Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 25, 2009 1:49:25 GMT -5
I didn't add many to the roster who weren't LJN figs. For a while Genie from Aladdin, a few of them 12" GI Joes, but that's about all. The Killer Bees broke up early, since I never saw them wrestle, but they were the first figures I ever had. They stayed apart for a long, long time as well. Jim Brunzell eventually teamed with Bob Orton and formed the Western Boys (Orton had a vest on, seemed like a good idea). B. Brian Blair went on to rip off the Narcissist gimmick, mostly because his figure, unlike the rest, was the f***in' ripped. Rick Martel had a gimmick where he could body slam anyone, mostly I think because his pose was such that bodyslams were very, very easy. Rick Rude lost every match. That's what he gets for having his f***in' hands in his tights all the time. Seriously, look at this. I have an excellent imagination, but outside of headbutt, I defy anyone to think of what his offense could possibly be. I could on for days about my old figs. I still try, now with new ones, but have no f***in' imagination or will for it. I guess that's what happens when you turned 26.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jul 25, 2009 1:50:35 GMT -5
I didn't really give mine a name. Hell, I didn't even have a real ring, per se. I'd just sit flat on my floor, bend my knees, and put my feet together. That was my "ring". I'd do all the theme music, commentary, and announcing myself. It consisted of pretty much any acton figure I had laying around. That included wrestling figures (which in itself consisted of LJN, Hasbro, Jakks, and a few early 90s WCW figures), superheroes, villains, and toys I got from Burger King and McDonalds. I remember my Shawn Michaels figure (with "bone crunching action") had both his legs snapped off by accident when my Bret Hart figure put him in the Sharpshooter, and I had to get my dad to glue the legs back on. He could never do Sweet Chin Music ever again.
I think Woody from Toy Story was World Champion at some point. Oh yeah, and Batman and Spider-Man tended to team up a lot.
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Mozenrath
FANatic
Foppery and Whim
Speedy Speed Boy
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 25, 2009 1:54:56 GMT -5
I picture Bret reading this with the biggest grin of his life.
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Post by Nic Nemeth on Jul 25, 2009 1:55:55 GMT -5
Anyone else improvise weapons? Soda cans were trash cans, graham crackers were good for table matches, and guys swung pens and pencils at each other. My shoebox use to be referred to as "The Dumpster" and I filled in with rolled-up paperballs, cotton, and napkins that I got from BK. I had only like 10 dumpster matches, all of them involved by Garbargeman character, he also came with a small trashcan w/lid so I used that in every hardcore match. Instead of steel chairs, I used hotwheels since someone stole my racetrack. Goku carried around 7 marbles known as the "Dragonballs" and use to throw them at his opponents. Donkey Kong came with a barrel that I used as a second trashcan. I made tables and ladders out of printer paper.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jul 25, 2009 2:08:44 GMT -5
Mine was all robots, based on the characters from One Must Fall 2097, including a significant number I'd initially created from scratch in that game's Tournament Mode (and who eventually ended up outnumbering the preestablished characters).
Physically, they were all represented with various Z-Bots, a toy series which I totally didn't remember the name of at all until searching wikipedia for them while typing this out.
Nicoli wound up becoming the promotion's top babyface.
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Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 25, 2009 2:13:56 GMT -5
I picture Bret reading this with the biggest grin of his life. I know I did. Yeah, Bret de-legged more than one guy with the Sharpshooter for me, as well. ;D
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Post by Nic Nemeth on Jul 25, 2009 2:16:11 GMT -5
Mine was all robots, based on the characters from One Must Fall 2097, including a significant number I'd initially created from scratch in that game's Tournament Mode (and who eventually ended up outnumbering the preestablished characters). Physically, they were all represented with various Z-Bots, a toy series which I totally didn't remember the name of at all until searching wikipedia for them while typing this out. Nicoli wound up becoming the promotion's top babyface. Hey this reminds me, I had a robot invasion storyline at one point. It was awesome, the Megazords turned heel on the Power Rangers and these robot toys I had basically dominated the whole face division. It turns out it was all just a ploy by Magneto to get a title shot against Iron Man (He was accused by everyone as "Being one of them") and Iron Man lost when Mechazilla and Steelix interfered. Damn I miss my childhood!
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CMWaters
Ozymandius
Rolled a Seven, Beat the Ads.
Bald and busy
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Post by CMWaters on Jul 25, 2009 2:18:50 GMT -5
The only things I remember from my toy figures things were:
1)The Foot Soldiers (I had two figures of them) were tag champs, managed by Shredder (wasn't allowed to compete due to the spikes)
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2)A multiple falls match between Captain Kirk (yes, I had a Kirk action figure) and Batman (the Batman '89 movie figure).
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Post by EZ: Brainy Bae on Jul 25, 2009 2:22:07 GMT -5
Anyone else improvise weapons? Soda cans were trash cans, graham crackers were good for table matches, and guys swung pens and pencils at each other. I forgot what exactly it was but there was this blue tree-like toy that I'd use for ladder and TLC matches. Looking back legos might've been easier but I used them for the barricade. For tables I used play-doh.
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Post by Nic Nemeth on Jul 25, 2009 2:28:43 GMT -5
Anyone else improvise weapons? Soda cans were trash cans, graham crackers were good for table matches, and guys swung pens and pencils at each other. I forgot what exactly it was but there was this blue tree-like toy that I'd use for ladder and TLC matches. Looking back legos might've been easier but I used them for the barricade. For tables I used play-doh. Genius! I used my Legos as fans in the audience or for backstage personnel, and for backstage segments I used the blocks and Lego pieces, but I imagined a barricade >_> And I tried to make new wrestlers using Play-doh as a storyline where Jafar had power to create new wrestlers using "special voodoo" magic.
