MWFP Rewind - Episode 30
It’s a Wrestlemania hangover! A mania week edition of Weekly Purchases and an infamous Taz WTF (Episode 35) The world’s largest incarnation of domination, The Giant, The Big Show, Paul White + Some classic Q&A (Episode 73) Some more Q&A from the Wrestlemania Week Q&A episode where the boys ponder a future where they make their own figures!
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2023-04-20
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You're listening to the Major Pod Network, the only place where your favorite toy store, bar, arcade, and arena are all on the same block. Scratch that Major Itch. Here's some into wrestling Ringo podcast sobs, a little show talking birds to collectable bolls. Here we all let's go godless here to buy everything bad Mintambrian sing. You want to say a smart park, He's right the show, It's time to talk. Let's go. Welcome to another edition of the Major Rewind, the only show that takes some of the best, classic, ultimate, and defining major moments from the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast, and I put it together for new and old Major Marks to enjoy. This week on the show, we're all hungover from WrestleMania baby ha ha. We hear some classic weekly purchases from twenty nineteen, as well as the infamous TAZ WTF what the bleep Figure of the Week. And then we got the world's largest incarnation of domination, the Giant, the Big Show Paul White, and one of my favorite stories about The Big Show Paul White is told in this incarnation. And let me tell you something, Jack, If you like Q and Day, well, we got a whole bunch of it. We have Q and Day from episode seventy three, as well as Q and D from a special Q and Day episode from the WrestleMania Hangover baby ha ha ha. And one of the cool things about this Q and Day is you hear Matt and Brian prophesize about a potential action figure line made under the Major Pod banner. And it's always cool when you hear I hear back a lot of these clips, and you know, almost since the beginning of the podcast, this has always been in the back of their minds that eventually they were going to go out and do it. They were going to make their own figures, and they willed it to existence. There's a lesson there. That's it. Enjoy the show. This is Tyson Kidd, and you're listening to the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast. But I called them wrestling dolls up until probably three weeks ago, so I'm still transitioning to calling them wrestling figures. I listen to these guys every single week as I'm driving from Roda SmackDown with many legit, laugh out loud moments. Keep up the good work, guys. All right, weekly purchases time mother some might cost it a little some might cost a lot, but I'm the thousand dollar Browski and your figures will be bought. All right, guys, it's weekly purchases. Time. I got a bunch of things on here. We're a little backed up, a little backed up, if you will. Um. The first thing I'm gonna go with is the Perfect ten Jack's set, Jack specific, I finally got it. We haven't done the pod, but I thought you got it months ago when we talked about this. No no, no, no me, you and David c Andrews it we're talking about it. Maybe that's what I'm mixing up here. It's it's ten figures. It's called the Perfect there's two versions of it, okay, and only Billy Guns different. Well Triple H is like a DTA version, but that Yeah, everything has been released in another capacity. Well it's so it's so weird. The bone counters like what was released, what wasn't released. It's all like what you consider to be unofficial release or not, because some things are a loose collector. All you need is that Billy gunn Okay, So everything has been awesome. Something Rock, Triple H, xbox Mankind, Big Show, Billy Gun, Road Dog, Cane Undertaker and a kid Size in the back. But all those figures were released in some other capacity except Billy Gun is in a white shirt and that is in a black shirt, right, Okay, I believe that's the only thing, pretty sure. So I got that. Um, not a bad deal. I I got it for twenty nine dollars ten figures. What well, twenty nine dollars shipping as well? I was okay, yeah, shipping. But to get the one Billy Gun, to get a hall of paper, Billy Gun in that black I think I says, come get some, Yeah, come get some from that too tough. Yeah, but he's in the white. Um. So I needed that, And I think there might be some minor differences, but that's the most U dramatic difference. That's my first weekly purchases. There's my story, and I know you're gonna cut a promo on me here, let's hear it. Uh. So, I don't know how this came about, if I found it or Tommy Boy from Massachusetts found it. Some smart sweets, no, I wish. I wish we had some right now that'd be hit the spot anyway. Uh, there's a lot on eBay one, two, three, all three versions of Brett Hart and hasbro Form. What do I need? A loose all away? But it doesn't count? Why not? I don't know if this guy opened the back, dude. If it's not, I don't know. If it's not in the bag, it doesn't count. But how do I know this guy didn't open the bag? And this is you don't know. That's why it doesn't count. So how are we ever gonna? I really want to? I mean, I thought you were the Scottie Pippin. I didn't realize you were the you can't name another basketball players. He's never gonna. I can't count anything. I can't name it. Okay, So anyway, so we find this auction and we agree to cut a deal. I said, I need the mail away bread or the foreign card Bret, whatever you want to call it, and your neck of the Woods. And he needed the other two Brets. I don't know why you didn't have either regular Bret. I think Brett too. It's hard to get Brett two has become very difficult, and price and I don't I don't know he needed both. I said, okay, I said, here's the deal, whatever it ends at, I'll pay half. You pay half and I get the the one I want, you get the other two. It's a horrible deal on a voice part. Why because you're getting this, You're not getting a real mail away. You're getting this like but today people loose. That's there's no difference, and that is what it is. And the farn one has become so you cannot it's not the same man. A card is still gonna go for a time money. You know, John from Brings Out has like five of them in the office. Non information that could have been brought to my attention. Yeah, jod, I need that anyway. So, uh, like we were all prepared to spend like a decent amount of money on that lot. Like what would you expect this lot to end at two fifty? Right? Okay? So I said, hey, I have right here two h five or something I put in. I said, that's the most you know, one hundred bucks each ish you know, let's go at that it ended at one seventeen fifty. That's proof right there that you didn't get the real mail away. But there's no way I've ever proven that. And so I mean they came in the bag. I have holding out of the bag now, So like there's no point I'd have to go backwards. Okay, So I understand what you're trying to do here. You know I need a loose taker, and I'm done. You're trying to convince yourself. But I know that you know. I don't know that. I know that you know because this Bret heart that you have is that foreign