dude, I have my childhood Vader right here. It's unreal,
41:10
Louise, but you were playing with it like this thing has been played with
41:14
for years. That doesn't look like a Does he have no peg? Bro?
41:19
You're you're testing me. Come on making sure, I looked. I
41:21
thought the bread looked a little too bright. Come on, don't test me.
41:23
I'm exulted. You sure that's not a Sean Tupac Vader. I'm fucking
41:30
positive, bro, I know what I'm doing here. So I at the
41:36
time loved it. Looking back now, not the bet, I think it's
41:39
great. I never had a problem with this figure. And it's the waist
41:44
lines a little thin. The waist is a little bit thin. But he's
41:46
got the fat quads, he's got the big traps. Yeah, and his
41:50
chest is like wider. It's certainly more unique. His head is round,
41:54
it's way more unique than the other one. So but I do I do
41:58
understand the criticism this figure got as time has gone on, but like,
42:01
you know, this is in Vader's body and big enough. I don't think
42:06
I really hated it until they use this body for de Lo Brown years later
42:08
and it makes a great deal. O. Yeah, it makes a great
42:10
deal. So it's like Dann Dilo is not the size of Vader. Awesome
42:15
figure, top guy. His w C. W. S. Baker was
42:20
just so good. Where this was like it's still at the time, Vader's
42:28
you know, a pretty important talent be TV. So you're and like I
42:31
said, you added three more talents to fig fed Right. So what I
42:36
liked about this is like his neck is kind of connected to his head.
42:40
So I was able to make a lot of Hasbro Vader customs because I would
42:45
take this head and pop it on like an earthquakeer typhoon to be able to
42:49
make some Vader customers, gotcha. Yeah. The other weird one that we
42:51
didn't talk about, Goldbust, is like not connected the normal way like all
42:54
the other ones too. No, it's got like a little like little little
42:58
in it. Not a peg. It's like it's like a balloon knot.
43:02
That's like stuck down. It's so little, squishy head. Yeah, what
43:07
about up next? The Undertaker glow in. It's the dark, the least
43:15
exciting of the set. But I did. I don't know about you,
43:19
but and I mean, I think there should be unanimous across the board here.
43:22
This was your entrance, Undertaker. You turn the course, Yeah,
43:25
you turn the lights in your bedroom. This guy's coming down skin glowing cool.
43:30
Was my only Undertaker, the only one I ever got. Oh really,
43:34
it's it's a cool concept because like, unless you know it's like glow
43:38
in the dark, like it kind of like a regular undertaker. He says
43:43
it all over right, I know, but I'm just saying, if you
43:45
had it, and like it looks like a pale undertaker, you know what
43:47
I'm saying. Flesh, the flesh glows in the dark. I think it's
43:53
a cool way to change it up. I mean because like there's no tattoos
43:57
on anybody yet, which didn't bother me at all. Same, I don't
44:00
remember even thinking about it. That could have been the only way to make
44:02
this a little different, is like change up the tats. But I get
44:06
they're already doing some cost cut it here. They're already doing cost cutting with
44:09
three repeats in the second set, but I got them all, yeah,
44:15
and I was excited for all of them. Speaking of repaints, the Heartbreak
44:21
Kid Sean Michaels, this was a great repaint, Mic, but this was
44:25
my Sean and and I feel like at this time, the red pants a
44:28
little bit more like, I don't know, standoutish to me. Yeah,
44:31
I mean that's what he's known for, is like the dead and the more
44:36
of a staple. Yeah. Also, the gloves never really make sense,
44:40
like even series one, he didn't wear gloves like that. You know they're
44:44
longer and different looking. But well no Sean, Sean had these gloves.
44:49
They sold them, but did, but he had like at this time he
44:52
was working with like the different kind of right, see what I'm saying.
44:58
Cool figure. I love the earring. I just love everything about this figure.
45:00
I love he could do the supercoach we mentioned later on. They do
45:05
add the tattoo to the Sean, but like, how much cooler would it
45:08
have been if you got that little tatt on the side. Yeah, I
45:10
don't know. For some reason, I was a kid. Didn't bother me.
45:13
No, it didn't bother me at all. I just love man.
45:16
That's super kick bro yep. Game changer, Yes, absolute game changer.
45:22
All right, up next, the best there is, the best there was,
45:25
the best ever will be definitely the best repaying in the set. I
45:30
think this is a nice Brett. They reverse the colors, so has the
45:34
black tights, the pink single, the top. I absolutely love it.
45:39
It just pops so much to me. So I mean, at this time,
45:45
let's where is everybody. Let's think about where everyone is when this set
45:47
comes out. I mean, Brett is spewed with Austin. He just came
45:53
off the Survivor series Master with Austin. Sean had just lost the belt to
45:58
Sids. It was top guy. He's slipped on Mary Kate's tears going up
46:01
the island. Now Vader is kind of you know, Vader's kind of he's
46:07
there. You know, he's coming off the bad feet with Sean, so
46:10
he's like on his It wasn't though. It was not bad to me as
46:15
a kid, no, but yeah, he's on his way down. The
46:17
card Warrior is gone. Okay, Undertaker doesn't look like this anymore. No,
46:24
true? And did Owen cut his hair yet? Uh? I think
46:30
he. I think he might have cut his hair. And he's tagging my
46:31
bulldog. So I remember with my Owen I would because it was so easy.
46:36
You could just cut the hair and I cut the hair to bake it
46:38
short. No way, Yeah, lift it up. You lifted up and
46:44
it's like that that soft rubb. You just cut it and foul the follow
46:46
the line of the head. It was easy. It was so easy.
46:50
Versy. But that's what happens in the toy biz. Things are a little
46:55
out of day. Let's let's take a look at the back of the box.
46:58
There hard to keep it's hard to keep up. We know that man,
47:00
that warrior would have been so much better with that. Just look at
47:06
that handpaind of prototype. It just the lighter hair, the more detail on
47:12
the gear. I still like what we got, still pretty awesome. It's
47:15
still pretty awesome, but it's not quite what it could have been. Yeah,
47:22
so let's talk about you can't have figures, you can't have a fig
47:25
fed without a ring, and boy did we get a ring with the Monster
47:32
ring. Now do where do we begin with this? Why do they call
47:37
it the Monster I'll tell you why, because Jack Jack will also work for
47:43
ljen U's the l jed Riga figures that were almost double the size seventeen ninety
47:50
seven on the price on this by the way. That's also nuts too,
47:52
by the way, right, So yeah, oddly I loved the excited.
48:00
I know, I'm so excited about just everything about this line, and my
48:02
fandom is at such a I didn't mind that the ring was ginormous. I
48:07
was so excited to have a ring. I it never even crossed my mind.
48:10
And I know it's insane to think, but you put the guy next
48:14
to the rope and it's like up to his head. For some reason,
48:17
I had never been in a ring. I just literally didn't cross my mind.
48:21
Like I said, I'm eleven, I playing, and I'm thirty two,
48:25
and I appreciate the fact that they called it the monstery, so I
48:30
was like, yeah, I guess that that's the excuse, right right.
48:34
It's like, well, I got the monstering. It's not regularly. It's
48:36
a monster rings, so of course it's massive and the back of the box
48:40
is what really captivates me. So I get this moister egg series three action
48:46
videos coming soon. Now it doesn't show the people, but it shows their
48:51
logos Brett hit Man, Heart, Shawn Michael Wait again, their time in
48:53
a Row, British Bulldog, Sid Mankind and Ahmed Johnson. So fucking cool.
49:00
Now, I didn't know this ring was coming out. I just opened
49:05
a Christmas morning and my mind was fucking blown. I definitely knew about it,
49:10
and I got it for that Christmas as well. But I was excited
49:15
and I thought it was so cool that stickers each side is a different pay
49:19
per view, so like, if you were really being nuts, you could
49:21
kind of spin it and be like, well, today's Survivor series. And
49:23
one of my favorite things, that's the apron you can see, you know,
49:27
one of my favorite things. Can you imagine, Like that's when it
49:30
was the Big four, you know, so he's all it was, Oh
49:32
bro. That ring was just iconic to me. I absolutely loved it.
49:37
They did switch it a little bit because the LJN Ring, if you remember,
49:40
it was recalled because people were falling into was stabbing them. So they
49:44
added a little like round part to the top of the ring. Really flat.
49:47
Yeah, people were literally being stabbed by the ring. I played with
49:52
this ring so damn much. I was a hard player. I loved it.
49:58
I just I just love how big it was. You could do so
50:00
many things with this sturdy. It was just massive though. But yeah,
50:05
I will say this quick story. In nineteen ninety seven, my mom quit
50:09
smoking, okay, and in that time she was very testy. It's a
50:14
very difficult thing for a human being to do. And there was a specific
50:17
day that I was playing with these action figures in the dining room and she
50:22
was not happy about whatever was happening. Maybe I didn't take the trash out
50:24
or whatever the hell, and she threw the ring. She like threw it
50:29
out of the way or moved it, like clean up this shit, right,
50:31
and it broke. There was a piece of the side broke. No,
50:36
just like the plastic on the side, and the ring was still fine.
50:37
Everything was good. But there was a hole in the side and it
50:40
was Actually I was thrilled because you could put the peel and then you could
50:45
play with it where the guy's going through the ring. Right, So my
50:49
mom made an action feature in this ring. But it's something that I will
50:52
never forget about this ring. Something else I got Chris this morning that I
51:00
did not know was coming out the Survivors series four pack, dude. So
51:07
it's Shawn Michael's Brett Hart gold Dust from series one and Ultimate Warrior in an
51:13
exclusive greed outfit like the unbelievable the like I don't want to say I threatened
51:22
my mother, but pretty close to it. I'm like, dude, I
51:28
think it was hard for her to understand, Like why am I going to
51:30
buy you this four pack when you have three of these figures ready? Right,
51:35
So here's the question for you, gu only way to get this altered
51:37
Warrior and what do you do with those other figures? So you get this.
51:42
I would never have gotten this. I wouldn't have wasted the money.
51:45
But that's what I'm saying. But I was such a I was so obsessed
51:49
with this line and being like having everything and embracing it. I was like,
51:52
I can't live without this Warrior. What else am I supposed to do?
51:54
Well? First, well, let's just say Warrior does not have that
51:57
black at the top of the hair on this one. No, And for
52:00
me Mark, like I said, I had gotten rid of all series one,
52:06
so this was my parents' way of rebuying the gold dust. Well,
52:10
here's the problem. I never got Diesel and Razor again for Christmas, and
52:17
they were long gone and they were impossible to find. So I didn't have
52:21
Diesel and Razor for years. And it was like eating me up that I
52:24
didn't have them because I thought I got it for Christmas, or my parents
52:29
thought they got everyone for Christmas. They did not get Diesel and Razor.
52:34
But this, this Warrior, it's actually if you look at the gear,
52:37
this is such a defreedom little tidbit that only he would discover. It's it's
52:42
based off reference photos that he took. I think for the In Your House
52:46
video game where the gear that that gear is not how it looks in the
52:50
game. They use that and they like digital whateh for for mocap right,
52:55
and they got the reference shop. It's like, hey, let's make a
52:59
figure out of it. Which but yeah, so he never wore to wrestle.
53:01
Yeah, which I'm not mad at because it's still very toyaic and cool
53:05
figure but makes sense. Interesting. I want to show you. I have
53:08
this four can't find an actual in ring shot of him wearing that because it
53:13
doesn't exist. Just check out the errors here on this four pack. Here
53:16
gold Dust does not have the gloves, Like, this is the kind of
53:20
stupid stuff that were on these figures. See that it's painted with gloves.
53:22
Oh shit, wow those are razor arms. Yeah, so I love this.
53:28
The Shawn, the BRT, the Goldiss Warrior the back is really awesome,
53:31
Like the the bios and stuff like this would really entice a look at
53:36
that picture of Warrior. I'm standing by my thing that's the roots of his
53:38
hair. Yeah true, it's like, I don't know, I think they
53:46
like continued on with his makeup but put it in. But it's a it's
53:51
a great set. Series two is on the back has that Survivor Series ninety
53:55
six logo on it. Now there are also there are some errors variants,
54:00
but ever you want to call them, were series two. Brett and Sean
54:05
are in the pack right, so I don't doubt that. No, you're
54:09
still a rerelease, it's still whatever. But this was an awesome Chris ninety
54:14
six Christmas was one I will never forget. I wish I could find the
54:19
video of ninety six Christmas, like just starting not only a fig fed but
54:23
starting something that would change my entire life. Wow. Yeah, Christmas changed
54:29
my life, you know because I think without being obsessed with wrestling figures,
54:32
I wouldn't be obsessed with wrestling, which means I wouldn't get into the wrestling.
54:37
You know what I'm saying, always gone hand in hand with me.
54:38
I've always said that, like the Hasbros. Where they're like the gateway to
54:42
it all. But it's always just been hand in hand for whatever reason.
54:45
My obsession absolutely and the fig fed situation of it's the first time that you
54:52
can be creative with wrestling. You're a fan, you're watching wrestling, but
54:57
playing you get to create your own and you realize art and then you want
55:00
to continue creating. And what do you do when you get older? You
55:02
become a wrestler. Yeah, but unlike unlike the Hasbros were like everyone else
55:07
in your class, where we're getting the Hasbros. For me, I'm in
55:12
sixth grade. No one else is buying these, so I'm buying them like
55:15
in secret, having the fikebed in secret, playing in secret. Nobody else
55:21
is collecting toys. I'm basically in the same boat. I went say,
55:23
in full secrecy, but not like something that I'm just gonna tell the coolest
55:28
kid in school right away when talking to him. Yeah, No, I'm
55:30
in full secret. Eighth grade, I'm in full I'm in full secret.
