the old remco wrestlers. i used to own a bunch of them never had a complete set. i do remember watching those shows on ESPN back in the day after school my self. and also the old uswa as well
@Ern5183
4 ай бұрын
Man, I’m having a great time coming back to these excellent reviews of yours as I fill out my own collection. Never stop what you love doing for subjects who don’t care for what you love.
8 ай бұрын
Got my LJN's first. Hogan, Sheik, and Piper. After first finding NWA/JCP on television, my grandmother bought me my first 2 Remco sets. Martel vs Baron and The Road Warriors. Well I knew who the Baron and Warriors were because I had just started seeing JCP for a few weeks, but had no clue what the AWA was. Got their figures before I ever seen a single match from them.
@Londrick
4 жыл бұрын
You just have to love how simple old figures where when Baron Von Rashcke has the same body type as Road Warrior Hawk
@TheNew80sRevolution
4 жыл бұрын
And yet we made it work!
@erichanssen3015
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome show on the AWA brings me back home . Yes the awa was on weekdays but if they in the Minnesota area then they would put those on Friday nights . I would go to a lot of local events the Road warriors against Larry the ax Henning and curt Henning in St. St. cloud Minnesota awsome grudge match . Got autograph of Mad dog vachon epic .my aunt took a picture of me with bruiser brody in St. Cloud . Growing up we get fliers where they going to be my aunt and my cousins would go all over .Minnesota . Stan Hansen just took the belt from Rick martel. Like always Jason thanks for bringing me back to childhood memories a d remember the people who made a difference in my life and passed on .
@TheNew80sRevolution
4 жыл бұрын
My pleasure brother
@erichanssen3015
4 жыл бұрын
Oh Jason when ever this pandemic get over l want to extend the olive branch to you and your family to come to Texas gonna go look up some wrestling history like go to the double cross ranch Terry Funk Stan Hansen the Von Erichs . Frank goudish .
@TheNew80sRevolution
4 жыл бұрын
Texas is absolutely on my must visit list. As long as we go to Southfork Ranch!!
@erichanssen3015
4 жыл бұрын
Consider it done then some other time I will take you around Minneapolis. Show you where Hawk Animal smash and rick riude were bouncers .
@leonardnix8446
3 жыл бұрын
I had so many of those. road warriors (I had both sets), the fabs, freebies were my favorite. And Hansen and Abby as well.
@MikeyBats
4 жыл бұрын
I had most of these..never got the road warriors tho..I used to take the robes off of them and put it on the LJN thumb wrestlers..
@TheNew80sRevolution
4 жыл бұрын
Michael b well that’s the first time I heard that one!
@upstatejohnny6397
4 жыл бұрын
Nuts. Road Warriors were also my first wrestling figures. Not sure If it was woolworths or Ames. But I got them right before Andre and Superfly LJN’s were purchased at a WWF house show in my hometown. Thank you for the info on the Remco line. Love the accessory idea for LJN thumb wrestlers someone mentioned. Bravo !
@PaladinLarec
2 жыл бұрын
I wish I held onto mine. I had the ring too. I was always wrestling them with my cousins and eventually, when I got older and didn't care about toys anymore I gave them to my cousins. Bet they made a mint off that.
@dcfromcc
4 жыл бұрын
yeaaaa... i wasnt feeling good tonight. felt like shit, kids go back to school tomorrow and im dreading sending my daughter, all these things added up then i seen this vid and it put a smile on my face.... thanks Jason!
@TheNew80sRevolution
4 жыл бұрын
I can’t imagine brother. We home school our kids anyways. I’m sorry you’re in this position man.
@1ocellus
3 жыл бұрын
your so right, im from rochester ny, and in the eighties, the awa was on espn certain days after school. loved it!!!!!
@TheNew80sRevolution
3 жыл бұрын
Still here man?
@justafanofnerdculture7602
4 жыл бұрын
Much, much love for the Remco AWA figures! These figures, along with the LJN WWF figures, are my two all time favorite action figure lines. So many awesome memories of purchasing these from Payless and Woolworths, back in the day. Man, I would play with these things for hours! The Road Warriors were my first AWA figures, but LJN Hogan was my first wrestling figure overall. However, the AWA wrestling ring was the very first wrestling ring that I owned though. I definitely remember purchasing the ring on a Saturday afternoon @ Woolworths. The AWA wrestling show initially aired on Saturdays @ noon on KTSF channel 26 in the San Francisco/ Oakland Bay Area in California, where I'm from. Later, the show aired Saturdays on KOFY TV 20 @ 11:00 am and would be replayed again @ :9:00 pm. Another awesome trip down memory lane.