one or the one that's not necessarily foreign. It's just like the purple heart variant. Okay, and you know it's at the mailwadre, but you don't want to admit yourself it's it's not the man. How many people in nineteen ninety three you got these mailawaise and just opened them out of the bag zillions. I don't know if there was a zillion bag, but a good portion a lot. How we ever going to prove that right? But you know in your loose collection, just you know in your heart of hearts that Brett is nine times out of ten probably the regular Bret. That true, That may be true. But if I'm a loose collector saying figure, if you want to look at me your eyes, daddy has a mad on card, I'm sorry, I'll lose collection. And this Brett's a fake if you want to look at your daughter in the eyes to say that, I think, go ahead. Do you expect me to pay twenty times the price or something and then open it out of the bag and then now it counts. It's not my loose collection. I think you should have manned up and got all of them in the bag. Man, this bread, I'm sorry, this bread does not count the bag I was, I was. I don't know if I was dreading explaining this to you or it doesn't count. I'm sorry. I have a bread, a purple heart bread, and you know where it is. It's in the closet like I have it. Like it's there, but doesn't count. It's not the man you have the bag one on display? Yes, But isn't your bags the wrong numbers? Yes? So you're not gonna ever fix that? Maybe one day, pot kettle anyway, And I don't know what that means. We're moving on all right. Another that I got, um okay um. You said, like, who's your poppy? I said, I'm your poppy. You're a real and mark. You can go ahead and edit this and give your heads up. You're a real piece of aceh A scumbag. My cost a little piece of my cost a lot. Give me the thousand dollars getting two weeks of glory. You couldn't let me just fast, and your poppies will be bought piece of a thank you to Matt Chappelle. Um, he had all the poppies and full disclosure. I was working on a big deal to get him all men on card and the price was going to be very, very astronomical, over ten thousand dollars. God. And I'm like, listen, I'm gonna open these mofos up. There's no way I'm paying these. Yeah, I'm a loose collector. I'm not in the game to resell them. And I like things. I want to let him breathe, to let him breathe, especially the poppies. Carding is a little bizarre. There mostly smashed and mush. Matt Chappelle legend in the business, unsung hero. Um, he had the whole set. He said, Hey, I'll sum to you for what I bought him for. I said, ching jing jing jing. And I still had to be a decent man. Money. It was decent amount of money. Let's talk about it. I'm not gonna talk about well, you're being a real scumbag and you you I'll say this, I'll say this less than three thousand, Okay, it's not horrendous for was it ten? Yeah? And these are in fantastic shape. They go for like two to four a piece. Loose right at him, all one shot, all right? Not not bad. So thank you. Matt Chapelle. He is on Instagram. He he Matt Chapelle is so much crazy. Hey, but I feel like he's someone who like doesn't want to be known. And he's probably gonna hate me for calling him out right now, but he does. He does so much cool stuthing. Gonna get his Instagram right now. Lousy childhood on Instagram and Twitter, I believe. Check him out. He has so much cool stuff. He's a great old school collector. And uh, I got those poppies, So Hawkins Myers, I'm your poet, You're complete, I am your pocket. You're disgusting or poppy? Did you open your red rooster? Did open my mister? Cock a doodle do? Awesome? Blank a doodle doodle do? Great? Figure it with something. There's something it's still not on for sale. Huh, it's hill. It finally hit the target. Okay, I sell people obviously many a week was a little hectic and I wasn't so glued to my phone, but it did not. But it's fine there, Okay, So it's there. Target dot Com. Get your red roosters. You're a blank. You got them sent to us thanks to the Elite Squad and our oh my god, you got free figures. Oh my god, all hell breaking list. Oh geez, we had like ten figures a year. Chill you give me till a ninety minute free podcast. Um, it's it's awesome. It's it's great, top There's nothing to complain about it. It's just spot on, like perfect, and I'm just so thrilled that I finally have it and it's not gonna not come out, and I'm glad it's not like in some bin burning with all those Harley Race Michaels. Those are coming big, the big lots. I believe, I truly believe it. Marshall's one day they will be like the whole Harley Race sets here and it's three. But that Terry Taylor is amazing, all those things like the sho Isaac Yanko. You tell sorry, lest we were Dad called him mister Rooster. Yeah, like we were liked at WrestleMania and he kept called him mister Rooster. That's incredible. Oh man. Anyway, great figure, pick it up Target dot com. I mean it's just it's perfect. And I mean that's just one of those things I love, Like Terry Taylor has had a figure, but I love when the only figure has had him was that TNA figure. So it's like whatever, but just the red Rooster never had a figure, So like this is fantastic. The Jackets great, the red Mohawk. It's if you're a mint card collector, it's fantastic. Um all right. Also, I want to talk about our good friend, Hastele toy. Um, I got something from him. Friend, Well he's our friend, Okay, I got has is gonna set about that he finds all these hasbros. And uh, he's been rebuilding my little brother Andrew's collection. So he got me a Yoko Zuna the red and black. It was minty Minty loose. Got it from my brother Andrew. So Hastle Toy, I want to say thank you for that. Um, last time my list, I don't know if you have a ton more more. Okay, well we both received retro series. Yeah, what are your thoughts that Macho Man, Randy Savage, Samoa Joe, Randy Orton gold Dust. I'm gonna say this right off the bat. I love these ret shows. I don't want them to go anywhere. They are incredible. The matcha man. When I first got it, I think we both said I thought it was broken. It was broke. He doesn't do the clothes and he does the chop. It scold us to end macho I know. I was like, what's going on? But they do the flare. It's Flair's mechanism to do the chop, not the Randy or Zach Ryder mechanism to do the forward. Yeah. So it was like at first, I'm like, oh no, what happened here? But it's pretty it once you realize that that's fine. I take a comparison shot of the Macho Man with the green trunks Macho Man, like only all podcasts can do that? Ye know, the podcast could do that? So cool. Mattel did a great job switching to that color or decided to do that color. I feel like apologies are in order that Samojo is fine in that patented T shirt. Yeah, it's it works like it's not it's not like a bad figure. I'd rather that than no smo. Joe. I agree, and I we like made fun of it a bunch on here. I'm still gonna make fun of it like that. It was instead of like initially, and I'll admit this, I thought it was like a lame tactic or like cheap. Now I feel like it's like crafty and it like worked. It's a way to get him in the line, a way to use that not a lot of hefty molds and has the shorts in