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Any favorite memories?

 

My fed was called the JWF (Jay's Wrestling Federation.)

 

As far as I can recall, the best I did were...........

 

A feud between Terminator (An Arnold figure from the 2nd movie) and Grim Reaper (Skeletor figure doing an Undertaker ripoff)

 

Ripping off Ric Flair's multi title reigns by putting the belt on Masked Murderer (Casey Jones) 12 or 13 times

 

An angle where Smash won the World title from Ultimate Warrior thanks to Axe's fiendish interference

 

Ripping off the NWO and turning Hogan heel. Since I had no Razor or Diesel figures, the first two members were Bret Hart and Warlord

 

 

That's all I can think of right now...........

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My federation was the WWFCW( I mixed up all my figures from WCW and WWF). This was around the time when the nWo was starting up, but there was no nWo figures yet, so I used my Razor Ramon figure as Scott Hall, and then teamed him with Sid(the Nash of the group) and Shawn Michaels(the Hogan of the group). They went on a reign of terror for the entire length of the federation, until they had a 3-way main event for the title at Wrestlemania, which Sid won. After that I got tired of figures and they've been in my closet ever since.

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I booked my fed so far into the future that it's technically still alive today.

 

-The XFW (est'd 1/3/98) had all-Jakks figures on a Jakks ring; first champion was Sid (I believe), who later became the goofy Action Jackson.

 

-I remember we turned the NOD and DX into a superfaction, then had NOD turn on them to set up a huge feud. DX was HHH, HBK, Diesel, Sunny, and the Headbangers. NOD was Faarooq, Savio, Crush and....the British Bulldog.

 

-We turned the LOD into the Drunken Bastards and created the Drunkensault as their singles finishers. (The Drunkensault was setting your opponent up for a frogsplash, only to have Hawk/Animal jump off, crotch themselves on the top rope, and fall back into the ring, hitting a modified legdrop in the process.)

 

-Inexplicably, the biggest blood feud in XFW history was between Bulldog and Thrasher. No one knows why.

 

-Our biggest angle ever was when HHH won the 98 Rumble while DX stablemate Diesel was champion. We built it up to where we were excited to even *hold* this face-versus-face match.

 

-PPVs:

J: Blizzard Brawl

F: MegaFight (SuperBrawl ripoff)

M: WrestleWar (didn't know this was a real PPV; WM ripoff)

A: Springtime Showdown

M: Grand Prix (ripped from WCW World Tour for N64; home of the Royal Rumble)

J: Final Blast (name also ripped from WCW World Tour; all matches were hardcore)

J: Superstars and Stripes Forever (GAB ripoff)

A: Pool Party (biggest show of the year; Rumble winner got title shot here)

S: Critical Mass (IYH: Ground Zero ripoff)

O: Blood Feud (Havoc ripoff)

N: Gang Warfare (Lethal Lottery Survivor Series tournament; SSeries 97 ripoff)

D: Winter Wars (yeah, I ran out of ideas since there are 2 consecutive winter PPVs)

 

Man, I LOVED XFW.

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My Real Ghostbusters figures were a great stable, that's for sure. They had a feud against the Ninja turtles. I had my Stay Puft marshmallow man be a kind of unmovable monster, who only lost once, to that Frankenstein-like figure from the real gostbusters series.

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Using the other two Ultimate Warrior figures and turning them into his brothers, Mega Warrior and the evil Demon! That 3 way feud pretty much never ended, even if they teamed up here and there.

 

Creating a stable for Jake Roberts called the Hellraisers, including the aforementioned Demon, Grim Reaper, the ape Thundercats figure (Bigfoot) and Jimmy Snuka.

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I used GI Joe figures - they provided the most range of motion. It was either them, or Star Wars figures, so the choice was pretty easy.

 

Destro was the top heel, and Mutt (I think that was his name, a dog-trainer guy, had 1 of those protective gloves on his 1 hand/arm - finisher was a flying forearm using that arm) was top face. Nothing too big or complicated, just mixed a few other guys at the IC level or to tag with the ME guys.

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I remember using Smash as my top heel back in the day with the Hasbro figures. My other top heel was the Galoob WCW Barry Windham. I also remember not being able to find Rick Steiner's WWF figure, so my main tag team was Scott Steiner and Marty Jannetty.

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I used to watch this kid who had a big bagful of those GI Joe, Marvel and Star Wars figures and he and I used to run little wrestling feds with them. I even typed up ratings for him ala PWI. It was pretty funny looking back on it now.

 

Boba Fett was this huuuge Ric Flair-ish heel with a stable protecting him and he came out to a ripoff of Rick Rude's theme. The one that started with "Oh Ricky, you're so ravishing". One day, he busts out with "Oh, Boba!" and I laughed till I cried at the absurdity of it.

