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!
me too. I remember my Hogan figure vividly
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
Dude, this is phenomenal. I grinned like a kid throughout the whole thing.
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 never realized, these head sculpts are very good , and being 1985/86 at that.
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 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 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.
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 love the "Something to Wrestle" comments! Great video.
Well...yew know... :D
I sold my collection of LJN figures a couple months back. Really enjoyed them for years. Iconic toys!!
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
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
Ljn WWF wrestling figures are the bomb I still have my
The Freddie Blassie and Mr. Fugi likenesses were spot on!
crazy how much fun these were and they didnt even move!
We used our imagination back in those days 🤣
Awesome video. Thanks for saying Macho man is the best. He's my favorite wrestler of all times 😎
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
Love the "something to wrestle" catch phrases.
Roll tide! :D
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
Not sure how ended up here but so glad i did. This video was just delightful.
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!😂
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 !
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
Awesome video ! We it's posted our LJN collection as well.
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.
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. 🙏
Orndorff, Bundy, Macho man and Volkoff were my favorite figures
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.
I had almost every figure in 84-86 I played with WWF dolls all day
Damn I loved this video just as much as I loved the 80's and 90's WWF
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.
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
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!
Great editing! Love my collection. Always on the lookout for more!
Thanks!
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.
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
LJN figures will always be the BEST
My favourite toys from childhood when I was WWF obsessed!
I had Hulk, Piper, Andre and my favorite, the Macho Man Randy Savage, Oh, yeah!!
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!
That Mamra toy figure at the left side in your collection, blow my mind.
The ref arm shake at 14:26 before the 3 count 😂😂😂I did that all the time!
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!
I remember coloring Valentine's hair with a black magic marker to coincide with his rhythm and blues run! Good times!
I want them all. I wish they did figures for Wendy Richter, Moolah, Lei Lani Kai, Sensational Sherri, Velvet MCIntyre, and Rockin Robin.
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
I like your "playing" with the toys scenes. It's unique, and has a nostalgic charm to it.
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.
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. 😂
I enjoyed your Something to Wrestle references and the amount of figures you had. I have a box of them hidden away.
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Thanks! Do you also have...a 'box of gimmicks'? :D
Lol - I don't know but I "used to be over." BTW, I also own Wrestling911 on TH-cam. We should cross promote sometime. Message me at allstarboxoffice AT gmail. and I would be happy to give you a few ideas. I think I have 40,000 subscribers on there.
Thanks, will do!
If you let us post this video on our channel, we would be happy to promote your channel in the description and elsewhere. I thin that could get you a few hundred subscribers.
Doot doot doot!!
Great work, worth every bit of praise in these comments....
Love the Brantford, Ontario shout out too!!
That's my childhood right there!!! I've seen the Hulkster wrestle at least a dozen times
I used to live for these toys. They were the highlight of every xmas and birthday.
This video is wrestling history
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 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.
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!
Thank you for this. It takes me back to my childhood.
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
What a fun video. Playing with them to the video clips or audio had me in tears! Nice!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
One of the best toy lines. We used to try our hardest to destroy them, to no avail. Look awesome displayed too.
"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!!!
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Great video. Loved your subtle jokes for marks. Definitely earned a like and subscribe.
Awesome figure recreations, super creative editing and originality!
OMG!!!! I had most of these in grade school. I loved them!
I felt like a kid again watching this
Great video, brings back good memories
I started watching wrestling in the late 80s but the toy shop near my house had the original first four series on clearance. I collected almost all originals. They came with a little poster.
I always consider the 1st "Series" the 1st FIVE advertised in 1984: Hogan/Snuka/Studd/Andre/Sheik. More where added, however those five where the 1st advertised for sale.
I remember seeing the add at the time and wondering "Why no Piper?"
That Figures! Ep 1: WWF LJN Wrestling Superstars Series 1
LOLOLOLOLOL B Brian Blair "Humble" I love this!
Wow memories , I had only about half of these but I did have the ring .
dude i really enjoy your videos
Thanks! Nerdmasté! 🙏
hell yeah thanks for saying hey.
@MichaelMercy I apologize My Friend, I left a comment on one of the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE videos asking you to PLEASE do an LJN video! And I had to go searching, & THIS VERY VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE LJN TH-cam VIDEOS EVER!! I DID NOT put the name to the video, because it's been SO long, & so again Sir, I HUMBLY APOLOGIZE! Thank You for all the hard work! It's VERY VERY appreciated! I'm about to binge watch Your channel for the next 2 days!😂😂😂😂 I LITERALLY FOUND SOME VIDEOS THAT BROUGHT LEGIT TEARS TO MY EYES BROTHA! NOSTALGIA IS THE GREATEST DRUG EVER!
CHEERS!👊🇦🇲
It's all good, no apologies needed. Glad to hear you enjoy the videos. Thanks for watching. Cheers!
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're Great for this video man. You brought me back nostalgia.
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.
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.
Awesome video. I have 3/4 of these figures. Miss these days.
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.
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 had them all packaged as well which were later stolen from our basement along with a few BMX Bikes i lived in the slums of Jersey City NJ during the 80's & 90's Awesome memories 😂😂😂
Great video! Always wondered why LJN didn’t make a Mr. T. figure. Although I had the B.A. figure, which was pretty much to scale. 😉
A lot of the later lines never came to the toy stores in and around my small New England town. I’d have loved to get Jake “The Snake”, Bam Bam Bigelow and the One Man Gang!
Absolutely loved this video. Such an awesome job in not just showing the products. Loved the commentary.
Great collection a friend of mine really like wrestling he had all the figs.
He even broke his ring with his king kong bundy he was so heavy.
Great memories
Thanks! Another ring cracked by Bundy! 😆
Indeed luckily he had two rings but damn Bundy was heavy you could knock someone K.O. With that figure 🤣🤣🤣
Just discovered your channel. Really love it. Awesome seeing some of the old toys I used to love. Keep them coming.
Thanks! :D
Really enjoyed this video as an old school fan of the WWF.
What a magical time to be a kid!
man...crash bang wallop what a video! I had almost all of these, used to put them in a bag and pull them out at random for royal rumbles. Survivor series was awesome. Macho and Hogan traded the world title about 500 times.
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).
I had Hogan, Piper, Sheik, Slaughter and Andre. Then from another line, the Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal. Boy, were those the days. I had a ring made of cardboard, pencils and twine, my brother, who gave me the figures, made a cage out of chicken wire.
I'd have Hogan, Piper and Andre as Faces and the rest were always Heels.
Then eventually, they all got hand-me- downed to my nephew and from there who knows. Kinda wish I had all that back now for my boys 😂
Amazing video, brought back so many memories ❤
Yup. Adrian Adonis was my favorite. I loved his flamboyant heel turn. I had both his pink and purple variants. I do believe that the later release in 1989 was for his family. R.i.p Kieth Franke 😍😘