[LJN Style] Big Rubber Guys

[finnbalor1]

Wouldn't mind having the Myers but it looks more like Rollins then him to me,no interest at all in Cardona

[destino]

I’ll get Demolition. Much like all other retro lines, I’m just going to cherry pick my favorites. These look shockingly great.

[Kasper.ca]

I'm interested, but only if they get a decent number of guys from the 80s or 90s in there.
The Demolition figures look cool

[darkprophet]

From the looks of it with their Big Rubber Guys first wave, you need to be a paid member of their Patreon to have access. Is that right? Or is that just for early access? I really don’t want to have to pay some kind of membership dues for access to buy the Demolition figures.

[Mizzle123]

The Patreon members are getting early access.

May 25, 2023 19:17:37 GMT -5 darkprophet said:

From the looks of it with their Big Rubber Guys first wave, you need to be a paid member of their Patreon to have access. Is that right? Or is that just for early access? I really don’t want to have to pay some kind of membership dues for access to buy the Demolition figures.

[Mizzle123]

Bad News Brown, Bushwackers, Powers Of Pain, Dino Bravo, Akeem, Earthquake, Brooklyn Brawler,and The Genius would be great ones that they could probably get done. Would love Mr. Perfect, a new Rude and Blue Blazer though, but those are most likely long shots... Braids Bulldog, Model Martel, Dusty, Nasty Boys and Legion of Doom could start off the 1990 roster really well!

[darkprophet]

I see Series 1 (Cardona and Myers) is up for order. $50 each. For Demolition, that will be well worth the price.

[@Chair.Shot]

May 26, 2023 12:36:44 GMT -5 darkprophet said:

I see Series 1 (Cardona and Myers) is up for order. $50 each. For Demolition, that will be well worth the price.

http://instagram.com/p/CpvjUE6uanB

Original LJN’s were $10.
$10 in 1985 = $28 today.

That price is close to fair given the limited runs and few employees.

[mrh]

May 26, 2023 13:00:55 GMT -5 @Chair.Shot said:

May 26, 2023 12:36:44 GMT -5 darkprophet said:

I see Series 1 (Cardona and Myers) is up for order. $50 each. For Demolition, that will be well worth the price.

http://instagram.com/p/CpvjUE6uanB

Original LJN’s were $10.
$10 in 1985 = $28 today.

That price is close to fair given the limited runs and few employees.

Wow -- I didn't realize LJNs were $10 each at the time. That's a lot -- most figures in the 90s (wrestling or otherwise) were well below 10.

I know they were bigger -- but no articulation, and there were A LOT of characters in the LJN. Would have been very expensive to be complete.

[darkprophet]

I remembered them being $8 in my local stores, while GI Joes were $3 and super heroes were $5. I equated it to about $1 per inch.

[Midnight: Dark Knight]

So excited for this line and my first purchase through them. I ordered myers and cardona and will definitely be getting demolition. Looking forward to see who else they make. I hope they fill some gaps from the original line!

[@Chair.Shot]

May 27, 2023 5:28:07 GMT -5 darkprophet said:

I remembered them being $8 in my local stores, while GI Joes were $3 and super heroes were $5. I equated it to about $1 per inch.

That is probably the case. This is the earliest mention of price that I am aware of offhand (same price but an earlier issue):

http://instagram.com/p/Cpc2sfKMm7l

I would love to hear others share stories of what the sticker price was in stores!

[oldschoolfool]

I vividly remember them being $8 at Kresge's/K-Mart and $6 or 7 through the JC Penny catalog.

[casanova]

May 24, 2023 22:13:57 GMT -5 crush said:

May 24, 2023 19:12:26 GMT -5 CM Tusk said:

I get why they had figures of themselves made, because of course, but it’s always so weird to me when any of these companies do tribute lines and include modern people. Especially them. I kind of understand Cardona as he’s fairly big right now for someone not in a major company, but Myers isn’t much of a name outside fans of their podcast/Impact. Maybe that’s enough? Idk.

While I'm sure part of it is just to get figures made of themselves, they've said before that part of them being the initial offering in a givens style is also to have proof of concept/iron out the kinks of having a style made/etc. before investing in signing other people.

Sounds logical. I say it again, these guys are extremely smart from a business side.

[darkprophet]

I cannot wait to get these Demolition figures! If they do Powers of Pain next, I will happily hand them another $100

[The Madness]

I was prepared to be really excited about these but I hate that both Ax and Smash are in the exact same pose. That’s not really an improvement over the countless customs of Smash using the Ax body.

[darkprophet]

It’s confusing in the photos, but I believe the pics show the same figure together, one masked and one unmasked. Ax and Smash, I believe, mirror each other, each raising opposite arms, like the original LJN British Bulldogs- which I think is pretty cool and could look good displayed together (like they are raising each other’s hands in victory).

[The Madness]

May 28, 2023 11:47:05 GMT -5 darkprophet said:

It’s confusing in the photos, but I believe the pics show the same figure together, one masked and one unmasked. Ax and Smash, I believe, mirror each other, each raising opposite arms, like the original LJN British Bulldogs- which I think is pretty cool and could look good displayed together (like they are raising each other’s hands in victory).

You are correct, I’ve found a picture showing both unmasked at the same time and they are indeed mirrored.

[@Chair.Shot]

May 28, 2023 11:00:13 GMT -5 The Madness said:

I was prepared to be really excited about these but I hate that both Ax and Smash are in the exact same pose. That’s not really an improvement over the countless customs of Smash using the Ax body.

[MKSavage]

I really don't want to start collecting another line of figures, but these two are tempting. I am a huge fan of Demolition, and these two look great.