 

Commando Man,Mandarin,Randy Flash,Scott Spitfire (They were a R n R Express ripoff) ,The Oriental Crippler,Dr.Doom,The Behemoth,Boba Fett,Twin Blobs,Shadow,Crystar,Diamond Head,Psycho,Butcher,Captain America,Iron Man,Snake Eyes,Demolition Man,Sgt Slaughter,Red Warrior....most of the major names.

 

We even did a fireball angle with Randy Flash getting burned. Stuck his head in the flame of a Bic lighter to accomplish this but it was good drama. And Shadow had to vacate a title because the kid lost him in a lake.

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I used GI Joe figures - they provided the most range of motion. It was either them, or Star Wars figures, so the choice was pretty easy.

Ha! I still have a bag full of those somewhere. Those and the Street Fighter figures that were about the same size, where Balrog came with the boxing gloves. Those things fit better in that blue ring the Hasbro figs used to come with too.

 

'Funny' thing I remember was getting Vega and losing the 'claw' thing that came with it, so instead turning him into '5 Star' who just happened to be an RVD rip-off. And finding a turban wearing figure who became my anti-American heel. And of course, the legendary 'Twin Sagats' storyline.

 

;)

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Guest Duncan Eternia

My tag champs were He-Man and Lion-O (hooooooooo).

 

My world championship feud was between Man At Arms and a Ghostbuster.

 

Sadly I'd prefer to see He-Man and Lion-O team up over watching WWE.

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Visionaries. No-one else except me remembers them I'm sure, but the figures were BRILLIANT for motion. Still got 'em somewhere. I still remember when top babyface Wrecking Machine turned on 'Big' Mark Stephens to win the World Title back.

 

I'm gonna go take my geek meds now.

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Guest Real F'n Show

Awesome thread man.

 

I too, mixed a bunch of different action figures with my wrestlers to make one huge roster. I'd plan the feuds and cards way in advance, and write down results and everything, because I was a nerd. This was back when I was 10 or 11.

 

I would mainly take my WWF figures and some X-Men ones and just rename them all. I can't remember the fed's name it self, but we were an ECW rip-off before I even knew about ECW. Tons of weapons, and crazy stipulations, such as a make shift hell in a cell match (laundry basket) where the loser got decapitated, and a match where the two wrestlers started at the bottom of my stairway and had to fight their way to the top for the belt. Ahmed Johnson and Animal were my top faces, and I believe I had TAKA and Wolverine as heels, under different names. There was also Dean Malenko with magnetic hands, who was my resident jobber.

 

I would sometimes draw blood on the wrestlers with a marker to add to the effects, but stopped after it started not coming off. Man, I wish I still had all this, I probably would actually go play with them.

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"OH SWEET JESUS! Jakks Grude Match 2-Pack Vader just threw Hasbro Dusty Rhodes all the way to the depths of Hell!"

 

Hell just happened to be off the couch.

 

I still collect all the new Jakks, but I put them on shelves. I'll never keep them in packages, though. That's not what they're for. :angry:

 

That new Rockers 2-pack brings back awesome memories of the Hasbro one.

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I had my GI Joes using the Stone Cold Stunner *years* before Austin (we're talking mid-to-later-80's). No kick to set it up, I just had them use it as an inverted neck breaker. Not a finisher, either, just another regular move.

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Me and my brother (who still posts occasionally here under "Doomsault) used to get on top of my bunkbed and play with G.I. Joes in a sort of "royal rumble" style match. If you got thrown off the bunkbed you were eliminated. You were especially fucked if you got thrown into the ceiling fan on high.

 

Ahhh, memories...

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I also mixed up He-Man and Thundercats figures with my old LJN WWF figures as part of the Universal Wrestling Organization. Nothing like booking a special attraction midget match between Orko and Snarf.

 

I had to retire Lion-O in the middle of a Universal title push when Two-Bad broke his leg. Seriously, I literally snapped Lion-O's leg clean off doing a dreaded flying double headbutt off the top rope.

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I remember my friend's little bro booked his own WWF, but man, looking back, he was a good booker! Some of the stuff he came up with is better than WWE now! LOL.

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I had my GI Joes using the Stone Cold Stunner *years* before Austin (we're talking mid-to-later-80's). No kick to set it up, I just had them use it as an inverted neck breaker. Not a finisher, either, just another regular move.

Nice, I had Beefcake using the Rock Bottom way before I had ever seen it. He was a heel, so I called it the "Butcher's Knife".

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92 had some good figures released in Ric Flair,Skinner,Papa Shango,The Mountie,Berzerker,Shawn Michaels and the New Foundation.

 

When the WCW figures came out in 91 I bought Sting,Luger,Windham and the Steiners, unfortunately I couldn't get a Flair figure until the WWF one came out.

 

 

Edit: I hated the Figures with the legs stuck together, ruined my LOD and Rockers matches.I was also angry when I found out that you couldn't move the WCW ones.

