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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 14:13:56 GMT -5
I actually won the SummerSlam Anthology in a contest sponsored by WWE. I already had many of the shows taped from the original broadcast (meaning no blurring and all the original music) but I figured, what the hell, I won't win anyway. Lo and behold, I did! The coolest part was that I got to talk to someone from WWE HQ for the details about how to claim my prize. It wasn't anyone famous, but at least I could say that I did it. I thought making the box look like a cooler was a pretty ingenious idea--it fit the summer theme perfectly. I still stand by my opinion that the box should have been shaped like a party.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Nov 21, 2015 23:31:20 GMT -5
Who's music did they redub into the British Wheel of Fortune theme? Was it Dusty Rhodes
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Post by IMPRESSIVE knightwing1047 on Nov 22, 2015 1:18:33 GMT -5
Honestly, it's the DVD series that got me back into wrestling. I hadn't watched WWE from between mid-2002 to early 2006 and I was in a Strawberries or FYE one day and I saw the boxed set. I bought it because I had a little extra folding money and I was feeling nostalgic for WrestleManias VI through XV. After watching it over a period of months, I decided to start tuning my television back to Raw on Monday nights and I haven't really looked back since. We are in pretty much the same boat. Took a hiatus at the same time period and one day at Target, I found The Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior DVD. Haven't looked back since.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Nov 22, 2015 1:32:03 GMT -5
Oh man those DVDs were an abomination. If you know you're not going to pay for the music and edit everything all to crap anyway, don't have the balls to charge $250 for it. As soon as I found out how bad it was, I took the money I had set aside for it and purchased the original 1-13 box set from 1997, which has all the original broadcasts uncut.
There may still be a few edits here and there on the Network, but it's still astronomically better than that hackjob of a box set.
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Post by Woo on Nov 22, 2015 7:16:18 GMT -5
I got it when it come out. My memory of Wrestlemanias 14- 18 are a blur. My DVD's of those events are a blur.
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