Least favorite Super Treasure Hunts…including the worst super ever.
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Looking for WWE For Christmas? Good luck. (A rant)
Every year at Christmas time, the big stores like Walmart and Target load up their toy departments in hopes of catching parents in a spending frenzy. Especially with the demise of Toys R Us, The Big W and Target have been the main spots for toy departments. Yes Toys R Us is allegedly coming back,…
We Want Retros
In 2016, Mattel revealed that they were coming out with a “retro” line, which was a unspoken tribute to the Iconic 1990s WWF Hasbro figures. These figures are in the same scale and similar look to the Hasbro figures. Side by side, they are a near perfect match. Mattel has released 10 waves of Retros…
Store Exclusives? Part 2 Target
Target is another store that’s getting into the exclusives, they’ve had a few sub series, the decade cars in 2018 and 2019, and before that there were throwback cars for 2016 and 2017. Starting in 2017, Target and Mattel rolled out the red edition series. The Red Edition Series consists of 12 red and white,…
Store exclusives? Part 1 Walmart
One of my biggest segments of my Hot Wheels collection are the store exclusives. I always make a point to find them as they come out and I’ve been working on backfilling the holes in my set. What are store exclusives? Here’s a breakdown. Toys R Us, Kmart, Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Kroger, and now GameStop…
Hot wheels GameStop day part 1: the case unboxing
With the dissolving of Kmart Day (coming soon), Mattel and the Hot wheels collecting community have been looking for a place to pick up the slack. Kroger picked up the September event, sort of. I’ll be writing about that soon. GameStop picked up the November event and this is part one of the results of…
Links/Credits:
I utilize these sites often to gather information on my collecting. Ringside Collectibles Collect HW Orange Track Diecast Hot Wheels Wiki WrestlingFigs.com Forums Major WF Pod South Texas Diecast T-Hunted! HW Treasure The Lamley Group Hot Wheels TV with Mike Zarnock YouTube Johnny Lightning Collector Auto World Diecast Figure Realm
Common Wrestling Figure Terminology
These are common terms and phrases I often use related to collecting WWF and WWE action figures: Hasbro: The first WWF wrestling line I personally collected. Hasbros ran from 1990-1995 and had a total of ten series. Jakks/Jakks Pacific: The Successor to the Hasbro line, ran from 1996-2009 and had several versions of figures, most…
This is Part 2: Hasbro Memories continued
Christmas shopping 1993 led me to Toys R us and being absolutely floored by what I discovered: THE YELLOW CARDS. Only having the ad to go by, and no internet to use, I had no idea that the cards would be changing colors, as all before had looked the same. I grabbed all that I…
On the Other Hand, These are my Least favorite Hasbros
As a companion to my favorite Hasbro WWF figures list, these are my least favorite Hasbros. As usual, these are in no particular order. Series 3 Macho Man Randy Savage. I’m a big fan of the series 2 Macho King figure, it was a great version of Savage. But this was a cheap cop out…