that line. So they in the shorts. Yeah, but there's not like big dudes, So they did what they had to do. It got some mojo on the line, So we're cool with that. M Randy Orton's great. The deck and gold us finally with a gold es, I don't have to use my thing. The yellow. I think gold is my favorite of this and the way it comes off way it comes off, it looks really cool. The face is a little heavier. It's just perfect. I love that Ringsyle Collectibles has series eight and nine before the stores even have eight. Well that's their business, but two sets ahead, that's true. Yeah right, yeah, that's pretty Yeah, that's right. Your figure hasn't even hit stores, so Ringstyle Collectibles dot Com used Code Major to save ten percent. I have some more weekly purchases, keep going. I'm tapped out. Though I tried to have a to just like purposely not buy stuff. It's very difficult. Next week I might have nothing. I was very busy to wrestleman a week. If you uh too busy to buy toys, believe it or not, it's a good problem to have them. Um. I went back to the devil. I went back to the bushman himself, Lord Um, and he he took me to an agency and it was the Acolyte Protection Agency, and I got a Acolytes. This is pre APA, but Acolytes Bradshaw bone crunching action head unreleased. Why why did I get it? Yeah, because he offered it to me for a good price and I had to get it. And it's it's bone crunching, not it's not new bone crunching. It was supposed to be in the bone and short short hair Acolyte Bradshaw. So apparently like Docommission's best friend Bradshaw. Too right, It could be right. It was that who say that style short? But I guess at one point there was supposed to be some sort of ministry of Darkness four pack um. It was rumored. All those things were rumored. Who knows. They never made Midian, they never made for Ruth, they never made Brado was justin Hawk Bradja for Rouke and Henry. Oh Godwin, I'm sorry, Phineas, I got it, like Jeremy came on board and like O two, we need someone pre je. We need a pre Jeremy guy to like run some of this stuff by and we don't have any sources. But I want to thank you the bush Man for give me the h Acolyte brad show. And you know what, it doesn't look a thing like Bradshaw. Yeah, not at all. But that's those like Nelich outlaws figured they're horrible at least like in the Bone cush and e like Billy Goott has the bandana come on? Um, so this could have been like a boot like another figure company out of Yeah, right, Bushman ripped. I trust the bush Man, Okay. Also, my good friend Marty the Villain, we were out to dinner the other night. We're at Ruth Chris, a very expensive steakhouse. And was it just you the women involved the women were there. They were there. You never know these days. He enjoys some mediumware stays and wine and he pulls out this bag and what's inside is a dog faced gremlin Rick Steiner WCW Wrestling Buddy, very very hard to get in pretty damn good condition. There was a couple couple of little rips in it. But the fluff was there. You know what I'm saying that he wasn't deflated, no good fluff. Yeah. I washed him about five times in the five Yeah, I just keep going in a pillowcase. First time pillowcase, other four times, no pillowcase. Why just do it? Just watch risky move, folks. I don't. I don't condone that. If you don't like me, bite me. I guess the dog the dog based gremlin h w CW Wrestling Buddy. He also got me a thousand dollars Browski Hasbro figure. Oh yeah, what was up with that? It was incredible. It was so well done. It was using a matel head and with these figures, you know, with Hasbro's the Hasbro figures have Next and Mattel figures, don't whoever made this custom had a custom neck. It was so well done on the back. It had the z R sign with like the dollars sign. Also, yeah, so Marty, thank you very much. Marty's a good friend and good friend of the pot. I feel like you owe him now you need to get him something, something good. Well, I had the pressures on. Sorry, um, and that is I think it from my Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Before I go. We have a trade ski of the week. Guys, I'm looking for a lot of stuff. We I need more trade skis of the week. And to be honest, sometimes these aren't trade I just buy it from you, right, to be honest. Yeah. Uh. Still mint on card ECW original Mike Awsome figure autographed. Anybody out there been looking for years? This new jack, no new situation. Oh my god, still very real. Oh my god, talk to me a mint on card, Brian Pillman, Uk Glube still in the hunt. Uh. And then there's several loose cells jns. I still need, as we just said, the Undertaker mail away loose um, you know, hit me up, let's or hit our social media accounts up and maybe we can figure something out. Absolutely, um, so I got from sav the ww khali one. Um, I got a ECW one night Stand Jerry that I'm counting as of now in my classic Superso's collection as a ECW. Yes, it was very hard to get that figure, believe it or not. All right, Up next is the Incarnation of Domination. The Incarnation of Domination is a weekly segment where we choose a superstar and every week we try to stop each other and we discussed our favorite versions of that superstar. This week it is my turn to stomp you. But already spoiled it. You did spoil a little bit. But you know what, Sally, it's Paul. Why so are we eliminating giant figures? Every every Paul White figure is on the table here. That's a lot, a lot, a lot. I'm not gonna talk about all now. Saying his San Francisco Toy Bakers. He's at the vibrator. He's got the rubber ljan and the plastic one. Wait what like the plastic like Hasbro rusque style one. Yes, yeah, um, he's in the first toy basin amazing choke slam hand. It's great and it's like it's gigantic. What about the two packeries at the neck brace? Was just stupid? But might be one of my favorites, if not my favorite, the one right off the bat, the one that comes with the ray that does the choke slam. It's like pretty perfect. The first figure, even though his figures aren't that great style. Yeah there's no beard, Yeah, but he didn't when he first first came, it was it was a very but there was nothing on this figure. Five o'clock shadow could have could have helped. Yeah. Um, I used to use my Hasbro Giant Gonzales, not as the Giant, but like I would use him like the Giant. You know what I'm saying. I guess you give him that kind of push, you know. Um. Yeah, so that the the action feature Toymaker. No, see yeah, the vibrator all those times, even though is he like slightly bigger than the other ones? Are they all the size of the vibrator. No, not the vibrate but the other one. He's slightly bigger, but the vibrators are all the same. Was really like tast match the same size as the Giant. Ridiculous, okay, see you But the toy Biz one, especially the ones, but the brace I love the brace one. There's the I would actually love to get him on here now if he's back to tell the story about going to toy Fair. Oh, that's right, taking those picks. I think he would do it. He would do it. It's been over twenty years. No, but I mean, like, come on the pot, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, but um, series nine, the rumor always was is that he was still in her