The History of LJN WWF Wrestling Superstars, DIG IT!
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I remember sleeping with the Ultimate warrior and macho man under my pillow my dad wouldn’t buy me the Elizabeth doll and I remember staying at my grandparents and grandma told me to look behind the sofa and there was a bag with loose figures of miss Elizabeth Bobby Heenan and some others good times
Your grandparents were awesome
Ha! My great-grandpa was responsible for my WWF LJN collection as a kid.
Isn't it funny how these toys bring back memories. At 41 I finally got my hands on the ring again and that thing is huge and heavy. My mom carried it everywhere for me. These toys helped us have a good childhood.
@@steven1811I agree wholeheartedly!
@@orinanime yes they were the best gone now sadly but still missed
Phenomenal videos man. Im 41 and your videos are my childhood preserved. Truly great production on your vids!
Dude, this is phenomenal. I grinned like a kid throughout the whole thing.
Great flashback. I had so many of these. I used to love watching Prime Time wrestling when Heenan and Monsoon would have the figures out on their desk for display.
Thanks! Wish they would have made a Monsoon figure. My Brain figure needs someone to tell him "Will you stop?!" :D
I remember Christmas 1986 fondly. 2 months prior, I got started with the Remco AWA line. Then Christmas happened. Got the ring, Hogan, Piper, and Iron Sheik. After opening the 3 figures, I immediately stripped Hogan of the title and awarded it to Roddy Piper. Every New Years Eve when we would go to my aunt's, I had cards I would do for each set for the end of the year. Good times, great memories.
Yes 1986 was great. I had 19 ljns with ring n i had 25 remco AWA figures with original ring n cage Ring
I put white tape around my Bob orton figure, and had it on so long i couldn't get it off later on, long live the cast!
Haha, did you tape up your Orndorff too and have cast matches? If only they had done an Iron Mike Sharpe figure. Black electrical tape for the forearm brace!
That arm always seemed broken for some reason.
it took years to heal; so best to keep the cast on.
The cast shoulda been on there anyways lol
Plumbing tape worked awesome for a cast
I never realized, these head sculpts are very good , and being 1985/86 at that.
I still remember that rubber smell these things gave off when they were freshly opened. With all the craze of “retro” releases, I’m surprised Mattel hasn’t reissued these. Their current releases of the old Hasbro line were very well received.
Matt Weber I know the smell. I associate that smell with Kmart lol
Matt Weber, I loved that smell so much!! I tried explaining this to my wife, and she gave me the most bewildered look ever.
I was in attendance that fateful evening in Boston for my 11th birthday gift, and remember seeing the ringside cameraman showing off the foreign object Macho man used, to drill Tito between the eyes for the IC title, and I LOVED THESE ACTION FIGURES!!!
I just got my LJN Hulk Hogan in the mail today! I love it!!
Man, I still have the Hulkster 84 figure!!!! Thank you 4 the good memories sir. Great video.
The Freddie Blassie and Mr. Fugi likenesses were spot on!
I sold my collection of LJN figures a couple months back. Really enjoyed them for years. Iconic toys!!
Yours are in great shape. While the figures couldn't be broken, the paint tended to peel off (Piper was especially bad) and they also tended to get scuff marks on them.
I always used to love how Orndorf could do a perfect piledriver on Hogan. lol
I love the "Something to Wrestle" comments! Great video.
Well...yew know... :D
After Wrestlemania 4, I constantly had tournaments with my figures. I'd write their names on pieces of paper, then put them in a bowl and create brackets. Hours of fun!
Same here! :D
Love the "something to wrestle" catch phrases.
Roll tide! :D
Remember the Thumb Wrestlers!! Love those too and still have some of those as well.
I have the stud version
i loved those. more mobile and user friendly. i ruled mrs. jude's classroom
Thumb wrestlers were much better and playable than the 8"s
As a kid I had the first couple of line ups when they came out. I remember always noticing the photos on the back card didn't always match up to what was sold. The back card showed Piper with the Panther Shirt and the Sheik's pants were much more detailed. I also remember using a red magic marker to create blood on the wrestlers faces. I wonder if anyone else ever did that as a kid. Since the figures were rubber the red marks would just wipe right off. Those figures were so simple yet so much fun.
