themetaldude
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Post by themetaldude on Sept 28, 2009 20:03:26 GMT -5
Does anyone know where I can find/track down the bootleg figures that came out mid/late 90's by Mannix ? I esp want the diesel figure.
I found out over the weekend a family friend used to work for a import/export toy company for around 4 years back in the 90's and had dealings with China and Singapore.
I knew he was is a big toy collector Star wars & action man and all other kind of action figures cause the rest of my family always teased about his huge toy collection, I never really had a chance to talk with him until last Saturday, was always just hi and bye, but he was down for the weekend for my sisters engagment do and had a lengthy chat with him about the toy/model industry and his collection (he mostly went on about star wars cause he's mainly into that scene) BUT and a big but we had a really interesting talk about the WWF hasbro line.
I found out he used to have a complete set of hasbros loose and carded. But he sold all of his moc around 2000 on Ebay to raise funds for a speed boat (Who knows some of you guys might of bought some). But he still has a complete set of loose inc all 3 mailaways and a few protos, Guna get him to email me some pics.
Also he was telling me about a company called mannix that inquired some unrealsed sculpts of Hasbro heads that were in the production line for the next series of hasbros before they lost the liesnce. He told me as the heads wer unused the company called "mannix we able to use - the sculpts of the heads but not the bodys (due to copyright) and released a bunch of around 6 figures in the mid to late 90's. But again the company mannix were not aloud to use the name "wwf" on the packaging for legal reasons.
So these head sculpts must be what ws planed for series 12 of hasbros. Does anyone know where I can find any, I've searched the web and ebay. I would love to get my hands on them even to just remover the heads for the body and display the heads next to my loose hasbros. He told me they even put out what would of been Hasbro diesel head on a cheap plastic body !!! I begged him to sell me his one (he hs the whole set) But he said he wants to sit on them as one day all hasbro collectors would need them to complete their collection and would be a investment.
Love to hear ya thoughts
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Rasslin.Bros
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Post by Rasslin.Bros on Sept 29, 2009 1:25:16 GMT -5
I have several complete sets of these in storage, including the Diesel. If interested, shoot me a PM.
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Post by themetaldude on Sept 29, 2009 2:12:11 GMT -5
I have several complete sets of these in storage, including the Diesel. If interested, shoot me a PM.  Really  thats amazing!!! i thought would never be able to track them down, will pm you, can i ask where did you het them from and can you post pics for everyone to see ? ;D |
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Post by whydraft2 on Sept 29, 2009 6:24:23 GMT -5
Do you have the michaels and the adam bomb knock offs ?
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Post by humanitarianaryan on Sept 29, 2009 9:16:24 GMT -5
i just bought razor and diesel off ebay for a buck.
they are on there quite often.
BK
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Post by themetaldude on Sept 29, 2009 10:30:43 GMT -5
i just bought razor and diesel off ebay for a buck. they are on there quite often. BK Really and that cheap I thought they'd be really rare and really expensive... I have searched ebay high and low but couldn't find any... do you have any pics |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2009 10:54:34 GMT -5
Couldn't find pics of Diesel, best I could do was Shawn Michaels.  ***Edit*** Is this the Diesel?  |
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Post by Lewscher on Sept 29, 2009 11:47:35 GMT -5
^^ lol i had a nwo hulk versiion
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Post by cdp on Sept 29, 2009 11:58:06 GMT -5
Couldn't find pics of Diesel, best I could do was Shawn Michaels. ***Edit*** Is this the Diesel? Really like Diesel!!! |
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Post by judge on Sept 29, 2009 12:01:40 GMT -5
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Post by themetaldude on Sept 29, 2009 12:14:39 GMT -5
Couldn't find pics of Diesel, best I could do was Shawn Michaels. ***Edit*** Is this the Diesel? Really like Diesel!!! That diesel figure is amazing !!! Well the head sculpt anyway !! So that is what the series 12 orange cards diesel head would of been (on a hasbro body). Dam I have to get me one of those !!! |
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Post by kev85hasbro on Sept 29, 2009 12:24:40 GMT -5
Foxeth made a beautiful Custom Hasbro Diesel. It's cool
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Post by tibbo on Sept 30, 2009 7:21:02 GMT -5
I really don't think that these are un-used hasbro heads. They just like cheap knock-offs. I have the 'Razor' figure, and it is awful! hehe.... ....Of course, if anyone want's to buy it.....it is a GREAT figure, and I would need to charge a lot to get rid of it!!  haha |
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Post by themetaldude on Sept 30, 2009 10:44:27 GMT -5
I really don't think that these are un-used hasbro heads. They just like cheap knock-offs. I have the 'Razor' figure, and it is awful! hehe.... ....Of course, if anyone want's to buy it.....it is a GREAT figure, and I would need to charge a lot to get rid of it!! haha I would disagree. The heads clearly look unmatched with the cheap looking bodys, they are to scale with the hasbro heads and have the same detail as the hasbros, where as the mannix bodys look cheap and thrown together... also from a few different people I have heard that these are unused hasbro heads.... anyone else's thoughts |
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Post by familyguy84 on Sept 30, 2009 11:06:24 GMT -5
Interesting thought. I wouldn't have thought Hasbro wouldnt've made new moulded heads for Lex Luger, Shawn Michaels etc when they new the contract with the WWF was due to expire.
