Your Action Figure League

[xxshoyuweeniexx]

I remember I made this cheap dollar store Karate Kid toy the main guy. He always beat up my Austin and Taker figures, but I made my main heels Lord Zedd and Cable from X-Men.

[DJ Maniak]

I have hundreds of figures, ranging from WCW Toy Biz to WWF/E Jakks to Marvel TNA to Mattel WWE. I don't and never had a figure fed per say, but I do some light custom work and the occasional fix-ups, as well as primarily displaying them, but that's about it.

[Deleted]

I've had several leagues over the nearly-17 years I've collected.

I had one made of just WCW figures(the hard plastic ones that stayed in one pose):

Hulk Hogan - WCW Champion
Sting - WCW US Champion, Tag Team Champions with Lex Luger once
Randy Savage
Lex Luger - Tag Team Champions with Sting once
Vader - WCW US Champion(lost the belt to Sting)
The Giant
Ric Flair - WCW Champion(lost the belt to Hogan)
Johnny B Badd - WCW TV Champion
Kevin Sullivan - WCW TV Champion(lost the belt to Badd)
Harlem Heat - Tag Team Champions twice
The Nasty Boys - Tag Team Champions(lost the belts to Harlem Heat)
Alex Wright and Big Bubba were my jobbers
Chris Benoit came in late and never really did much
Jimmy Hart was there and managed Hogan, Sting, and Savage
I also had a Godzilla figure and a gorilla that I used in the league
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I had another WCW league using any figures I could get a hold of:

Hulk Hogan
Sting
Kevin Nash
Goldberg
DDP
Bret Hart
Scott Steiner
Lex Luger
Randy Savage
Scott Hall
The Giant
Konnan
Vader
Johnny B Badd
Alex Wright
Big Bubba Rogers
Kevin Sullivan
Chris Benoit
Dean Malenko
Curt Hennig
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Raven
Buff Bagwell
Rey Mysterio
Ric Flair
Steve McMichael
Nasty Boys
Harlem Heat
Ultimo Dragon(a nameless masked guy that came with Goldberg)
Scott Norton(an extra Kevin Nash figure)
Eddie Guerrero(an extra Benoit figure)
Perry Saturn(an extra Goldberg figure)
Jimmy Hart

There were a ton of stables here:
nWo: Hogan, Savage(sometimes;I gave him a bi-polar-like gimmick where sometimes he was on Hogan's side, the rest of the time he was trying run Hogan over with his bike), Hall, The Giant(secretly plotting revenge for being pushed off the roof), Hennig, Norton, Steiner, and Bagwell

Wolf Pack: Nash, Luger, DDP, and Sting(until he found out the Wolf Pack was planning to take over WCW themselves)

Horsemen: Flair, Malenko(until the figure broke), McMichael, Benoit(until he challenged Flair for the WCW Title), Goldberg(replaced Benoit), and Piper(replaced Malenko)

First Family: Vader, Wright, Mysterio(joined after turning on Dragon), and The Nasty Boys, managed by Jimmy Hart

Filthy Animals: Konnan, Guerrero, and Dragon

The Flock/Dungeon of Doom: Kevin Sullivan, Raven(eventually overthrew Sullivan), Big Bubba, and Saturn

Bret Hart was a heel who held the US Title for all but six episodes, after losing it to DDP, but regained it before the league closed.

Hogan, Sting, Flair, and Nash all won the WCW Title at different points, while Harlem Heat, Dragon and Mysterio, Mysterio and Wright, Hall and Giant, and Sting and Nash traded the tag titles

Rey held the Cruiserweight title for the entire run; I didn't use the TV Title
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I also had a bunch of WWF feds, but I'll post those later. I had a lot of fun with those, though.