contract but took reference photos at toy Fair for Jack's. That's why that first Jack's figure comes out so fast, and it comes out with him in cloth T shirt jeans because that's what he was wearing. And they repaint a bunch of times, even as a ref Yeah, what's that figure? Although not a bone count, is still pretty awesome, so that counts, but not under the drive. It's not a bone counter actually feature, but it's meant to be in the line that was not meant to that's a novelty pack of figures. Um. So many Titan Trons, which are pretty cool. Yeah, he has very because of his size. His figures are always pretty unique, but I think in the Titan Trons they're never quite right. I don't think Jack's really nails it until we get to ar three. He's also changed his look like all Big show there's like ponytail short hair show. What about the one that has the al snow shirt. That's ridiculous, um J C. Penny exclusive actually pretty rare. That are three big show I think changed the game for figures, and that's my favorite big show. I think to this day it is still like perfect. It's so perfect. They use that mold with Ruthless Aggression figures, right, probably they used it for Entre the Giant. I mean, his mantels are pretty sweet. I know you don't really dabble in the modern day guys, no, but I love his giant figure. I know I love his current big show one from like the Survivor series esc era, like right when he won the title the first time. Yeah, a brand new one. Yeah, that one's good. Yeah. The modern day ones are like pretty good, like with the last one that uh that fan central one that went was on like on the deathbeded Toys r Us. It's a really nice figure. I think I'm gonna have to go with the toy biz just because I love that figure when as a kid and playing with it its size alone, I'm gonna go with the new It's cool about that, and like I think this is putting it into perspective because we just did the Ljan episode, Like Andre was a giant, but they crouched him down and there's nothing you can do about that. But this had joints and stuff, so like, if you put him fully extended, he's a giant. I think my favorite one is definitely the R three and not they made a cooler. They added like tattoos and stuff. Later on Bob original R three, she had the perfect choke slam hand. He's way bigger than everyone else like that. Jeff Hardy put it next to that that figure was ahead of its time. He's had a lot, so many we didn't even scratch just toys, Bro, We're forgetting so many. I mean it's it's a lot. That's why I said, are we doing giant? Paul? Like? What are we doing now? Is there? He has Jack's class of Superstars figures many What if Mattel can make one, uh flashback Big Show, Paul White, what would you want a recanmobile with a hearst and a casket? Oh, come on, my dad, I want them to make um hm, that's a good question. I want him to make like like almost like a Series nine, like a big show, like in the street clothes. I guess right, but at this point his debut from like Saint Valentine's Day masker, like what is that what he wore? That? It's something similar similar? Right? Yeah, I guess that wouldn't be it. Yeah, he's had a very blessed figure career, like and it's a cool dude, no no left. Remember remember when we worked up the first time? You remember he said to us. I know exactly what he said. He pulled us into a room and it was just come back but edgead Era and it was like we were on a tour and they randomly changed the card like we weren't doing what we were normally doing, and it just said like two on one handicapped match like Hawkins Ride against Big Show. And he pulled us into a room and he's like talking to us, He's just did you guys ever work with a giant before? And he's like, well, let me rephrase that, did you ever work with a giant that can work before? I was just thinking about that whole statement. Clearly he can work. It's great. Clearly that was a shot at Kellie, but he wasn't even there. So like Collie wasn't even on the roster at that point. Definitely he was in the way. So wait, he's there were edgeheads Kylie's Way before us, Kylie Tab six he did, Yeah, it was after us. He was like almost a year before us. Oh, okay, damn. He wins the belt like our first month on the road. Okay, yeah, a year later due Collie Wrestling at our WrestleMania where we ran into the main event. Was even on it. Oh wrestling, Buddy was in the battle year before. He's against Glenn and that's thinker, Oh my god, you're right he was on the roster. Yeah, and then that year I don't know what he does. There's some some weird questions. Tag team match I had in Japan where I'm team with the Big Show and he's wearing a Broskie wig. It has like these giant orange sunglasses that to this day I still have. That's unbelievable, like giant. He's one of a cod I love. I love Paul. All right, that's cool, So that's great pick for incarnation of Domination. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast. I am your host, Brian Myers aka ww Superstar Kurt Hawkins and I am your host Matt Cardona, A Kawwe Superstar Zach Ryder and welcome to and all Q and a addition, the Best Wishes Edition Major Ask Major Pod Pod. We did this during the holidays and um I had a blasting advices say a special all Q and A. We we went to Twitter, our Twitter account at Major d I Pod, as always asked Major Pod. We chose five questions each and we will send you all a Best Wish is eight by ten and the next week, um I guess we should get into it. Ten questions. Take a shot. If you got those best Witches barn Girl shot classes, perfect time, put them to use, should be they should be water or whatever you want. It should be in your hands by now. So yeah, all right, I'll go first. My question comes from Keenan. Is it referee? Keenan? Wow? Mcallis's briz. Nobody's gonna get that. That's fine. TJ's laughing, all right, Keenan, Keena Thompson, Keenan Gobby at Keenan Gobby, can you please explain the difference between Titan Tron R three and Ruthless aggression figures? Hashtag ask Major pot, Well, Dan, how do you want to tackle that? All right? So I realized we use a lot of terminology that sometimes we get the folk might not and we get really uh too caught up in how deep our discussion is sometimes, and that's our fault. The Titan Tron figures these came out in nineteen ninety nine or two thousand ninety nine, very end of ninety nine, very end of ninety Yes, it was a Titan tron Um play set. It came with Vince McMahon and all these figures. They were now more articulated. They were all plastic, no more rubber. Um. This is this is the transition from a bone from bone crunching action. Also um. When referring to all these or looking them up, sometimes you'll see the abbreviation, so youhould probably know that TTL Well here bone crunching action BCA Tighten Tron live, which is what the placet was called. That's how they got that name, is TTL R three. That's an easy one, R three and then ruthless aggression. You'll see sometimes as an R A figure. And these tighten Tron figures had little metal chips on the bottom of the feet and you would put that on the Titan Tron and they would read the chip and the Titan Tron had um not that many pictures on it. But like, for instance, Gangrell, if he went