I used ketchup!
@@DocAce91Hilarious!😂
Fantastic review.
Your recreations of all those classic moments especially the Terry Funk pildedriver attack were more entertaining than the current WWE product.
Thanks! Yeah that was fun. The Funker's owed the Hulkster that one for a long time! :D
Great memories. I’ve been watching some old WWE matches and it’s insane how much more into it the crowds were. Fans were still marks. No body cheered heels, no signs, and trash would fly into the ring when the heel was on top. It was weird to see cops at shows to, like it was possible fans would try to get at the heels.
crazy how much fun these were and they didnt even move!
We used our imagination back in those days 🤣
Not sure how ended up here but so glad i did. This video was just delightful.
Awesome video. Thanks for saying Macho man is the best. He's my favorite wrestler of all times 😎
I loved this way more than I should've. I had a good handful of these growing up and this really took me back. This was very well done. Thank you.
This was a great episode for the all time LJN Figures and my Favorite All time Figure Mr.Wonderful Paul Orndorff and the most watched Saturday Night Main Event split screen match blue steel cage
Ljn WWF wrestling figures are the bomb I still have my
thank you so much. great memories as a kid this was one of my passions. Also, the part where you bring up Randy Savage winning the ICC belt. I was at that match in the old Boston Garden with my Dad. Dad goodnaturedly tolerated my love for wrestling, himself only getting a laugh out of it and the joy of making me happy. Dad is gone now so is Randy and the old Boston Garden, but the memories will live in my heart forever. thank you for this awesome trip to my childhood.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful memories, Christian. 🙏
JYD had the best "pose" of all the LJN figures. You could really pull off a power slam with him. Whereas Corporal Kirschner or Jesse the Body Ventura had horrible poses that you couldn't do anything with which is why they rarely got played with. I remember these were about $7.99 each.
Damn I loved this video just as much as I loved the 80's and 90's WWF
That Mamra toy figure at the left side in your collection, blow my mind.
Great review! After Transformers and Voltron these were my favorite toys as a kid. I actually remember sleeping with my Macho Man and Hart Foundation figures lol.
Thanks! Haha, certainly more durable than stuffed animals! :D
I'm from Brantford, Ontario... Had this video playing in background, heard the name of the city and and to stop what I was doing, rewind a bit and make sure I heard it! LOL
One of the best videos I've seen in a long time. Wish I would have kept all these. I had about 80% of these.. Nice man.. Keep up the awesome content
I like your "playing" with the toys scenes. It's unique, and has a nostalgic charm to it.
I remember coloring Valentine's hair with a black magic marker to coincide with his rhythm and blues run! Good times!
When I was 5 or 6 in 1987 I had to get tubes put in my ears, when I woke up after the procedure, my mom had a present for me, I opened the bag to reveal a Kamala wrestling guy, it was awesome, the best gift ever... great video bro !
Great video Michael!
I remember those figures very fondly. And while I dont currently have any in my collection, I do have a few of the newer Elite versions of characters like Macho, Warrior and the Hart Foundation. And your videos with their use of the clips from those days are the best in my opinion for drawing a link between the figures and the source material. Keep it up brother! Dig it!
I had almost every figure in 84-86 I played with WWF dolls all day
My favourite toys from childhood when I was WWF obsessed!
The ref arm shake at 14:26 before the 3 count 😂😂😂I did that all the time!
Awesome work. Great memories! Had quite a few of these. The ring was awesome. Loved the little posters that came with it
"The man from the Double Cross Ranch, In Amarillo, Texas. Terry Funk!" Funk is one of my all time favorite wrestlers. Doesn't hurt that he's from my home town.
These are cool, but I was lucky enough to be a kid in the sixties, with the awesome 12" GI Joe figures, with the articulated shoulders and hips.... un-matched!
Awesome figure recreations, super creative editing and originality!
That's my childhood right there!!! I've seen the Hulkster wrestle at least a dozen times
Great work, worth every bit of praise in these comments....
Love the Brantford, Ontario shout out too!!
Absolutely loved this video. Such an awesome job in not just showing the products. Loved the commentary.