[ERON]

I had a huge league called the Interstellar League of Wrestling. I only had a handful of WWF figures, so most of the league consisted of MUSCLE, GI Joe, TMNT, Marvel, and other miscellaneous figures. I'd make up my own names and personalities for the wrestlers. I mostly just copied WWF and WCW storylines with a few of my own twists. For instance, I copied the Rockers' split with a tag team I had called the Spacemen (a pair of Lego astronauts) except since they had a female valet before the split, I added a love triangle to the feud. I kept detailed title histories that I still have on file somewhere. Those were fun times.

[Deleted]

OK, WWF leagues. Keep in mind that I first started collecting those bend-em figures they made in the mid-90s after Hasbro stopped making their toys and before Jakks got the license. It was a weird time, because WWF was not a marketable brand and wrestling figures in general were not hot sellers.

Anyway, I didn't do much with those figures, but the first Jakks line was the Bone Crunching Action line. This was the first line I made a league with, actually before the WCW league. Over the years, it included:

Bret Hart
Shawn Michaels
Undertaker
Goldust
Owen Hart
Diesel
Razor Ramon
Ultimate Warrior
Ahmed Johnson
Mankind
Sid
British Bulldog
Hunter Hearst Helmsley
Jerry Lawler
Faarooq
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Savio Vega
Rocky Maivia/The Rock
Flash Funk
Ken Shamrock
Jeff Jarrett
Mark Henry
Marc Mero
Steve Blackman
Al Snow
Val Venis
Kane
X-Pac
Edge
Brian Pillman
Crush
The Sultan
Yokozuna
Dude Love
Taka Michinoku
Christian
Hardcore Holly
Dan Severn
Vince McMahon
Shane McMahon
Droz
Bob Backlund
Sable
James E Cornette
Chyna
Debra
The Godwinns
The New Age Outlaws
The New Blackjacks(who I sometimes used as the Smokin' Gunns, including a bizarre time-traveling angle vs. NAO)
LOD
Headbangers
Kama and D'Lo

The Sultan's career was ended in epic fashion in a Royal Rumble, when Shawn Michaels superkicked him so hard, his head flew off. Undertaker's leg broke right off during a match with Goldust, putting him out for several months, before returning with new attire. I had an extra Bret with different attire that I used as Jim Neidhart until his arm came off.

I also had an extra HBK that I used as Jannetty, but he was a jobber mostly. And my WCW Vader made an appearance, since nobody would get me a WWF Vader.
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I had a bunch of mini figures that came with these smaller rings. I used these as a league too:

Undertaker: WWF Champion a few times, trading the belt with Sid, Michaels, and Stone Cold
Bret Hart: Intercontinental Champion for much of the time, managed by Sunny(no, I wasn't familiar with the rumors at the time)
Shawn Michaels: feuded with both Undertaker and Bret for their titles
Vader: won the tag titles with Owen Hart until the two broke up; would win the belts with Mankind and feud with Owen and Brian Pillman
Owen Hart: won the tag titles with both Vader and Pillman
Sid: was the first WWF Champion, lost the belt to Undertaker in a cage match
Stone Cold Steve Austin: feuded with Undertaker, trading the belt three times before ending up as Champion in the end
Hunter Hearst Helmsley: mostly feuded with Goldust
Goldust: feuded with Helsmley and with Bret over the IC title
Faarooq: teamed with Savio Vega and feuded with Ahmed Johnson
Ahmed Johnson: teamed with Rocky Maivia and feuded with Faarooq
Mankind: feuded with The Undertaker, Vader, and Sid, before winning the tag titles with Vader
Brian Pillman: won the tag titles with Owen Hart
Rocky Maivia: teamed with Ahmed Johnson, feuded with Bret Hart over the IC Title
Savio Vega: teamed with Faarooq
The Headbangers: feuded with the other teams but never won the belts
Sunny: managed Bret Hart

There were a couple of lines I never got that featured Lawler, Bulldog, Mero, Paul Bearer, Kane, NAO, Shamrock, Cactus Jack, Chainsaw Charlie, X-Pac, and Big Show. Not sure what I would've done with those.
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The Titan Tron Live set was the next line I turned into a league and I'll post that later on.