@TheNew80sRevolution
4 жыл бұрын
Great comment man
@Loneman1
4 жыл бұрын
Very cool look at the first Remco set! These weren't on my radar as a kid since I think I came into the world just a tiny bit too late in '81, and missed their run in toy stores, though I THINK I have a memory of them warming the pegs by the time I noticed them, but that might just be a manufactured memory! I do remember later on in my childhood seeing a couple of these either at a friends house or at a flea market and just thinking they were bootleg/knock-off MOTU figures and dismissing them outright. It wasn't until later on when the collector side of me started growing that I learned of their actual relevance in the wrestling figure world. While the body type certainly was pretty functional looking for playing actual matches in the ol' fig feds of countless kids, I think my bias towards MOTU growing up just won't let me see them for as a good as I'm sure they are. Old habits die hard I suppose! Anyways, looking forward to part 2!! I'm catching up on a couple videos a bit late to the party due to life kinda getting a bit crazy as it tends to do, but keep on keepin' on Jason!
@dcfromcc
4 жыл бұрын
i think possibly the bull on the jackets was an homage to the riberia steak house jackets
@Gary1123
4 жыл бұрын
Love the "revisited" series here. Now that you mention it, an interview with Linda McMahon about the LJN deal would be kind of neat to hear. WWE Network needs to get on that one lol.
@alifuller1658
4 жыл бұрын
HEY I HAD THOSE WRESTLING FIGURES BACK IN THE EARLY 80S Ric Flair and Larry zbyszko damn that was great memories.😜
@TheNew80sRevolution
4 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the channel!!
@patrickj9061
4 жыл бұрын
Loved the video brother ! The Remco figures look so cool ! Great playable design of the Remcos ! Simple and same bodies ( aside for the few skinnier figures such as Stan Hanson, etc - which are just as great ) but what a great 80's line !
@TheChadTI
11 ай бұрын
Your Wrestling figure collection is insane. I think all the videos ive seen about them (like this one) are a few years old you must have more now. (Although the territory figures are limited in number)
@TheNew80sRevolution
11 ай бұрын
Enjoy the rest of the channel man!!
@georgeg49
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine if Pro Wrestling U.S.A took off? That could've changed the landscape of wrestling.
@sgtlegacy7
4 жыл бұрын
You must have marked out getting the Road Warriors as your first two remco’s! I couldn’t find them, always sold out everywhere! I was a little confused with these figures, got Ric flair and Larry Z first, then Martel and Baron, but wasn’t Flair in the NWA at that time? Thought they were NWA/AWA figures. But man must of been the Mandela effect because I thought the Road Warriors came with shoulder pads🤔 strange🤣
@TheNew80sRevolution
4 жыл бұрын
Definitely a Mandela moment!
@mr.perksy
4 жыл бұрын
How would that domed globe belt fit on the Ric Flair Galoob?
@mr.perksy
4 жыл бұрын
I believe there is a WWF house show from 1988 on KZitem from the Nassau Coliseum with Jim Brunzell vs Curt Hennig. A battle of the AWA Minnesota boys. Brunzell was actually in the tie dye. Are Brunzell and Martel the only figures to have LJN and AWA?
@SuperJoshdave
3 жыл бұрын
Did LGN ever make a MR Perfect? If they did then he qualifies I think Hennig had a series 2 remco figure
@mr.perksy
3 жыл бұрын
@@SuperJoshdave no sir, Perfect never had an LJN. He had Hasbro.
@SuperJoshdave
3 жыл бұрын
I wasn’t sure. Thanks for the info
@SuperJoshdave
3 жыл бұрын
Flair, Hayes, and Garvin had WCW Galoob and Remcos
@mr.perksy
3 жыл бұрын
@@SuperJoshdave Yes, although that’s a whole different topic. we can take any 2 lines and compare who had figures for both.
@ADAM_COLLECTS
3 жыл бұрын
what's the connection between NWA and AWA? The letters 'W' and 'A' I am guessing, lol. love your work
@TheNew80sRevolution
3 жыл бұрын
Now stop that!
@jr03312010
2 жыл бұрын
Do you know the action figure that has white tights, red boots and a full beard? It looks like an awa wrestler but I can't find it anywhere.
@TheNew80sRevolution
2 жыл бұрын
Probably not AWA unless it’s a parts mashup.
@TombstoneChris
4 жыл бұрын
This is an awesome collection. I remember having these figures when I was young and at the time I didn't know much about the AWA so I used them as jobbers in my figure federation lol. But as I got older I learned. Are you watching SummerSlam right now by chance?
@TheNew80sRevolution
4 жыл бұрын
Hey man! Thanks for commenting. No i typically don’t watch any new stuff....other than AEW
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