Post by WalterF on Dec 19, 2007 23:57:41 GMT -5
Hello again! Another installment of FTV right here. Hope all of you continue to enjoy it and discuss your opinions on these classic BCA figures w/ me. Today I'm reviewing some pretty rare figs so it should be cool. All pics are from my collection, forgive all blurriness/glare, etc.
White’s Guide Exclusive UNDERTAKER (1999)
Review: This figure is simply awesome and happens to be my number one favorite BCA Undertaker figure. Look at it! It is truly perfect, especially mold-wise. This was the third full BCA mold make for the Taker and is by far one of the coolest and most realistic BCA sculpts ever. The face alone looks very accurate, especially for a BCA where most faces were rather cartoonish. This particular figure is an extremely obscure exclusive to a then (1999) popular toy price guide called White’s Guide. Many other widely released Undertaker’s of the time featured this same mold, but none with as cool of a paint-job or as detailed as this one. The tattoo’s are extremely detailed and multi-colored. The attire features a sleek metallic-blue color and while Taker never wore metallic blue attire, it just looks so damn awesome on this figure that it’s more than okay w/ me. Everything, again, is molded completely accurate to Undertaker’s actual 97/98 attire down to the boots, straps on the attire, gloves and even the arm pads are exact. There are very cool, subtle details such as the brass color on the rings for the straps on the torso. Not only is this my favorite BCA Taker, but I think it beats any of the CS Taker’s as well. The figure is accurate, detailed, visually appealing and everything you could want in a wrestling figure. Without a shadow of a doubt, this is a PERFECT wrestling figure.
Toyfare Exclusive THE ROCK (1999)
Review: This cool little ditty was an exclusive to then and now still very popular Toyfare magazine. If this isn’t the first WWF Toyfare exclusive than it’s a close second … but definitely one of the first. It features the Rock in mostly a re-hash of a figure that had been released in several platforms during the time period w/ one distinct difference which would be the real cloth t-shirt. I really dig the headsculpt and believe it’s the best Rock BCA headsculpt and the pant mold (which debuted in the WWF Off The Mat) 4-pack is painted to look like the athletic pants Rock often wore in 98 and 99. The shirt is very cool and cloth shirts were very few and far between back then, making this a very neat, collectible figure.
WWF BAD BONZ 3-pack
Review: I know a lot of collector’s here that have been collecting since the BCA days remember and have mentioned this pack several times. This set featured three very different Stone Cold figures, but all in cloth shirts. An Austin mark, as most of us were then, this set was very appealing and I flipped when I first saw it. Also, a funny note is that they wrote "BONZ" rather than "BONEZ" which is sort of silly becuase that is like "bons" as in "Bon bons" ice cream treats rather than "bones." Silly JAKKS.
Long jeans Austin: This figure is pretty cool. It features the original BCA Austin headsculpt, which I believe was the best one out of the three they ended up creating. This was one of the first JAKKS figs to have detailed jeans with actual fading effects on it. Before this, all of the jeans were straight-up solid blue. The jeans now looked more cool and realistic. The shirt is cool … not the best, but cool. All around good figure.
Short jeans Austin: Essentially a re-release of the Off The Mat Austin except w/ black jeans and a removable shirt rather than vest. Featured the half skull/half Austin face shirt. Pretty cool figure.
Ring attire Austin: My favorite in the pack simply because I prefer ring attire to street clothes … and also because it features the original BCA Austin headsculpt. Features the popular VENOM shirt at the time and otherwise is basically a good ole’ Austin in black ring attire.
Overall, this pack is pretty cool. The cloth shirts then weren’t as cool as ones they started using in 1999. These ones were very linty and itchy looking. They sort of looked more like wool sweaters, but they were the first and for the time, it ruled. As a big Austin mark, this is a perfect collectors piece.
Thanks again for reading and I look forward to hearing memories and thoughts on these figures.
White’s Guide Exclusive UNDERTAKER (1999)
Review: This figure is simply awesome and happens to be my number one favorite BCA Undertaker figure. Look at it! It is truly perfect, especially mold-wise. This was the third full BCA mold make for the Taker and is by far one of the coolest and most realistic BCA sculpts ever. The face alone looks very accurate, especially for a BCA where most faces were rather cartoonish. This particular figure is an extremely obscure exclusive to a then (1999) popular toy price guide called White’s Guide. Many other widely released Undertaker’s of the time featured this same mold, but none with as cool of a paint-job or as detailed as this one. The tattoo’s are extremely detailed and multi-colored. The attire features a sleek metallic-blue color and while Taker never wore metallic blue attire, it just looks so damn awesome on this figure that it’s more than okay w/ me. Everything, again, is molded completely accurate to Undertaker’s actual 97/98 attire down to the boots, straps on the attire, gloves and even the arm pads are exact. There are very cool, subtle details such as the brass color on the rings for the straps on the torso. Not only is this my favorite BCA Taker, but I think it beats any of the CS Taker’s as well. The figure is accurate, detailed, visually appealing and everything you could want in a wrestling figure. Without a shadow of a doubt, this is a PERFECT wrestling figure.
Toyfare Exclusive THE ROCK (1999)
Review: This cool little ditty was an exclusive to then and now still very popular Toyfare magazine. If this isn’t the first WWF Toyfare exclusive than it’s a close second … but definitely one of the first. It features the Rock in mostly a re-hash of a figure that had been released in several platforms during the time period w/ one distinct difference which would be the real cloth t-shirt. I really dig the headsculpt and believe it’s the best Rock BCA headsculpt and the pant mold (which debuted in the WWF Off The Mat) 4-pack is painted to look like the athletic pants Rock often wore in 98 and 99. The shirt is very cool and cloth shirts were very few and far between back then, making this a very neat, collectible figure.
WWF BAD BONZ 3-pack
Review: I know a lot of collector’s here that have been collecting since the BCA days remember and have mentioned this pack several times. This set featured three very different Stone Cold figures, but all in cloth shirts. An Austin mark, as most of us were then, this set was very appealing and I flipped when I first saw it. Also, a funny note is that they wrote "BONZ" rather than "BONEZ" which is sort of silly becuase that is like "bons" as in "Bon bons" ice cream treats rather than "bones." Silly JAKKS.
Long jeans Austin: This figure is pretty cool. It features the original BCA Austin headsculpt, which I believe was the best one out of the three they ended up creating. This was one of the first JAKKS figs to have detailed jeans with actual fading effects on it. Before this, all of the jeans were straight-up solid blue. The jeans now looked more cool and realistic. The shirt is cool … not the best, but cool. All around good figure.
Short jeans Austin: Essentially a re-release of the Off The Mat Austin except w/ black jeans and a removable shirt rather than vest. Featured the half skull/half Austin face shirt. Pretty cool figure.
Ring attire Austin: My favorite in the pack simply because I prefer ring attire to street clothes … and also because it features the original BCA Austin headsculpt. Features the popular VENOM shirt at the time and otherwise is basically a good ole’ Austin in black ring attire.
Overall, this pack is pretty cool. The cloth shirts then weren’t as cool as ones they started using in 1999. These ones were very linty and itchy looking. They sort of looked more like wool sweaters, but they were the first and for the time, it ruled. As a big Austin mark, this is a perfect collectors piece.
Thanks again for reading and I look forward to hearing memories and thoughts on these figures.
I'm still in the process of rebuilding my collection and I actually just received my spam order earlier today during their BCA sale:
I have so many others on the way, and I might look into re-adding the Austin 3-pack to my collection again soon.
