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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 5:49:07 GMT -5
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Post by JP on Oct 27, 2019 5:51:17 GMT -5
Wow man! Awesome find. I can still hear the sound of the pages as I'm turning them.
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Post by Stuart? on Oct 27, 2019 7:15:36 GMT -5
Ah this brings back some serious memories! I remember begging for the World of SmackDown playset year after year but never got it haha!
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Post by mrassbillygunn on Oct 27, 2019 7:55:19 GMT -5
Great find mate! I used to love going into Argos with my mum when I was a kid and getting my toys from the 80s, MOTU, Thundercats, Turtles....ahh memories. Im looking at a catalogue from 87 at the moment, and checking the Bravestar figures out, totally forgot about those.
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Post by Stuart? on Oct 27, 2019 8:54:12 GMT -5
Had no idea the TTL Playset retailed for £40, that's mental! I got an absolute steal on mine for £5 from a car boot sale a few years back haha.
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Post by Lego Customs! on Oct 27, 2019 9:17:12 GMT -5
Can't find the BCA Undertaker and Shawn Michaels figures in the 96/97 edition... We're they in the Littlewoods catalogue? 🤔
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Post by GBGav on Oct 27, 2019 10:12:32 GMT -5
Can't find the BCA Undertaker and Shawn Michaels figures in the 96/97 edition... We're they in the Littlewoods catalogue? 🤔 Might've been Index too. It's great seeing all these old things. CRT TV's man! A 6 pack of figures for £35! I completely forgot that Harry Potter Lego existed in 2000 too. |
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Post by Lego Customs! on Oct 27, 2019 14:49:28 GMT -5
Can't find the BCA Undertaker and Shawn Michaels figures in the 96/97 edition... We're they in the Littlewoods catalogue? 🤔 Might've been Index too. It's great seeing all these old things. CRT TV's man! A 6 pack of figures for £35! I completely forgot that Harry Potter Lego existed in 2000 too. Index! That's the one I was thinking of! Pretty certain it was that one because I remember I always preferred it to Argos. |
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Post by Stuart? on Oct 27, 2019 18:03:05 GMT -5
Can't find the BCA Undertaker and Shawn Michaels figures in the 96/97 edition... We're they in the Littlewoods catalogue? 🤔 Might've been Index too. It's great seeing all these old things. CRT TV's man! A 6 pack of figures for £35! I completely forgot that Harry Potter Lego existed in 2000 too. I remember my friend having the Hogwarts set but we weren't allowed to play with it as it took his dad days to build and he didn't want us wrecking it hahah. |
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Post by mrassbillygunn on Oct 27, 2019 18:08:36 GMT -5
This is great fun going through these books from the late 80s, I remember some of these pages! Checkout the Real Ghostbusters toys in the 88/89 catalogue, and remember the Matchbox, My Pet Monster? Mr Frosty as well? lol great times.
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Post by Chicago on Oct 27, 2019 20:38:40 GMT -5
Might've been Index too. It's great seeing all these old things. CRT TV's man! A 6 pack of figures for £35! I completely forgot that Harry Potter Lego existed in 2000 too. Index! That's the one I was thinking of! Pretty certain it was that one because I remember I always preferred it to Argos. If either of you ever locate a pic of this set, please do send it my way or tag me in a post. Thanks.  I know Grapple Arcade and Next Man’s Knowing Rock have mentioned having it before. Were there any other BCA 2-packs besides Taker/HBK and Austin/Taker? I saw a scan of the latter in the Autumn/Winter '99 Argos catalogue. Looked to be a couple of Superstars Series 7 re-releases. |
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Post by Next Man’s Knowing Rock on Oct 28, 2019 4:00:41 GMT -5
Index! That's the one I was thinking of! Pretty certain it was that one because I remember I always preferred it to Argos. If either of you ever locate a pic of this set, please do send it my way or tag me in a post. Thanks. I know Grapple Arcade and Next Man’s Knowing Rock have mentioned having it before. Were there any other BCA 2-packs besides Taker/HBK and Austin/Taker? I saw a scan of the latter in the Autumn/Winter '99 Argos catalogue. Looked to be a couple of Superstars Series 7 re-releases. I also looked for it in these books when I saw the link haha. It wasn’t a real two pack though, it was literally just the single-packed series 1 HBK and Undertaker both in a white box. Argos and Index often used to group figures together like that, you can see it in the He-Man pages in the mid eighties. |
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Post by Lego Customs! on Oct 28, 2019 4:26:44 GMT -5
If either of you ever locate a pic of this set, please do send it my way or tag me in a post. Thanks. I know Grapple Arcade and Next Man’s Knowing Rock have mentioned having it before. Were there any other BCA 2-packs besides Taker/HBK and Austin/Taker? I saw a scan of the latter in the Autumn/Winter '99 Argos catalogue. Looked to be a couple of Superstars Series 7 re-releases. I also looked for it in these books when I saw the link haha. It wasn’t a real two pack though, it was literally just the single-packed series 1 HBK and Undertaker both in a white box. Argos and Index often used to group figures together like that, you can see it in the He-Man pages in the mid eighties. They didn't have a lot of wrestling stuff as I recall, I think it really was just Undertaker and Shawn Michaels and a Microphone with sound effect buttons, which I still have. |