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Post by themetaldude on Sept 30, 2009 11:47:37 GMT -5
Interesting thought. I wouldn't have thought Hasbro wouldnt've made new moulded heads for Lex Luger, Shawn Michaels etc when they new the contract with the WWF was due to expire. Yeah but going by that logic you may as well dismiss their being any plans of a 12th Orange card series if they were well aware about losing the contract with wwf... I mean how far along was production or what plans did hasbro have before they knew a contract was not going to be reached thats the big question. My thoughts on it all is that A company like Hasbro and the fact they were 4 years along with the wwf toy line, they would of had plans way beyond the green cards and prob at least 2 0r 3 waves/series planned. Now prob say series 13 and 14 would of been just at a sketch stage or even a list of names that were part of the active WWF roster at the time of 1994. But I strongly think the next series after green (the famous rumoured) Orange carded series 12, would of been way way past just the artist sketch stage and prototypes/moulds would of been made, I very much doubt a production run had started though because being 15 years ago by now something would of surfaced to the collecting public. The sad thing is that if prototypes were made (and i believe they would of been) Theres a very good chance they would of be destroyed, but a nice thought of mine is that none of us on this board even know about up in a ex hasbro employee's loft what could be lerking and one day some light could be shed and they could be revealed to us ! Back to those mannix figures... Theres no way to actually know for certain without someone that worked with hasbro around that time in the wrestling figure dept to confirm weather or not those head sculpts were of that of a hasbro employee, I'd like to think so... |
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Post by redypiper on Sept 30, 2009 11:50:15 GMT -5
yeah, i bought diesel last year of ebay for $5 shipped. he's the only one i had any interest in.
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Post by tibbo on Sept 30, 2009 12:26:56 GMT -5
I really don't think that these are un-used hasbro heads. They just like cheap knock-offs. I have the 'Razor' figure, and it is awful! hehe.... ....Of course, if anyone want's to buy it.....it is a GREAT figure, and I would need to charge a lot to get rid of it!! haha I would disagree. The heads clearly look unmatched with the cheap looking bodys, they are to scale with the hasbro heads and have the same detail as the hasbros, where as the mannix bodys look cheap and thrown together... also from a few different people I have heard that these are unused hasbro heads.... anyone else's thoughts The heads look un-matched to the bodies because Mannix basically used the same bodies for the majority of their figure lines:  The Adam Bomb style head on the figure on the left is also quite detailed, and Hasbro-esque, but I don't think this is a head from an un-released series either. I think Mannix just made the figures look as close as possible to the real life character without infringing on any copyrights.... How many times have you seen a figure in your local discount/pound store as part of a set which looks just like Hogan but isn't actually an official figure? I think that is what happened here, then when Hasbro lost the contract for WWF figures, the legend of the Diesel head began |
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Post by Ruby Fusion on Sept 30, 2009 12:29:30 GMT -5
Only the bootleg Diesel head could qualify as "unused Hasbro-head"...
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Post by Guest on Sept 30, 2009 12:45:55 GMT -5
Only the bootleg Diesel head could qualify as "unused Hasbro-head"... I agree - the Shamwn head for instance is a very poor effort compared to the released hasbro's, the same for the "Adam Bomb" - it's a nice idea but i just can't see it to be honest |
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