Kyle I grew up in the seventies started watching wrestling about the mid-70s I've watched wrestling pretty much all my life I just turned 50 years old this past Thursday and my very first Hasbro figures for Jake The Snake and Andre the Giant and now here I am an adult in my fifties and I still love collecting wrestling figures still today it's my passion
I had a Bendy Undertaker I only had because a local grocery store had a bunch for a dollar. No idea why, they didn't usually stock anything toy related beyond Fisher Price baby toys.
Here are my Top 5 Least favourite Wrestling Toy lines 5. WWE Micro Aggression 4. WWF Maximum Sweat 3. WWE/TNA Deluxe Aggression 2. WWE R3 Tech 1. WWF Bend ems
damn I got 4/5 right!!! I always like to guess before pressing play I have NO IDEA WHY, but I guessed Jacks BCA. I know its pretty much THE LINE of the height of wrestling. I just never see BCA's on your channel too much so I thought I was on to something as a hail mary. I guessed the vibrators, bendies, titontrons/R3 (I kinda put those two together in my head). I totally woulda' guessed the remcos if I would have remembered them lol Fun video!
We share a lot of the same opinions of bad wrestling figure lines lol. 5. WWF TTL - I used to love the WWF Bone Crunching Action figures. So imagine my disappointment when the BCAs were ended so TTLs could take over. The entrance music was a neat gimmick but the figures looked bad, especially the head sculpts. However a few years in, Jakks gave us Real Scan on the TTL figures and improved the arms. The Real Scan heads looked so good that they actually got me to collect some of them back when they were coming out, and the Real Scan heads are the reason they weren’t higher on my list of least favorites. 3.- 4. Tie WCW OSFTM (LJN), WCW OSFTM, WCW OSFTM Vibrating figures - I feel like WCW had a lot of bad figure lines back to back, while searching for what worked. The Galoob figures may have required some imagination because the lack of articulation, but featured some of the best wrestling figure sculpts. But after the Galoob figures, I feel WCW figures went downhill. The LJN inspired OSFTM figures were a step back to the no articulation of the LJN and Galoob figures at a time when figures should have been moving forward. The next set of OSFTM figures added articulation, but looked bulky and cheap. Then after that they made the vibrating figures, which again looked bulky and cheap…and vibrated for some reason. But WCW would bounce back with their Toybiz figures. 2. R3 - The scans on these were great, but I hated the figures. I had a few, but the only one that I liked was the Jeff Hardy R3 that I had. The bodies were too small and any figure that shared that Stone Cold/Scott Hall body looked really awkward. 1. Bend Ems - They didn’t really bend that great, I used to have Bendable Easter Bunny toy that worked better as a wrestling figure than these did. The first few sets had a little charm with the cartoony faces, but that was about it.
TTL is when I started collecting wrestling figures.. as an adult. The lights camera action pack with Edge and Christian.. And too cool.. The Rikishi has cottage cheese thighs.. best Rikishi figure to date!!.. I still have TTL Hardcore Holly, Crash, Molly, Lance Storm, Justin Credible, Spike Dudley, Raven, Saturn, Too Cool.. And R3 kicked ass too!!.. loved that whole Era wrestling.... Used to have With Authority Online Card Games at that time too... 👍
I do see why some disliked TTL, especially the early TTL figures with the terrible head scans. I thought you would include the WWE Flex Force series (horrible lineup that didn't need to be made. Probably why I disliked Mattel's early WWE figures) and WWE Backlash series (lazy reuses of leftover TTL live parts).
Being born in January of 1985 I got hit with the final wave of the Real Ghostbusters & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but just didn't get the Thunder Cats & Masters Of The Universe fever. It was just a little before me.
5. Titan Tron Live - the early waves were some of the worst figures ever, but I keep TTL at 5 because they did improve over the years and we got some pretty exciting figures with sublines like Rulers of the Ring. 4. R3 - Yeah, these were really bad and the hype early on didn't help. I thought we were getting every figure with an original scanned body mold. I did like a few of the figures like Benoit, Jericho, and we got a truly giant Big Show, but the rest was garbage. And they even had to ruin the legacy of that Big Show using the body with the two strap singlet for the first CS Andre. 3. Remco - I never liked these although they do have a little charm to them. 2. The Bendies - I just don't get the appeal and when I got back into wrestling and collecting and was hungry for anything new, I felt like these were clogging up the pegs at Kaybee. 1. San Francisco Toymakers WCW - Just the worst looking figures ever IMO. Again I'd be in my Kaybee wanting to leave the store with something and it felt like these figures were everywhere.