55:37
Yeah, all right, should we get to the next thing, dude?
55:40
Another thing that, man, I can talk about this for days. One
55:44
of my fair pieces of all time Puzzle Zoo exclusive Razor Moone and Diesel.
55:51
So I had the hell is a puzzle Zoo. Puzzle Zoo was a I
55:55
believe a California based. We went to one. We went to a store
56:00
I saw on it like a couple of years ago when we went to Jerremany
56:02
but Hour's house we saw one still existing. So this is one of my
56:07
fair pieces of all time. I still have nim in a card like absolutely
56:09
mint. So, I Matt, you you didn't even know this existed?
56:14
Huh that I did not know it existed. That would have been a cool
56:17
way for me to get Razor and Diesel. So I used to go to
56:20
like Barnes and Nobles a lot when I was a kid with my mom,
56:22
and they would be like Toy Mart magazine or those kind of things, and
56:25
I'd always scour them for wrestling toys. And then there was an ad a
56:29
Puzzles to add in there saying to get this exclusive and I'm like freaking out.
56:35
And that's another thing, like my poor mother, Like I basically like
56:38
threaten her again, like if I don't get this for Christmas, I'm going
56:40
to self destruct. So like they were like, you know, call or
56:44
cut out the mail in thing and get it, and sure enough I got
56:46
it for Christmas. So and the other little tidbit. Obviously this isn't my
56:52
original. The original one I opened and played with a ton. But when
56:54
I was a kid, I never understood my Razor had Vader because he had
57:00
these big fat quads. I just thought that's how it was supposed to be
57:04
and then, I mean decade plus later I realized that, oh wait,
57:07
these are vaders quads and this was a mess. I have that there were
57:12
enough of them like that because I have one. I have one for sure.
57:15
Yeah so and now I have a perfect one on card. It's like
57:17
one of my most cherished pieces. I love this Razor. It's like the
57:22
yellow gear. It's just cool. The Diesels different. I like that they're
57:25
actual repaints. They're cool repaints. But what here's a couple of things that
57:30
are really weird. One, these guys are long fucking gone at this point.
57:36
Long god. And even if they weren't, like in WWF story,
57:42
like Razor and Diesel are not affiliated, you know what, And that never
57:46
really even really crossed my mind that like, they're not feuding, they're not
57:51
teammates. I mean, they're in the click, but nobody knows that.
57:53
It makes no reason for them to be associated together in a two pac at
57:59
this point. It may you believe that that Jackpiti, well, Jack still
58:02
had the rights to him and one of the capitalized on the outside was very
58:06
smart. Sure fake Razor and Diesel didn't team up, they did, but
58:10
they raised them. This isn't fake raising. That's not even like, yeah,
58:14
I don't think that's that didn't get over. It's like nobody was trying
58:16
to, like, I guess, you know, capitalize on that. Let's
58:20
talk about this other one, which is an incredible to your back limited Collector's
58:24
edition. It says, what does that even mean? Toys? I got
58:29
a KB as well, only twelve thousand. The Hitman Brett Hart ow in
58:35
Heart. This is my I think my favorite. Brett Hart's is all pink.
58:43
He's got black shades which with the white lines which maybe are supposed to
58:46
be like a glare. Yeah, it's supposed to be like the cool streaks
58:50
in him. For sure, it's very very toyatic. But Brett's not really
58:52
wearing this all pink gear around this era, but still toyatic. I still
58:58
at least it's different. It's definitely different, and Owen is certainly different.
59:04
Owen is certainly different, and you can't see from Bryan's package. But the
59:08
cool thing about the cool thing about this Owen you can kind of see in
59:13
this angle they paint on the cast. Yeah. I had to explain to
59:17
so many of my friends, like people thought it was like wrist tape.
59:21
I'm like, no, it's the cast, guys, the cast. He's
59:23
cheating and he's got the side the Slammy Award winner. This is also a
59:30
fun tidbit. The back of this packaging is just phenomenal, exceptional artwork here.
59:37
I think TTD worked on this. I love this. This two pac
59:44
It's when you're gonna make a Tupac with exclusives and you're gonna repaint him.
59:47
That's that's the way to do it. We'll talk about the other ones later,
59:52
which I'm actually the inserts man. If there's no inserts on this,
59:54
that's pretty boring. But that just pops. It's just that's true, makes
59:59
it makes it so much nice. Yeah, I love it. I love
1:00:01
these two packs. They're incredible. All right, let's go into series three.
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at series three. I don't know about you guys, but when I get
1:00:57
these, it's nineteen ninety seven, it's January. Of course, I know
1:01:04
they're coming out because they're on the back of series two. But I don't
1:01:07
have internet. I have no pictures. I had no images. So maybe
1:01:12
Ringside had them before. Maybe there were certain you know, websites I had
1:01:16
them before I did not, So what would you do? You just whenever
1:01:20
you went to the toy store you would kind of look same thing. I
1:01:22
know exactly when I saw these Cave toys roseau Field Mall, I knew because
1:01:28
of the ring and the logos that they were at least gonna be a thing.
1:01:31
And then I walked in and was like like, couldn't believe it.
1:01:36
Yeah, And I want to say that was like February March. And then
1:01:37
I begged my mom to give me the four new talents, and I think
1:01:43
she got them all and made and maybe held them for Eastern and I didn't
1:01:45
get them until they were East East. Sir. Yeah, damned. I'll
1:01:49
never get January. I got braces. My dad came into the other doctors.
1:01:53
I got braces and a nomad. It was a good day. I
1:01:57
actually got irishly got mankind and again same deal. My dad got the mankind
1:02:01
hid the rest went to Levittown Toys r us mom. And what I've learned
1:02:06
today is Mom needs some more walking around money. He doesn't hold more than
1:02:10
ten dollars walking around money. This poor guy. Oh shit, but my
1:02:15
dad was looking bound mankind and the mankind is incredible. Who's the first guy
1:02:19
we're talking? We talked about Psycho SID first, yea Psycho SID series three.
1:02:24
Take a look at the die Cast packaging, which was eventually changed later
1:02:30
die cut sorry because of all those it would just get damaged as fuck.
1:02:34
Yeah, all those little sharp points we get damaged so easily. But let's
1:02:38
talk about this guys. First time. They're coming with the w w F
1:02:45
stand. So the logo is a stand mark. If you go to me,
1:02:49
I gotta I'm holding an actual stand here, which I don't know about
1:02:53
you, Brian. I would use these like steel chairs stand I don't recall
1:03:00
doing. I would kind of like line them up for like an entrance way
1:03:01
or things like that. I would also lean him against something. For my
1:03:07
cards, I would line them up a mic floor, like you know,
1:03:09
like it was the graphic on television, you know, man god Evers said,
1:03:13
But I put this in the middle, like you know, like it
1:03:15
was the logo. The real problem is they're so big you couldn't really use
1:03:17
them for actual stands. And by the way, the figures now have holes
1:03:22
in their feet. Yeahte that's a stand and now by such a massive stand,
1:03:27
so big it took up so much space. Okay, I think you
1:03:30
can display, but once you have more than a couple sets than you can't
1:03:34
spoil. You don't have. No, it's like too much though. The
1:03:37
joints are tighter now. The quality control, I think I don't recall seeing
1:03:43
any like with series one or two. There were a couple of mix ups
1:03:45
maybe so one or two here and there, but like these are a lot
1:03:47
better in terms of quality control. You're not seeing sid with fucking Ahmed legs,
1:03:52
you know what I'm saying. No, if you were and far between
1:03:55
them. It was still happened over the years, but not not like I
1:04:00
always hated it. This was in blue. Yeah, the blue is the
1:04:01
big mistake, right because when you're getting this, he's the black trunk sit
1:04:05
for a while. He's like the WF champion in black trunks, right.
1:04:10
Yeah, so when he comes out, when this comes out, depending on
1:04:13
when you get it, he's champ or in the picture, you know,
1:04:16
So he's the man. I love this sid. The likeness is not horrible,
1:04:23
I don't It's better than I remember even. Yeah, it's actually one
1:04:25
of the better ones so far. You have to like imagine that that's grit
1:04:30
teeth and not like really chapped lips, you know. Yeah, that's like
1:04:34
the disconnect, right, I'm picturing like his psycho smile. He's just like
1:04:39
I'm picture I'm like doing that like kind of like you know, I was
1:04:43
psycho smile. But I absolutely love this this figure. I kind of wish
1:04:46
he had a fist, you could do like the fist with the fans,
1:04:49
you know. But it's a great, great figure there, and he's this
1:04:54
is the first reused parts because this is Razors everything but his chest. It
1:04:59
might be he might be getting into the reused parts era. Yeah, so
1:05:02
who's next in the set? Oh? I was fired up. It's one
1:05:08
of the greatest Figures of all time. When it comes out, it's He's
1:05:14
gigantic d. The arms are hooked to like do the Pearl River Plunge.
1:05:16
It's so good hashtag Pearl River Man Challenge, crazy Lucy Goosey Woody style here.
1:05:24
But bro, but these figures you play with that? Bro? And
1:05:27
oh yeah, oh my god, what a great figure. He's got the
1:05:30
earrings like you said that, he can perfectly hook anybody for the Pearl River
1:05:32
Plunge. He's all jacked up, got the big packs, the big bro
1:05:38
Oh my god, big meat he packs on Ahmed. I love it,
1:05:43
you love It's like weird Ahmed Boosts, which they end up using later on
1:05:45
for so many guys that makes no sense. Yeah, they used to,
1:05:47
like Austin. Yeah, but Ahmed is kind of on his way down by
1:05:55
this point. Uh. I feel it's his last flourish thing? Is is
1:06:00
uh at thirteen? Right again? He's starting to get the injuries. Yeah,
1:06:04
you know, but he's still you know, he could still use him.
1:06:05
And I was a big on my guy. I've said a million times
1:06:08
I thought he was gonna be the man. I thought he was the man
1:06:11
when he was going. But yeah, I had no idea that he was
1:06:15
on his way down. In my mind, I thought like, maybe he's
1:06:17
he'll, he'll, he'll come back and he'll in retrospective, we're going back
1:06:21
in time, right, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
1:06:23
yeah, you're right right right up next the British Bulldog. I want to
1:06:28
say, great figure, but man, not jacked enough, not tan enough.
1:06:32
Yeah, but they gave him the tassels like Warrior, which I like,
1:06:38
the soft good tassels. It's so cool. It's they should have gave
1:06:42
him Warriors torso really or what I really should have to be honest, Yeah,
1:06:45
I'm actually I'm looking. I can't believe they just didn't reuse the whole
1:06:49
thing, right, Well, no you can't. Warrior has like the tassels
1:06:53
coming down in the wristbands and the knee pads on the legs. That's the
1:06:56
only thing. Yeah. But but this is great because now you have a
1:07:00
tax team partner for Owen, right and Owen and Bulldog. Okay, they're
1:07:04
they're like the guys tag team champions. They're about to start the Heart Foundation,
1:07:13
right, it's a big deal to have a short haired davy boy for
1:07:15
the first time. But yeah, and also also Bulldog's been the company for
1:07:18
years too, so there's a lot that you can do. He's he's a
1:07:21
well known wrestler, you know. Yeah, I mean, and it's all
1:07:25
up to your your imagination. Are you gonna make a babyface? You're making
1:07:29
the heel. I'm gonna say, there's no way. He had plain white
1:07:31
trunks that just said bulldog on him too. But yeah, the most.
1:07:40
But I still love this figure when I was a kid. Great great four
1:07:49
figures, great four characters next to Hall of Famer here well Mankind Hall of
1:07:57
Fame figure Hall of Fame. The ball detail on this so good. I
1:08:02
still think this is the best Mankind figure. Mick Foley's rookie figure by the
1:08:06
way. Okay, he has a molded, molded forearm, hair like attention
1:08:16
to detail, He's got the scar, the mandible claw, everything is original.
1:08:23
I like that, Like the bagginess of his pants and tights, you
1:08:26
know, has wrinkles and stuff like. Man Like, the detail on this
1:08:30
scar is incredible. The scar on the arm is something that I remember forever.
1:08:34
Yeah. Like and having a playable mandible claws unreal. I hove if
1:08:44
you can like sit him down do like the rocket like man, you know,
1:08:47
always that's always just Mankind was a tap guy in my and this is
1:08:54
when he's he's starting to get over because you know, he's just comes off.
1:08:58
And if you're looking back in time, like the whole few with the
1:09:00
Undertaker all that stuff. Now around this time he's kind of doing this stuff
1:09:03
with Vader, but they're feud with Owen and Bulldog and eventually you know,
1:09:09
turns Babyface later that year. So perfect time to get a Mankind. But
1:09:14
as I was saying these four incredible, the next two, oh boy,
1:09:20
I would say straight up re releases, but they're not Series one. Sean
1:09:25
Michaels. It's essentially the same figure as Series one with his hole, but
1:09:33
he's got the peg holes so and also a little sturdy. I mean I
1:09:39
mean this one yeah, wait, like my other one was insane. I'm
1:09:43
a little sturdier, maybe a little brighter paint jobs or different. There's a
1:09:46
difference right there. Now, Guys, we talked about this in our LJN
1:09:53
episode. You'll find this later down the Jacks line. There are so many
1:09:57
variants that are not supposed to be various. They're just you know, they're
1:10:00
they're mass producing these at like record numbers, you know, but but this
1:10:04
this sean is known that the hair color is different. And look, let's
1:10:08
take a look at the pegs. Series one no peg hole. Series two
1:10:12
has the peg so you can put it on the stand. So at the
1:10:15
time I didn't get it, I didn't care. I was so nuts.