through the tron now during the Titan Tron kind of like the opening of our podcast, yes exactly, that's exactly what it is, and it would read Gangrill, and it would Gangrels picture would light up and it would play like a horrible crabby version of his song. Yes. So Series one, Titan Tron Live and the Double Slam two packs which are also Titan Tron style figures, and the Titans Tron itself all kind of came out the exact same time with the Titan Tron came with an exclusive insct Man, right, and that was the big like it was a super cool, big debut, super cool concept, but the execution is like, okay, now we after series one and two, we only have like ten guys on the Titan Tron, so guys nowhere to go. Yeah. So for instance, like I think Edging Christian would use Gangrel and they would Gangrel's music would light up or his picture would light up. But then like you would just use like Ken Shamrock would just play the generic WWE so and then they made other playsets to go along with it, to update it, but it was never never still the test of time. So what basically came of it is the name Titan Tron stuck. But the concept kind of went away, and I think, yeah, and like they even took out the chip, yes, eventually, Yeah, so those early ones they actually those early ones don't have real scan, which is very obvious because the faces are. Then they had horrendous likeness. Then they added the real scan and kind of got away from the chip, but the style of figure and the name Titan Tron live lived on. Then we got to Our three. Right now, this is kind of weird because Titan Tron was still going on during R three, but Our three had its own set, right R three real scan, real scale, real something else. R three get it, Yes, And in theory, the whole body was gonna be real scan, not just the face, so everyone was gonna have their unique body, which I think Series one and two do have, right, So like Jeff, but then they just got big Show is one of the best figures ever. Jericho was really good, Jeff Hardy. But then yeah, then they started just reusing the bodies, and that's when I stopped liking it personally. Um, so, I mean same, what's the three rs. I'm trying to find it real scale, real skin, real reaction. And these I liked because it had like the articulation was cool and like you said, the ones that were they were made the way they were supposed to be made, are like really nice. Um, But then just the laziness kicked in, you know where they weren't um putting the effort into new guys like they did the original guys and just using the same bodies and stuff. So then the R three run is very very short, right, it's only a couple of years long. I think it's a couple of years. But that big show they would use forever, so that will get to that. Okay. Then, as we've covered many times, the ruthless aggression style figures kick in in the spring of two thousand and three, when those are the ones that kind of stood the test of time. That when what the classic Superstars are made out of and whatnot. The whole like, um, ruthless aggression was the thing, and John Cena, that's how I picture Rule's aggression is that series on John Cena because him Brock, because Brock was real popular. But like John Cena in his promo is opening promo to Kurt Angles is ruthless aggressions. This is big thing any time, and he's in series one. I have a I have an vintage on boxing on our YouTube channel YouTube dot com slash excuse me, take a shot major podum. But then those figures, those body types lasted till the deathbed of Jack's and even the Classic Superstars are using the ruthless aggression bodies And right, did you mean to say FTC guys those as well? They say, though not, but they all know um. And then to wrap this all up, what gets real confusing is that even though ruthless aggression guys were the predominant line that Jackson is producing, they mixed in basically as like a laziness slash cost cut egg slash whatever, Um, Titan, Tron, R three and ruthless guys sometimes all in the same series. So it would be a series will come out and I mean Classic Superstars one as all three correct, bro unbelievable, Yeah, because Tron on the Digger and R three Andre the Giant on a big show body and in a term that we've kind of made up on the show. We call it the mixed error. This went on totally mixed for a way too long. Um, I want to say, into like oh five or six, maybe they finally stopped, like it's it's disgusting. Yeah, no excuse for it. It really is no excuse for it. Um. But that's pretty much. That's that's really it. That's the uh I think we exist of it. It's too I mean, if you didn't live it to know what happened, it's definitely very confusing and bizarre. But that's, uh, that's just the history of it, I think. Yeah, I mean, just just storing your Google machine and you'll and you'll find it. And uh, like I said, it's kind of it's kind of hard because, for instance, you're searching for tighten tron lies, but then Stacy Keibler and Tory come out during the rule discussion era, but they're in tightened Tron live figures. So you gotta be very careful when you're finding your checklist completely completely all over the place, all over the place. Okay, Um, this one is from huss Underscore Berserker. I love the old Jack's box sets, but Mattel's had been kind of disappointing. What do you think could have been or should change to get some winners, more accessories, price points, better character choices hashtag ask major pod Um. If you grew up in the Jack's bone crunching era, those box sets were like, so do apport your collection. But I think we're I think we just had these nostalgic feelings. If you look back, some of them are absolute garbage. And make the selection of who's in him. Okay, I'll make make less than I'm gonna say a set right now and you're gonna say, what the okay, Stone Cold Steve Auston for the first time, we're one of those first versions of him in Austin three sixteen, which is a huge deal. Brett the Hitman Heart okay, a referee and Ahmed Johnson with a ladder like what But at the time it was so cool because what's triple threat? Triple threat? Mark merrow yokna and with a yellow chair? Okay, two yellow chairs? How did that happen? That was But what they did was what Jacks would do sometimes is that would be the only way to get get a figure. So that was the only time to get yokozuna. UM, I do agree. I think a lot of it is sentimental for sure because we grew up with it. But on the flip side, in their defense and whatnot, um, I think where I mean, I think it's obviously an elite figure and Mattel's attempt at four packs a big cost. Okay, these things were Jack's four packs were nineteen ninety nine. There's no way mattel can company that one figures nineteen eighty nine. Um. Also, to give them some credit, the packaging was always pretty special. Yeah. On the Jack's box sets, there was like a very eye catching and colorful and theme to something. Um. The mattel Onans have been kind of bland and and they're like my last point on this and it's the same boat. The Jackson's were also like almost handheld, whereas like the Mattelans have been giant nor so much wasted space waste at space on the shelves and even in your collection, that's a that's a lot of real