5 - tie between WWF Bendems and Jakks Bonecruncher/Slammers. These came out long after my playing days and before my collector interest was reignited with Classic Superstars. 4 - LJN thumb wrestlers - I was an LJN kid, but these sucked! Only one I have today is Piper…only because he’s a favourite of mine. 3 - ToyBiz - WCW (regular and bendables) 2 - REMCO - you and I must be close to the same age Kyle, because these did nothing for me either. For whatever reason it was perfectly ok for MOTU figures to all have the same body, but not my wrestling toys. 1 - OSFTM WCW (late 90s) for all the reasons you describe. Absolutely horrible!
What a scathing breakdown for the Titan Tron Live line. In truth, yes, those first few waves were awful, but they did not in any way, shape, or form taint the entire line. The "likenesses" in those first few waves were the stuff of nightmares. But dude, in my humble opinion, TTL is on my list of top 5 favorites. JAKKS was able to improve upon the line pretty quickly, and it had infinitely more positives than negatives. Once JAKKS rolled out the "Real Scan" tech, the likenesses got way way better, and there started being more of a variety in body types and with better articulation and deco. Those figures eventually became the best money could buy in the pro wrestling fandom. Just as well, this line was on the cutting edge of accessories. Tons of playability came in the form of weapons of every conceivable shape, size, and functionality (a few of which were holdovers from the beloved BCA days), rings (both basic and complex (and later Real Scale)) and with accessory packs including ropes and aprons for every major event of the day, ringside area accessories, whole interactive backstage area sets (like the Trash Talkin' Stage, Hall Of Pain, and TRAX West), some super sweet championship belts (so good they remained relatively unchanged till the day JAKKS lost the license), and of course, the two Titan Trons. I can still remember a time when I looked forward to the "Grapple Gear" sets just as much if not more than the figures themselves. This line was the gateway, the introduction. Without it, there would be no Classic Superstars - a line that carried over and used a great many accessories, items, and body parts from its predecessor all while improving even further upon the action figures themselves.
The only series I have nostalgia for are the WCW toy biz. Bendies were terrible, bone crunchers were lame and the jakks ruthless aggression were all the same crappy bodies.
5. Awa figures 4. Flex force 3. Power slammers 2. Bend ems 1. R3 tech expect the kane one, That kane r3 tech kicked ass but a lot of them sucked honestly. I thought the headscans were awesome but the bodies made it terrible.
My top 5 least favorites are 5.Wcw vibrator figures 4.Late 80's or early 90's Wcw hard plastic figures 3.Thumb wrestlers 2.Ljn's 1.Bendums as a kid playing with toys you want playability the top 4 had no playability. i still played with them but when other figures were made i put the hard plastic and hard rubber figures down and never looked back.
I actually liked the thumb wrestlers. They were the LJN ones with the gaping hole in the...ummm..."lower back". Lol They were weird, but I would always pick them up at the Swap Meet every time I'd see them.
BendEms....HOW DARE YOU!?!?!? You better put some respect on their name!!! Lol I loved BendEms. I was like 9 years old. They carried them at the Kroger where we shopped. I had all DX members, Austin, Rock, etc. You are correct in saying that they had really no bend to them. But I had a good imagination. Lol As for my least favorite lines: 5. ECW OSFTM 4. WCW Grip N Flip 3. WWF Titan Tron Live 2. WWF S.T.O.M.P. 1. WCW vibrators 😂
I agree with this list. Those Remcos were before my time and remind me of third party/off-brand He-Man figures. The Titan Trons had some interesting sculpts and things going for it, but the uniformity and strange choices don't really gel too well. I would say that, maybe, the Rikishi figure still holds up, along with a few others. The Bendies are cool for picking up your favorite characters but not for collecting all of them. I missed the R3, thankfully, as the Titan Tron era eventually turned me away. I only recently got back in to the hobby after picking up some of the Mattel Elites of some of my childhood favorites. Great video as always, man. 😎
I agree about OSFTM WCW, Remco, and TTL. I never collected the Bend-Ems, but I loved that they existed. I loved that they kept going. I mean, the bone-crunching figures, which may not have been the aesthetic peak of wrestling figures but were sturdy and playable, had been discontinued and replaced with those awful Titan Tron Live figures. And yet...here we are in 2000, and what's that over there? Hey, it's a Bend-Em from 1997, and a few new ones! I took comfort in the fact that a line/series that dated back to the later "new generation" era was still going. That said, I agree about the sizing issues. Also, the Sable figure was really hot. // R3 was a nice idea, poorly executed. So ugly. I remember buying the blue singlet RVD...never have I been so disappointed with a figure of my favorite wrestler. But a small few hold up well, like the Kurt Angle figure.
