The Blue Nova
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Post by The Blue Nova on Apr 28, 2016 22:51:33 GMT -5
Here is mine in no particular order
Bad News Brown Bushwhackers Brain Busters Brother Love Gorilla Monsoon Alfred Hayes Lanny Poffo Mr Perfect US Express Moondogs Danny Davis Tama Dino Bravo Barbarian Brother Love Sam Houston Moolah Wendy Richter Pedro Morales Black Jack Mulligan Killer Khan Rougeaus
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 28, 2016 23:37:02 GMT -5
Man, you really wanted Brother Love to get an action figure, you listed him twice.
For whatever it's worth, their final wave included live-action shots of several guys, indicating they were going to be part of wave 7 (which never came out). They included The Bushwhackers, Brother Love, Bad News Brown, The Barbarian and Demolition Smash.
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 28, 2016 23:53:24 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan in wrestling gear would have been a neat figure to have
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Professor Chaos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Professor Chaos on Apr 29, 2016 0:16:30 GMT -5
I spent so much of my childhood having matches with these things as a kid they were the best. I remember my Roddy Piper looking beat up as all hell as I would destroy him with everybody. Hated how they discontinued these for those tiny hard ones.
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Chainsaw
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Post by Chainsaw on Apr 29, 2016 0:35:16 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan in wrestling gear would have been a neat figure to have Or in the Weasel suit.
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Apr 29, 2016 3:27:51 GMT -5
I thought it was strange that they made Ax and Warlord but not Smash and Barbarian.
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 29, 2016 3:40:36 GMT -5
Man, you really wanted Brother Love to get an action figure, you listed him twice. For whatever it's worth, their final wave included live-action shots of several guys, indicating they were going to be part of wave 7 (which never came out). They included The Bushwhackers, Brother Love, Bad News Brown, The Barbarian and Demolition Smash. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but any idea why the line ended?
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 29, 2016 3:45:33 GMT -5
I would guess with the price of oil going up around the last few lines of LJNs it wasn't cost effective to keep the line going. Those figures were huge.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 29, 2016 3:57:12 GMT -5
Man, you really wanted Brother Love to get an action figure, you listed him twice. For whatever it's worth, their final wave included live-action shots of several guys, indicating they were going to be part of wave 7 (which never came out). They included The Bushwhackers, Brother Love, Bad News Brown, The Barbarian and Demolition Smash. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but any idea why the line ended? In 1989, MCA owned LJN, but LJN had been losing money for a couple of years partly due to controversy over the Entertech toy gun line (they were so realistic, cops were shooting and killing children holding them, and people were using them in real robberies). MCA sold off LJN to Acclaim, who shut the toy side of the company down and focused on the gaming side instead.
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魔界5号
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Post by 魔界5号 on Apr 29, 2016 4:12:25 GMT -5
Tugboat had a prototype that was never released.
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thecrusherwi
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Post by thecrusherwi on Apr 29, 2016 7:44:54 GMT -5
I was a tad too young to have collected LJNs (Born in 1987), so I grew up collecting Hasbros. However, my first ever wrestling figures were LJN Brutus Beefcake, Ricky Steamboat, Iron Sheik and the LJN ring given to my mom by a family friend. Her older son didn't like wrestling anymore and she knew I did. I played with them endlessly. I discovered the Hasbros that fall (1990), and I instantly took to them because it had people that I actually recognized. My parents started buying me a few of those here and there, and I asked for all of the remaining ones for that Christmas as well as the brand new Hasbro blue ring. My dad said I should ask Santa for all of those except the ring because I already had a ring (the LJN one) I insisted I needed the LJN ring and my dad asked why I needed a second ring (we were not the richest folks and they hated when we got duplicate toys). I, being 3 and a half, could not articulate things like scale, so I said "Because this one has steps". About a week later, my dad brings my LJN ring up from the basement and it had perfect, to scale, matching blue steps attached. I instantly thought "well now I have nothing. I'm never getting that new ring". As time went on, I started to appreciate what a sweet gesture that was and its one of my favorite memories of my father.