[häšhtå.gdālėÿ]

I have a damn big collection of Mattel WWE, and a whole bunch of WWE & TNA Jakks figs. Mattel and Jaks are divided into seperate unnamed leagues.

Mattel League...
WWE Champ- Jeff Hardy (rare unreleased fig)
World Champ- CM Punk
IC Champ- Michael Tarver
US- Ryback (Skip Sheffield form)
Tag- Kane and Daniel Bryan

Then I have a handful of other titles which I've renamed.
Cruiserweight(Yellow WWE Title that came w/ Ultimate Warrior) Sin Cara Negro (After turning on Mysterio)
Hardcore(Old Jakks ECW Title defaced with Sharpie)- Jakks version of Big Daddy V, wearing a burlap sack off a figure from Devils Rejects.(Won title and hasn't ever been challenged)
Unnamed Title(WWE Undisputed Totle that came with Eddie)- Dolph Ziggler
Old School Title(Old school IC Title)- Stone Cold

I haven't touched the Jakks league drawer in ages, so I don't have any clue who resided as champs in there.

[Deleted]

My Titan Tron Live league...

Vince McMahon
Kane
X-Pac
Road Dogg
Billy Gunn
The Undertaker

This was the humble beginning. Kane and Vince were a team against Undertaker's Ministry of Degenerates. Later, Stone Cold, managed by Debra, would arrive to feud with X-Pac, while Test and Bossman would replace the Outlaws in the Ministry. The Rock, Mankind, Triple H, Shane McMahon, and Kurt Angle would all join later as well.

Soon after, the league grew to include:

Chris Jericho
Chyna
Eddie Guerrero
Chris Benoit
Crash Holly
Hardcore Holly
Edge and Christian
The Dudley Boyz
The Hardy Boyz
William Regal
Tazz
Rikishi
Albert
Stephanie McMahon
Tori
Steven Richards
Ivory
Big Show
Lance Storm
Scotty 2 Hotty
Tajiri
Ric Flair
Booker T

I also had some R-3 figures in the league:

Hollywood Hogan
Rob Van Dam
Billy and Chuck

Triple H was WWF Champion forever, Chyna was Women's Champion forever, and The Dudleys had the Tag Team titles for a hella long time before losing them to the Hardys, regaining them, then losing them to Billy and Chuck. The other titles changed hands more frequently.

After this, I fell out of playing with figures for a year, as I was 18 and starting college. But I soon went back to it as a means of stress relief. Which will bring us to my final league as of now, which featured the WWE Ruthless Aggression line...

[Brickstone Kid]

I took credit for inventing the "Stairway to Hell" match. 10 superstars, all starting on the bottom step in my basement, with the World Title at the very top. First man to climb all 12 steps and get it would win. Also, one side of the steps was open, so they could throw each other off the side like 400 feet (relative to their height, that is).

The Rock won the first one after Vince turned on Jeff Jarrett (his stooge) to help Rocky. In Stairway to Hell 2, the Rock did the right thing by turning on Vince and helping Jarrett (now a huge babyface) win.

Also, Marc Mero was a multiple World Champ. I think I even kept track of title reigns at one point.

[RedDevil]

*** Warning: the below post continues masses of self-indulgent fantasy booking, and is best ignored. ***

As I got older, the attitude era began and prompted me to make a change to the power structure of my little WWF. In reality we had Mr McMahon as the owner of the company, but then he'd appoint commissioners to run the company, but then some commissioners (HBK I think) couldn't be fired by Mr McMahon, so a power struggle existed there; then the McKids came on the scene, with the McMahon-Helmsley Regime running the company despite Mr McMahon not having lost any power; then Linda McMahon appeared and was influencing how things were being run - I was basically sick of it, and decided to simplify the whole thing.