What a great video!! So nostalgic! My cousin had all of these while I had the bendies. If you remember those? I am grinning through this whole video
"You good to me and I'll make sure he's good to you"
"I think that your time is done. And I think that the spotlight should go on top of me. Yeah!"
Freaking classic!!!
Missed the 80's and that era of wrestling. The best times EVER!!!
Amazing review! I'm gonna be spending a few days catching-up on your vintage toy reviews - they're awesome!
Orndorff, Bundy, Macho man and Volkoff were my favorite figures
Great video. Loved your subtle jokes for marks. Definitely earned a like and subscribe.
Awesome video ! We it's posted our LJN collection as well.
What a fun video. Playing with them to the video clips or audio had me in tears! Nice!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
I felt like a kid again watching this
I know this is an old video but just discovered it. Excellent! This was very cool especially with the video clips spliced all throughout. Cheers
I bought the book based on that Wrestlemania cage match at a Book Fair in elementary school, and I only ever had one of those figures, specifically Jesse Ventura, and, of course, didn't have the ring. That was the reason I was so excited to be babysat by this one particular woman whose son had several of the figures and the ring.
Thank you so much for making this video. Every time someone talks about these figures they always say that they were terrible. That was not my experience. I loved collecting and playing with them. My friends and I always made tournaments. They were great.
Brings back a lot of childhood memories. No longer did I have to pretend with He-Man figures, (or worse, the WWF trading cards) I could wrestle with the real characters. I remember we had the AWA wrestling ring that was made for smaller He-man like figures. A friend ending up breaking it and his grandmom replaced it with the WWF ring. Good times.
Great editing! Love my collection. Always on the lookout for more!
Thanks!
Man this video was awesome. I grew up with the hasbros but once picked up a Paul Ordorf on a car boot (like a swap meet) & discovered the LJN line. No idea they did so many. Love the Savage & Warrior 1. Grrat vid sir.
Those were my world from 1986 until the Hasbro figures came out in the late 80s or early 90s. I had about 40 of the LJN rubber figures and about 50 of the Hasrbo ones with a few of the WCW figures that were about the same size. I remember going to Towers to look at toys and every LJN tag team set had the two belts missing because some kid had cut into the plastic and taken them. To be honest, that's what I was going to do, dammit!
I loved these as a kid! Another great vid, love your work!
Fantastic trip down memory lane! I'm a bit disappointed that you never mentioned the iconic "Bring Home All the Action" tune that played during the commercial, but you redeemed yourself with "Unequivocally!" from Jack Tunney. 😂
Love the format of this video dude! I started watching for your room tours, but I love how you just did such a great looking and descriptive history of the whole line. Have you done any other videos like this one? I would watch them all!
Thanks! Yup, just search "history" on this channel.
Dude, I don't know how your video popped up in my recommendations, but I'm thrilled that it did. This REALLY bought me back. I'm a nostalgia guy, so much where I just finished writing my first book - where I go in depth on these very same toys - in one of my chapters lol. How in the hell did you keep them in such pristine condition?!
I still own my collection and the wear/tear is very visible. Just threw the ring away a few years ago too (although I still have the cage). Nice job👍
I had a bunch of these when I was a little kid, I born in 85 so this perfectly matched my childhood/fandom. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Great great video. I was hoping to find a video of these figures and your video perfectly hit the spot. I still have some of those figure and I will always remember getting the Ultimate Warrior for Christmas
Thanks!
Dude, u made my ass laugh so hard when you recreated the wrestling matches with your wrestling figures and you had to slam your hand three times in the middle of the Ring kids nowadays do not have much imagination to play with toys as we used to in the 80s we need to have an imagination to recreate matches with our toys or in my case I used to have GI Joes wrestle with silverhawks action figures cuz my parents couldn't afford wrestling action figures back then I definitely enjoyed your videos keep doing what you're doing this was awesome thanks for the memory
"Kids today do not have..."
Lemme stop ya there hoss.
Yes. They do. End of discussion.
This was a great video! I gotta point out though, @4:35 instead of "solid steel" you definitely said "salad steel" and that gave me a damn good chuckle.
I want them all. I wish they did figures for Wendy Richter, Moolah, Lei Lani Kai, Sensational Sherri, Velvet MCIntyre, and Rockin Robin.
