Just Toys Bendems Collecting

[Squared²]

While cleaning out my basement I found several loose bendems, HHH, Mcmahon, Austin etc. I also found a few MOC ones. Two were destroyed by water damage so I figured I'd take them out and throw the cards away. And holding these mint Bendems really made me realize how cool they were and I think I wanna start collecting.
Any Tips?
What's rare? Whats Common?
Where to look for them?
Also I'd love to hear stories or experiences from back in the day.
And this is my little collection for now.

[Nivro™]

I have and still have the first few series of them. They matched up well with like Hasbro & galoobs but they really werent very good for playing. I know I had a couple smaller WWF LJN figures that I would put with them, so Id have Hogan, Diesel and Razor as the nWo haha

[figurecollector]

They are all over Ebay, but you have to watch the prices as some of them are vastly overpriced. Basically they are rarer as the series numbers increase, the first two (unmarked) series the most common and the last two (14 and 15) the hardest to find. There are Canadian versions, different cards for some series and mini versions of some series. Best to buy them in lots as they tend to be less expensive that way.

[ozz]

I loved collecting these back in the day. They were everywhere, easily obtainable, cheap, and looked cool hanging MOC on a wall. Value-wise they weren't/aren't much except the late series, but as fun little cartoony figures I always thought they were cool as could be.

[aaron34]

I really wanted to start collecting these also, I found them to be quite expensive on ebay so I decided not to, hopefully you can find some bulk lots at a good price!

[robbutler01]

I have a bulk lot of 6 on ebay at the moment if your in the uk?
Bret, 123 kid, ahmed, paul bearer, mabel and godfather on card. Funny I thought they'd seel easily as the uk isn't as easy to find them as the US.

[justwright316]

I have just about all the figures in the series loose besides the last 2 series and most of them MOC, I'll post some pics when I get a chance. these were actually the first figures I started collecting with the Shawn Michaels figure. I belive the bendems ring with the Paul Bearer figure MIB is probably a more rare set. They also made like 7 figure set I believe, I bought it when it originally came out but wish I kept it in the box.

[figurecollector]

There were 2 pack sets called Famous Fights (there were 3 sets), then there was a 4 pack called Championship, a 4 pack called Rumble and the 7 piece set was called Powerhouse. Rings came with Paul Bearer alone, which were probably the most common, but there were also rings with Bearer and various 2 additional and 4 additional figures. You could see the figures on the box on most, but there was one ring that came with a sticker stating the 5 figures in the box. There are also 2 Stretch-ems and the rarest things I have found, 2 and 4 figure Electronic Body Slam sets.

[jason1980s]

When they first came out, they were advertised in WWF catalog for $9.99 which was a crazy price, especially considering KB would soon have them for $2.99.
They started off with one or two sets a year but by 1997 they were into a bunch of different items like Jakks. They had the plastic minis, the rubber minis all with either rings or accessories. Prior to that were the feud two packs and the gift packs.
By late 90s, early 2000s I stopped keeping track. I think at some point toys were being rereleased on black cards (as opposed to the blue backgrounds the original years had) or even bagged versions with cardboard WWF logo stapled on the bags.
As mentioned the latter series with Too Cool, Rikishi and Tazz is rare as are the Luger and Bret stretch 'ems. I wound up selling two Brets and a Luger on card for around $140-150 for all three in one lot on ebay. I don't know if they were particularly rare or if kids took them off the cards and they got messed up. I never did see them in stores, only got them through the catalogs, and wound up going through a few loose ones with the brown goop coming out and then finally went with keeping them on the cards.

The big "what if" of the bend 'ems is if they had decided to make plastic versions from the start which would be comparable with Hasbro.

[fallbrawl]

I have most of them loose. I started collecting them moc because they were cheap and i can fit alot of them on my wall. I got cactus jack moc for $3.00 from a flea market. I might have a few double of the loose ones somewhere.

[RWF]

loved the idea, the selection, the colors and the sculpts. Shame they didn't really bend and pose much at all. Made them useless.

[Glorydaysofwrestling]

Loved the bend-ems I have pretty much the complete set MOC sans the last series or 2. I hated when they started making them taller and lanky.