What made you get into collecting

[Grant]

For my third birthday everyone gave me WCW toys, and I haven't stopped collecting after that.

[Damien The Snake]

Always been a collector, started with Star Wars when I was a kid. I've sporadically collected different lines over the years with mostly GI Joe and Masters of the Universe Classics (MOTUC) in recent years.

Being that I collected a lot of other things, I didn't want to get into wrestling figs. But being a MOTUC collector, I would see the pics of the new WWE figs Mattel was producing and really wanted them. I resisted until a few months ago when I stopped at a ROSS store and saw some Legends on sale for $6.99 each. Now I couldn't resist and, well, the rest is history.

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May 28, 2012 22:26:06 GMT -5 @lenzeski247 said:

How did you get started in collecting drizzyboi? I didn't read down to see if you posted or anything but please, feel free to share.

All I have is basic 18 CM Punk and Kelly Kelly(who's coming in the mail next week!!) I used to have a small jakks collection but I forgot who I had.The fig Feds on YouTube and my love for the WWE.But it was mostly the fig Feds they looked like fun and I wanted to do that so I brought some wwe figs.But I never got a chance to do one.

[AdamLofthouseTV]

I once find a really old (1995) Goldberg figure when I was 9, since then it just went up

[Lionheart S.M]

Adrenaline 2 pack with John Cena and Chris Jericho

[hartfoundation]

I began collecting as a young child around 1989 or so. I remember seeing an early Hasbro line and just had to have them. My friend and I had a ton of Hasbros and we would play with them at his house (he had a ring). I only sparingly collected during the early Jakks days since I did not like those figures as much. The Classic Superstars line brought me back into collecting, and after a few hundred Jakks figures or so I was one of the few it seems that plunged into Mattel right away. My collection is probably 300-350 total between Jakks and Mattel and I have slowed down quite a bit over the last yr or two.

[jrjumpshot]

Wrestling and wrestling figures have always been a part of my life. My dad was a huge wrestling fan and my older brother collected the LJN figures. So, when I was born in 1986, wrestling was always on tv and figures were already in my house. I've been collecting figures since day 1 and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

[Dante, The Voc]

I was a wrestling fan as a young kid and my parents bought me a ton of wrestling figures. I set them aside for a while but a few years ago I began to use them again and decided I wanted more.

[gelatinoustapeworm]

Jakks Classic Superstars

[divafan30]

i was was 11 first figure was sting

[someterror]

A friend of mine bought a Rey Mysterio and Jeff Hardy RA figure, so I started looking for some wrestling figures too.

[Jimex]

I remember seeing wrestlers at Wal-Mart and I wanted to buy one, a few months later, after months of begging my parents, my dad picked me up a few, and I would play with them for a while, until I got bored since I only had 3. Whenever my parents had to work they would take me to my grandmas house, and the neighbors son was probably the biggest wrestling fan I have ever met, and he was only 7 or 8, just a year older than I was. He had a huge collection, and one day he gave me a box full of wrestlers and that kind of started it off, after that I saved up all of my money to buy some and would wait for Christmas' and birthdays to come for my parents to get my more and more.

[China Claus]

Hulk Hogan circa '94. I got the SFTM Hogan figure for Christmas and I've been collecting any and every wrestling figure on and off for nearly 20 years.

May 29, 2012 14:07:46 GMT -5 AdamLofthouseTV said:

I once find a really old (1995) Goldberg figure when I was 9, since then it just went up

Golderg wasn't wrestling in 1995

[FBtagteamsrule]

seeing an ad for mattels legends with the lod and stone cold got me hooked. then i gradually got into elites for the wrestlers i remember which turned into all the new characters. and now i am moving into the basic figures that havent been done in elite form.

[dontquestionmyhart]

The whole story line with A-Train, Steph, Vince, etc got me into collecting. A-Train was my first figure. Then came Stephanie, and so on and so forth.

[Deleted]

I had been watching wrestling for two years at the time I got my first figure, it was a Deluxe 7 Mr Kennedy from Jakks, I didn't buy many Jakks as I was never Amazed by their figures, so I just stuck to like one or two figures every few series', now with Mattel, I have collected at least two figures from every Elite series besides 9, which I have none of

[Deleted]

because i love these guys in my empty shelf

[fallbrawl]

I am a lifelong fan/collector of anything wrestling. My passion died out a little when i entered high school. I sold my first collection and got involved with football. As soon as i figured out i was getting nowhere playing football i got back into collecting. It started with the Classic Superstar line.