I gotta say the nostalgia/hate is a fascinating thing to see. I know you love LJN, but hate the Bendems? That's kind of what the LJN was supposed to be... but better. You love Hasbro, but don't like the WCW because of the cheap looking plastic and weird poses... I get it, I'm in kind of the same boat there. but it's still fun to watch. Everything you say you hated about some lines... is the same thing others complain about the others. Myself, The Remco were my very first wrestling figures. I found a Ring that came with at least 4, maybe more figures... I had no idea who the AWA charcters were... except MAYBE the Road Warriors were just coming to WWF, but Fabulous Freebirds were nothing to me, Can't remember if there were two more included or a referee, but that's the only Ring I ever actually owned. I ended up using the ring a lot for my He-man figures so it wasn't a total loss Ironic that mattel recently released an actual Grayskull themed wrestling ring :D
LJNs were my first figures I spent a million hours with. Bendems came out later and seem like a gas station toy to me with everyone in the same position, small and a weird mix of sizes. These lists are my opinion on what I like. Mix of MY nostalgia, favorite characters or favorite lines. That is why I always say it is my list. As nobody’s list is right or wrong
I'm surprised the Maxim Sweat figures weren't on the list. They were nightmare fuel. I did like Undertaker and Kane on that line though. As far as the Titantron figures the earlier waves weren't that great but they got better later on.
My Top 5 - Mattel Elite Jakks Deluxe Aggression Jakks Finishing Moves Jakks RA Style Titan Tron Bottom 5 - Micro Aggression Bend Ems Maximum Sweat LJNs Flex Ems
5) Jakks Finishing Moves/Match Enders/Final Count. Trash. 4) Mattel Retros. I feel about these the way you feel about the OSFTM figures you have at number 4. These aren't like the Hasbros to me, these are lame Playskool looking toddler toys. 3) Jakks Slammers series. BCAs were perfect, they didn't need actions. 2) Any and all Bendies. I hate them. They suck, they smell bad, you can't do anything with them. Awful. 1) Titan Tron Live. Like you with the end of Hasbros and beginning of those awful Bendies. I was, and am still, a die hard Bone Crunching Action guy. Because of the playability and the great times I had with those, seeing TTLs come in and wipe them out was a massive bummer for me. Eventually I got some but that was really the end of my playing days.
Y'know it's funny cause TTL & R3 are number 2 & 3 on my favorite lines list. With Ruthless Aggression taking the top spot. Deluxe Aggression & Mattel basics round out the top 5
The head sculpts on those early TTL figures were atrocious. WWE was so hot back then, it almost didn't matter what the toys looked like! That said, ill always credit Jakks for giving tons of accessories that still hold up
I never liked those titan trons either, however 1 figure from that line I wish I owned was Gangrel, mostly because its the only decent Gangrel ever made to this day but then again they didnt make many of him in the first place.
R3 RvD is better than Mattels!!.. and the Stone Cold with long sleeve shirt is still one of my favorite figures. The R3 hardy boys was cool too. I have all the NWO R3 still on Cards.. You misspoke with TTL and R3... Those were the best days of wrestling figs. Ruthless Agression and Deluxe Agression sucked balls.. every figure was the same, bulky and lacking joints.
