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Post by Boo! on Nov 20, 2013 20:48:55 GMT -5
So the giant egg was going to 'hatch' and speculation as to what was inside. Looks like people were expecting a new wrestler debut, possibly Flair or a Playmate of the year. So my question is this:
Were people in 1990 completely mentally challenged?
So let's take the scenarios in reverse order.
1) Playmate. It's 1990 you're slap bang in the middle of a Hulkamania ppv. Every other person in the building is seven years old and people genuinely had expectations about some woman stepping out with her knockers showing, parading around in front of everyone? And besides who buys tickets to a wrestling show to see that? I know the internet didn't exist but don't these people live near strip clubs or at least a video store you can rent from. if your only hope of seeing boobies is to to pay $20 to sit through a three-hour wrestling show you've got issues even if it is 1990.
2) New debut (Flair) Have people thought this through? The expectation was that they may have poached a top talent from a rival and they'd debut him coming out of a giant egg? How would these people have debuted Flair a year later in 1991 when he did switch, have him being shat out of a giant elephant?
Seriously whenever I read about people booing and being pissed off that it was some credit in a fury suit I can so annoyed. What the hell did you expect it to be. These days if they said a giant egg was going to hatch I'd at least give myself credit for anticipating that someone/thing with comedy value would hatch. I wouldn't think "And egg, what a great way to debut AJ Styles, they could call him the Egg Man"
But the internet is full of memories of people being pissed off by it. IMO it's what gives marks a bad name. Anyone who expected anything other than something silly should never be allowed to leave the house again as they're a danger to society, clearly.
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Post by kieran on Nov 20, 2013 20:56:11 GMT -5
I still have this event on VHS!
As a kid, I did'nt know what the hell was going on, now, as a (reluctant) adult, I still don't know, maybe Vince and the boys finished off the bag of coke left over from the 80's? The thing never angered me though.
Now that I think of it, could Curtis Axel be the modern Gobbeldy Gooker? Which would make Paul Heyman an egg? I don't know, it's late here.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Nov 20, 2013 21:02:46 GMT -5
At the time I really can't remember what I thought would be in there but I don't recall caring that much before the event. I do think people had a right to be pissed because they hyped up the egg as much as the actual show. Even if Survivor Series wasn't the type of show where anything important like title matches happened yet, it still seemed to be a show built around an egg. Whatever came out of that egg was going to get booed (other than a naked Miss Elizabeth), people ordered the PPV or went to the show to see a wrestling event.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Nov 20, 2013 22:09:22 GMT -5
It turns out it was a Playmate all along...
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Post by Mac on Nov 20, 2013 22:18:03 GMT -5
I was 11 and me and all my friends thought it was going to be the Mystery partner on Ted Dibiases team
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Nov 20, 2013 22:39:55 GMT -5
I was 11 and me and all my friends thought it was going to be the Mystery partner on Ted Dibiases team Funny you should mention that...as Herb Kunze reported back in 1990 that it could have been none other than...Mark Calloway debuting as "the Eggman".
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Post by Mac on Nov 20, 2013 22:45:38 GMT -5
I was 11 and me and all my friends thought it was going to be the Mystery partner on Ted Dibiases team Funny you should mention that...as Herb Kunze reported back in 1990 that it could have been none other than...Mark Calloway debuting as "the Eggman". And the Eggman would go unbdefeated at Wrestlemania
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2013 23:25:43 GMT -5
I wonder what would have happened had everything else in regards to the match been the same but the Undertaker hatched from the egg beforehand?
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Nov 20, 2013 23:47:38 GMT -5
I remember reading that there were some King Kong Bundy rumors floating around at the time.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Nov 21, 2013 2:35:15 GMT -5
What about some type of lizard man? Lizard's come from eggs too. Maybe a wrestling dinosaur.(Cue the Ric Flair jokes )
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Post by chazraps on Nov 21, 2013 2:44:33 GMT -5
I remember subscribing to the Wrestling Update newsletter at the time and, according to them, the original plan was that the egg was to hatch and debut {Spoiler}you guessed it, Frank Stallone!
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Nov 21, 2013 2:45:38 GMT -5
I thought it would be a new wrestler or a returning wrestler. I didn't think Ric Flair. I thought he was NWA/WCW through and through.
As for a different mystery, for some reason I thought Barry Windham/The Widowmaker might be the mystery partner of Ted DiBiase's team. Why did I think that? I don't remember. I just had a feeling.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Nov 21, 2013 9:10:14 GMT -5
I thought it would be a new wrestler or a returning wrestler. I didn't think Ric Flair. I thought he was NWA/WCW through and through. As for a different mystery, for some reason I thought Barry Windham/The Widowmaker might be the mystery partner of Ted DiBiase's team. Why did I think that? I don't remember. I just had a feeling. I thought DiBiase would have bought Dustin and he would be the mystery partner.
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Post by Boo! on Nov 21, 2013 10:57:23 GMT -5
I remember subscribing to the Wrestling Update newsletter at the time and, according to them, the original plan was that the egg was to hatch and debut {Spoiler}you guessed it, Frank Stallone! Who? #seanmooney
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2013 11:01:15 GMT -5
Was I the only person in the world that expected something turkey related?
Come one, it was an egg at Thanksgiving, what else was it going to be?
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Post by chazraps on Nov 21, 2013 13:50:23 GMT -5
I remember subscribing to the Wrestling Update newsletter at the time and, according to them, the original plan was that the egg was to hatch and debut {Spoiler}you guessed it, Frank Stallone! Who? #seanmooney Mike Jones
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Nov 21, 2013 14:38:56 GMT -5
Funny you should mention that...as Herb Kunze reported back in 1990 that it could have been none other than...Mark Calloway debuting as "the Eggman". And the Eggman would go unbdefeated at Wrestlemania Goo goo ga joob.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Nov 21, 2013 14:43:47 GMT -5
There's only one man it should have been.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Nov 21, 2013 22:42:49 GMT -5
I was 11 and me and all my friends thought it was going to be the Mystery partner on Ted Dibiases team Funny you should mention that...as Herb Kunze reported back in 1990 that it could have been none other than...Mark Calloway debuting as "the Eggman". Would that have made Paul Bearer "The Walrus"?
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Post by horsemen4ever on Nov 21, 2013 23:22:46 GMT -5
I remember subscribing to the Wrestling Update newsletter at the time and, according to them, the original plan was that the egg was to hatch and debut {Spoiler}you guessed it, Frank Stallone! Who? #seanmooney That is an old Norm McDonald joke from his Weekend Update days.
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