So with my customised Hasbros, I decided that the power in the WWF needed to be divided three-ways - Mr McMahon owned a third of the company and thus had that much influence; Shane McMahon owned another third so he had equal control to his father; and the final third of control went with the WWF championship - so the holder of the title had a third of the company profits (making him even more of a marked man in the dressing room) and a third of the power over the company.

This restored a fair bit of importance to the WWF championship - but meant that by having both McMahons running the Corporation, that a face champion would always be fighting with that famous "deck stacked against him" as the McMahons wanted their Corporate champion.

For a long while I had Triple H as champion and the face leader of DX (I only had figures repainted as X-Pac and Billy Gunn, I desperately needed a Road Dogg but I could never find the right figures to customise) battling against the Corporation. The McMahons managed to drive a wedge between Triple H and Gunn by giving Gunn a title match on Raw, where Gunn took Triple H to the limit, to the point that Triple H showed his first signs of a heel-turn by re-injuring Gunn's neck to get the win. This left basically Triple H and X-Pac against the Corporation as Austin was injured and The Rock had become the no. 1 contender for the title and was facing Triple H at SummerSlam, thus causing tension there.

X-Pac was feuding with Shane over the European title in the run-up to SummerSlam, when Triple H finally turned on him and aligned himself with Shane, and to a lesser extent with Mr McMahon. Triple H's justification was that he was sick of constantly fighting the more powerful McMahons with only X-Pac as back-up, whom he usually had to save anyway. This allowed the previously face vs. face title match at SummerSlam with The Rock to become much more heated - but also meant that all the faces in the WWF were powerless against the McMahons and Triple H.

But that power structure also meant when I split Mr McMahon and Shane, that the holder of the WWF championship was even more important as he had effectively the casting vote between the McMahons. I followed on from the above storyline by introducing a story about Hulk Hogan's WCW contract expiring soon (this was before WCW collapsed, so Hogan hadn't been in the WWF since 1993), and Mr McMahon wanted to bring him back, citing the success he had previously brought and a feeling Hogan belonged in the WWF. Shane however was completely against it, saying that Hogan had been disloyal by going to WCW, and was past it anyway - he wanted to continue building the WWF around the younger stars, principally his best bud Triple H. So when Hogan returned, Shane took charge of the Corporation and excluded Mr McMahon (Mr McMahon and Hogan were face, with only Test being loyal to McMahon from the Corporation - even his bodyguard the Big Boss Man and his Twin Towers tag partner Akeem sided with Shane), and put Hogan and Triple H right on opposite sides on a track leading to the first WWF title match at the WrestleMania I listed on the previous page.

As I said before, I was a nerdy kid/teenager

[Porky's Butthole]

I have the Hulk Machine figure and use the mask/tights to debut the newer guys I get as 'mystery partners' before revealing who they really are. Worked rather well until Hulk Machine debuted against Hollywood Hogan.

[Dave the Dave]

My parents were bad at remembering who I had, so a lot of duplicates made for interesting characters.

I had a smaller HHH then a really tall one that I made Test.
I had 3 Road Doggs: One was the Road Dogg, another was the Street Cat (clever right?)
and the 3rd was tagged with my duplicate Billy Gunn as The Old Age InLaws Rude Dogg and Bully Gunn.

I was a corny child. My two Ken Shamrocks were him and Steve Blackman. I believe Blackman was that awful underwater Ken Shamrock.

I had Vince, Shane, Kane, Taker, HBK, Edge.

Earlier in lifeI had two Hulk Hogans and one I named JAG for some reason and he was a monster. I had a Japanese figure that I made the Giant because his hand was shaped like the Chokeslam.

I had Bossman, Demolition, Hacksaw, Dibiase, I had three Bushwakers, and a whole host of others I can't remember. I do remember creating the NWO. I colored my Hogan black, and stole my sister's "Dad" from her little doll house and colored him black. His leg bent up so he was Nash with the big boot. I colored Captain Planet black and since his arms did the perfect Outsiders Edge, he was hall.