1:10:19
I didn't miss anything, got it. I really wish they just would have
1:10:23
given a different outfit. I mean, obviously, yeah, for sure,
1:10:28
but I think I think, like the line is a proven commodity now and
1:10:32
they're just trying to like, you know, so you would get this,
1:10:35
and you even though you have the same figure, what would you use it
1:10:38
for? I would like retire the not peg one, but keep it.
1:10:43
Look at my collection, and then this would be the one I'd play with.
1:10:45
Got it? And then the stand you know, in my mind,
1:10:48
I'm like, well I need all six stands, six right, Like that's
1:10:51
how the Psycho I was. Yeah, here's Brett Hitman Heart. This is
1:10:56
the series three. He has the peg hole at the bottom them. It's
1:11:00
it's a it's a good figure, but it's it's it's series one. The
1:11:03
hair color a little different, slightly different from series one. If you're being
1:11:09
super anal about it. This could literally just be like they switched factories and
1:11:12
using the same mold. It was really like oxidized. The different color.
1:11:15
Yeah, but just like that. Well, the the decal slightly different on
1:11:21
the chest you can barely tell, but it is. Yeah, I mean,
1:11:26
come on, come on, that's that's some de freedom psychonists. And
1:11:30
then of course the foot hole clear as day, clear as day. And
1:11:34
then like I said, they switched the packaging up. So what they did
1:11:40
was they just filled in the die cut. It was very ambitious, but
1:11:45
like there's too many corners, dude, it's gonna just get damage to And
1:11:49
that's that's exactly what was happening. They were getting all dinged up. So
1:11:55
again the same figures you got Sid, you got you know, everybody else
1:11:59
in the line. He had Ahmed, you got the Bulldog mankind Shaw,
1:12:03
Michaels and Brett Hart. And what was really interesting about Seriously, we're gonna
1:12:09
jump ahead a little bit, but we have to mention it. Well,
1:12:13
seriously, look at the back of the box shows all the guys. Of
1:12:15
course there's nice shows. The rings shows you how not to do the bone
1:12:18
crunching sad which you know we still need to know this stuff. Guys.
1:12:24
Some special re releases in series, which is a little head scratching to me
1:12:30
for a couple of reasons. I walked into Toys r Us and Carl place.
1:12:33
I'll never forget it. I have no idea that these exist, and
1:12:36
I'm like, like, like the blinking man emoji that Brosky sins. What.
1:12:45
So it's a gold Dust series one re release, but it's not quite
1:12:48
a re release because they update the decko. They add a black trim the
1:12:54
silvers a whirld of a difference. It absolutely makes it pop and obviously hole
1:13:00
in the foot in the stand, but I mean, yeah, that makes
1:13:01
it big difference, big big dipathetically. And then up next, big daddy
1:13:10
cool diesel, which is like what which For the longest I was like,
1:13:15
if there's a diesel, there's got to be a razor. Right when I
1:13:17
was a kid, I was looking for it. That's what I was thinking
1:13:21
too, because okay, now I was able to get a diesel for my
1:13:25
fake fed thank god, you know. And as you can tell different,
1:13:28
peg hole or has a peg hole, no peg hole, But why did
1:13:31
they re release diesel but no razor? So still as a fan still had
1:13:38
no Razor. So it's just a gold Dust and Diesel that were released,
1:13:42
that's it, which is also so weird because technically the Breton shot are re
1:13:46
released from series one, right right, it's just odd. Well, I'll
1:13:53
tell I'll tell you this. This is right now when the shackles are off.
1:13:58
Okay, so this series, this gold Dust specifically, I've said this
1:14:03
many times, me and Steve Negron, and we booked a fig fed together.
1:14:05
Okay, I'm not saying that we had any issues together booking these storylines,
1:14:11
but they weren't necessarily allmine. Okay, maybe I wanted somebody to join
1:14:16
the four Horse, maybe he didn't, right, So this was kind of
1:14:19
my secret. You know what, I'm gonna run my own figure, built
1:14:25
the brand, built the brand behind Steve Negron's back, and that's when I
1:14:30
I man, I might have been getting my own money at this time,
1:14:33
allowance or whatever it was, right, yes, something, So so I
1:14:39
bought these myself, the ring everything that I could find this entire series,
1:14:44
you know, Damed Johnson, the re releases of series one because I never
1:14:47
had them, but that still you could easily find that undertaker that would glow
1:14:51
in the dark. So I still I got that. So I basically got
1:14:55
everything that I could at this point, and that's when I started making my
1:14:59
Jack fig fed right now, Yeah, I mean at this point, now
1:15:02
you have enough guys for a proper fig fed yuh. In February of this
1:15:08
year, nineteenninety seven at the the Javi Center Toy Fair with a nice big
1:15:14
spread. So now we're now we're cooking. Here, we're cooking. We
1:15:17
got some obviously we don't know that exists when we're kids with oh, of
1:15:21
course not. So you know, it shows what's going to come for the
1:15:25
rest of the year. Toy Fair is such a big deal now, Uh,
1:15:29
it was then, but more so for like retailers, not fans,
1:15:32
you know, people who are picking up these lines like a Toys r Us
1:15:35
or KB or Kmart Cow, you know stuff like that. It wasn't for
1:15:40
John Howe from Mexite Collectibles it would sneak into these things. So unlike the
1:15:45
previous two packs we mentioned, these not so much meat on the bone as
1:15:53
Sean Michaels and Vader. Yeah, these guys were feuding the previous summer,
1:15:58
but it makes sense. It's old essentially though, just like Series two.
1:16:03
You know, maybe you can say slight paint differences on the Sean or Vader,
1:16:09
but I feel like I need them in a card to complete my little
1:16:13
well yeah, my grudge match. It's great limited collector's edition too. It's
1:16:17
funny, you know, nowadays the limited figure is three thousand, one of
1:16:20
three thousand, right, but then back then was twelve thousand. So how
1:16:25
many was like regular Undertaker, how many were out there? One hundred thousand?
1:16:30
I mean who? A lot of these bone cruncheres are very plentiful and
1:16:33
affordable, and they're not anymore, especially that Series one. Yeah, for
1:16:38
sure. So look at the Sewan right here, the different gloves from series
1:16:41
one. It's like, you gotta be real anal to count like this.
1:16:45
Yeah, but it's true, Like I have it because I'm a complete this
1:16:47
of the bone Crunchers. So I have it and I can confirm the paint
1:16:50
difference is different. Look at the goal the Vader slightly different. Not enough
1:16:56
for me on that, man, No, no, absolutely so did you
1:17:00
ask Brian on that? Was that something you would pass on or no?
1:17:01
So that I couldn't like if I couldn't see a difference or a new accessory
1:17:06
or something in no way like I don't think I ever bought that. Okay,
1:17:10
right, this is another one that's slightly I didn't buy this because it's
1:17:15
the exact two figures some serious three just in a two pack. Well it's
1:17:18
not exact. Here we go, Well it's not exact. Okay, yeah,
1:17:27
what do we got? I mean? This is this is like the
1:17:30
complete this like super duper anal stuff. I can't even like explain to you
1:17:35
what already disagree with you. But sure, okay, look look at the
1:17:39
British bulldog. This is serious three bulldog. I don't know if you can
1:17:43
tell. Can you see where the holes are in his arm like forearm and
1:17:48
bicycles like the air holes for the bone crunching action we're talking about, but
1:17:51
those holes you see? Yeah, now look at the one from the two
1:17:56
Pac where they are Oh my god, come on, but it's a difference.
1:18:02
They're different. I don't look at his other arm on the series three
1:18:06
has it's a yeah, what are you talking about on my Series three?
1:18:13
On the other side, I don't think you have a Series three then,
1:18:17
pal, I think you have that. When I was a kid, I've
1:18:19
never replaced his dirty and played with bro I don't think you have a serious
1:18:25
three. I think those dots are just random and you're wrong completely, is
1:18:28
what I because. Look here's my series three. The dots are there and
1:18:30
there and then my series you know, so I have one of each,
1:18:39
So explain that. Oh yeah right there. Oh yeah, look at that,
1:18:43
bros K. I think error. I think I think you're a psychopath,
1:18:45
is what I think. Yeah, that is not By the way,
1:18:49
the Freedom is the Freedom is laughing his ass off. There. If the
1:18:53
Freedom thinks that you're a psycho, you are a psycho. Moving on,
1:18:59
I'm looking at the sids right now. Now I'm confused, guys, come
1:19:03
on, make sure put them back in label baggy scene. Oh I know,
1:19:10
but guys, these are things that I didn't need as a kid,
1:19:13
but they could have fucking we imagine if that bulldog was repainted a little different,
1:19:17
I mean, yeah, anything, you know, it just would have
1:19:19
been so much nicer. Absolutely, because the other two packs are so colorful.
1:19:25
They pop these, eh, you know, yep, making money,
1:19:30
just do what it is, all right, let's let's take a look at
1:19:33
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my favorite set of the entire not just this series, not just this year,
1:20:15
not just this video, but the entire Bone Coach I said, it's
1:20:16
Bad Boys, it's the live series four. I think I agree with you.
1:20:21
I think it makes the series. And this is right when I was
1:20:25
getting in so Bad Boys was just about to come out. I think when
1:20:29
I started buying them, and then it just completes everything. Let's take a
1:20:30
step back here, A themed series of just heels. Phenomenal, unbelievable,
1:20:39
it's unheard of. Now again, I still don't have internet, so I
1:20:45
don't know these are fucking coming. Okay, I have no idea. I'm
1:20:50
going to seventh grade. Okay, summer ninety six, So think about that
1:20:56
gap though, January six, I get Series three. Ninety seven. I'm
1:21:04
sorry, So January ninety seven, I get Series three. July ninety seven
1:21:10
I get Series four. So I have a huge gap in my Fike bed.
1:21:15
I'm I'm begging for new talent. Man, Yeah, I'm begging.
1:21:18
It's about to explode. Storylines are getting stale. I'll never forget LEVI tow
1:21:26
I just saw men in black in theater. Toys r Us is right in
1:21:30
that shoppings that I said, let me go over that Toys r Us.
1:21:34
Thank god. I did case motherfucking Fresh Bad Boys Series four on the shelves
1:21:42
and it rocked my world, absolutely rocked my world. What about you,
1:21:46
brun? Did you know what was coming? Uh? So, either I
1:21:49
saw it in one of those toy Mark magazines to digest or whatever, or
1:21:56
and then back me up on this, Broskin like this is probably gonna pertain
1:21:59
to you as well. If you ordered from Ringside, then you started to
1:22:01
get those like Ringside like newsletters on like I did, black and white,
1:22:05
but on colored paper. Yeah, see like crappy little black and whitess you'd
1:22:10
have an idea. And looking back on it now seeing some of this research
1:22:13
that he's done for us, it's pictures from like toy for that John hat
1:22:15
and stuff, right, right, So I knew, but I didn't know
1:22:19
when. And then I walked into again something I'll just never ever forget Toys
1:22:25
r US and Huntington with my mom and I'm like in a panic, and
1:22:30
I guess he said, been there for a minute because they only had Vader
1:22:33
and Triple H. But Triple H is like my b all end All favorite
1:22:38
wrestler and the d one that I wanted. So I walked out. I
1:22:42
didn't get the Vader of the day, but I got that Triple H and
1:22:43
that started, you know, the heel Triple H was your favorite wrestler.
1:22:46
I always liked bad guys, and I like, I always liked guys like
1:22:50
who are working their way up the card kind of thing, like investments,
1:22:54
and he was my guy. He was my pedigree, you know, Granwich
1:22:57
snob. Triple H was my favorite. Who is starting with Mark? Well,
1:23:01
well, for me it was Springfield, Massachusetts, Toys r US seeing
1:23:04
Stone Cold and it's just like, well, come on right, come on
1:23:10
hot. At the time, he's hard to like get, but that's the
1:23:13
first one that I saw, and I didn't give a shit about anything else.
1:23:15
But now I have Stone Cold and this fig fed that I started by
1:23:18
myself very recently, by the way, like maybe maybe a few weeks before
1:23:23
I started buying these, and then I see the stone cold. So let's
1:23:27
talk about here, man. I was just thinking about this for Ruke.
1:23:31
I think for debutsed this look at Survivors series ninety six, right right,
1:23:36
so like that is a quick turnaround, and I believe these are showing off
1:23:42
at that toy fair So it's even quicker turnarounds, like insane that they weren't
1:23:45
like because it's not like they're like, oh, this was supposed to be
1:23:48
for fru Casad and they used the parts like right away, like even as
1:23:51
the strap across the back that makes it for Ruke. So like, damn,
1:23:56
that was wild. I love this. I love these doing like the
1:23:59
Nation hand sign if you want he's got these Ahmed arms exactly or or just
1:24:03
don't. Actually they're just similar arms. Okay, it looks like it's torso
1:24:08
right, No it's not. It's not a singular a single molded singlet.