@@KylePeterson1980 every 80s wrestling toys sucked.. either generic he-man type figures, or solid chunks of rubber!.. early 90s those mini figures everyone goes crazy for sucked!!.. Jakks bone crunching action was so so.. Toybiz WCW was the first decent actual action figure like figures.. And then Jakks replaced BCA with TTL that was the best figures at the time or of all time at that time!!.. And R3 only sucked because they reused bodies.. instead of scanning every wrestler. But there hasn't been a better RVD or Benoit since R3!!.. and the street clothes figures are great too.. Ruthless Agression was a down grade from R3.. and those bulk bodies remind me of those crappy 90s GI Joe dolls.. over bulky and zero possibility!.. I had a giant collection and sold them all. The TTLs weren't great, but again they were like the first real action figures. And Rikishi still had sculpted cottage cheese thighs!!.. plus the playsets and accessories were great too.. I have the titan tron stage on my display shelf now.. with Eddie, and the other Radicals entering.. 👍
@@KylePeterson1980 You can't deny there's some TTLs that still hold up. Grand Master Sexay and Scotty 2 hotty!!.. Raven with the Punisher shirt.. and the best tatted TTL fig belongs to Perry Saturn. And the Molly Holly can hold her own against most other Diva figures from other toylines.. I got smackdown draft figures carded with TTL/R3 mix.. that was a bit wierd.. that they mixed them.. but there was a lot of decent stuff in those lines, and they had the first real scans.. prior to the real scans, they did kinda suck.. lol.. 👍
5. Hasbro and every Hasbro-inspired line (retros, heels & faces, etc). Way overrated. Nice as a statue on a shelf but most lack articulation and playability. 4. LJN. Too bulky and heavy. No articulation which makes playability extremely difficult. 3. WCW OSFTM. Looked like cheap dollar store figures. 2. Everything Jakks other BCAs. Too much inconsistency and much more bad than good. 1. FTC. They used the same molds as Jakks and have done nothing to improve upon them. So much potential to do legends and indie stars that wouldn’t normally get figs and they always look horrible.
Ahh .. FTC is cool for me haha .. because I don't buy mattel and want to comtinue the "jakks" style . Same could be said about the hasbros and inspired lines .. not for me ..but I get why some people like them .. same as the jakks RA It is not really about the limited articulation and what you mentioned .. It is more about the feelings , nostalgia ,etc of collecting them .. imo
@@francozegarrasun6271 I grew up with LJN and a little bit into Hasbro and have zero nostalgia for em. Hated em when they came out for the reasons mentioned. You couldn’t play with em.
I always hated the Galoob as a kid, most likely because they were competing against Hasbro lines, which are my favorite. Worst for me those are those wcw vibrating figures…WCW had the worst figures for a long time.
Thought the TNA line would be on here. Random scale, random articulation, random quality (some likeness great, others not so much). Some had action features, some didn’t. Owned a bunch, be recognize they were a hot mess.
These are all very worthy of the distinction of worst wrestling figure line. I have to put FTC in my own personal bottom 5, though. Such a disappointment.
Give credit to the ToyBiz WCW figures for making the first modern looking figures. They made WWF up their figure game.
Surprised the Toy Biz WCW figures didn’t make a spot on this list.
Yo, I gotta say, that Original San Francisco Toymakers NWO Randy Savage figure is pretty funky and cool...🤘🏼💯✔️ And I love the Bendies...❤
My top 5 Worst Wrestling Fig Lines
5. WWF TitanTronLive
4. WCW OSFTM (97-99)
3. WCW Galoob
2. WWF Bendies
1. WCW Vibration figs
Kyle I grew up in the seventies started watching wrestling about the mid-70s I've watched wrestling pretty much all my life I just turned 50 years old this past Thursday and my very first Hasbro figures for Jake The Snake and Andre the Giant and now here I am an adult in my fifties and I still love collecting wrestling figures still today it's my passion
I had a Bendy Undertaker I only had because a local grocery store had a bunch for a dollar. No idea why, they didn't usually stock anything toy related beyond Fisher Price baby toys.
Hey u gotta admit those R3 headscans hold up to this day though hahahah
Agreed.
MDT and kyle need a collab video
Started watching because of MDT and now I'm hooked!
Please do a top 5 Worst wrestling figures of all time video!
Here are my Top 5 Least favourite Wrestling Toy lines
5. WWE Micro Aggression
4. WWF Maximum Sweat
3. WWE/TNA Deluxe Aggression
2. WWE R3 Tech
1. WWF Bend ems
damn I got 4/5 right!!! I always like to guess before pressing play
I have NO IDEA WHY, but I guessed Jacks BCA. I know its pretty much THE LINE of the height of wrestling. I just never see BCA's on your channel too much so I thought I was on to something as a hail mary. I guessed the vibrators, bendies, titontrons/R3 (I kinda put those two together in my head). I totally woulda' guessed the remcos if I would have remembered them lol
Fun video!
5. Flex Force
4. S.F.T. 97 era figures
3. Maximum Sweat
2.R3 Tech
1. Wwf Bend em's
I remember skipping high school to go to times square toys r us and Hogan signed two of those r3 toys. I have two signed in my attic . 😅
We share a lot of the same opinions of bad wrestling figure lines lol.