You're Great for this video man. You brought me back nostalgia.
Really enjoyed this! Thank you! So many memories. I got my first LJN on Christmas day 1985, it was the junkyard dog. I was 5, been hooked ever since. 2 thumbs up for your video! 👍👍
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed. :D
Got my first LJN figures in '85 too for Christmas. Hogan/Hillbilly Jim in a tag team box, Iron Sheik/Nikolai Volkoff also along with the ring, one of my favorite and most memorable Christmas👍
PICKETT THE HANDSOME COLLECTOR
I purchased one about 7 years ago. Excellent condition but, Missing the dog chain.
I used to live for these toys. They were the highlight of every xmas and birthday.
One of the best toy lines. We used to try our hardest to destroy them, to no avail. Look awesome displayed too.
Thank you for making this video! I have a few of these figures still...all out of the box but still awesome to reminisce about my childhood!
Your video was truly amazing in ever way. Classic memories to last a lifetime all told with vivid detail in a very special way. Thank you 👍💯🙏
Very enjoyable video. I'll never forget getting my first LJN. In second grade I had just started watching WWF and knew a few of the characters. A kid at school brought a JYD figure and I was immediately envious. I offered him the only currency I had back then, toads. Yup, toads that hop and eat bugs. I brought him a toad in my backpack and traded him for JYD. After that, I found additional figures under the Christmas tree or on birthdays and eventually had quite the line-up along with the ring as well. Along with my GI Joe figures, I spent a lot of time playing with these figures. Amazing toys and as you mentioned, nearly indestructible!
you are doing great work, love these history videos!
This is one of the best videos on CZcams I have ever seen great work my friend
Thank you! 🙏
You have no idea how much I enjoyed this!!!
Wow,this was a killer review bro,it took me back when I was a kid in the 80'S,watching and playing with my figures every Saturday morning, the Macho Man is my favorite,enjoy Wrestlemania tonight. #fistbump
Thanks! Took me back too. Enjoy the big event! :D
The best figure was Paul Orndorff by far he was the most buffed by far
A fun video that brings back some nice memories for me. I geeked out when I saw the Inhumanoids figures hanging in the background.
Thanks for the video made my day.. so many memories. Awesome great job..
5 years late to this video but it was so incredibly well done, great job. I would never have guessed the line was so big.
Thank you. Cheers.
Thank you for this. It takes me back to my childhood.
Thank you for the video. My childhood revisited. Good times.
Wow. There is something about nostalgia. I didn’t have any of the figures. But, those wrestling clips bring me back to Saturday mornings.
Excellent video dude! Loved it.
Awesome video. I have 3/4 of these figures. Miss these days.
Great video, brings back good memories
Just discovered your channel. Really love it. Awesome seeing some of the old toys I used to love. Keep them coming.
Thanks! :D
Such an awesome video! Love it! Must-watch!
Very cool and fun video. I had a bunch of the rubber figures as a young kid, another kid coloured on them- I got rid of them. As a teen I had a bunch of the figures similar to what you see today, including the ring and collapsible weapons- outgrew them, gave them away. Started collecting boxed figures in 2014. I have about 30 basics and 12 elites, including The Warlord!
Most of these sculpts are spot on, but I always thought the series 1 Andre figure just looked like a big fat richard simmons.
Great video. I really like how you mix the original match commentary in there and had the figures recreate what happened.
I subscribed!
I suspect they had plans to release a Demolition Smash figure too, but the mold was based on the original Smash (briefly portrayed by Moondog Rex and not Barry Darsow), so the figure was scrapped when Darsow was brought in as a replacement.
Could be. Or they wanted to release 1/2 of 3 tag teams in '89 and were going to release the other half the following year if the line had continued (Ax from Demolition, Haku from Islanders and Warlord from Powers of Pain).
This is GOLD!!!! Thanks for this awesome video. Great work :)
Thank you! 🙏
I loved these figures when I was a kid. I grew up in the 80’s and I had/ still have these figures. The paint is in awful shape but I had a ton of fun with them. I stopped getting them around the time the heart foundation came out. But, of all the toys of my childhood, these are my favourites.
I love your references in this video ; Trust Jake the Snake is in the line and Humble Brian Blair, just to mention a few. Great videos.