Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted October 4, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted October 4, 2022 The one with Undertaker on the cover (94) was the one in our school. Those stickers were like actual currency for a few months. Swaps being made like they were drug deals, friendships ended, the lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeymike83 Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 23 minutes ago, wandshogun09 said: The one with Undertaker on the cover (94) was the one in our school. Those stickers were like actual currency for a few months. Swaps being made like they were drug deals, friendships ended, the lot. I'm surprised the buzz was still there with that one. The aforementioned Hitman '93 version was the peak round our way. By the time the Taker '94 one came out, the mania had gone. I remember getting that '94 one as it came included with the May '94 issue of WWF magazine (my first ever WWF mag, and not long having had Sky TV and seeing Adam Bomb on the cover, I thought he looked cool as fuck. Previously relying on friends and family taping the odd PPV and episode of All American Wrestling to get my fix, I had no idea who this mean mutha fucka was!). Unfortunately as I say, the fad was gone by that point, so I probably managed about 25 packs of stickers max. When you can't indulge in the swap/need shenanigans it kinda leaves it a bit flat too. Coupled with the fact I was heading to secondary school in '94, I'm certain I'd have been an outcast for life had I rocked up to the big leagues with a WWF sticker album! From that moment on, it was whatever football one came out (prem league/euro '96/endsleigh football league etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted October 4, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted October 4, 2022 (edited) Now I think about it, that 94 sticker album was pretty much the âlast hurrahâ for serious wrestling popularity here, at least in my experience anyway. I still remember kids talking about the Bret/Lex ending to the Rumble and buzzing about the Bret vs Owen feud. By about Survivor Series that year it was dead though with only a few kids still talking about it at all. Me being one of them. PPVs came and went with no playground hype, the last Hasbro series I remember getting any attention was the Yoko/Bam Bam one and I vividly remember a lad talking about Bob Backlund beating Bret for the belt and getting laughed at for still watching. Fucking Backlund wasnât cutting it amongst 9 year olds. But yeah, that sticker book was probably the last time I recall any real enthusiasm and excitement for the WWF as a kid. Edited October 4, 2022 by wandshogun09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeymike83 Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 1 hour ago, wandshogun09 said: Now I think about it, that 94 sticker album was pretty much the âlast hurrahâ for serious wrestling popularity here, at least in my experience anyway. I still remember kids talking about the Bret/Lex ending to the Rumble and buzzing about the Bret vs Owen feud. By about Survivor Series that year it was dead though with only a few kids still talking about it at all. Me being one of them. PPVs came and went with no playground hype, the last Hasbro series I remember getting any attention was the Yoko/Bam Bam one and I vividly remember a lad talking about Bob Backlund beating Bret for the belt and getting laughed at for still watching. Fucking Backlund wasnât cutting it amongst 9 year olds. But yeah, that sticker book was probably the last time I recall any real enthusiasm and excitement for the WWF as a kid. Seeing as it works out you'll be a couple years younger than me, I suppose it makes sense you/your year managed to drag another year of fandom out of it! That Hasbro series was the last I remember too, at least in terms of your main shops (them being in Argos). I remember going to town with my birthday money, desperately wanting Yoko, but it was outta stock. So asked for Luger instead, outta stock! Had to settle for the 'Beast from the East'! And that was the Hasbro adventure over, or so I thought. Until heading over to Ireland the following year to see family, can't think of the name of the shop but it was Ireland's main toy shop I think, and an absolute avalanche of Hasbro's (some I never knew existed) battering my senses into submission and spending the majority of my holiday money there and then! Giant Gonzales, Tatanka, Rick Martel, Steiner's and possibly one or two more. Could not wait to get 'home' home! That particular Survivor Series card as well. My friend who went to another school from me, we met up late October for a sleepover (did lads call it that?! I genuinely can't remember, it was nearly 30 years ago after all!). We left junior school absolutely transfixed with all things WWF, when I asked if he's looking forward to Survivors, he laughed at me and said "nah, I don't watch that crap any more". My first true heartbreak! 𤣠Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinity Land Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Taker one for me and my school as a kid. If that was 94, then that would be 8 into 9. Don't remember the pink Bret one. Before Taker the sticker album I remember was Nintendo. After Taker it was onto football stickers, pogs, tazos, and the last hurrah of collecting: Pokemon cards. Which considering some of the prices they sell for these days i'm kicking myself for not taking more seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Before I'd even seen my first wrestling match, I learnt everything I needed to know from the light blue sticker album that preceded the pink Bret one. This included such knowledge as one of the WWF's most relevant superstars being Big Bully Busick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted October 6, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted October 6, 2022 Andre making Vader look small. Look at the difference in head size! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted October 6, 2022 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 6, 2022 You can smell that photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted October 7, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted October 7, 2022 Not the first time "Vader", "small" & " headsize" have captioned a photo sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Poster Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Did Andre have small teeth or was it just due to the size of his gums? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Thesz Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 1 hour ago, The Masked Poster said: Did Andre have small teeth or was it just due to the size of his gums? I remember reading, somewhere, sometime that Andre had twice as many teeth as most humans so maybe this is a reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members eugenespeed Posted October 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted October 12, 2022 This made me giggle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted October 12, 2022 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 12, 2022 Jay White giving Okada the bird. Something very funny about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaitoRyo Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Barry Windham and Dusty Rhodes posing after a show. Big fan of the hats, the beer, the cowskin briefcase. All of it.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyAnderson Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022  Not my choice of drink but the names caught my attention when I saw a couple of them in our local. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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