[sawcesome]

Like many others, every action figure I had was part of my league. Except for my DBZ figures. I always felt they would be too overpowered in a wrestling ring. I can't really remember the name of my league, but I used to keep notebooks to keep track of events, feuds, and title reigns.

Notable feuds and whatnot:

Spawn (the first Spawn figure released) was my top guy. He held the World Championship longer than anyone else (more times, too). For a long time, his greatest enemy was Shadow. Their feud finally came to an end in a loser-leaves-wrestling match. Spawn won after a huge brawl broke out between all the faces and heels and he hit his finisher from the rafters through about ten tables (s*** got extreme a lot in my fed). His tag team partner was his older brother Medieval Spawn. They won the tag belts a few times, and after Spawn was injured (I think his leg fell off), Medieval Spawn won the World title in a triple threat against Sting and Spider-Man. Spawn eventually came back and he and his brother faced off in a great many matches (some not even involving the World Championship). The two of them against Shadow and Sting was my league's last match.

My poor Johnny Cage figure always broke, so my dad would put him back together using the little rubber bands my mom had for her braces. One of my figures came with a wheel chair, so he was usually in that. Scorpion and Sub-Zero regularly jumped him.

I had a battle-damaged Spider-Man figure I referred to as La Vela Tora (random words I thought sounded cool and made him sound like a luchador), and a Will Smith figure from "Independence Day." They feuded from the first show all the way to the last. Every belt got involved in their years-spanning feud. Television, Cruiserweight, European, Intercontinental, US, Tag, and World. They finally shook hands at the last event when La Vela Tora beat Lt. Smith for the World title. Touching moment.

I had a Terminator figure (the actual skeleton, not the Arnold one) who dominated the midcard for the most part.

[héad.casé]

Oh man I remember I did. I remember my old Z-Man WCW figure was used as a load of different people. I used him as 80's Tito Santana, even though I had the El Matador Hasbro, and I think the last person I used him as was Triple H.

I had two Galoob Sting's, so since the fake Sting angle was going on in WCW at the time, I had one as the fake one. I had two Hogan's, so one I painted with a permanent marker and made Hollywood, and the other I kept as the red and yellow. I remember customising a lot of my figures, I made a makeshift Ken Shamrock after managing to shave the beard off a Bushwhacker Luke figure and supergluing it to a 3rd Hogan's body. He became my Rumble winner, and WWF Champion. I reunited Doom in the WWF with my Simmons and Reed WCW figures, they feuded with Demolition, LOD, Windham and Rhodes and I reunited Strike Force.

I also made a kickass Kane using a Warrior figure, cutting Kane's mask from a magazine and sticking it to Warrior's face. He was one of my favourite customs. So much that I kept repeatedly putting him over Taker and my LJN George the Animal Steele

[Ryanar]

Anybody had doubles of any action figures?

I remember i had two ministry undertakers and i trimmed the hair on one of them to see how he'd look.

[Dave the Dave]

Sept 9, 2012 18:31:07 GMT -5 Ryanar said:

Anybody had doubles of any action figures?

I remember i had two ministry undertakers and i trimmed the hair on one of them to see how he'd look.

Read my post dawg

[Sam Punk]

This is the greatest thread ever.

[Deleted]

I actually didn't have an official fed, instead, I created an epic adventure show named "Journey". The premise was that Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle were samurai and they led a group of figures to defeat the evil Skeletor and his henchmen. Hulk Hogan was Brock's mentor and Brock's group consisted of a Mark Martin doll, a teddy bear(Mark and the bear were the comic relief duo), Cyclops, The Incredible Hulk and Diddy Kong. Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger after Kurt was thrown off a cliff. Season 2 saw a Spawn action figure take over as the main villain, making Skeletor his reluctant minion. Spawn would kill Cyclops and Diddy Kong to cement his character as super evil. Season 3 saw He-Man become the main character(I lost Brock) and Man-At-Arms take the Kurt spot. Kurt also returned as a tweener type character. Season 4 was when Brock returned(he was deep in my closet), immediately killing Spawn(huge fight) and becoming the new super villain. The show ended after He-Man(now revealed as Brock's son) defeated Brock with help from Kurt and Skeletor.
It was the greatest show of all-time.