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Post by Chicago on Oct 28, 2019 14:52:35 GMT -5
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Post by Next Man’s Knowing Rock on Oct 28, 2019 16:06:19 GMT -5
I also looked for it in these books when I saw the link haha. It wasn’t a real two pack though, it was literally just the single-packed series 1 HBK and Undertaker both in a white box. Argos and Index often used to group figures together like that, you can see it in the He-Man pages in the mid eighties. Do you remember if the box had much writing on it? Like the wrestler's names and something to do with the Bone Crunching Action? If it wasn't for you guys reminiscing over the years, I don't think I would have ever known about these UK exclusives lol so thanks a million. I don’t really recall, but I think it was just a plain white box that had the catalog number for the item. I wouldn’t really consider it a UK exclusive - not like the Regal/Bulldog set from the RA years, anyway. The packaging on the figures was just the standard BCA series 1 packaging, I think. But man, it’s one of my favourite wrestling figure memories. They were HBK and Taker updated from their Hasbro figure looks, and the fact that all of the limbs moved was just incredible. I was disappointed that I only got new ones every six months when Argos and Index updated. I think that after this Taker and HBK and the Bret I got at a live event later that year, the next WWF figures I got were a signature series Mankind and Stone Cold, and a Slammers Goldust and Undertaker. They were both also bundled as two-packs, I think. |
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Post by Lego Customs! on Oct 28, 2019 16:29:13 GMT -5
Do you remember if the box had much writing on it? Like the wrestler's names and something to do with the Bone Crunching Action? If it wasn't for you guys reminiscing over the years, I don't think I would have ever known about these UK exclusives lol so thanks a million. I don’t really recall, but I think it was just a plain white box that had the catalog number for the item. I wouldn’t really consider it a UK exclusive - not like the Regal/Bulldog set from the RA years, anyway. The packaging on the figures was just the standard BCA series 1 packaging, I think. But man, it’s one of my favourite wrestling figure memories. They were HBK and Taker updated from their Hasbro figure looks, and the fact that all of the limbs moved was just incredible. I was disappointed that I only got new ones every six months when Argos and Index updated. I think that after this Taker and HBK and the Bret I got at a live event later that year, the next WWF figures I got were a signature series Mankind and Stone Cold, and a Slammers Goldust and Undertaker. They were both also bundled as two-packs, I think. I don't know about the white box, when I received the two figures on Christmas morning they were both individually boxed in their standard packaging. I do have a photo somewhere of me having just unwrapped Undertaker but I can't find it right now... On a side note, I remember putting "The Undertaker" and "Hulk Hogan's friend" on my Christmas list because squinting at the little picture and not reading the description as a six year old kid probably wouldn't, I thought Shawn Michaels was Brutus Beefcake 😬. I also remember my mum's friend asking me what I was hoping to get for Christmas and replying " Wrestling figures!... With Bone crunching action!" 😅 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 2:30:45 GMT -5
Memories come flooding back, would love to see old home shopping catalouges such as Great Universal and such too.
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Post by Grapple Arcade on Oct 29, 2019 3:22:06 GMT -5
Do you remember if the box had much writing on it? Like the wrestler's names and something to do with the Bone Crunching Action? If it wasn't for you guys reminiscing over the years, I don't think I would have ever known about these UK exclusives lol so thanks a million. I don’t really recall, but I think it was just a plain white box that had the catalog number for the item. I wouldn’t really consider it a UK exclusive - not like the Regal/Bulldog set from the RA years, anyway. The packaging on the figures was just the standard BCA series 1 packaging, I think. But man, it’s one of my favourite wrestling figure memories. They were HBK and Taker updated from their Hasbro figure looks, and the fact that all of the limbs moved was just incredible. I was disappointed that I only got new ones every six months when Argos and Index updated. I think that after this Taker and HBK and the Bret I got at a live event later that year, the next WWF figures I got were a signature series Mankind and Stone Cold, and a Slammers Goldust and Undertaker. They were both also bundled as two-packs, I think. Exactly this, a simple thick, white, rectangle, cardboard box. Just the right height & width to house two MOC BCA figs in (side by side). And a catalogue on the spine if I remember correctly. They used to sell other none wrestling figures in very similar. So it wasn’t specific to wrestling unfortunately. Nothing fun stood out on the packaging. |
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