Post by babyfootball on Sept 10, 2012 15:22:08 GMT -5
Didn't have an official fed but some of my favorite action figure memories (I still have Bret and Flair on my bookcase, and yes, I'm a grown man who lives with this parents...) include:
- The ring my dad built out of blocks of wood and some neon green shoelaces that I used until I got a WWF ring.
- My figures consisted mostly of Hasbro WWF guys made from probably 1990-1995 or so, some of those WCW benadbles from 1990-ish (I had Arn Anderson and Barry Windham among others), 2 nice-looking Sting and Luger WCW figures that didn't move at all, and some WWF New Generation-era bendables (Owen and Goldust) that were so much bigger than the others.
- Because I had this kind of a collection of figures, I'd often have WCW vs. WWF cards. I was also a big fan of having long, King of the Ring-like tournaments. I had official WWF and Million Dollar belts but I lost them both over the years, along with Jake's snake and Papa Shango's necklace.
- By the time I was 13 or so, the nWo/Austin eras started kicking in and the figures they were coming out with were so incompatible with my figures, I lost interest, but not before I had some interesting garbagey matches. I had no Stone Cold, so I had to use my "Model" Rick Martel figure, basically just because he was posable in a way that was easy to do the Stone Cold Stunner. I knew it was goofy even then.
- I tried to sell a bunch of my figures to a guy with a wrestling table at a Baseball Card Show at the local mall when I was 16-ish (circa 2000/2001), but he told me they were so beat up and not particularly rare that he lowballed me pretty hard. I chose to keep them and they're all up in my attic in their 2 gym bags, ring and all, besides my aforementioned Flair and Bret figures.
- The ring my dad built out of blocks of wood and some neon green shoelaces that I used until I got a WWF ring.
- My figures consisted mostly of Hasbro WWF guys made from probably 1990-1995 or so, some of those WCW benadbles from 1990-ish (I had Arn Anderson and Barry Windham among others), 2 nice-looking Sting and Luger WCW figures that didn't move at all, and some WWF New Generation-era bendables (Owen and Goldust) that were so much bigger than the others.
- Because I had this kind of a collection of figures, I'd often have WCW vs. WWF cards. I was also a big fan of having long, King of the Ring-like tournaments. I had official WWF and Million Dollar belts but I lost them both over the years, along with Jake's snake and Papa Shango's necklace.
- By the time I was 13 or so, the nWo/Austin eras started kicking in and the figures they were coming out with were so incompatible with my figures, I lost interest, but not before I had some interesting garbagey matches. I had no Stone Cold, so I had to use my "Model" Rick Martel figure, basically just because he was posable in a way that was easy to do the Stone Cold Stunner. I knew it was goofy even then.
- I tried to sell a bunch of my figures to a guy with a wrestling table at a Baseball Card Show at the local mall when I was 16-ish (circa 2000/2001), but he told me they were so beat up and not particularly rare that he lowballed me pretty hard. I chose to keep them and they're all up in my attic in their 2 gym bags, ring and all, besides my aforementioned Flair and Bret figures.