estate. You're gonna keep that inbox. I mean, like the last mattel One I can remember is that target. I don't even know what you want to call it. Mish mosh like Larry's Abisco. It was w W Nitro guys, that's what they call which I'll give them a pass because it was their way of getting Zibisco out. I think there's so much which no offense the Larry legend, but if he was sitting on the shelves by himself, no, I agree to now forget about well so they. I think we sometimes forget that. Mattel has made some cool ones, like the Undisputed Era three pack. I think we're not considering that a box set. I guess that's okay. That's a big exception of that one rules and it is selling very well. Yeah, but these are all I guess these are new. Do you count milk Romania as a box set? It is a box set? But I think I don't know why. But to me, Jack's one's before and these are three, so there's something about that that's different. I agree, And I think the best Jack's four pack of all time is the one that came to the titles for the first time. Yeah, I mean, I can't there's so many cool ones at its time. Now, like we get titles, we take it for granted. Yeah, you know, literally the only way to get Yeah, it was the only way to get them was in these four packs until later on, like they would they would do it, but not for bone crunchers. Yeah, you got to get these special four packs hardcore four pack a hardcore title, but that you needed that because it's the only way to get hard again. Yeah, yeah, so Appreciate had no hardcore title than he had four Um so what can matell do differently? I don't know. I think I would love to see the four pack come back. Uh, you gotta cut the packaging size down maybe, And I mean and then you know, this is this is way out of our wheelhouse. But like it's it's got to be cost effective. But like I said, you can't. You're not going to compare to the nineteen ninety nine. There are some good Mattael ones, like we just said, but also you know which one I really loved, the one with Bobby Heenan Andre Big John Stuff family. I mean, the four horse the only way to get Big John stuff. I don't know, you weren't actively collecting motels on that four horsemen pack came out at the tail end. That was like the way the city though, no, no, no, at first It was very similar to the way people just went nuts to get this Aust Black set. You know, people just did like the set's going to be on the shelves, and people went nuts to get it right away. It was the same thing with this four Horsemen said, I mean people were going nuts to get I remember it was at a convention for like one hundred and fifty bucks, so people really buying it. But uh, and then eventually it was just there. You know. I feel like that for that's the only way to get Barry within them, right, which I think is cool. That's what I'm saying. If you're gonna make a four pack, and of course they're gonna be repainting there, of course, but give us an exclusive in there and make people want to go get this four pack or three pack or sometimes they make like six packs, right like those Net spotlights school now old school toys arrust ones there, but those are basics. Hyeah, all right, that was a good question. Cool, alright, mine. It's from Keith black Nick at Mediagon. How do you guys feel about the figures that come in the slam crate worth collecting? Don't care about them? Don't like them? Hashtag asked major pot Um. I don't collect them, not saying I don't like them, I just, um don't. I guess know enough about them. I've seen them. They're in rings, right, they're displayed in rings. Um, So what what about these that intrigues me? And why I picked this question is because they're designed by Brian Batty. Are you familiar the old custom guy? Yes? Wow, I didn't know that. I was wondering if you knew that or not cool? And he There's the reason I even know this is because I did a baseball crate that UM had the same thing with baseball guys in the same style and stuff. And then I was connecting all the dots and I actually think kabana m i'd even told me or something. Oh you know what? Yeah, I think so too, Yeah yeah, or maybe he told us both or does he knows Brian Batty? He went to school and we're talking. He's like a Chicago guy or something. There's something about that. But that's why I think they're cool. I don't collect the Can you show me a picture of SOMETHINGE Oh, there's tons. I hope that's not that cool because now I'm gonna go back and get it. Oh my god. There's a on the Wrestling Figs forum, someone remember Brian Batty, and there's a whole thread about people talking about so very talented customizer. He was like a breathtaking customizer and like the attitude infancy of figure forums and stuff, and would post stuff and people would be like, how are you doing this? You know, there's a picture, there's a Sasha, there's a Seth, a Hunter Taker with the mask. So this is like his site with all his art and stuff. That's cool. I mean he's very very talented, there's no doubt about that. Oh wow. But these aren't all figures though, these are just like this is just art. There's the ww guys. Oh wow, that warrior damn wow. I mean he he's he's the real deal. It's very unique. Everything is an enlarged head, but it's Michael Jordan. Now these real figures that are just see I think some of them are just concepts. Yeah, oh yeah wow. I might have to go back and get some of these. Very cool. I wonder if slam Create wants to be a sponsor, send um some, send us some. So there's one figure, there's whatever, one a month, and uh, I mean they're cool. I I've contemplated my cne one eBay maybe, I mean, you'd probably want more of the classic guys. I'm a classic guy because the classic guy, the Stone Call, is really cool. Oh yeah, it's definitely something worth considering. All right, very cool. My next question is from Nicholas to Desco at Disney and Beyond. If Mattel made a major w pod line of figures and there were five figures in a series one set, who would those five figures be, all pertending to our show, all pertaining to much You already know my opinion. So, like you're talking like Tommy Boy from Oh No, if I like, first of all, would never be Mattel figures of this podcast because this this podcast is technically not affiliate with Mattel or WWE. Yeah, we're actually full of schools are working on a toy line. Um by now there might be some news out there on that. But if I could, if I could really pick series one, and I don't even know if we could do this, it would be us in like our podcast Street Clothes, us in Stop in Paradise Gear, and then I would have Horns Boggle Naked with the title Yeah, that would be my five. Okay, I can't talk right. I didn't understand the question A fair was like, but the hornspogle, how do we do it naked? I think if you take the title off, it's all like blurry. I think he just has h tan trunks on trus. Yeah. Um, but we we obviously we wouldn't be able to do all. We'd have to get tattoos and but we'd have to uh buy the rights to the Rakishi Titan trone to get the accurate Kishi but cheeks, and then we could do the flack leg hair. Ugly, this is getting real expect Oh my god, we had you know, we'd have to pay for the rights for those ugly muppet tattoos. Or