5. WWF TTL - I used to love the WWF Bone Crunching Action figures. So imagine my disappointment when the BCAs were ended so TTLs could take over. The entrance music was a neat gimmick but the figures looked bad, especially the head sculpts. However a few years in, Jakks gave us Real Scan on the TTL figures and improved the arms. The Real Scan heads looked so good that they actually got me to collect some of them back when they were coming out, and the Real Scan heads are the reason they weren’t higher on my list of least favorites.
3.- 4. Tie WCW OSFTM (LJN), WCW OSFTM, WCW OSFTM Vibrating figures - I feel like WCW had a lot of bad figure lines back to back, while searching for what worked. The Galoob figures may have required some imagination because the lack of articulation, but featured some of the best wrestling figure sculpts. But after the Galoob figures, I feel WCW figures went downhill. The LJN inspired OSFTM figures were a step back to the no articulation of the LJN and Galoob figures at a time when figures should have been moving forward. The next set of OSFTM figures added articulation, but looked bulky and cheap. Then after that they made the vibrating figures, which again looked bulky and cheap…and vibrated for some reason. But WCW would bounce back with their Toybiz figures.
2. R3 - The scans on these were great, but I hated the figures. I had a few, but the only one that I liked was the Jeff Hardy R3 that I had. The bodies were too small and any figure that shared that Stone Cold/Scott Hall body looked really awkward.
1. Bend Ems - They didn’t really bend that great, I used to have Bendable Easter Bunny toy that worked better as a wrestling figure than these did. The first few sets had a little charm with the cartoony faces, but that was about it.
TTL is when I started collecting wrestling figures.. as an adult. The lights camera action pack with Edge and Christian.. And too cool.. The Rikishi has cottage cheese thighs.. best Rikishi figure to date!!.. I still have TTL Hardcore Holly, Crash, Molly, Lance Storm, Justin Credible, Spike Dudley, Raven, Saturn, Too Cool.. And R3 kicked ass too!!.. loved that whole Era wrestling.... Used to have With Authority Online Card Games at that time too... 👍
I had that Jeff Jarrett dressed as a Power Ranger Bendy 🤣
I actually don’t mind a lot of the TTL but the over abundance of street clothes figures was weird
Five minutes before watching this video I was like I haven't seen Kyle show or talk about the Remco AWA figures. Well now I know lol!
Great video.what about maximum sweat,and bone crunchers so poor.
Really surprised flex force and maximum sweat didn’t make the list
I do see why some disliked TTL, especially the early TTL figures with the terrible head scans.
I thought you would include the WWE Flex Force series (horrible lineup that didn't need to be made. Probably why I disliked Mattel's early WWE figures) and WWE Backlash series (lazy reuses of leftover TTL live parts).
Being born in January of 1985 I got hit with the final wave of the Real Ghostbusters & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but just didn't get the Thunder Cats & Masters Of The Universe fever. It was just a little before me.
I always thought ttl were superior for playing because you could do under leg moves
5. Titan Tron Live - the early waves were some of the worst figures ever, but I keep TTL at 5 because they did improve over the years and we got some pretty exciting figures with sublines like Rulers of the Ring.
4. R3 - Yeah, these were really bad and the hype early on didn't help. I thought we were getting every figure with an original scanned body mold. I did like a few of the figures like Benoit, Jericho, and we got a truly giant Big Show, but the rest was garbage. And they even had to ruin the legacy of that Big Show using the body with the two strap singlet for the first CS Andre.
3. Remco - I never liked these although they do have a little charm to them.
2. The Bendies - I just don't get the appeal and when I got back into wrestling and collecting and was hungry for anything new, I felt like these were clogging up the pegs at Kaybee.
1. San Francisco Toymakers WCW - Just the worst looking figures ever IMO. Again I'd be in my Kaybee wanting to leave the store with something and it felt like these figures were everywhere.
5 - tie between WWF Bendems and Jakks Bonecruncher/Slammers. These came out long after my playing days and before my collector interest was reignited with Classic Superstars.
4 - LJN thumb wrestlers - I was an LJN kid, but these sucked! Only one I have today is Piper…only because he’s a favourite of mine.
3 - ToyBiz - WCW (regular and bendables)
2 - REMCO - you and I must be close to the same age Kyle, because these did nothing for me either. For whatever reason it was perfectly ok for MOTU figures to all have the same body, but not my wrestling toys.