1:24:12
It's a molded It's the same boobs though, same boobs, same big old
1:24:15
titties. He's got this. This is one thing that's a little odd to
1:24:18
me, and we'll explain why in the set not removable hat. Yeah,
1:24:24
I mean, as we go on here, there's a couple of odd choices
1:24:26
like that. Yeah, great figure. I like it. It's re released
1:24:30
a million times. Oh my god, it gets released millions. Yeah,
1:24:34
it was never never different. Bro, you're gonna think I'm crazy. This
1:24:40
might have been. I don't want to say it's my favorite one of the
1:24:44
set. I'm not a sleeper. It's a sleeper. But it's like,
1:24:46
wait a minute, a mid Carter, right, Like that's even tough to
1:24:53
I would even you're going too far saying mid Carter. I feel it made
1:24:56
me think that they had more plans for him than what was played out on
1:25:00
TV, right, because he's certainly if you were like, oh, all
1:25:04
the people you know six months prior to get a figure, you would never
1:25:08
say Justin Hawk Bradshaw, Right, But you know in your fig fed so
1:25:13
far you got Sean Brad and now you've justin HOWG Brat. It's like,
1:25:18
this is what we've been dying for. I like that because you got some
1:25:21
people that could eats. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, That's what I'm
1:25:25
saying. And he's got he became my top guy. I mean he got
1:25:30
a little shoving my fed too. I'm just saying there was people that can
1:25:33
finally you know, he got the bull rope, he's got the mobile hat.
1:25:36
And that's what's so strange that for Ruke doesn't have the mobile hat,
1:25:42
but Justin hog Bradshaw and well two accessories, minds, two accessories, very
1:25:46
very toy is Justin hog Bradshaw. No denying that I loved this because he
1:25:53
wasn't featured very much, right there, storylines, it's like the push that
1:25:59
you dreamed of, right and everything that you came up with was was new
1:26:03
and not used and you could make him any anything. Really, let's go,
1:26:10
but here we go. The next one stole Cold Steve aw and this
1:26:20
is they were like a little hard to find because n wor whatever. But
1:26:27
this was different. This is the first time I figure was like sought after,
1:26:30
Yeah, clicked. I can't put into words what this figure was like
1:26:38
when this comes out. Now there are the toy fair images of Austin have
1:26:44
like the white boots and I'm glad they switched it. And I'm glad they
1:26:46
switched arms. Like his arms a little tighter and we're flexed. So this
1:26:51
is definitely better with the black but he's got the white boots that they they
1:26:55
I'm sorry the white star on the boots on the release version that they keep
1:27:00
forever. We had a time baffling or how that happened, I don't know,
1:27:04
so like that's a little honest little head Scratchy the white stars on the
1:27:09
boots. But man like it's perfect. He can do the stunner. You
1:27:12
know, it's it's just unbelievable. It's such a great figure. Elbow pads
1:27:15
make no sense really, right, yeah, I guess I have one right
1:27:20
here. I'm in on card. The back is incredible. And now also
1:27:25
on the back it shows the managers where I'm like, what they're making managers.
1:27:30
We'll talk about them later. I don't want to get ahead of myself.
1:27:31
But for Rouke, Jerry the King, Lawler Stone Cold Steve, Austin,
1:27:34
Justin Hogratchaw Vader, Hunter Hurst, Humsley, bad boys, with these
1:27:39
six bad boys figures, bad has never been so good. Yes, I
1:27:44
think right here on the show, I'm gonna have to do it. Then
1:27:47
we have to let it breathe right here on the show. Tradition. Oh
1:27:53
yeah, smell it baby, Oh yeah, kind of jealous. Oh my
1:28:01
god, oh my god. It smells like Levet's out towards r Us like
1:28:10
ninety six. Let's give a little bone crunching the knee. Man. What
1:28:17
an icon's iconic figure. I absolutely love this figure. It's great. Now
1:28:25
looking back, I guess if you're a fan of figures these days, you
1:28:28
look at you're like, why does he have these big Risks bands? Why
1:28:30
does he have the other band? It was Austin, That's what I was
1:28:35
like. He's so hot at the time. His first figure ever is the
1:28:41
rookie. Think of how many stone cold figures are are right now? You
1:28:44
could Bendy come out before this because he had tried. Uh no, no,
1:28:48
no, Ben, he does not came up before. It does not
1:28:51
maybe his his his playmates. Little thing does it does a count? That
1:28:57
doesn't count? Though this is incredible guy, it's fucking Austin. Now to
1:29:00
put into effective where is Austin? He just has that few with Brett at
1:29:03
RESTLM thirteen, he's fewed with the Hawk Foundation. Now is as hot as
1:29:08
it comes. He's stunnering Everybody's about to the popularity of wrestling as a whole.
1:29:15
He's got to change the fucking business. Yeah, yeah, changed my
1:29:17
life, Yeah for sure. Next here's Brian's guy. My god, another
1:29:24
one, that dude. This figure got re released forty seven times. Yes,
1:29:28
but I think it's perfect. I loved it. It hooked that pedigree,
1:29:31
hooked the pedigree. I liked the little ponytail, which would rip off.
1:29:39
But yeah, I love the the baggy tights, something that like Metelligen's
1:29:43
glosses over doesn't do that. I'm not shipping me. Tell you, bro,
1:29:47
look at You're not wrong. You're not wrong. Awesome figure like this
1:29:51
is like the iconic hunter Hurst helms. They look you know, the likeness
1:29:58
is pretty good for nineteen eighty that's great. He's good. He can wrestle
1:30:01
your ultimate warrior. I love it. Oh my god. And right now
1:30:06
he has just won King of the Ring, so he's on his way.
1:30:11
He literally wins King Ring. Yeah, he wins King of the Ring,
1:30:13
which is great because now you can use a piece of the next guy.
1:30:18
I got the crown. This was sick for a lot of reasons. You
1:30:21
had a guy, like I said, a guy to put people over.
1:30:25
I'm not the you know, disparage the legendary career of Dreg king Waller.
1:30:28
But in ninety six, you know, in ninety seven, he's not you
1:30:30
know, he's a commentator guy, But you also got a commentator, right,
1:30:34
I absolutely exactly. It's a two in one. Yeah, you know
1:30:39
the strap he's got, the the the chest hair molded head which I really
1:30:45
appreciate so good, and the removable crowds. So, like you said,
1:30:47
Mark, you could have a King of the Ring that was that was like
1:30:51
such an important thing. I think I immediately did a King of the Ring
1:30:55
tournament when I got brought him home. Yeah he did not win, great
1:30:59
spoiler. Just the attention that detail here, you know, the straps on
1:31:02
the boots, just like you can do a perfect pile driver. And obviously
1:31:08
this toy very nostalgic for us. Is the reason why this most recent MATEL
1:31:12
figure that just came out was so cool to us because this is this is
1:31:15
that is the era of Jerry, right, yeah, it's it's just a
1:31:18
beautiful figure. The next figure, it's the same as what we've discussed several
1:31:27
times in the show. You know, it's just series two. But now
1:31:29
he's got a hole in the foot in the stand. You know, now
1:31:31
he's at the hole in the foot in the stand. It's you would have
1:31:34
thought he would have updated that. The brightness of that red which they do
1:31:38
much later. But yeah, it's it's one that I skipped. I didn't
1:31:44
need it. I didn't need it because I had to get it, because
1:31:46
I eventually got it. Wasn't like a priority, but eventually got it because
1:31:50
of the stand and the difference. And then listen, I'm not going to
1:31:55
complain to be a five Bangers and a re release. I also think at
1:31:58
this point I realized the joints are getting tighter and the things are being made
1:32:00
better. So I did want my like series one and Series two guys to
1:32:03
kind of be retired a little bit. Yep, it's just a great line
1:32:09
up. Your fig fed is really cooking. You're really picking up steam.
1:32:13
You're getting new characters, you can start your own storylines. You have someone
1:32:16
like Justin Hugg Bradshaw, you have Jerry Lawler, it's just and now you
1:32:20
have Austin. You have stone cold Steve Austin the game time, I don't
1:32:27
think people realize how incredible that is, Like okay, like now, like
1:32:30
the fans, like I would kind of compare it to like the La Knight
1:32:32
that's kind of coming out. But La Knight as good as he is,
1:32:35
as Papa Say is he's not so called Steve Austin popular how about you know
1:32:39
what I'm saying realizing that the APA was in a set. Oh shit,
1:32:45
I actually use them as a tag team later on, which didn't quite make
1:32:47
any sense. But I would do shit like that. My my imagination would
1:32:53
ignore the Nation of Domination stuff when I could make him whatever, you know
1:32:57
what I mean, Like I use the purple Glow in the Dark Undertaker and
1:33:00
a bike. It's like, I didn't care, how dare you? Okay?
1:33:04
Great set? I love it. I just love the iconic the brick
1:33:09
the bad Boys. Man, it was, like I said, an entire
1:33:13
set themed to like, I mean, you don't know their heels per se,
1:33:16
right, but they're bad guye wrestlers, bad boys, bad boys all
1:33:23
right. Up next another, in my opinion, iconic set and really adds
1:33:30
some meat and potatoes to your fig fed Managers Series one figures with no bone
1:33:41
crunching action. They do not feature the bone crunching action. Uh, they're
1:33:45
but they're in scale. However, they're in scale. Now Jack's did something.
1:33:51
Now maybe because Jack was from l JAN l j N, had the
1:33:57
Managers had the referees that has brought era completely skips them. If you're a
1:34:03
kid, even if you're not a kid, even just you need the other
1:34:06
people. You need managers, you need people from ringside, and we finally
1:34:11
got it here with the Managers Series one. Check out that Paul Bear.
1:34:14
That ship holds up man. Look at that figure due. Yeah, the
1:34:17
face is like one of the best in the whole series. Oh my god,
1:34:20
I would argue to this day best Paul Bear. Even the one that
1:34:27
that Mattel's putting on. Now, I think it's too big, you know,
1:34:30
like a pointing. Also, let it be known that the urn is
1:34:35
great. And it also goes in the Undertaker's hand too, yeah, which
1:34:40
is super fun. It goes Undertaker's hand. Well he's got like okay,
1:34:45
yeah, I love he's doing the point. I just love that in scale
1:34:47
looks like Paul Bear. Man, this just this this summer. It literally
1:34:54
it's great. It changed my life. Man, it changed my life just
1:34:59
having all these And also wrestling is spiking in popularity too, right, nineteen
1:35:02
ninety seven is my favorite year. Of ninety seven is the first I remember
1:35:05
my friends liking wrestling again again, right yeah again keyword yes. Freshman in
1:35:12
high school, by the way, and yeah, everybody liked wrestling. People
1:35:15
were doing suck its in English class and all that stuff. That's coming.
1:35:17
Yeah, the end of the year. By the mankind's the same. I
1:35:20
mean maybe there's some slight paint differences, but essentially the same figure. Same
1:35:27
to me. But you had to get it to get paid. Next one
1:35:31
incredible. We got a mid card babyface, we got woild wild Man Marrow
1:35:41
what ten on the wild Man, unbelievable tan on Mark Marrow. Check it
1:35:47
out here. You got a lot of play. Look at this. It's
1:35:51
great. He can do then you can do the shooting star Press, unbelievable
1:35:55
wild thing, a little crazy eyes. The sable is cool. Got Sable
1:36:00
here, arm candy. It's a it's a great, great figure. She
1:36:04
she stands up. You know she's fine. They only have one stand.
1:36:09
They want you to share the stand. That was a little cheap or whatever.
1:36:13
The deco heads back here that the wild Man logo. I just love
1:36:17
the sable figure. It's just so great. Now they were gonna be a
1:36:20
little different. They were showing with the toy fair Sable is gonna be in
1:36:25
like a greenish Marrow in a white But I'm finally that hand is turned way
1:36:30
different too. It Marrow, is it? Yeah, it's like almost like
1:36:33
a von Eric claw compared to what came out. Yeah, interesting, I
1:36:39
see that. Yeah, I like it. I like the figure. I
1:36:42
like the Marrow, I like the sable. Uh up next, this is
1:36:45
one where it's like, how deep are we cutting here? How deep?
1:36:51
At this time? The most famous professional wrestling lawyer Jailbird Crush, jail Birds
1:36:59
Crush, Clarence Mason. I like this was not something on my Bengo card.
1:37:04
I didn't think, Okay, Crush and Clarence Mason are coming. Jailbird
1:37:09
Crush. Incredible figure. The detail is great, he can do the the
1:37:14
heart punch fist. The Clarence Mason is awesome. Man. I just loved
1:37:17
the tattoo on his forehead. Yeah, no Crush. How many guys at
1:37:27
this point have had hasbros and Bone Crunch be a Brett Taker, Sean and
1:37:32
Bulldog sid and Crush Yep, Clarence Mason is awesome. I love it.
1:37:39
I love the glasses pretty pretty great. It's such a like Clarence Mason.