[Alucard]

Oh man. I had no official name but it consisted mostly of Bone Crunchin' and the late 90's WCW figures. I had the crappy WCW ring (with the stairs that made noise) forever until I upgraded to the Attitude ring.

Gimmick matches I recall are stuff like, eh...

I had a match not unlike the King of the Road match, took place in the backseat of a car on a long road trip (naturally, to me we were in a flatbed truck or something), where the dream match of Austin vs. Goldberg (Battle of the Bald) finally happened. I...don't remember who won.

I would set up the "arena" in different parts of the house so that it looked as if it was emanating from a new place every time, PPVs were usually the same or similar to whatever PPV was going to be that month. The Royal Rumble took place at the top of a staircase, so if you were eliminated off of one side of the ring, you ran the risk of a pretty nasty fall. I also tended to have whoever was out injured on tv at the time get injured in some dramatic or different way on my shows, like The Rock's injury was caused by Undertaker blasting him in the face with a shovel and throwing him off an aqueduct (inspired by the hardcore street fights of the time)

Silliest match? No doubt the underwater match. I actually USED the STOMP Underwater Siege guys as competitors, their scuba gear allowed them to compete in the daring, dangerous, underwater match. <_< Somehow you had to win by pinfall...somehow.

Remember the mini-playsets WWF had at the time? With the downsized BCA figures? I MISS THOSE. The Rumbler offerings of Mattell just aren't doing it for me. I used to love to do "on the road" (ie traveling with it) shows with those since it was much easier to pack up and take with you, special events and the like.

[Captain2]

I actually kept records for all of my title belts after playing the first Smackdown game and thinking that it was an awesome feature that I could keep track of who had held the belt. As a kid I tended not to remember past two champions ago so I'd often show up to visit relatives with a large bag of wrestlers and a book under my arm to keep track of it all

Undertaker, Bret Hart (WCW figure), Triple H, Steve Austin, The Rock, Mankind, Shawn Michaels and Ken Shamrock all had the World title within a short period.

My biggest moment was when the GWF "Greg's Wrestling Federation" managed to trade for Cactus Jack who had been my friend Kyle's world champion. He lost to Triple H who was my champ and I unofficially marked it as a unification match in my book despite the fact he would have argued it. I was so sneaky.

My Wrestlemania took place every Halloween (I actually made a point of staying in, grabbing a bowl of candy and playing out the matches annually). I'd make the stage by drawing a picture of the upcoming match on a dry erase board and putting it behind the chair I used as the titantron, popping the CD's in the player that would then play the themes and then make a big event of it.

Edit: Now that I remember it, a couple of specialty matches that in retrospect amuse me, I had hell in a cell matches by taking a WCW nitro ring (it was smaller than my WWF ring) and placing it inside my dog's cage/bed. I would also have "Laundry room brawl" matches where the goal was to be the first figure to leave the laundry room.

[Alucard]

Aw hell, I'll go ahead and mention this terrible, embarrassing gem:

Ron "The Truth" Killings, Prime Time Elix Skipper, and Monty Brown (yes, they were a New Nation...) all attack AJ Styles and accuse him of being racist after a misunderstanding. They covered him with a white sheet (Kleenex), lit it on fire, and threw him from some scaffolding (into some water below just in case, most of my dangerous spots even for plastic toys had safety precautions to some extent), it was quite possibly one of the most "man this seemed really offensive to everyone involved" things I did and later both sides made up somehow. Because attempted homicide really brings you closer together. The figure wasn't damaged, and race relations remained just fine from then on.