1 - OSFTM WCW (late 90s) for all the reasons you describe. Absolutely horrible!
What a scathing breakdown for the Titan Tron Live line. In truth, yes, those first few waves were awful, but they did not in any way, shape, or form taint the entire line. The "likenesses" in those first few waves were the stuff of nightmares.
But dude, in my humble opinion, TTL is on my list of top 5 favorites. JAKKS was able to improve upon the line pretty quickly, and it had infinitely more positives than negatives. Once JAKKS rolled out the "Real Scan" tech, the likenesses got way way better, and there started being more of a variety in body types and with better articulation and deco. Those figures eventually became the best money could buy in the pro wrestling fandom. Just as well, this line was on the cutting edge of accessories. Tons of playability came in the form of weapons of every conceivable shape, size, and functionality (a few of which were holdovers from the beloved BCA days), rings (both basic and complex (and later Real Scale)) and with accessory packs including ropes and aprons for every major event of the day, ringside area accessories, whole interactive backstage area sets (like the Trash Talkin' Stage, Hall Of Pain, and TRAX West), some super sweet championship belts (so good they remained relatively unchanged till the day JAKKS lost the license), and of course, the two Titan Trons. I can still remember a time when I looked forward to the "Grapple Gear" sets just as much if not more than the figures themselves. This line was the gateway, the introduction. Without it, there would be no Classic Superstars - a line that carried over and used a great many accessories, items, and body parts from its predecessor all while improving even further upon the action figures themselves.
I’m glad you like them and I get it but they are why I almost gave up figures. Not for me at all.
WCW grip n flip
Wwf maximum sweat
Nuff said
The only series I have nostalgia for are the WCW toy biz. Bendies were terrible, bone crunchers were lame and the jakks ruthless aggression were all the same crappy bodies.
Top five Kyles shirts👍
Impossible! 😂
5. WWF Bendies
4. WCW Galloob
3. WCW OSFTM
2. TNA Jakks
1. WWF Titan Tron Live
Jakks TNA Or marvel Tna?
Jakks TNA
I’d put bendies at #1 but I don’t think I’d disagree with the the 5 choices. Great list.
Love the shirt!
Before i watch, im guessing AEW Unrivaled is on here!
😂😂 they got issues but not like 1-5.
hey don't cross the line
The forbidden door 🔥
5. Awa figures 4. Flex force 3. Power slammers 2. Bend ems 1. R3 tech expect the kane one, That kane r3 tech kicked ass but a lot of them sucked honestly. I thought the headscans were awesome but the bodies made it terrible.
Wow same lists except for I have the maximum sweat at no. 3 not the titantrons (they'd be 6).
I was lucky like u ljn and Hasbro where my favorite
That Draft Undertaker looks like GG Allin.
I can only imagine what accessories we could get with GG 😂
I need rick martel,paul ellering,and a ring in better shape to complete the remco line........
My top 5 least favorites are 5.Wcw vibrator figures 4.Late 80's or early 90's Wcw hard plastic figures 3.Thumb wrestlers 2.Ljn's 1.Bendums as a kid playing with toys you want playability the top 4 had no playability. i still played with them but when other figures were made i put the hard plastic and hard rubber figures down and never looked back.
I actually liked the thumb wrestlers. They were the LJN ones with the gaping hole in the...ummm..."lower back". Lol They were weird, but I would always pick them up at the Swap Meet every time I'd see them.
BendEms....HOW DARE YOU!?!?!? You better put some respect on their name!!! Lol
I loved BendEms. I was like 9 years old. They carried them at the Kroger where we shopped. I had all DX members, Austin, Rock, etc. You are correct in saying that they had really no bend to them. But I had a good imagination. Lol
As for my least favorite lines:
5. ECW OSFTM
4. WCW Grip N Flip
3. WWF Titan Tron Live
2. WWF S.T.O.M.P.
1. WCW vibrators 😂
i hated the the r3 tech ones they looked so wired
11:00 That Chris Jericho head sculpt is horrible! Pull it off and put even a Jericho head from 2002 on and it would look much better.
You should have your Sentinals invade Titan tower and make Vince pay for getting rid of my Iiconics and my boy Johnny drip drip
👍👍
Good video. Man I remember having The Rock, Undertaker & Big show R3 Tech figures. Nostalgia bro! Much respect.
I agree with this list.
Those Remcos were before my time and remind me of third party/off-brand He-Man figures.