1:37:44
Like Clarence Mason. I love that one and only action figure. It's crazy
1:37:49
know the release, but well you know what I mean. I watched all
1:37:53
of ninety six and ninety seven recently while I worked out right, So it's
1:37:58
it's crazy because Clarence May when you think of managers nowadays, like never really
1:38:02
had many promos. He kind of just like walked out with him like did
1:38:06
a couple of crazy things. He does Bulldog and Owen. It sells them
1:38:13
to Cornett or the other way around. But Clarence Mason himself very rarely doing
1:38:17
any promos or any thing. He just kind of walked out. What was
1:38:21
the accomplishing. Yeah, I don't know. For all you palybians out there,
1:38:27
this might be my favorite of the set mister bad Backland and the assaulted
1:38:34
another man that had a Hasbro but now he oh that's right. So this
1:38:40
is rakishi. Uh thought too in the short lived Sultan gimmick, like there's
1:38:45
no way he's assault when this comes out? Is he? I think he's
1:38:47
still around his assultant? Yes, now he has different style legs. Is
1:38:53
the first time I get the v crotch. Check this out. Mark you
1:38:57
can like kind of do like the splits here, which is a little different
1:39:00
which I came from. Cool can do Ninja kicks like the side pressing kick
1:39:04
split le Moon Salt. Still a very very toia figure. I love figure.
1:39:10
Is there a Mattel Sultan. It's on the way, brother, it's
1:39:13
on the way. Okay, this is just a great, great figure.
1:39:15
The Bob back then is excellent. It was just it's fucking Bob back then.
1:39:20
Right. Is this Bob's first figure ever? Yeah? I know it's
1:39:25
poopy, Okay, true, but first figure in thirty years or so.
1:39:30
Just just an incredible figure. Oh look at that. It shows the mini
1:39:34
the figures in the backup. We we're not covering that in this episode.
1:39:38
But those manifigures. I love those minifigures though, those were cool. I
1:39:42
use them as like the member would like. It would be like mini gold
1:39:45
Dust, Mini Bait. I use them as the minis. If we were
1:39:48
going on vacation, I would take those so I don't take my whole fig
1:39:50
fed with me and that would suffice a trip. I just love this set.
1:39:56
It's like with Series four in this like your your fig fed just exploded.
1:40:00
Loans now you can now you can even do house shows. You know,
1:40:04
could you get money? Now you're really making some money with your face,
1:40:10
but you can give people managers that didn't have it. You know,
1:40:12
you can do storylines where like this person turns on this person. There's like
1:40:16
back lamb be in it. Yeah. Back is special. You know it's
1:40:19
great. You get really creative now with women's division. Well not yet,
1:40:26
but next up is the Vince McMahon microphone, which is essentially the same exact
1:40:33
microphone with the autograph. It has the autograph of Vince McMahon which take note,
1:40:39
this came up recently on the podcast full Vince autograph, not just a
1:40:43
VM. Yeah there it is right there, and all the buttons don't work,
1:40:48
so it's not like they're still there, but they don't press in it
1:40:51
just for show, right, Hello Hello, hello hello? Oh yeah,
1:40:55
it has that hello echo coming down the aisle. Sold cold Steve. This
1:41:04
is awesome. I had them both as a kid, so wow, just
1:41:08
because I was nineteen ninety seven Titan Sports, Inc. I love it.
1:41:13
These are this is so great, really really cool. You think Vince says
1:41:15
that hanging up in his office. He should he really should? He should?
1:41:20
I mean I would, I'd be proud of it. Yeah. Next
1:41:24
up, man, let's got the Legion of Doom and Boys. You can
1:41:32
take the spikes off my shoulder pads got big. Christ totally smokes. I
1:41:41
I mean, I mean, I've told the stories several times, but there
1:41:44
used to be this big ass Toys Russ and Times Square before the glamorous like
1:41:48
famous one. There's just like a regular one. Those a couple of stories.
1:41:51
I went there with my mom before Christmas ninety seven, so I want
1:41:56
to say it was like, remember, ish, these are all there.
1:41:59
Serious five was all there, The title pack that we're going to talk about
1:42:02
was all there, and I am having like meltdown, just a meltdown.
1:42:08
Great bodies on them too, for what they look like at the time.
1:42:11
Yeah, I think it's great. So by this time I got a computer,
1:42:15
I got the Internet, and I found Ringside Collectibles with all their photos,
1:42:20
so now I knew, like, oh my god, they're making tag
1:42:26
teams or we'll talk about later like Yoko Zuda. I couldn't believe it.
1:42:30
It was like finding the Internet and finding the figures, the you know,
1:42:34
the figures early. It was just an unbelievable feeling and just opened up my
1:42:38
eyes to everything. It just made figure collecting so much more exciting. And
1:42:44
these these LD figures are unbelievable, guys for kids who had the hasbros and
1:42:48
know the torment of not being able to take those shoulder pads. I didn't
1:42:53
use them. I did not use them. This was like an unbelievable thing.
1:42:58
Yeah, those shoulder pads hold up to this day as far as like
1:43:03
the detail and whatever like. You could put that on them hotel and be
1:43:08
like, yeah, these were just mam. I'm sure everyone did that.
1:43:12
I'm sure the best. I still think, like the sculpt on these are
1:43:15
incredible, That's what I'm saying. If you not just the spikes though,
1:43:19
but the whole figure, yep, yep, I agree, perfely, not
1:43:24
as Jack. So I guess they have like the same body, which is
1:43:27
kind of like, eh, I guess, yeah, the same arms.
1:43:30
Yeah, but that did not bother me when I was kid. It didn't
1:43:32
bother me at all. I think the animals certainly didn't have abs at the
1:43:36
time. So what these are like animal doesn't have is like Mohawk coming down,
1:43:43
you mean, like the more melody. Yeah, like it doesn't continue
1:43:45
on. You know, it wasn't like that then. I don't recall it
1:43:49
was never that short. Doesn't he always have a little no, I won't
1:43:54
say always. Yeah, well I don't have a picture of him right now,
1:43:59
I can't tell. Yeah, God so good? Who we got next?
1:44:03
Mark? Oh yeah, New Black Jacks, doesn't Sana know? I
1:44:09
hate the New Black Jacks. Bradshaw, Blackjack, Bradshaw, Blackjack Wyndham.
1:44:15
Now it's a little confusing for your fake fed because you just got just HOWG.
1:44:19
Bradshaw, which is crazy that you got like a new figure that fast,
1:44:25
and it's crazy but also shows you how short lived just on Hawk Bradshaw
1:44:29
was that too, But also it's crazy to think how short lived the Blackjacks
1:44:31
were that they got a figure that that as well, because these guys really
1:44:38
had no run together. And the lamest thing about these is the hat doesn't
1:44:42
come off. And I remember ripping the hat off because I thought it was
1:44:44
the Undertaker and there is like a is a hole in the head. How
1:44:47
does that happen? That already a set that's gonna sell not that great?
1:44:51
Yeah you do something to it like that? Oh what a bad call?
1:44:56
Y? I just I got them and then just threw them to the side,
1:45:00
to the side, rip the hat off because I literally thought it was
1:45:02
stuck. They did some favors the in the fake fed like l O D
1:45:06
Sam exact bodies. It was cool to have them because you just needed bodies
1:45:11
for your fake face. Yeah, I like that bodies. But like we
1:45:15
just said, you had Brad show just like Bratch for only a couple of
1:45:17
months, but he did change his look I know. So it's like that
1:45:21
figure is kind of wasted. You can't you can't use them as different character.
1:45:25
No, yeah, so what do you do, like do you have
1:45:27
like do you have like Bradshaw stay justno, bradch On Windham comes in as
1:45:31
a solo and then he can just retire. I had to retire Justin Hawk.
1:45:34
I forgot what I did to make it. Make it for a fact
1:45:38
that I retired Justin Hawk for sure, which is said and now looking back
1:45:42
on it, but cool figures. You also never realized the little details are
1:45:45
different. Like the vest has like silver, Yeah they do. They have
1:45:53
the same chaps, but make no sense because it only goes across on one,
1:45:56
but the other one doesn't have it. And then one has the belt
1:45:59
buckle the butt the other one doesn't. I just realize that now, So
1:46:02
it's not identical. You're not not really identical but still cool. I thought
1:46:09
it was cool to get a Barry Wyndham. I'm today's years old when you
1:46:12
mentioned those little details on the crotches. Yeah wow interesting, Yeah Barry Wyndham's
1:46:16
uh has he had a figure a glub a globe before? Okay, here's
1:46:23
glucipoor? Is this and they doesn't have a figure? Still? What Classic
1:46:27
Superstars? True? Wow? Up next Onlievable Awesome Iconic Literally are the Tag
1:46:39
Team Champions right as these come out just about pretty close, right they whent
1:46:45
it like round zero or something in ninety seven. That's that's September October ninety
1:46:48
seven. I love the detailed shirts and skirts. Obviously too much hair though
1:46:53
obviously we talked about that. We're talking about this. It's supposed to be
1:46:57
like like a buzz like yeah, like the I absolutely love these figures.
1:47:02
When they came out the removable they're not removable skirts, but like they could
1:47:08
still move. They did it perfectly. It's it's absolutely perfect. They could
1:47:12
still do like all their signature moves because of that little slit on the one
1:47:15
leg. You can easily kick with it. And I love that the detail
1:47:20
that like their underwears are underneath, Like, yeah, it's pretty crazy,
1:47:27
such such great figures. Uh similar bodies. Thrasher has to painted on elbow
1:47:31
pads they got the Uh man, these are so fucking good. I gotta
1:47:38
display these so good and we're buddies with the head Bangers. Great guys,
1:47:43
So I'm having former FWF champions. They are former champions, So Marshall Thrasher,
1:47:48
the head Bangers. They make a bunch of releases of the head Bangers.
1:47:51
But it's crazy that they made that bag. It's crazy they made any
1:47:57
of these guys, especially this next set. These I think god Ones are
1:48:00
my hands down favorites. At you think it's crazy that they made the god
1:48:03
Ones. I think it's they're so good. Yeah they were. Man,
1:48:09
the slop comes with the bucket. That one's at a hell of a ninety
1:48:13
six. They were pretty Oh yeah, it makes sense that they got to
1:48:15
figure in ninety seven. But these figures are perfect. Yeah, the sizing,
1:48:20
the sizes of arms, man, you can make them heels or babyfacesies
1:48:28
really awesome. Yeah, so horseshoe and they're like they got like little bellies
1:48:31
on them. I appreciate it. Yeah, you know, man, so
1:48:33
fun. Man, I'm looking at them right now. This Phineas is incredible,
1:48:42
these ones. I didn't mind that their hats didn't come off, yeah
1:48:45
for whatever reason. Yeah, for the reason. I accepted that too.
1:48:48
It would have been cool, but not necessary. They're already kind of in
1:48:50
streat clothes anyway, so like that hat makes sense. It's weird when somebody's
1:48:54
got, like wrestling a singlet, but then a hat, right yeah,
1:48:58
and then just like you said, that's literally the hat that Undertaker had,
1:49:00
so and it came off on series one. So why we're you know,
1:49:04
deep into the line here we go backwards and you can't rip it off because
1:49:09
it's got this weird molded like bowl cut. Yeah, it's like it's crazy.
1:49:15
So I'm looking at them now, same bodies, different arms, different
1:49:17
heads obviously, but great, great, great set, so good game.
1:49:24
In the back of the box there you see the Tech Time series one set
1:49:27
you just got. If you're not really kind of graduate, you got eight
1:49:30
new guys. Yep, that's nuts. Just these past couple months alone,
1:49:36
the amount of new characters you get is unbelievable, so much new stuff,
1:49:41
and it's it's really just like we keep saying, adding to your fig bed
1:49:44
but but it does. By the way, that quote I opened up with,
1:49:46
I believe it's for mcfoley's first book or something, when he said that
1:49:50
he got Dewey the New Blackjacks for Christmas and he opened them and then he
1:49:55
had like a tear in his eye and said, but that doesn't Sanda,
1:49:57
No, I hate the New Black Jacks. So here on the back we
1:50:02
get a little sneak peak of the of the Superscar Series five. Let's go,
1:50:06
well, up next, we're gonna go to the Ring, right,
1:50:09
the Monster Ring kind of re release at this time in Canada only. Oh,
1:50:15
this one. I didn't really know this was the thing until we did
1:50:17
a research. Brett Hitman heart is not He's just on the package just for
1:50:21
selling purposes. It's perfect in Canada. Put Brett Hart in the parks.
1:50:27
Yes, of course you don't get this. There's really no reason for me
1:50:31
it existed. It's pretty cool, but clearly it came out later with all
1:50:35
the stuff on the back right now, yeah, so yeah, So on
1:50:39
the back Superstar Series five, Bad Boys, the Tag Team and then the
1:50:41
Vince mcmahnon Sonny can We also mentioned Brett Hart long fucking gone, not long
1:50:47
gone. No, No, he leaves at the end of ninety seven.
1:50:53
We're talking about Sorry, my timetable is not He's not gone long. Your
1:50:58
brain's long gone. Yeah, my brain's long gone. He's not gone yet.
1:51:00
Sorry, guys, I thought I I thought he just got screwed at
1:51:03
uh, he's a bad to get screwed. He's about to get screwed.
1:51:09
So cool ring, but really no reason to get it. But maybe the
1:51:13
Canadians didn't have a ring before. I don't know. Maybe yeah, maybe
1:51:15
his way to re release. Who knows? Next up though, is Superstars
1:51:19
Series five. Oh, Flash you are so funky. I feel like it's
1:51:28
just come. It's just coming fast now, right you guys is cooking,
1:51:30
the line's making money, wrestling hot. The hash comes off this guy flash
1:51:35
perfect. Flash Funk was one of my favorite I mean, obviously a mid
1:51:40
card act, but he got way bigger push than the Brian Miers fig fed
1:51:44
than he did on TV because it's just so fun, so awesome. Obviously
1:51:46
I knew he was too cold Scorpio two, so he has some street cred
1:51:49
right once me. Once I started watching ECW in ninety eight, I went
1:51:56
back and started using this flash Funk way better. Right, So awesome,
1:51:59
it's such a great figure. Now let's let's let's put this into respective So
1:52:02
this comes out like fall of ninety seven. He debuts a Survivor series ninety
1:52:11
six, So even if they have like reference shots, it takes about a
1:52:15
year, which is pretty fast. There's a crazier one in this line.
