Man, I’m having a great time coming back to these excellent reviews of yours as I fill out my own collection. Never stop what you love doing for subjects who don’t care for what you love.
the old remco wrestlers. i used to own a bunch of them never had a complete set. i do remember watching those shows on ESPN back in the day after school my self. and also the old uswa as well
Loved the video brother ! The Remco figures look so cool ! Great playable design of the Remcos ! Simple and same bodies ( aside for the few skinnier figures such as Stan Hanson, etc - which are just as great ) but what a great 80's line !
yeaaaa... i wasnt feeling good tonight. felt like shit, kids go back to school tomorrow and im dreading sending my daughter, all these things added up then i seen this vid and it put a smile on my face.... thanks Jason!
I can’t imagine brother. We home school our kids anyways. I’m sorry you’re in this position man.
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Got my LJN's first. Hogan, Sheik, and Piper. After first finding NWA/JCP on television, my grandmother bought me my first 2 Remco sets. Martel vs Baron and The Road Warriors. Well I knew who the Baron and Warriors were because I had just started seeing JCP for a few weeks, but had no clue what the AWA was. Got their figures before I ever seen a single match from them.
Nuts. Road Warriors were also my first wrestling figures. Not sure If it was woolworths or Ames. But I got them right before Andre and Superfly LJN’s were purchased at a WWF house show in my hometown. Thank you for the info on the Remco line. Love the accessory idea for LJN thumb wrestlers someone mentioned. Bravo !
Very cool look at the first Remco set! These weren't on my radar as a kid since I think I came into the world just a tiny bit too late in '81, and missed their run in toy stores, though I THINK I have a memory of them warming the pegs by the time I noticed them, but that might just be a manufactured memory! I do remember later on in my childhood seeing a couple of these either at a friends house or at a flea market and just thinking they were bootleg/knock-off MOTU figures and dismissing them outright. It wasn't until later on when the collector side of me started growing that I learned of their actual relevance in the wrestling figure world. While the body type certainly was pretty functional looking for playing actual matches in the ol' fig feds of countless kids, I think my bias towards MOTU growing up just won't let me see them for as a good as I'm sure they are. Old habits die hard I suppose! Anyways, looking forward to part 2!! I'm catching up on a couple videos a bit late to the party due to life kinda getting a bit crazy as it tends to do, but keep on keepin' on Jason!
Awesome show on the AWA brings me back home . Yes the awa was on weekdays but if they in the Minnesota area then they would put those on Friday nights . I would go to a lot of local events the Road warriors against Larry the ax Henning and curt Henning in St. St. cloud Minnesota awsome grudge match . Got autograph of Mad dog vachon epic .my aunt took a picture of me with bruiser brody in St. Cloud . Growing up we get fliers where they going to be my aunt and my cousins would go all over .Minnesota . Stan Hansen just took the belt from Rick martel. Like always Jason thanks for bringing me back to childhood memories a d remember the people who made a difference in my life and passed on .
Oh Jason when ever this pandemic get over l want to extend the olive branch to you and your family to come to Texas gonna go look up some wrestling history like go to the double cross ranch Terry Funk Stan Hansen the Von Erichs . Frank goudish .
Much, much love for the Remco AWA figures! These figures, along with the LJN WWF figures, are my two all time favorite action figure lines. So many awesome memories of purchasing these from Payless and Woolworths, back in the day. Man, I would play with these things for hours! The Road Warriors were my first AWA figures, but LJN Hogan was my first wrestling figure overall. However, the AWA wrestling ring was the very first wrestling ring that I owned though. I definitely remember purchasing the ring on a Saturday afternoon @ Woolworths. The AWA wrestling show initially aired on Saturdays @ noon on KTSF channel 26 in the San Francisco/ Oakland Bay Area in California, where I'm from. Later, the show aired Saturdays on KOFY TV 20 @ 11:00 am and would be replayed again @ :9:00 pm. Another awesome trip down memory lane.
Love the "revisited" series here. Now that you mention it, an interview with Linda McMahon about the LJN deal would be kind of neat to hear. WWE Network needs to get on that one lol.
I wish I held onto mine. I had the ring too. I was always wrestling them with my cousins and eventually, when I got older and didn't care about toys anymore I gave them to my cousins. Bet they made a mint off that.
Your Wrestling figure collection is insane. I think all the videos ive seen about them (like this one) are a few years old you must have more now. (Although the territory figures are limited in number)
You must have marked out getting the Road Warriors as your first two remco’s! I couldn’t find them, always sold out everywhere! I was a little confused with these figures, got Ric flair and Larry Z first, then Martel and Baron, but wasn’t Flair in the NWA at that time? Thought they were NWA/AWA figures. But man must of been the Mandela effect because I thought the Road Warriors came with shoulder pads🤔 strange🤣
This is an awesome collection. I remember having these figures when I was young and at the time I didn't know much about the AWA so I used them as jobbers in my figure federation lol. But as I got older I learned. Are you watching SummerSlam right now by chance?
I believe there is a WWF house show from 1988 on RU-vid from the Nassau Coliseum with Jim Brunzell vs Curt Hennig. A battle of the AWA Minnesota boys. Brunzell was actually in the tie dye. Are Brunzell and Martel the only figures to have LJN and AWA?