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Post by Melissalicious on Jul 25, 2009 2:32:34 GMT -5
My Barbies often had typical Attitude Era Divas matches. Stacey didn't stand a chance against Barbie, let me tell you that now.
Also, we didn't have many WWE action figures - though I do have a vague recollection of my Donatello Ninja Turtle losing a brutal match against my brother's "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
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Convoy
El Dandy
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Post by Convoy on Jul 25, 2009 2:38:24 GMT -5
I picture Bret reading this with the biggest grin of his life. I know I did. Yeah, Bret de-legged more than one guy with the Sharpshooter for me, as well. ;D I lost a leg on both a HHH and a Benoit figure via Walls of Jericho.
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Post by indymadman on Jul 25, 2009 2:44:53 GMT -5
Steve Regal's head on Ricky Rice's body (remco figures) was my world champion...
My friend and I used to play "War" with cards to see who won the matches... we kept records of each card... it was fun yet pathetic at the same time... we were really into it though.
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Post by Nic Nemeth on Jul 25, 2009 3:33:26 GMT -5
Needs more pictures. If you still have some of these guys you used, post pictures! Your sig just reminded me, Juggernaut was my monster heel enforcer for Magneto and he teamed up with Blob each week.
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"Magic" Mark Hurr
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Here, have some chili dogs
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Post by "Magic" Mark Hurr on Jul 25, 2009 4:14:57 GMT -5
WTH? My friend also had Spiderman's finisher be a SSP, why is it that every time someone has a toy fed, Spiderman's finisher is a SSP. Because he can jump high and is very limber. Spider-Man not only had SSP, he had Sweet chin music and 2 Cold Scorpio's leg ariel moveset and the Michinoku Driver as his setup. He also had the Scorpion Death lock as his submission He was the ultimate face. Alien Costume Spiderman was Taz/Crow Sting. Had Crow sting's gimmick but wrestled like Taz.. Magneto was the equivalent to Ric Flair Punisher was Stone Cold Dare Devil was The Rock Venom had the Franchises gimmick Carnage was Chris Candido Wolverine was Chris Benoit Sabertooth was Scott Hall. Colossus was Goldberg. Captain America was The Patriot that's just to name a few. My marvel roster was f***ing well balanced as hell. And I booked the s*** of that fed. I incorporated gimmicks from damn near every fed I saw on tv in some way. My GI Joe one was before that one. Cobra Commander didn't play when it came to his title. I even had invasion angles years before NWO was formed in WCW. I miss those days. I had three different rings. One my dad built, One old WWF ring and a newer WWF ring. One time I had a War Games with two rings. All my props were made out of Legos. Tables, Ladders, Chairs, Scaffolds, guardrails, Ring ramps for PPVs, and Gutter Guards for cages until I could afford the cage accessory, and painstakingly fashioning barbwire out of twisty-ties. A red washable marker for blood. I booked whole shows. Jobber matches to main event matches. I used the Dusty finish before I knew it had a name. I went hard for those few years. You can't match the fun I had
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Post by stevieraymark on Jul 25, 2009 6:33:39 GMT -5
aww man i had most of the figures back in the day. used to have an epic faction war going on between the UnTouchAbles hall, nash , xpac , billy (dont laugh)gunn, and the rock who were managed by shawn michaels ( the commisioner figure in a suit) vs the brotherhood of evil the B.O.E managed by paul bearer the undertaker,kane, the giant,vader, and raven.
in between the warring factions was goldberg and wolfpack sting (i could only ever find the red and black one in stores) who would show up just to cause more mayhem from time to time . austin was written off storylines due to being thrown into the fireplace by kevin nash for some reason. and because of money issues/politics/being melted he never returned. i also remember my tag champs where saturn and ken shamrock who had a clever team name that i cant remember just now they were unstoppable.
and no im not vince russos lovechild.
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Post by Capt. Internet Darling on Jul 25, 2009 6:46:06 GMT -5
My fed was called AEF (All Extreme-Figurines). I had Triple H, Goldberg, Stone Cold and then Spiderman, one of those Biker Mice, 3 of the Ninja Turtles, some really big figure that I called Beast, Ronald McDonald, an oversized Action Man, Tarzan and a Dalek. Goldberg or Beast would always be champion. Triple H, Spiderman or Stone Cold would have the secondary championship. The Dalek or Beast always won the Royal Rumble. The Turtles were boss. My hand was GM. Those where the days
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 7:16:52 GMT -5
My world title picture included: Stone Cold The Rock Billy Gunn Jericho Mike Awesome
...yeah I didn't have as much imagination as you guys.
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4real
Wade Wilson
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Post by 4real on Jul 25, 2009 7:21:18 GMT -5
As well as my WWF and WCW action figures I also used my Jurassic Park, Captain Planet and Terminator action figures.
My Champion would either be one of Undertaker, Jake Roberts, Hogan, Arn Anderson, Bret Hart, Hacksaw, either one of the Terminators and The Warlord (Who looked like Austin so I just used him as Austin).
My IC champ was shared around between Bulldog, Martel, El Matador, Hacksaw, Sid mostly.
The tag belts usually were on my two Lex Luger figures (1 WCW, 1 WWF), Nastys, Steiners, LOD, Rockers and my Terminators
My Ric Flair, Ted DiBiase, Roddy Piper and Ultimate Warrior figures were usually used as jobbers for the simple fact they were crap figures and hard to play with.
I still think my 10 man 1 hour long Iron Man match should be used in WWE today as should my traditional 10 Man elimination match for the Title at Survivor Series.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jul 25, 2009 7:52:04 GMT -5
I seem to remember I had a near year long feud between Batman and Darth Vader over the world title.
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