1:52:18
Well, okay, who are you gonna say? I was gonna go back
1:52:20
for a second mankind? Who comes out in January of ninety seven, which
1:52:24
means he probably came out even earlier. He debuted in like March. He's
1:52:28
eight April six. That's a nuts one. But this line alone, Shamrock
1:52:33
true, Shamrocks addrest me in thirteen. He's not in gear, he's a
1:52:36
ref Oh my god, yeah, I mean and that's March. Holy shit
1:52:43
is crazy. I didn't even think about that. That is crazy. Yeah.
1:52:46
Wow, Who's who were talking about? Next? We talking about Shamrock.
1:52:50
Next we talk oh sab Bage. Great figure, much needed, much
1:52:57
needed. Now you have the nation admination, you have for Rooke, you
1:53:01
have Crush, you have Clarence, and now you have Savvio Vega perfect.
1:53:05
I love it. Not that easy to play with, but good to have.
1:53:10
He has the weird Sultan legs as well. He does the V but
1:53:13
like we said, he can do some cool Savvio kicks, so there's a
1:53:15
compromise there. Yep, he'll kick for sure. That was his finish,
1:53:19
wasn't it. At one point in this thing, he'll kick. I have
1:53:21
a question, does yours have like the Nation hat on it? Like?
1:53:26
Is the Nation logo painted on it? No? Okay, so it's just
1:53:30
a plain black Yeah, okay, great figure. The likeness is good,
1:53:35
has the s V Yeah. I'm a big fan of this figure for sure.
1:53:42
Guys, we got time because he's just back on TV. He's kind
1:53:46
of just become the rock. This was a big deal Rocky my via obviously
1:53:54
when this is designed is based off Babyface Rocky my Villa Survivor Service Series ninety
1:54:00
six inter Canal Champion Rocky Rocky. I love it. The prototype was a
1:54:05
lot better because he's doing his like pose. But that's fine. He's at
1:54:10
the he's at the rock calf brutes, which doesn't make sense because they don't
1:54:13
include it later on in the line when they've clearly made it, which I
1:54:17
don't understand. Okay, but I love it. I just love everything about
1:54:20
it, Like you get Rocky my Va who was, like you said,
1:54:23
like this is actually better than I remember too, you know, a young
1:54:27
Dune. This was the only rock that I had for so long, so
1:54:32
long, but he was the rock dark enough in the skin tone department,
1:54:39
definitely, it's kind of like a grayish Yeah. Actually, what about this
1:54:44
next figure in the line, Like we just talked about the worlds man,
1:54:49
it's insane around, insane turnaround. Great timing though, too, because by
1:54:56
the end of the year he's main eventing pay per views and he's got Stone
1:55:00
Colds body except the kickpaths right, the legs, Yes, new legs has
1:55:03
the kickpads. The shamrock not jacked enough at all. Like this is not
1:55:10
bad, terrible, not great either, but yeah, I mean think about
1:55:15
the time that it took to get him out. That's like record time.
1:55:19
Yeah, that might be the quickest toy history. There's some big show.
1:55:27
They're proven one, but we we gotta we gotta do some research. It's
1:55:31
been closet. Next up we have Stone Cold Steve Austin. Again, he's
1:55:44
the hottest guy. He should be in every set, should in every set
1:55:47
coming out. I really wish they would have taken the stars off the boots
1:55:51
or something I could never ever and that figure must have been released twenty five
1:55:57
times. Also very easy just painted over it. I mean like like the
1:56:00
to be just painted. You don't have to do it, cost less money,
1:56:04
and all the advertising ads it's like Austin and then it shows the other
1:56:09
figures like they know it's Austin. It's Austin. And then this is a
1:56:12
weird when you get Psycho Sid finally in this gat Yeah, thank god,
1:56:16
but he's God, He's gone. That's the I mean, I'm pumped to
1:56:20
have him like to look like this like top Guy champion, but too little,
1:56:25
too late. He is gone and much better. So back to that
1:56:30
Rocky My Villa. Just Toys, Bendoms Rocky My Villa just beats this out.
1:56:36
So it's the first, you know, real toy, but the Bendoms
1:56:42
rock Rocky My Via comes out first. So got it? Just toys just
1:56:45
beat out Jack Specific great set, great set, Your your fig fed is
1:56:51
just loaded. It's loaded now and it's about to get even more fully loaded
1:56:56
with Ringside Collection. Now you got a women's division. You want me,
1:57:04
Sonny? Those downloaded women and al history, right, and like I said
1:57:13
that, the storylines you can do. Now you have two women, you
1:57:15
know, you can have them wrestle even though they were plastic figures and it
1:57:17
was impossible, or you know, they have they can have a little feud
1:57:20
with the people they manage or whatever. It was cool stuff that you could
1:57:25
do. For sure. What's cool about Sonny is like at this point she
1:57:30
is just like a ringside person. She's not quite man. It's like,
1:57:34
how were you going to use her? Like, you could be creative,
1:57:38
you could have some sunny days, she could be Breton Shaw could be feuding
1:57:41
over her. Well, you can shoot a super Soaker commercial on the back,
1:57:45
you know that kind of stuff. It was weird, like her her
1:57:47
skirt, it's like really hard plastic. It could be removable though you know
1:57:54
it's not. It's another piece. But it's another piece, is what I
1:57:58
mean. Yeah, you can't like it, but she can her legs move.
1:58:02
Yeah, you know better than sable? Yeah, for sure? What
1:58:05
do me better than sable? Table doesn't it's a little little statue doesn't move
1:58:10
and the sable is a straight up Oh, let's go to Vince McMann here.
1:58:14
Very controversial. This was an incredible figure. I love it. My
1:58:19
problem with it he can't bend his knees. Yeah, you wanted him to
1:58:24
sit, and so I liked that he could stand and do an interview with
1:58:27
somebody or whatever. But yes, so Vince McMahon both versions here. It's
1:58:32
hard to see the gray and then not gray. I don't recall the gray
1:58:36
being a variant in Risye collection though I thought it was Ringsy collection. No,
1:58:42
the raws War M I mean definitely ros War. I mean what you're
1:58:47
holding looks pretty similar, right, This one has the gray as the jet
1:58:53
black. And the rumor always was that Vince didn't like the gray, had
1:58:57
it changed, But I thought that was for the raws War. I think
1:59:00
it happened in this line. And then obviously ros War was always going to
1:59:04
be black because it was changed. Well, no, the ros War is
1:59:09
the one that has the variant. It's not this was a running change.
1:59:13
Okay, that's what I'm telling you. Okay, So obviously War is never
1:59:17
going to be great because it's it's all black. But that's where that's where
1:59:20
you're that's where you're wrong. The Rod's War has the different ones. That
1:59:25
is what I'm trying to tell you. The freedom is laughing. Should we
1:59:28
ask him what's going on with this? He can be he can tell us
1:59:32
you pop in d do you do you know what the deal is? Yeah,
1:59:36
it's uh, it's war. I lived this like, I don't know.
1:59:42
I have them all I have. I have them to this day organized
1:59:47
I just don't. That's not how my memory recalls it. Like in my
1:59:51
child is I'm not saying you're wrong, but you're not right. Well has
1:59:57
made a ruling and uh and even born yet, so I'm not his opinion
2:00:01
on it. But my my vincemick Man rings that collection is just black hair,
2:00:08
okay, but I'm saying I have both because I remember there was both.
2:00:12
I think you're wrong, Pal, I'm throwing it out there, all
2:00:15
right. But anyway, you got Vince mick Man, you got bad.
2:00:18
It's a huge deal. And of course you have Sable in the red.
2:00:24
It's cool. It's like it's better than it's different. Oh thank god they
2:00:28
made it a little different. Cool figure, I guess. And getting over
2:00:32
as well is so over. It's unfortunate though, I mean, we're not
2:00:36
going to get deep into it that there's never like a great Sable. Yeah,
2:00:42
there's never a great sable, definitely not. But this next figure is
2:00:47
great. The referee. The referee, Harvey Whippleman. We've talked about this
2:00:54
a lot in the history of our podcast because there's so much weird stuff to
2:00:59
this. The figure is unbelievable. I bought many of these. I got
2:01:05
many of these so many times, like it's a ref, like you need
2:01:09
a ref and you buy multiple rests were ref bunks where ken shaming, get
2:01:13
out of my leg give the belly of belly twuplexes. So it's clearly like
2:01:15
a generic ref that's not supposed to be anyone. But the watch is super
2:01:20
weird and and only Harvey Whooperman wore the watch. Only Harvey wore the watch,
2:01:27
and Harvey Wiplman is on the box, which is super strange as well.
2:01:30
Yes, but uh, we don't know what's going on. Yeah,
2:01:34
I think we asked Harvey once and looking back on it, like why is
2:01:39
that fist closed? Like why is that not an open end to make some
2:01:42
counts? Yeah, I like what he's doing. The two mouth it's cool,
2:01:48
it's very toyatic, but there's a lot of head head scratchy decisions from
2:01:54
it too. So the ringside collection that that was pretty cool. It's unfortunate
2:01:58
because Ringside collection, tag teams and managers is something, in my opinion,
2:02:01
should have stuck the whole time. Ringside gets one more set, but managers
2:02:05
and tag teams are done. They get together. It's not easy to sustain
2:02:10
because it's not like television is rolling out new managers and tag teams and Ringside
2:02:15
people non stop. You know, does that make sense? I'd argue that
2:02:19
they definitely rings that once a maybe once a year thing. Yeah, I
2:02:25
think they could have done it. I think they definitely could have done it.
2:02:27
So it is the first assortment that no figure in the line has bone
2:02:32
crunching action, which is very important. But they're all in scale. It's
2:02:36
fine, it doesn't matter. It's fine, perfect scale. Let's talk about
2:02:41
what I think might be the best. Is the greatest thing about all time,
2:02:45
one of the coolest things in toy history. I'm surprised it's not a
2:02:48
Hall of Fame thing. I don't even know if that's possible if with our
2:02:51
Hall of Fame, But what we should put it in? Champion You're a
2:02:58
championship title series. He's Undertaker, rock Bulldog, you know, and now
2:03:03
you fucking need this. Let's pretend there's no titles now. The Belts,
2:03:08
the belts, dude, come on. First of all, the Belts are
2:03:10
incredible. Hasbro thinking about this, Hasbro had Let's let's even go backwards.
2:03:15
LJN. You get tag Team, you get the World no Ic Hasbro,
2:03:20
you get the World no Icy no tag first time ever, You're getting the
2:03:27
Intercunneal title. Think about that, You're getting the tag TETITLS for the first
2:03:30
time. European title is brand new. You're getting it the Wayne Eagle.
2:03:34
And then they they secretly hit that other tag team title, which I remember
2:03:39
being like, whoa like because I just kind of assumed, Okay, I
2:03:44
guess it's not in there. You know it's it's it's it's hidden under that
2:03:47
limited collector's edition flap, which I really like. Undertaker in the new mold
2:03:53
of how he should look. He's got the title Rocky my via repaint in
2:03:57
the black, but now he's got his entrance gear and and bulldog and owen
2:04:02
repaid atle but like Brian said, euro PM Championship, Mama boots little error
2:04:10
here. But then guys, there's a running change variant. I got it.
2:04:13
Right here where European is correct and the titles are more brighter. The
2:04:19
initial run that the colors were kind of dull, the gold was kind of
2:04:23
dull, but in the the updated version they're a little brighter and man,
2:04:29
what an iconic which I never knew that as a kid, and I definitely
2:04:34
I only like the ones I have. The belts are so dull and barely
2:04:40
pop. This Owen has like the the two times Slammy Award winner Bulldog.
2:04:45
Way more Toyetek has like the blue and red trunks, the Rocky and the
2:04:48
Black Undertaker. Incredible line. The back you know, shows them all with
2:04:54
their titles Undertaker innercond title with the rock Bulldog European. Look this Clarence Mason
2:05:00
with oh in a Bulldog. But yeah, Owen on on here should have
2:05:03
short hair. He should have short hair. Oh yeah, definitely for sure.
2:05:09
What a great great set one figure that I wish. I'm looking at
2:05:13
the back of this package. When Undertaker wins the world title, he's wearing
2:05:16
like a Series one gear but grey. They could have done that. At
2:05:19
some point I always heard there was like a rumor of a gray Undertaker and
2:05:26
a purple Undertaker. Two pack but obviously it wasn't true. I think that
2:05:31
always despised that little peony undertaker figure that's in there. It's just not good.
2:05:36
Oh in this, in this, which they release a bunch of times,
2:05:41
a million times. But it was exciting at the time to get a
2:05:43
new undertaker. But it's a new gear, right updated. I'll never forget
2:05:49
finding this and a Toys r Us remember, like Toys r Us back in
2:05:53
the day, like the overstock would be on top of the uh on top
2:05:56
of the shelves. You had to get someone to get it down. That's
2:05:58
the holy that's the spot. Yeah, so I got something to get it
2:06:01
down. But talking about the belts we used to use, I used to
2:06:06
cut a little piece of felt and then I would glue a penny or a
2:06:10
quarter or whatever to the belt man with little pieces and then we used velcrol
2:06:14
pieces glued and then it would changing. Right now you've got real belts.