 

Looked at my collection and I found an El Gigante figure stood next to the Fabulous Freebirds, can't believe I forgot I had them

 

Just found this, I didn't collect after 92 so I didn't know The Smoking Gunns had figures.

 

90-94 Hasbro Figures

 

The site also has WCW and AWA remco figures, The Flair AWA one is my favourite because of the robe although the Hansen one isn't bad either.

 

 

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Edited by deancoles411

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When did Hasbro stop making the WWF figures? I have a Doink figure so I'll say it was 95.

Hasbro stopped at the end of 1994. The last line was the Green Card series which I believe was Adam Bomb, 1-2-3 Kid, Billy Gunn, Bart Gunn, Ludvig Borga and I think a repaint of Yokozuna.

 

Jakks then picked up the line at the end of 1995 with Bret, HBK, Diesel, Razor, Undertaker and the new guy, Goldust. Series 2 was Bret, HBK, Taker with new guys in Warrior, Owen Hart and Vader.

 

I don't remember too much of my Hasbro fed back in the day other than the fact I loved Virgil.

 

My Jakks fed I remember a lot of, with Ken Shamrock as a pretty dominating champion. I also ran a Toybiz WCW fed for a little bit and eventually, with the release of ECW toys, started all three feds from scratch and made one giant fed. I had a 128 man tournament (all were different wrestling figures from Hasbro to Jakks to Bendums) which culminated in Val Venis being crowned champion. Val had a nice long run until he was defeated by The Rock at Wrestlemania who dropped the strap before the night ended to Billy Gunn (the matches were set up Wrestlemania X style, Gunn had fought Yokozuna earlier in the night). Gunn went on to feud with Kevin Nash and when I booked that feud, I realized it was time to call it quits, although Tommy Dreamer was booked to feud with the winner.

 

I used to post on some old figure message boards with these feds too, so I have a lot of the old results written down still. I think my best match was at Wrestlemania it was Billy Kidman vs. Al Snow in an Intercontinental Title Ladder Match.

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The site also has WCW and AWA remco figures, The Flair AWA one is my favourite because of the robe although the Hansen one isn't bad either.

I collected the AWA figures when I was a kid (kid == mid-to-late-80s) and as embarressing as it is to admit, I still remember some of the feuds that I created, and some of the wrestlers that I created (I used to pop their heads off their bodies and mix and match them to make different people.)

 

Take a Jerry Blackwell face, and put it on a muscular body == Steve Williams.

 

Steve Regal became Eddie Gilbert (didn't really change anything, just called him Hot Stuff) who headed a stable called Damage, Inc. (stolen from Metallica, and long before XPW used it as a name)

 

Greg Gagne became Andy Kaufman, hated heel.

 

I used to use a coin-toss to determine winners and losers, so there wouldn't be any favoritism by the booker ... that stopped when Hawk lost his world title to Jimmy Garvin (I wanted it to be a squash for Hawk, but it turned out to be a squash for Gorgeous Jimmy)

 

Ahhh, good times.

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I have a whole milk crate in my closet filled with various action figures, when I get time I'll get it out and post them in here.

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Ditto on the G.I. Joe figures. I started watchin wrestling in '91 and my cousin had a whole lego bucket full of them at the time, so I used them as my WWF and WCW superstars w/ the WWF ring. I basically chose the figures that looked closest to the actual superstars.

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My figurEs of choice were the Marvel Secret Wars figures, along with some early MacFarlane figures. I used the WWF Ring put out by whichever company did their toys in the early 90's. Captain America was the undefeatable monster heel who took out everyone and used the Stars and Stripes (seated powerbomb) to decimate the roster. He was finally defeated by Wolverine using the Berserker Bomb (diving Tiger Driver '91) for the title. Good God someone shoot me for talking about this.......

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Man, I'm so glad I'm not the only person who did this.

 

I used a bunch of different figures, including some that I don't even know where they came from - no actual wrestling figures though, not one. I do recall having a Batman figure as the top face, and a Spider-Man figure as the top heel though.

 

Oh, and using a laundry basket for cage matches.

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My pushes were based on if the figure could stand w/o me having to hold it up all the time (Rockers, Dusty Rhodes, IRS, ect were jobbers). This was vital since damn near every show I had either had a battle royal or a Royal Rumble.

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My heel supergroup, inspired by The Dangerous Alliance, was led by Jake Roberts. Rick Rude, Ax and Smash were always members. Crush would pop in every now and then. Their manager was some red superhero guy. I never remembered his name, so he became known simply as Redman. I believe I called them The Super Destroyers.

 

The only feud I can remember without thinking too hard is Bret Hart vs. Rick Steamboat. Steamboat had turned heel on Hart after losing a face vs. face title match. He went on to steal the WWF Title and forced the announcers to call him champion. Bret won the blow off and Steamboat turned back face after it was over.

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