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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 17, 2020 14:55:19 GMT -5
THere we go! Took me a while to find one that would post
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 17, 2020 16:11:21 GMT -5
Jim Cornette has this wrestling game.... Apparently, it was one of 6 sports board games that used the same game board and just tailored the results to the sport. The baseball version featured Mickey Mantle.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2020 16:12:27 GMT -5
So, Hasbro's Shawn Michaels? Or Mattel's Shawn Michaels?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 17, 2020 18:49:07 GMT -5
So, Hasbro's Shawn Michaels? Or Mattel's Shawn Michaels? Which one comes with its own stash of pills and gets its butt whooped by GI JOE?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 17, 2020 18:49:45 GMT -5
ps i don't think there are enough steroids in the world to give Michaels a chest like that!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 4:47:04 GMT -5
ps i don't think there are enough steroids in the world to give Michaels a chest like that! There are some peculiar-shaped figures. I am told they used the Rick Rude mold for 1-2-3 Kid. 1-2-3 Kid just doesn't look right.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 18, 2020 20:22:19 GMT -5
Action figures have come a long way... mostly because they're marketed to collectors now instead of kids.
I haven't bought any in ages, but the new AEW ones look really good... they are tempting me a bit.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 18, 2020 20:24:58 GMT -5
Jim Cornette has this wrestling game.... Apparently, it was one of 6 sports board games that used the same game board and just tailored the results to the sport. The baseball version featured Mickey Mantle. I didn't know they had any that far back... cool! I'm partial to Champions of the Galaxy and the 'real' version Legends of wrestling these days, but I defnitely have fond memories of the board game and even just using those hideous hard rubber WWF guys for my play fed.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 18, 2020 20:36:02 GMT -5
Have to remember, as Cornette points out, Verne was a star for Fred Kohler, in Chicago, when pro wrestling was featured on network tv. Verne was a big tv star and Kohler created the US title to feature him, since there wasn't enough support to make Verne the NWA World Champion, at the time (especially with Thesz). That is part of how Verne became big enough and successful enough to buy into the Minnesota promotion (and had a piece of Omaha) and make himself the World champion and split with the NWA (though he still attended conventions and cooperated with NWA promoters, respecting boundaries and exchanging talent). Verne would then buy out Fred Kohler, along with Dick the Bruiser and Wilbur Snyder, and run Chicago for another couple of decades.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 5:36:31 GMT -5
Action figures have come a long way... mostly because they're marketed to collectors now instead of kids. I haven't bought any in ages, but the new AEW ones look really good... they are tempting me a bit. I like the Hasbro figures, but they were hard to play with. It would have been impossible to have the Bret Hart figure put the sharpshooter on the Hulk Hogan figure. Yes, they had moves, but it was very limited what you could do with them. Great memories as a kid, though. And they were better than WCW's figures produced by Galoob. They were solid plastic with *no* mobility. Great "ornaments", but zero playability. You're right about the figures being marketed towards collectors now. Oddly, despite that, they have more playability. You could have a Bret Hart figure put the sharpshooter on Hulk Hogan.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 19, 2020 8:34:30 GMT -5
That's very true.... you could never get one of the old figures to do the Young Bucks pose, for example, which the new guys seem to be able to do. You were lucky before if you had elbows and knees that could move, now you get 25+ points of articulation.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2020 8:51:17 GMT -5
I at least appreciated the LJN figures in the 80s: Now, I only saw these in very limited places. My mum would take me to a market once a month. One guy had a toy stall - and he had some of the LJN figures. She bought Piper, Orndorff, Hogan, Bundy and Sheik for me (not all at once, please don't think I'm spoilt, LOL). They had mobility, and you could at least make it so that Piper could put a headlock - of sorts - on Bundy. There must have been more figures released other than the ones in that poster because I'm pretty sure I ended up with a Jesse Ventura figure at some point. The Hasbro figures have a place in my heart. One could have some sort of match, e.g. you could get Warrior to Gorilla Press Bret Hart. But I remember wondering what the 90s would have been like if LJN had still been doing the figures at that point.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 19, 2020 18:03:38 GMT -5
Those are the ones I was talking about! I had just about all of them...From that picture, I think I had all of them but Piper and Beefcake... I remember having Corp. Kirschner and a couple others too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2020 6:16:45 GMT -5
Did LJN produce a ring? I did have the WCW ring: It was quite a novelty to have the WWF wrestlers battling in a WCW ring!
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 20, 2020 13:19:23 GMT -5
Looks more like Dee Snider from Twisted Sister if he was jacked up to hell and back
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