And he was a big enough wrestling fan to recognize that the following Christmas, when I again asked for a new ring, this time the WCW Galoob one, that the reason "because it has a steel cage!" was sufficient reason for a new ring. And so I ended up with that one :-)
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Apr 29, 2016 15:47:06 GMT -5
I was a tad too young to have collected LJNs (Born in 1987), so I grew up collecting Hasbros. However, my first ever wrestling figures were LJN Brutus Beefcake, Ricky Steamboat, Iron Sheik and the LJN ring given to my mom by a family friend. Her older son didn't like wrestling anymore and she knew I did. I played with them endlessly. I discovered the Hasbros that fall (1990), and I instantly took to them because it had people that I actually recognized. My parents started buying me a few of those here and there, and I asked for all of the remaining ones for that Christmas as well as the brand new Hasbro blue ring. My dad said I should ask Santa for all of those except the ring because I already had a ring (the LJN one) I insisted I needed the LJN ring and my dad asked why I needed a second ring (we were not the richest folks and they hated when we got duplicate toys). I, being 3 and a half, could not articulate things like scale, so I said "Because this one has steps". About a week later, my dad brings my LJN ring up from the basement and it had perfect, to scale, matching blue steps attached. I instantly thought "well now I have nothing. I'm never getting that new ring". As time went on, I started to appreciate what a sweet gesture that was and its one of my favorite memories of my father. And he was a big enough wrestling fan to recognize that the following Christmas, when I again asked for a new ring, this time the WCW Galoob one, that the reason "because it has a steel cage!" was sufficient reason for a new ring. And so I ended up with that one :-) I wonder when they stopped selling in LJN's in stores as I had a similar experience. I was born in 89 so I definitely was a big Hasbro collector as a kid, but my first figures I ever got were the LJN bendie versions of Andre, Hilbilly Jim, Paul Orndorff, and Nikolai Volkoff; and this was Christmas 1990 so Hasbro was definitely making their figures by that point. Other then Andre I didn't know who any of them were. I loved the Hasbros though and remember having the entire first series other then Andre. I don't know if he was just super rare figure, but he was impossible to find where I lived. I had never seen or heard of the regular LJN figures until my neighbor who was about four or five years older then me brought a big duffle bag of them over one day. I remember not being impressed as I thought it dumb how you couldn't move them.
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Post by DJ Maniak on Apr 29, 2016 16:00:35 GMT -5
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but any idea why the line ended? In 1989, MCA owned LJN, but LJN had been losing money for a couple of years partly due to controversy over the Entertech toy gun line (they were so realistic, cops were shooting and killing children holding them, and people were using them in real robberies). MCA sold off LJN to Acclaim, who shut the toy side of the company down and focused on the gaming side instead. Those Entertech guns were fantastic! They go for quite a bit on eBay now, provided you can even find anyone selling them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 16:23:51 GMT -5
I spent so much of my childhood having matches with these things as a kid they were the best. I remember my Roddy Piper looking beat up as all hell as I would destroy him with everybody. Hated how they discontinued these for those tiny hard ones. I've been saying it for years and that is further proof nobody likes the tiny hard ones.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 19:09:32 GMT -5
In 1989, MCA owned LJN, but LJN had been losing money for a couple of years partly due to controversy over the Entertech toy gun line (they were so realistic, cops were shooting and killing children holding them, and people were using them in real robberies). MCA sold off LJN to Acclaim, who shut the toy side of the company down and focused on the gaming side instead. Those Entertech guns were fantastic! They go for quite a bit on eBay now, provided you can even find anyone selling them. THE LOOK...THE FEEL...THE SOUND, SO REAL! (RAT-A-TAT-TAT-TAT) ENTERTECH!
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Hanzo
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Post by Hanzo on Apr 29, 2016 21:53:41 GMT -5
Wasn't there a Jeff Hardy LJN figure that came out in the late 2000s?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 29, 2016 22:14:05 GMT -5
Wasn't there a Jeff Hardy LJN figure that came out in the late 2000s? Not an actual LJN figure, no, as that company was long out of the toy business (and out of any business since 1995). Jakks made a series of LJN-style rubber figures (including both Hardys, UT, HBK and about nine or ten other then-current wrestlers), but they were somewhat smaller than the real LJNs and kinda sucked.
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Post by andrew8798 on Apr 29, 2016 22:29:00 GMT -5
Wasn't there a Jeff Hardy LJN figure that came out in the late 2000s? Not an actual LJN figure, no, as that company was long out of the toy business (and out of any business since 1995). Jakks made a series of LJN-style rubber figures (including both Hardys, UT, HBK and about nine or ten other then-current wrestlers), but they were somewhat smaller than the real LJNs and kinda sucked. Remember seeing that Taker one at Target wasn't worth $20
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 29, 2016 22:47:04 GMT -5
Honestly, though, with the rate at which guys were coming and going from the WWF in those five years of production, there is likely a metric ton of unproduced wrestlers who never made it past the concept sketch or prototype phase.
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Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 on Apr 29, 2016 23:24:15 GMT -5
Wasn't there a Jeff Hardy LJN figure that came out in the late 2000s? Not an actual LJN figure, no, as that company was long out of the toy business (and out of any business since 1995). Jakks made a series of LJN-style rubber figures (including both Hardys, UT, HBK and about nine or ten other then-current wrestlers), but they were somewhat smaller than the real LJNs and kinda sucked. I know they did Rock and Flair as well. I really, really want to go to eBay and start collecting these LJN figures again. I'll have to wait until I have tons of cash to waste for that, though. I still have all mine, but they've been totalled for over 20 years now.
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