The Titan Trons had some interesting sculpts and things going for it, but the uniformity and strange choices don't really gel too well. I would say that, maybe, the Rikishi figure still holds up, along with a few others.
The Bendies are cool for picking up your favorite characters but not for collecting all of them.
I missed the R3, thankfully, as the Titan Tron era eventually turned me away. I only recently got back in to the hobby after picking up some of the Mattel Elites of some of my childhood favorites.
Great video as always, man. 😎
I agree about OSFTM WCW, Remco, and TTL. I never collected the Bend-Ems, but I loved that they existed. I loved that they kept going. I mean, the bone-crunching figures, which may not have been the aesthetic peak of wrestling figures but were sturdy and playable, had been discontinued and replaced with those awful Titan Tron Live figures. And yet...here we are in 2000, and what's that over there? Hey, it's a Bend-Em from 1997, and a few new ones! I took comfort in the fact that a line/series that dated back to the later "new generation" era was still going. That said, I agree about the sizing issues. Also, the Sable figure was really hot. // R3 was a nice idea, poorly executed. So ugly. I remember buying the blue singlet RVD...never have I been so disappointed with a figure of my favorite wrestler. But a small few hold up well, like the Kurt Angle figure.
I gotta say the nostalgia/hate is a fascinating thing to see. I know you love LJN, but hate the Bendems? That's kind of what the LJN was supposed to be... but better. You love Hasbro, but don't like the WCW because of the cheap looking plastic and weird poses... I get it, I'm in kind of the same boat there. but it's still fun to watch. Everything you say you hated about some lines... is the same thing others complain about the others.
Myself, The Remco were my very first wrestling figures. I found a Ring that came with at least 4, maybe more figures... I had no idea who the AWA charcters were... except MAYBE the Road Warriors were just coming to WWF, but Fabulous Freebirds were nothing to me, Can't remember if there were two more included or a referee, but that's the only Ring I ever actually owned. I ended up using the ring a lot for my He-man figures so it wasn't a total loss
Ironic that mattel recently released an actual Grayskull themed wrestling ring :D
LJNs were my first figures I spent a million hours with. Bendems came out later and seem like a gas station toy to me with everyone in the same position, small and a weird mix of sizes. These lists are my opinion on what I like. Mix of MY nostalgia, favorite characters or favorite lines. That is why I always say it is my list. As nobody’s list is right or wrong
Worst -
Every wrestling toyline prior to 1998/99..
Best-
Mattel elites
Jazzwares AEW
JAKKS R3 Tech
Marvel TNA
JAKKS TTL... 👍
(Honorable mention Toybiz WCW)
Great list and I agree. I very much wish I was collecting when the classic superstars were around. Huge regret.
I'm surprised the Maxim Sweat figures weren't on the list. They were nightmare fuel. I did like Undertaker and Kane on that line though. As far as the Titantron figures the earlier waves weren't that great but they got better later on.
I like R3 figures, especially Test. That one fits well with Mattel figures. The Jeff Hardy was nice too.
I'd argue the those osftm wcw figures had a weird charm to them but the osftm ecw line was straight trash.
My Top 5 -
Mattel Elite
Jakks Deluxe Aggression
Jakks Finishing Moves
Jakks RA Style
Titan Tron
Bottom 5 -
Micro Aggression
Bend Ems
Maximum Sweat
LJNs
Flex Ems
I HATE those R3 figs man, super hot 🗑
I love my ljns
Interesting choices!
A top 10 worst wrestling figures or top 10 worst of a particular wrestling figure line would be great to see Kyle!
I wasn't a fan of the bendems either
How dare you Kyle! Actually these are hot garbage, but in my opinion they are so hot garbage that they become FIERY good.
5) Jakks Finishing Moves/Match Enders/Final Count. Trash.
4) Mattel Retros. I feel about these the way you feel about the OSFTM figures you have at number 4. These aren't like the Hasbros to me, these are lame Playskool looking toddler toys.
3) Jakks Slammers series. BCAs were perfect, they didn't need actions.
2) Any and all Bendies. I hate them. They suck, they smell bad, you can't do anything with them. Awful.
1) Titan Tron Live. Like you with the end of Hasbros and beginning of those awful Bendies. I was, and am still, a die hard Bone Crunching Action guy. Because of the playability and the great times I had with those, seeing TTLs come in and wipe them out was a massive bummer for me. Eventually I got some but that was really the end of my playing days.