2:06:18
However, I will say a little small in retrospect. Do you have it?
2:06:25
Dude? Oh, I didn't give it. I'm so excited about this
2:06:27
spect. I didn't even know they spelled European wrong on it to let it
2:06:31
so, yeah, I know, like I also used these belts with the
2:06:34
Hasbro fig fed that we were still doing and it fit perfect. That's why
2:06:38
it fit perfect, right, Yeah, it was great the next and I
2:06:42
believe this was the Toys r US exclusive, And I think this was the
2:06:45
Toys US exclusive as well. Maybe not, but I don't think so.
2:06:50
Actually, I'm pretty sure it was. It's a nation of domination. It
2:06:55
was, Yes, collector set all re releases, but a great way to
2:06:59
get them all in one shot. So Clarence Mason for Uke Crush Sabio Vega,
2:07:05
Like, you know, it's just so unfortunate, Like imagine like getting
2:07:09
this signed by everybody, paint pen on the glass with it by everybody.
2:07:13
Man hard to find. Clarence Mason nowadays doesn't really do uhs. Every good
2:07:18
one maybe a good Encyclopedia gotta get sign. Yeah, what a great four
2:07:23
pack. I did not buy this because I had them all. You know.
2:07:26
That's one where you know, I stare and I stare at it and
2:07:29
I stare at it. I can't. I can't justify anything to annoy my
2:07:31
mom enough to make me, you know, get it. So you want
2:07:33
to hear my cycle on this, Like can we go back to the Nation
2:07:36
for a second. I have a Nation of Domination set, right, because
2:07:42
hear me out here. If in my tour room I display everything, I
2:07:46
would need to display this as the Nation because you want them in sets,
2:07:53
and I would do it separately. I would do them how they came,
2:07:57
and then I would do the Nation. Four packs four figures. They're the
2:08:01
exact same on display. Like that's so sad. But they look nice together,
2:08:05
of course, But you'd keep it in the box like I can see
2:08:07
it in the back. I mean, some of these are so cool,
2:08:11
like you could keep them in the back in this set and like have it
2:08:15
be the backer of the display, right, I guess in theory you could.
2:08:20
But the next set is an incredible set, one that I did not
2:08:24
have for such a long time. Really King, Yeah, because I don't
2:08:28
I want to explain. We got to get into this King of the Iron
2:08:31
rungs Okay, Brett Hitman Heart No Sunglasses, which is huge. Alternate gear,
2:08:39
the first ever Austin three sixteen T shirt and jeans. Bro, You're
2:08:43
so over they have to make street gear close of you. I'm at Josh
2:08:48
re release, Referee re release, and for the first time ever, the
2:08:52
home depot ladder Man unable. Yeah, the ladder is great up until this
2:09:01
point to identify a King of the Iron rungs stone cal too, because how
2:09:05
little the Austin sixteen blows. Yeah, me and Broski both wearing that shirt
2:09:11
and it fits the entire chest that is like a tiny little whatever. That
2:09:16
that was a message you're ever in the hunt. That's how you figured it
2:09:18
out very easy. Up until this point. I'm using a he Man ladder
2:09:22
from the Castle gray Skull for my ladder matches no smoking skull, smoke,
2:09:28
smoking skull, no smoke. But yeah, what an iconic figure. I
2:09:33
did not have this. This was a target exclusive, which targets didn't exist
2:09:39
on East Coast at this point. How did you get this? So this
2:09:43
might be the first like eBay thing, like I haven't My mom made an
2:09:46
eBay account and I had to get or we like contacted like a friend that
2:09:50
lived like in another state and put them on the hunt. But I got
2:09:54
it for Christmas for sure. I the Brett was cool. The Brett is
2:09:58
later re, so I didn't need it, but the Austin, like I
2:10:03
didn't have this Austin for so so long, and like bro a ladder,
2:10:07
and I say a home depot ladder because look like you can only climb the
2:10:11
one side. It's crazy because it's like now it's so bad, it's like
2:10:18
the most exciting thing imaginable. Right, Oh my god, disclosure, I
2:10:24
have gooseom right now again second time this episode. What I would do is
2:10:28
I would take like a piece of yarn string dental floss, I tape it
2:10:33
to the ceiling. Yeah tylo loop, put the tile on it, and
2:10:37
have ladder matches. Man, so unbelievable, so awesome. Man, fig
2:10:43
Feds were the best, bro were the best, and the bread hard on.
2:10:48
This is way more detailed. He's got a lot of cool deco on
2:10:52
the side. He's got the no glasses, which I appreciate. But you
2:10:56
know what I didn't like about this Brett is that the hair doesn't quite fit
2:11:01
the back. There's that gap. I don't remember that well on all of
2:11:05
them are just mine. You have one around bron So I have the best
2:11:09
of that's gonna come up, which is very similar. But the vest is
2:11:13
honest, you won't be able to tell, but yeah, it's the same.
2:11:16
It like doesn't fit, You're right, but way more Toyak with the
2:11:22
deco, and uh, they're really getting these bred hearts out before before he's
2:11:28
gone, before he's long gone. What about this next set? These all
2:11:33
these sets are so cool and timely and awesome and unique. But and and
2:11:39
uh, this is so cool. This is a top shelf Troy Trivia fact
2:11:46
because the executioner, the late Great Terry Bamm Gordy not a lot of w
2:11:52
television time, yes to deserve this, which is nuts, but also very
2:11:58
i you know, iconic, like uh, you know, unique storyline and
2:12:05
match and situation and all that, but super cool you get so you get
2:12:09
the executioner for the first time only time, only time time. Super cool.
2:12:16
Right, and then look at this axe on the executioner right here,
2:12:20
Mark. It's an incredible figure, one that I did not have again because
2:12:26
I didn't have a target. Look at my mind's like played with Look at
2:12:28
that. Oh well it's such a great figure though, man, so I
2:12:35
could I can. I could barely remember anything about this run. Oh I
2:12:39
remember this match she helped shovel. Now the the Undertaker is just like the
2:12:48
four Pack, except this is giant like cape rubber, which is really cool,
2:12:54
pretty cool, really definitely was cool to have like similar to what I
2:12:58
said earlier in the show with the glow in the dark one, it would
2:12:58
be your entrance taker. Clearly that's what this would be. And Paul Bear
2:13:05
and Mankind are straight up pray releases pre releases. For some reason in this
2:13:09
ziploc bag I have here, I have two undertakers and two executioners. I
2:13:13
don't know why. Oh my god, I wonder if there's some weird variant.
2:13:20
Why literally made up variants for these figures. I honestly, I can't
2:13:24
think of why I have those. There must be a reason, but I
2:13:28
don't know what it is. So all right, that sounds great. Comes
2:13:33
with shouble the tombstone for the first time, which is really cool. You
2:13:37
can do a buried a live match and same thing. This was a Target
2:13:41
exclusive, so I, uh definitely pulled some strings or I want to say
2:13:46
I made It's the the dawning of eBay, Like I had my mom make
2:13:52
an account and I figured out that's like I had Internet at this time,
2:13:54
you know, and I knew how to finagle things like that. Let's talk
2:13:58
about this. This was wore four packs with me and Brian can fight over
2:14:01
it. This was a four pack BJ's wholesale exclusive bro. I found this.
2:14:11
It was like the store by my house called Videotronics and they were carrying
2:14:15
them, so I had to pick this up. It's it's sunny in pink
2:14:18
that Bret Hart from the King of Iron rungs sid in purple charge This makes
2:14:24
no sense, which if you like, you can scratch that purple off with
2:14:30
your fingernail. Yes, do you remember that? Yes, it's so weird.
2:14:35
And then the Vince McMahon with the black and the gray. This is
2:14:39
where the black and the gray come. Brian, I'm sorry, you're incorrect.
2:14:41
So is Vincent ringside two? Vincits in ringside two? That's what I'm
2:14:46
thinking of. Yeah, all right, my bad to you. What right
2:14:48
there is the picture of the gray and the which I just showed him up
2:14:52
in real life, and like, I mean, I have like all these
2:14:54
lights on here. It's it's hard to tell even which is so funny that
2:14:58
he like wanted him change because like it it's so hard to tell, and
2:15:03
like what's also crazy? It's not just and this is like psycho stuff right
2:15:07
here, and like I don't even know if everyone's gonna count or if I
2:15:09
should count it, But Vince is not the only one different in the packs.
2:15:13
Like for instance, like look at these two. I'm not gonna take
2:15:16
him out of the bags here, what like one is like a pink and
2:15:20
one is more of like a purple. Oh my god, come on,
2:15:24
Well, this sunny I think is way better and more Toyota too, I
2:15:28
do as well. And then the CID as like a brighter purple. But
2:15:33
it's it's the same thing. Is one of the weirdest figures ever. Like
2:15:39
I said, it's crazy how they decide to It's like it's done like grapplers
2:15:43
and gimmick style. You can scratch the pink thing you now, Like it's
2:15:46
like baffling. I can't go three hours without bringing out this was kind of
2:15:52
a head scratcher of a set. It's like just a weird random Well not
2:15:54
this one. This one was one of the greatest sets ever. But let's
2:15:58
talk about it right here. But Triple Threat, the goddamn Chair, Ahmed
2:16:03
Johnson Wild's taken all these sets is pushing long over. Amed Johnson, wild
2:16:11
Man, Mark Merrow and the Mighty Yoko Zuna talk about we were making fun
2:16:18
of that. Those two packs that made no sense there's no logical reason that
2:16:24
these three are in this not at all, not at all nothing a KB
2:16:28
exclusive Bros. Two chairs. But the Yoko is cool because of the beard,
2:16:35
and the Yoko is one of the greatest figures of all time to this
2:16:39
day. But you, oh my god, he's also like long god uh
2:16:46
yes, yeah yeah, but maybe under contract still but not an on air
2:16:54
talent for sure. I mean, think about this is the end of ninety
2:16:56
seven, so just think about the fact, like people are getting this nineteen
2:17:00
ninety eight, you know, early ninety eight. Yo goes god bal he
2:17:03
leaves in ninety for sure because he does like international stuff. And it's just
2:17:07
a great figure. The legs are all plastic, but it still works.
2:17:11
Oh my god, great bonds. I drop on the girth of it alone
2:17:15
and it's so good. As you know, Brian and I in our FWF
2:17:18
fig feds love this figure so much that we really put shoved him to the
2:17:22
moon, right, But that was true to form in my like nineteen ninety
2:17:26
seven, Brian Myers fed like, I'm like my figure rules finally getting steel
2:17:31
chairs. I don't have to use my fucking WF stands anymore. We have
2:17:35
steel chairs. They actually fold. They can like come apart, you hit
2:17:39
the guy. It's like, thank god, man, it's unbelievable. Kids
2:17:43
these days they are used to all this spoiled. No, they don't know
2:17:46
what a big deal that was. Man wild Man in the red a lot
2:17:50
more toy attic. Yeah, I like it, great set. I got
2:17:54
this for Christmas as well. It's your fig fed I keep saying this.
2:18:00
Now it's a real promotion. So it's a world. It's a world.
2:18:03
And as a kid, it just changes everything because it just my life was
2:18:07
consumed by not only collecting these figures, but playing with them as well.
2:18:15
So nineteen ninety seven was a great year, so much so that there's they
2:18:20
celebrated it was such a great year. The best of nineteen ninety seven,
2:18:26
Now that's up for debate. I think after this, Brian, I want
2:18:30
a fantasy book the best in nineteen ninety seven with yes, if we're doing
2:18:33
actual best figure this is just top guys of nineteen ninety seven. Well,
2:18:35
this is what's weird about. So first we have Stone Cold Steve Austin.
2:18:39
Next up Mark, we have the British Bulldog, which now brett Owen and
2:18:45
Bulldog. They have added these Heart Foundation like vests like Bulldog is accurate.
2:18:52
There's the Undertaker as well. I'm ed Johnson and Brett Hitman Heart so great
2:18:58
figures. I got these at Walmart. I was like, I need,
2:19:01
I need these. The Brett is weird because it's like a series one Brett
2:19:05
with no glasses and this added vest. Brett and Owen right, Brett Owen
2:19:11
should have jackets, but they're not gonna be never wore vests. If we're
2:19:15
getting technical, these best technically come off, but it's like, oh,
2:19:18
you better be very careful and taking them on and off. I think this
2:19:20
is great because they're my original childhood ones. I've never taken the vest off
2:19:24
because I because of fear. Out of fear. I like it. But
2:19:28
you have other versions you can play with if you need it. Yeah,
2:19:30
I didn't need to like add these guys into my fag. Brosky found a
2:19:33
lot of variants with this with the yeah because there's Brett Hart where it says
2:19:37
hit Man on top, which is so weird. Hitman Heart Foundation, I
2:19:43
mean it. I don't even know if I knew that as a kid.
