Guest Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 On 12/7/2020 at 11:48 PM, bbabba said: And more generally, can people who lived though the WWF UK boom and bust of the early to mid 90's remember how mainstream Hasbros were in UK shops at their peak, and how rare they were as the WWF fad died? I think my old local Toymasters would still gladly sell you a batch of Texas Tornadoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted December 9, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 9, 2020 My favourite Hasbro availability memories during the peak were how random newsagents in small towns would occasionally have a rack of Spanish imported ones. I bought plenty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Was there two different versions of Mr Perfect? One with a yellow singlet and one with a different coloured one? Or did I dream/imagine/hallucinate that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted December 11, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted December 11, 2020 28 minutes ago, David said: Was there two different versions of Mr Perfect? One with a yellow singlet and one with a different coloured one? Or did I dream/imagine/hallucinate that? No, you're right. The blue one came out in 1994 a few years after the yellow one. Pretty sure despite the massive time gap, it was just a repaint though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted December 11, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted December 11, 2020 29 minutes ago, David said: Was there two different versions of Mr Perfect? One with a yellow singlet and one with a different coloured one? Or did I dream/imagine/hallucinate that? There was a blue one later in the run. I always remembered him in blue, wasn’t until years later I saw him in the yellow in some of his bigger bouts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Yeah, I recall the figures being identical, apart from the paint job on the singlet. Good to know I wasn't dreaming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted December 12, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 12, 2020 The blue one had a yellow upper back to it which I approved of as from ‘89 onwards Perfect seemed to always be wearing a two-tone singlet, the most synonymous with him being yellow with black, so the original toy always felt a bit imperfect (lol) to me as his singlet was totally yellow. Of course, one glorious exception was the black and sparkly number he wore at Survivors 92. Interestingly enough (to me) early adverts for the Royal Rumble video game seemed to show his sprite wearing that outfit but by the time the game was released, he was only playable in the blue with black singlet he wore for most of 91. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted December 13, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted December 13, 2020 (edited) Edited December 13, 2020 by Kaz Hayashi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boshealecta Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Love my Hasbros. Spent ages buying them again off eBay as I sold them as a kid, darn Car Boot sales. One thing that used to wind me up was the headlock figures. Why? They can’t really do much and their waists are just so skinny! I know we probably all used other toys as wrestling figures, but did anyone’s Hasbros ever do double duty? So my Greg Valentine was often Dusty Rhodes as they had the same colour hair and attire. Plus Macho King was Hercules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeymike83 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 With Greg Valentine also, I would gold marker a triangle pattern on the inner thighs of him and have him as Hunter Hearst Helmsley. I had two yellow singlet Mr. Perfect figures, I'd use one as Jeff Jarrett. I black marker penned the Rocker Shawn Michaels figure to become Rocket Owen Hart. Other than those Hasbro for Hasbro swaps, I used an old He-man figure. Black marker penned a trouser singlet get up, as well as his yellow hair and he became Diesel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted December 13, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted December 13, 2020 When Series 3 came out over here, it meant we had had 2 of the 3 Warriors in our collection. Naturally the newest, purple one was the Ultimate Warrior, but series 2 White trunks had to change, to his brother, Michael Warrior. Michael Warrior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boshealecta Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Is Michael Warrior still alive? Just thinking if he could appear at next years Wrestlemania? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted January 25, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted January 25, 2021 Cardona has unearthed the 2up proto figures, linked to the mini Royal Rumble figures. Now we know what Hasbros would look like if they were Galoobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 38 minutes ago, Kaz Hayashi said: Cardona has unearthed the 2up proto figures, linked to the mini Royal Rumble figures. Now we know what Hasbros would look like if they were Galoobs. They should've made the second Hasbro Macho Man in those long trunks instead of just recycling the Macho King version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maikeru Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 I saw a post on UKFF a while back with a scan of a letter from the UK distributor of hasbros from back in the day confirming which figures from each series were released here. The mystery of why I couldn’t find Dusty Rhodes anywhere despite knowing a ton of people with massive collections was finally answered. Can’t remember if Andre the Giant went completely unreleased here or just had an incredibly small run, but couldn’t get him either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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