even it could be a Target exclusive because horsewalls a Target logo tattoo. Maybe there is a build uh build the Tommy Boy from Massachusetts, all his parts come with all the other Uh we can have a maximum sweat bill build build a smart mark, definitely a smart mark. Uh. I would love to make our on toy line, of course, but dream on that very very soon. I thought it was a great question, all right. The WTF figure of the week is figure when you look at it, you go, what golf bleep that mark? This week it's some more good friends at Ringside Collectibles. And I already told him we were doing this, so they're not gonna get all pissy. Yeah, but it is a Ringside Collectible's exclusive. Now also full disclosure. I said on Twitter that we were looking for this, looking for wtfs and if you suggested it, we's a new best it wishes aight by ten. So the guy who suggested this to Chris Marino at Crusader six one, eight eight, you will be getting the Best Wishes eight by ten and his suggestion was the Ringside Collectible exclusive TAZ Classic Superstar. But it's how do you scribe this? Uh? Okay, I don't. I'm trying to You said, you asked John about this and he didn't really give you too much detail. Gave me just like what happened. Okay, So it's tax It's a Taz ecw TAZ in the singlet, he's got a towel. Who was now for the towel that he'd wear on his head, but this package, oh no, has it clipped around his waist. Valvenus. So there was some some kind of really bad mix up with Jack's where they be. Instead of putting the towel next to him in the packages and accessory, wrapped it around his waist and clipped it onto. It looks like he's wearing a black black dress. It looks like Saturn and the dress. So this figure when it came out was oh my god, bad. But when it come out, it didn't come out. Ringside didn't. Ringside sold it loose. Yeah, but they knew it was a mess up, and they unpackaged them and sent them out. But then I guess they kept some and then eventually did I can't think. I think they kept some because like, obviously they're embarrassed by this too, and then like, hey, here's some. Did sneak through the cracks and get released with that? I think they purposely kept like fifty of them or so or whatever, But so Ringside would sell them loose with the towel off it. Sometimes the towel would stain the guys. The major problem no pun intended with all Jack's cloth accessories. I think Mattel as well. I think so too, but I'm also so nuts about it that I won't even take him. I okay, well I don't do that, but I like, if I'm not going to display, if I don't want to figure displayed with this cloth accessory, I take it off and I put it in a zip buck and then and I don't let it even touch a plastic because I don't want it to stain it. But it's a big problem. Like anyway, I was thinking about, like I watched those Viceland docks and stuff, and I was thinking about the free Birds and the von Erst. That freebird set is the number one thing I think of when I think of his Jack's stained product, Like all three of them are just destroyed. When you open those now there there's no turning back. And it's been years and years and years. If you open a min on card freebirds, do you think, oh, it's men on card, It's gonna be great. It's destroyed. You just gotta like accept it. But with this TAZ, they originally, like I said, released it with the towel around his way, but then they fixed it regular packaging towel on the side. Yeah, yeah, they fixed it. So if you were to buy this, if you had a pre order, I guess back in the day, you would get it loose. I'd be pissed. I think the real thing here is and if John doesn't, well, yes, and if John doesn't know, then we'll never know, like what the numbers are, like what was how many? How many had the towel around the waist, how many got opened, how many didn't, how many got replenished and fixed? Right, And it's just it's it's literally clipped on like the Valdesta. It's kind of it's very google ble. Imagine like Trevor or John's face when that shipment showed up. Man, that's gotta be all time, like twenty thousand tads like that? Noah, I think like three or five thousand or that still has to be like what the well, that's why it's the WTF figure of the which is right, I believe after tads got upset about the one night saying mumu that yes, So it's like he's got like he's cursed. Yeah, he cursed. Oh man, all right, So thank you Ringside, thanks for me a good sport. Um. Next up is the Q and A. All right, let's round this out with the Q and A. You ask us a question using hashtag ask me jor pod, We answer, and we send you the infamous best wishes eight by ten. No way again, I want to switch into a new design design, yeah, to keep keep the incentive orange card and I don't want to do that. I want to do like like classic Superstar packaging. Yeah, we'll talk about it off air. Anyway, here we go. My question is from Dave Lee at Dave Lee. Oh my god, are you kidding me? You're ready for this? At Dave Lee eight eight zero one eight seven o four. How many Dave Lees are there that you need to You couldn't come up with something else anyway. I've started buying w W retro after years away from collecting. Some of the figures I bought I don't really want, such as two Stings to Kevinoa's Triple Ah, et cetera. Do you think I should sell or keep to complete the collection? There's a couple of things about this, well, like okay, you gotta but okay, really you really your collections? Your collection? You set the rules. Sure, so you know you need to first decide am I completest or am I not? If you're completest? Yes, he just like random and Triple Asia you didn't want it or something because the variant trilated the one logo. Maybe but I wouldn't count I don't think he's counting that that. Listen, the variant triplation is a mess up. I don't count that. I think that's ridiculous. Uh too, but like there's no like you're the boss of your own collection. So if you're a completest, you're completest. If you're not, then you make up your own rules and you get what you want to get and that's your deal. So if you don't want something, you got to decide that. I think, you know what, don't listen to Hawkins. Um it's two actually figures to stay in the KO just also gonna regret it at this early in the game. Like retro line is gonna be around forever and ever and years and years. I mean, why wouldn't it the best and best linements gated the most popular thing in Mattel history. So uh, only it's right now the retros right now, literally right now, you're thinking about two stings and two cavzones, the only repeat spend the fifteen we're coming on ten sets. You know that's not that's not like a big deal. And I get it. The KO listen, I'd love KO. I wish there wasn't two a ko though, but it had to be done, and that or no figures that are yeah, I mean people get fired and whatever I'll happen. I don't remember idiots and yeah whatever, I don't remember who he replaced, but he had to replace somebody very last minute. So it's not not a Bill Endell. And luckily he's different. He's not the same figure and sing wolfpack sting and even really that doesn't bother me at all because that's like significantly different in my opinion. That's like saying you don't