2:19:46
It wasn't until I was rebuying. Yeah, no way so Best of ninety
2:19:50
seven is a great set. There's actually Best of ninety seven Series two,
2:19:52
but that comes out in ninety eight, so we'll cover that. We'll cover
2:19:56
that next year. Pal, what do you think what should have been the
2:19:58
best of ninety seven? Yeah? I think when you think of ninety seven's
2:20:03
you got to have a stone Cold, I think Brett Hart as a bad
2:20:07
guy, which is the Heart Foundation. Right. That's why I feel like
2:20:11
it's fine, that's boom right there. I mean, what if you think
2:20:15
ninety seven, you think Stone Cold versus the Heart Foundation? Right? Canadian
2:20:18
stand figures? I'm going to pick her all mid carters or less that they're
2:20:22
not going to put you know, so I guess maybe they're not saying Godwin,
2:20:26
you know what I mean? Like, well, okay, so I
2:20:28
guess they're not saying it's the best figures in ninety seven, but the best
2:20:31
guys, Yeah, because because certainly it's can't be the best because that Undertaker.
2:20:37
Let's this is something to point out, that's a Series one Undertaker.
2:20:41
So now you have a Undertaker with the peg hole tighter joints. Yeah,
2:20:45
but that doesn't come out in ninety seven. Interesting, it's it's like today's
2:20:52
top picks. I get it, I get it. I get it.
2:20:54
Yeah, making sales, catching people up who are just getting in on the
2:20:58
wrestling boom. It makes perfect sense to me. All right, all right,
2:21:03
so this is an interesting series and I kind of call a cash garras,
2:21:07
which I kind of hated it. I have a as a kid.
2:21:11
I hated this because they had the signatures on them. I'm like these,
2:21:13
I can't play with these. The magnature series. Hold on, let's just
2:21:16
say this. You look at first, this is a horrible example to show
2:21:18
first because the golds is brand new. Well yeah, that bothered me too
2:21:22
though, because I want to play with this gold dust because it's so much
2:21:24
cooler. But he's got an autograph on his leg and I'm like a snuck
2:21:28
out. So for me, this was my first Austin. What a loser.
2:21:35
I didn't have King of the Iron wrungs, but for sure because I
2:21:37
had no no eBay or no walking around money. And that's what happened.
2:21:41
Way better that also three sixteen though, way better, way better, way
2:21:46
bigger. Oh my god. I was okay with the ones that had the
2:21:50
signature on the gear. I couldn't man, I couldn't mankind like I can't
2:21:54
play with this man kind with it. But I got them all because I'm
2:21:56
a psychopath. I got them all as well, ld Hawk and Adma.
2:22:01
Now keep in mind the stands are now gold instead of like that silver and
2:22:05
Hunter Hurst Helmsley said that, like I wish I got this whole set signed
2:22:11
or something, you know, like because it would look beautiful now, like
2:22:16
this is through my thirty eight year old eyes, not my twelve year old
2:22:18
eyes, you know. So I'm like, damn, I appreciate him now.
2:22:22
When I was a kid, I was like, come on with this.
2:22:24
And on the back it shows the Stomp figures. We will talk about
2:22:28
Stomp coming up next. But listen, I love the Austin, I love
2:22:33
the gold Dust. I needed those. I didn't need the others. Like
2:22:39
I said, it's something I would just get because I was a lunatic.
2:22:41
I wanted everything, but it meant nothing to my collection. Little little cash
2:22:46
grab is like we like to say that and then and the funny thing is
2:22:50
for people who don't know, like those went on for years and years and
2:22:54
years, signature series, not just the worst one was the Billy Gunn I
2:22:56
remember with the signature on the on the half because it's like, what did
2:23:01
you get a tattoo? So I can kind of deal with the idea that
2:23:05
you drew on your pants, right, I see what you're saying, Mark,
2:23:07
Yeah, but at least laid down the line. They switched up the
2:23:11
signature series and gave him new gear. I've weirdly always loved the art on
2:23:15
this repackage re release. Raw is war monstering, and it was, yes,
2:23:18
but it was maybe with black plastic. Did not like this ring?
2:23:24
What what? I did not like this ring because they didn't have a black
2:23:26
canvas. Yeah, but it was just so different and popped like I didn't
2:23:31
like it, And then I would switch back and forth. Okay, this
2:23:35
is my raw show, this is my pay per views are done in the
2:23:37
other ring, Like I loved it in a world with you guys who always
2:23:41
complained about fantasy stuff like a black canvas, I liked it and before actually
2:23:46
was cool. Man. I liked it a lot because I was a hard
2:23:50
player, so my white ring would get all marked up. This one.
2:23:52
You couldn't see the mark. That's a good point. Yeah, you should
2:23:56
have a shirt that says I was a hard it was a hard player.
2:24:00
We'll repackage. The major players are the hard players. Yeah, hard players?
2:24:07
All right, up next guy, random special edition there. This hurt
2:24:11
my feelings, man, because like the lengths I went through to get the
2:24:16
three pack. Yeah, and this begins. This begins the special edition set
2:24:22
that just comes to KB. It starts off with this Yoko Zuna and yeah,
2:24:28
like Brian said, like you just bought that other Ahmed again. You
2:24:31
know, you get narrow, You're showing up bucks to get that pack,
2:24:33
and then this comes like pretty soon after. You're like, oh man,
2:24:37
I got played the back shows, the signature series, the Stomp and the
2:24:43
Monster Ring. I like the special editions. There's very very little ones you
2:24:50
actually have to get. A lot of them are just I don't released.
2:24:54
Some don't have the bone crunching action. Yeah they don't have the bone crunching
2:24:58
act. But sometimes you get them and they do. I've opened them and
2:25:01
they do, so I'm someone. Let me just say Vintage Jack's BCA follow
2:25:05
him on Great Account. Great Account has so much knowledge about this. I
2:25:11
went in for a lot of stuff. He has so much knowledge. De
2:25:13
Freedom did a lot of research guys. But like we love bone corunches,
2:25:18
but vintage Jack BCA. He's like obsessed, orderline obsessed. He's a great
2:25:22
follow now. So we're nearing the end of our show here, but we
2:25:28
have one sort of banger set which has become a foundation of this podcast.
2:25:33
I would say, from from the very beginning, can we just play the
2:25:35
whole music video Stop in Power, No Stop, Special Technical Operational Military Police
2:25:48
these figures at the time, I fucking hated you fucking hated I liked them,
2:25:54
And so this was the conversation, right, Brian, you liked them?
2:25:58
Right? Legendary a major pod Year one discussion where these came up.
2:26:03
Is it literally happened like this Broski saying I hated them them. I had
2:26:07
to I had to have everything. I was just a brat. I was.
2:26:11
I was a lunatic. It's OCD. My poor mom put up with
2:26:15
it, you know, God bless her. He's the best. So I
2:26:16
had to have these. But then I had to justify like owning them,
2:26:20
and I made Stomp and Paradise, which is the show that would go on
2:26:24
after rawing off the air, similar to like Thunder and Paradise. But I
2:26:28
would use these WWF guys and it would be like a situational television show that
2:26:33
I would do outside of a fig fed. These are in scale. The
2:26:37
bone crunchers, they're all plastic, no bone crunching action. They have the
2:26:41
weapons that snap the weapons and the you know, go in the hands.
2:26:43
They have the accessories that snap on. Let's see, we got the violent.
2:26:46
Pretty violent looking back on it, very violent, that is, it's
2:26:50
insane like that, by the way, was kind of a big deal to
2:26:58
me because he doesn't have the stupid centip and at the time he's like,
2:27:01
he's do a crush and that's the only way to really like, have you
2:27:05
know what I mean? Okay, yeah, I guess that is that's something
2:27:09
to point out. So by the time this crush comes out, or even
2:27:11
the first one, he's do a crush, Yes, but he doesn't have
2:27:15
that centipede tattoo in his head anymore. He's not jailbird crush. So like,
2:27:20
loo, can you go, I mean you take that the armour off,
2:27:22
he can be do a for sure. Yeah it's a weird gear.
2:27:24
But yeah, now this one is very special. He just passed away when
2:27:30
this figure comes out. Now, this figure is so important because he doesn't
2:27:35
have another figure till the next summer, so you have to play with this
2:27:41
figure, and luckily, luckily, when you strip everything down, you can
2:27:45
kind of pretend it's perfectly fine. Tight. I use the crap out of
2:27:50
this for sure. You know, everything comes off, so it's like clip
2:27:56
on armor, clip on boots. So you take off the bow. I
2:28:00
godamn, a knife that could kill somebody. You can pretend that's totally got
2:28:05
knee pads. It's perfect, it's perfect. All the bodies are exactly the
2:28:09
exact same, right, I never even thought of that. Yeah, you're
2:28:13
right. Wow, Yeah, they're all exact same. So wow, I
2:28:16
didn't realize that. So you can mix and match both boots, and I
2:28:22
didn't know that. Yeah, that's true. Like Shamrock is like going to
2:28:24
the gym. You know. Sure, I would use these guys for like
2:28:30
backstages or promos too, you know what I mean. This one is a
2:28:33
head scratcher because the body is terrible and the hat is very weird, like
2:28:37
what the hell are you with a straw hat? And it's insane. Yeah,
2:28:43
this one's pretty brutal too. I thought that was great, but it's
2:28:48
not even cool. More like Masters of the Universe, than like Stomp,
2:28:52
right, you know what I mean. It's a cool ass act. So
2:28:58
this is like like I still have this figure. Oh hell, that's the
2:29:03
one. This is the one right here, this is the iconic mark.
2:29:05
Check this out I got, I just got named weapons bro oh the beretal
2:29:11
Beret. So cool? Love it, so fucking cool. So great.
2:29:18
What a way to end nineteen ninety seven with these stop figures. Technically what
2:29:22
we found out rings I got these in in December, but like just at
2:29:26
there illegal in January, right, yeah, but they're on the back of
2:29:30
the boxes of let's let's blame it on Chinese New Year. And I believe
2:29:33
there was a commercial right for stomp is there? I think? And then
2:29:37
there's definitely the Headbanger commercial, which we forgot to mention is like another yeah
2:29:41
thing that was like made me so excited to be a fan. I don't
2:29:46
remember commercial. I feel like it was like mentioned like like that it was
2:29:50
coming. I have no idea in my brief research, hands and aspirations were
2:29:54
stomped and what it was, right, there was a stomp to commercial guys,
2:29:58
there was a underwe or siege commercialized. Okay, yeah, maybe you're
2:30:03
bigger plans for stop than what happened. But guys, I'm here my toy.
2:30:05
I'm thirty years old. It's surrounded by these bone caud It's so good.
2:30:09
They're all over my floor, all over my desk. I'm fucking loving
2:30:13
this. I love these figures. Ninety six ninety seven at probably my favorite
2:30:18
time as a like the product I think is my favorite. Nineteen ninety seven,
2:30:22
Jack Specific generated forty one point nine million in sales. Luckily, half
2:30:28
of the company's financial growth was attributaal to its popular line of WWF action figures,
2:30:33
which ranked among the top five best selling action figures sold by Toys r
2:30:37
US across its seven hundred stores. And if you if you watch Toys That
2:30:43
Made Us, you know, one of the things that they do is they
2:30:46
they cover the toys when they were really hot. And that number, that
2:30:48
forty one point nine is a very high number compared to a lot of the
2:30:52
toys that you see on that show. You know, like that's like Star
2:30:54
Wars level. I mean, Jack's literally hit the lottery because they grabbed something
2:30:58
this something that was rising and just roll it, you know, I mean,
2:31:03
if they're getting forty one million ninety seven I want to see their ninety
2:31:05
eight numbers. Sue must speak disturbing true, true, what a wild time.
2:31:11
I love these figures, man, I'm glad we did ninety six,
2:31:16
ninety seven. We did it. We did them all feels like a more
2:31:18
sense. It was. It was a congruent story that we made a lot
2:31:22
more sense. And you could ride that. You could literally instead of being
2:31:24
all over the place, you could ride the wave of where we were at
2:31:28
the time exactly. It's perfect, which made me feel pretty damn good man.
2:31:33
And now I gotta put all these figures away. Shit you the same
2:31:35
where I'm gonna sit here, Chris Cross apples us and play with them.
2:31:39
See what happens? Well, fake thing? You know we should do.
2:31:43
We should maybe draft these figures and then come up with a fig fed of
2:31:46
our of our own, I think, with these figures, you know,
2:31:50
and then present the card I think to each other. Someone could check that
2:31:52
in the archives or something. Check seriously, check out the Figure Wrestling Federation
2:31:56
anywhere you get podcasts the entire season. Our hot selling bone Crunching Action t
2:32:01
shirt, one of our best selling shirts of all time, is available in
2:32:05
for US and teas. Yeah, which that was my idea, Brocause we
2:32:09
can't do that. I'm like, who's gonna stop us? Yeah? I
2:32:11
got Seriously, what we did was during the pandemic, we booked a federation
2:32:18
with figures using bone crunchers, and we have a whole podcast about it,
2:32:22
rebooking the Attitude era with figures. It's called the Figure Wrestling Federation. Check
2:32:26
it out on YouTube. We'll put we'll put the link up here. We
2:32:30
have a draft. The draft is on YouTube, and then go to the
2:32:33
podcast where you get your podcasts and listen to it. You'll have a lot
2:32:37
of fun. And maybe we got to bring it back. I don't know.
2:32:39
I think there's ways to bring it back. You're gonna have to pad
2:32:41
the lowell I got. I got some ways to bring it back. You
2:32:45
guys, fade me on those texts though I texted you that I wanted to
2:32:48
zoom our lives. Guys, you'll see my idea. When you're sitting home
2:32:54
in COVID fired, you have a lot more time on your hands. Believe
2:32:56
it or not, that's true. I think there's ways to do it.
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