My top 5 wrestling figures

[Captainamerica]

Based on no scientific research, margin of error +/- 99%, here's my personal top 5 favorite wrestling figures:

#1) NJPW Tiger Mask I figure. I love masked wrestlers. I love Tiger Mask. Although I don't love most japanese wrestling figure's non-articulation, including this one's, I knew I had to have this figure for one reason only: 2 REMOVABLE MASKS!!!! So the day he arrived everybody got to be a 'Tiger Mask': Green Lantern Tiger Mask, AJ Styles Tiger Mask, Legolas Tiger Mask, etc, etc. He's pictured here with BlackAdam Tiger Mask:

Additional bonuses for me were the adjustable stand, big enough to hold 2 figs, and the realization the yellow/red version of the mask was from when the original TM had come out of retirement to tag with Jushin Liger (another NJPW fig I have).

#2) 3.75" NJPW figures: Tiger Mask, Great Muta, Jushin Liger. Holy crap, GI Joe size, styling, and posability meet wrestling? That's a dream come true!!! Muta's been known to spray the mist on Storm Shadow when I'm not looking.


#3) TNA by Toy Biz. Marvel Legends style articulation is one of the reasons I've bought into this toy line. And it seems they're making an effort to get as many characters out as they can, I just saw Christian Cage (w/entrance gear), Sonjay Dutt, and Jay Lethal at KB yesterday. My faves are Samoa Joe, and team Canada members Petey Williams and Robert Roode:

My only criticism of the line is the scale seems a little wacky. Joe towers over Petey (OK), but also Styles and Roode

#4) KO 'the masked wrestler'/ 'magnificent wrestlers' / ? ? ?. The best way for me to describe these goofy guys is MOTU fom the waist up and Mego from the waist down. Funky posability and proportions, accented by unique cloth outfits and good likenesses of real luchadores. Pictured is my favorite, a rudo known as el mano negro (the black hand):

I have about a dozen of these, I believe there's about double that total. I also have an Ultimo Dragon, Octagon, Blue Panther, and I've seen Rey Misterio, Mil Mascaras, and Konnan(only unmasked one). I'm interested in more of these if anybody has any or any info.

#5) Jakks ECW bWo Stevie Richards.
bWo 4 Life!!!!


Honorable mention: Popy 15" Tiger Mask (big crazy japanese toy), Toy Biz WCW Dean Malenko, LJN British Bulldogs, Bundy, Terry Funk, AWA Abdullah & Stan Hansen.


So, what are your top 5 wrestling figures?

[toyboxraider]

Dude, I love the 3 3/4 ones, and the Tiger masks!!

[da18thcustomizer]

toyboxraider said:

Dude, I love the 3 3/4 ones, and the Tiger masks!!

My thoughts exactly :-)

1:18th scale is perfection. I realize that now. As much as i prefer smaller figures 4'' tall is the smallest possible it seems while still maintaining realistic human proportions AND full articulation (which IMO means classic ARAH GI Joe style articulation at the least). Its time i came back to my first action figure love...

[neoviper76]

I only have a top 2......my WWE Classics Ax and Smash singles. By the way Cap.............those NJPW figs are great!!!!!!!!!

[ludevig]

I have been collecting wrestling figures since 1991. In 2001 i sold almost my entire collection as i was moving from Scotland to Texas. I did howerver keep my WCW Galoob collection, apart from repaints and those super elusive prototypes i have the entire collection. They are by far my favourite series of figures ever.

My top 5 wrestling figures would have to be

WCW Galoob Dustin Rhodes
WCW Toybiz Rick Steiner
WWF Hasbro Scott Steiner
Rocky 3 Hulk Hogan as Thunderlips
WCW Toybiz Vampiro

[brcthrift]

The LJN Junkyard Dog is the greatest wrestling toy ever. It is a scientific fact.

[ludevig]

What would be your BOTTOM 5 wrestling figures.

My list would be as follows

WWF Hasbro Ricky Steamboat (apart from his feature there was bugger all else you could do with it)
WWF Hasbro Randy Savage in pre ring attire (See above excuse)
WWF Hasbro Andre the Giant (great figure only he should have been MUCH bigger, he is dwarfed by others in the line-up)
WCW OSFT Rey Mysterio (At 5 foot 5 in real life he should have been smaller but in this line-up he stands side by side with Hogan, Nash, Hall etc in height)
WWF HAsbro Dusty Rhodes (They should have made WAY more of them and not made it so hard to get him!!)

[ludevig]

Here is my top 5 list of other lines of figures that are great for having matches against wrestling figures.

Ghostbusters
New Adventures of He-Man
Ninja Turtles
Demolition Man
Terminator 2

WCW Galoobs and WWF Hasbros have waged war with figures from those lines for years as they are so compatible. My personal fave matches were Skeletor and Karatii vs Steiner Brothers, Casey Jones vs Hulk Hogan, Fright Feature Ray Stantz vs Barry Windham, John Spartan vs Lex Luger and Ric Flair vs the Terminator whose chest reveals he is a terminator underneath.

[chiefchief]

The reason I loved some of the knock off lines of wrestling figures was they were comparable in dimensions to the AWA line, but were shorter and had a different build. That bothered me about some of the lines, they all had the same build, same height. I liked the AWA lines had flabby bodies to mix in there and the knockoffs. My top 5 is, in no particular order: Baron Von Raschke, Legends line (you can't get a better likeness to anyone than on that figure); Masked Devil from the Madison Champions line (for a knockoff, the detail in the mask is amazing and he had a great look with the black and white and yellow); Dr. Wagner, from the Dr. Wagner line-I covered a wrestling event in rural Nebraska last year and he was there, selling these figures he had made of himself. A knockoff of himself he was selling through himself. Nicely articulated, great paint job and sold to me by the man himself. Dr. Fear, Sparkle Champions of the World- I have both variants, one with the lips painted, great detail in a knockoff, enough said; Mickey Martin-IWC Champions, the single most absurd looking figure I've ever seen, it makes me laugh every time I see it, yet it works on some levels.

[speeddemon340]

My favorites have alway been the LJN wrestlers

LJN Hogan (yellow trunks)
LJN JYD
LJN Brutus Beefcake
LJN King Kong Bundy

Now that I have got into Hasbro
Mr. Perfect
Warlord
Undertaker
Mountie

[wraith]

LJN Jake Roberts
remco Fabulous Ones
remco Midnight Rockers
LJN Hercules Hernandez
LJN Greg Valentine (Best pose ever!)