have to get both macho Man's right, you have to Uh, that's your call, buddy. I mean a collections what you make of it. There's no set rules. You're the boss. You make the rules. You know, collector which one I would get them now? Just because they're gonna go up in value and that's supposed to be going on too. Yeah, and now we're like we're making these retro rings stickers and ropes and like, yes, it's a plug for our stuff. But at the same time, it's not like one day these rings are going to disappear, you know what I'm saying, Like they're not going to be available on Amazon Overside or whatever. They just have to right, So I would say buy them up all now, either to like you have them as like gold in your closet, or to make retro rings like we're just yeah, just to be safe, you know. Yeah, that's what I would say. And uh, I mean I don't think it's retros are going anywhere. That the best thing Matell's got going right now. Um, I say get them all collectible, That's what I say. Uh. That's a great question though. When my question comes from Ryan logs don At it's our fl hashtag ask major Pod when coming up with WrestleMania gear, do you take into consideration what it will look like in figure form? Congrats on your success her, I've well, me, I don't know what you're gonna say about this, but I don't think I've ever gotten gear where I wasn't thinking about the toys. But that's every time. But that's me and you because we're psychopaths and toy addicts and think very differently than our colleagues. When I wore my like sting Usa inspider jacket, I thought for sure, like, oh, if Mattel makes this, they'll just like repaint the great American bash Sting jacket, but no Bill won the actual mile. Maybe a brand new nikof jacket and this WrestleMania, I mean this WrestleMania obviously you know we're not gonna talk about it, but something cool habit for us. And but we didn't know that when we got the gear made. Dude, you know, my gear in my mine just because the rest of my name was in our hometown and all my friends and family are coming. Well one my favorite, my favorite, it's my favorite football team, Okay. And I had this idea like one night only, Like I've only worn orange and blue since two thousand and four, oh Man twenty thirteen. I haven't worn any other colors, and I was gonna be one night only thing I'll never do it again, which was still the idea. And I was like, and hey, you know what, my friends and family are gonna be there. They can pick me out of the Andrea a lot easier in this bright green outfit. Right. That was literally what I thought. So that's all I'm saying about that. Um So, mine a couple of things. First of all, I want to thank TTD Wrestling, the guy who designs a lot of our major w pod T shirts. I went to him and got some gear made. You saw what I came up, and he's like, oh, I need him to make my gear. You showed me what he and I just blew my mind. I went, oh, man TTD wrestling kills. I had my idea, but it had no way to like execute it right. And then he did it for me, which I can't. I can't ever thank him enough for that. Well. I knew that we were coming back to New York, New Jersey, whatever you want to call it, and the last time WrestleMania was in New York, New Jersey. We didn't do but I had specially gear made up for that day. It was like statual liberty with a headband. It's a odd but ended up wearing it on the raw the next day. I was a big a man. I don't think I had gear. I don't think I had I had a gear, and I had all those stickers. We're not gonna talk about what we know about that, sorry, but I don't think. I don't think I was disillusioned enough then to like have I was totally disilusioned. This is like going on, I had it? Was it still a thing? Yeah? In twenty thirteen. It was like, ye're was mark or April twenty thirteen? Is that media? Oh so maybe it was the tail end. It it just ended. It just ended in that January. Yeah. Oh I'm dead, like buried alive. You know, I'm over. But this year I knew it would be special to be in New York, New Jersey. Uh So, I wanted to pay tribute to Christian, one of my favorite wrestlers. When I I guess, well, he probably doesn't have a friend, but I think he's a friend. Uh he's he's very Bill mckenas. Yeah, I don't know if he actually likes here. Yeah yeah. Um So I wanted like the Wrestle Many twenty year. I love that figure. I love that gears, that white with that gold. Um so, I got like that kind of design, but I wanted I wanted logos um that kind of told a story. You know, my gear told a story, so like I mean told a story to me. If you're looking at it, probably like what they but um so it had like that Wrestle Many twenty christian esque style. Uh and the waist band and then um on one kneepad. It has like the the Broski logo, but on a skeleton like the Browski's Dead, Like no one else would know that except for like me, if you're really like analyzing it, you know, this question just got so deep inside. Whereas like if you I feel like if you asked like nine out of ten, it's red, because I picked red, like there's nothing too well, I mean, that's what I wanted. On one kneepad it was like a skeleton like with the headband and the crack. It was a cracked glass like the Browski's Dead. And the other kneepad was like the rated OAR Superstar but ZR. And the back was instead of like the still Here, it was the still major um. And I thought like this would be great, like as gear, but I didn't. I didn't think anything would ever come from it. And then I had awesome entrance gear that I got from Maya from clayde Man. She makes the Backsheet Boys stuff, and it just so happened by time I ordered it, it came in time, and then like we ended up getting that match, so I was like, well, I'm wearing all this like it's gonna be a great night. And then we ended up winning, which which is cool. And if we get figured out of this, like wow, um my gear, said c U R T Kirk Kirk Kurtains, j E T S Jets, Jets, Jets, Oh my god, we're gonna end then that Broski just came at me with some sports knowledge. I don't know what to say. I'm speechless. I said, the z R d Z sticker on my jacket. You said that already, but like you know, it was on the inside of the jacket like it wasn't supposed to be shown. And I took one step up the entrance ramp and it busted open. So hopefully I haven't watched the match back, hopefully, but tal makes a little eastarting of that. All right, guys, Thank you guys. Pro us dot com, slash Major WF Pot YouTube dot com, slash Major w F Pot on Twitter and Instagram at Major w F Pot two day Zombie Sailor dot com. Thus Stop and Paradise pins two hundred of each as a set. Pick him up thirty five bucks. We're gonna autograph them all and until next time, what do we got to say? Zickls career really over zig Man one on one, Oh Boy Later Marks well, you know, daddy Jack. The fact of the matter is May thirteenth, is that the next Creative Pro show May thirteenth, and we also have create a FWF Live. I believe it's six or seven, or eight or nine. It doesn't matter because the one constant, the one thing that will always be there is the Jay George Open Challenge and May thirteen, if you already know what it is, I'm taking on Chick Donovan. 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