Finishing moves would definitely be in the top 10 for me good call on that one
Y'know it's funny cause TTL & R3 are number 2 & 3 on my favorite lines list. With Ruthless Aggression taking the top spot. Deluxe Aggression & Mattel basics round out the top 5
Basics ahead of Elites?
If you got it in a will hahaha man you definitely aren't looking forward to owning that line haha
The head sculpts on those early TTL figures were atrocious. WWE was so hot back then, it almost didn't matter what the toys looked like! That said, ill always credit Jakks for giving tons of accessories that still hold up
I never liked those titan trons either, however 1 figure from that line I wish I owned was Gangrel, mostly because its the only decent Gangrel ever made to this day but then again they didnt make many of him in the first place.
Those wcw figures are the WORST! A wrestling figure needs to either look good or are good to wrestle with. Those wcw ones were neither.
R3 RvD is better than Mattels!!.. and the Stone Cold with long sleeve shirt is still one of my favorite figures. The R3 hardy boys was cool too. I have all the NWO R3 still on Cards.. You misspoke with TTL and R3... Those were the best days of wrestling figs. Ruthless Agression and Deluxe Agression sucked balls.. every figure was the same, bulky and lacking joints.
You lost your mind
@@KylePeterson1980 every 80s wrestling toys sucked.. either generic he-man type figures, or solid chunks of rubber!.. early 90s those mini figures everyone goes crazy for sucked!!.. Jakks bone crunching action was so so.. Toybiz WCW was the first decent actual action figure like figures..
And then Jakks replaced BCA with TTL that was the best figures at the time or of all time at that time!!.. And R3 only sucked because they reused bodies.. instead of scanning every wrestler. But there hasn't been a better RVD or Benoit since R3!!.. and the street clothes figures are great too..
Ruthless Agression was a down grade from R3.. and those bulk bodies remind me of those crappy 90s GI Joe dolls.. over bulky and zero possibility!.. I had a giant collection and sold them all.
The TTLs weren't great, but again they were like the first real action figures. And Rikishi still had sculpted cottage cheese thighs!!.. plus the playsets and accessories were great too.. I have the titan tron stage on my display shelf now.. with Eddie, and the other Radicals entering.. 👍
@@pimpdaddysatan i would not agree at all but to each there own
@@KylePeterson1980 You can't deny there's some TTLs that still hold up. Grand Master Sexay and Scotty 2 hotty!!.. Raven with the Punisher shirt.. and the best tatted TTL fig belongs to Perry Saturn. And the Molly Holly can hold her own against most other Diva figures from other toylines.. I got smackdown draft figures carded with TTL/R3 mix.. that was a bit wierd.. that they mixed them.. but there was a lot of decent stuff in those lines, and they had the first real scans.. prior to the real scans, they did kinda suck.. lol.. 👍
@@pimpdaddysatan raven was the only ttl I’ve ever liked
We need a new Gangrel figure
Coming in 2022
5. Hasbro and every Hasbro-inspired line (retros, heels & faces, etc). Way overrated. Nice as a statue on a shelf but most lack articulation and playability.
4. LJN. Too bulky and heavy. No articulation which makes playability extremely difficult.
3. WCW OSFTM. Looked like cheap dollar store figures.
2. Everything Jakks other BCAs. Too much inconsistency and much more bad than good.
1. FTC. They used the same molds as Jakks and have done nothing to improve upon them. So much potential to do legends and indie stars that wouldn’t normally get figs and they always look horrible.
Ahh .. FTC is cool for me haha .. because I don't buy mattel and want to comtinue the "jakks" style . Same could be said about the hasbros and inspired lines .. not for me ..but I get why some people like them .. same as the jakks RA It is not really about the limited articulation and what you mentioned .. It is more about the feelings , nostalgia ,etc of collecting them .. imo
@@francozegarrasun6271 I grew up with LJN and a little bit into Hasbro and have zero nostalgia for em. Hated em when they came out for the reasons mentioned. You couldn’t play with em.
I always hated the Galoob as a kid, most likely because they were competing against Hasbro lines, which are my favorite.
Worst for me those are those wcw vibrating figures…WCW had the worst figures for a long time.
Thought the TNA line would be on here. Random scale, random articulation, random quality (some likeness great, others not so much). Some had action features, some didn’t. Owned a bunch, be recognize they were a hot mess.
Marvel tna is definitely top 10 but the Jakks I liked
These are all very worthy of the distinction of worst wrestling figure line. I have to put FTC in my own personal bottom 5, though. Such a disappointment.