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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 15:18:15 GMT -4
Slam City are on clearance at my Walmart....for $5. They dropped the figures one dollar and call it clearance. Hope they like the look of those little fuckers because they're gonna be on those shelves forever.
I miss Rumblers Rampage. Same price point as the Hasbro figures, same actions as the Hasbro figures. Granted, they were still Rumblers scale figures but they were a neat little throwback line to the first line of rasslin figures (or action figures in general) that I ever had.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 11:38:31 GMT -4
The Rumblers were awesome and I am so annoyed that they dropped them for these stupid SLAM CITY ones. I just thought how cool it would have been to start seeing Legends start to make their way into the Rumblers line and then this. So what rumblers I can find I will start doing conversions.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 11:58:44 GMT -4
The Rumblers were awesome and I am so annoyed that they dropped them for these stupid SLAM CITY ones. I just thought how cool it would have been to start seeing Legends start to make their way into the Rumblers line and then this. So what rumblers I can find I will start doing conversions. It's sad because the Rumblers they did for Warrior and Savage were really good. Imagine if they'd done them as Rampage figures? They would have been like mini throwbacks to their Hasbro figures. But nah, gotta go with the stupid Slam City gimmick bullshit. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 18:17:49 GMT -4
The Rumblers were awesome and I am so annoyed that they dropped them for these stupid SLAM CITY ones. I just thought how cool it would have been to start seeing Legends start to make their way into the Rumblers line and then this. So what rumblers I can find I will start doing conversions. It's sad because the Rumblers they did for Warrior and Savage were really good. Imagine if they'd done them as Rampage figures? They would have been like mini throwbacks to their Hasbro figures. But nah, gotta go with the stupid Slam City gimmick bullshit. Yeah I got the Savage one. The one two packs I didn't get were the Warrior one and the one with StoneCold Steve Austin. But up to that point I was buying each set as I could find it. They were freaking hard to come by here in Canada. To the point I had to order through Ringside Collectibles and that got expensive due to the crappy duty to come this side of the border. I find sometimes these companies don't get behind something enough to sell it or put it over. I felt the Rumblers series had legs and could have run for many years at least given the number of Legends sets and current programming. A set that game you the future and past of one NXT guy and a Legend would have been cool. I was really hoping it would have lasted longer for a Bray Wyatt Rumbler. How awesome would that have been! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 19:11:40 GMT -4
I've heard the duty on packages to Canada can be a real pain in the ass. I have friends who would order from WWEShop but they'd get screwed over after duty.
The thing that's crazy to me is that Rumblers were really popular. I get that Slam City are kind of Rumblers 2.0...but it's like when you have a computer with Windows XP and then someone forces you to "upgrade" to Vista. The new version sucks and I just want the old ones back. I found that Warrior/Sheamus pack a couple months ago at Dollar General but didn't have the money to buy it and when I went back a few days ago, it wasn't there anymore.
I loved those damn figures. I still have all four of the Rampage ones (Punk, Cena, Kane and Undertaker) and all of my regular Rumblers. They're one of the better gimmick lines Mattel has done and sadly they went the way of Flex Force, Power Slammers, Brawlin' Buddies (another unfortunate fuck up on Mattel's part) and soon...Slam City.
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Post by MT on Aug 6, 2014 8:52:06 GMT -4
Figure customizers seem to love those little Rumblers figures. I've seen artists do some pretty amazing things with them. Something about the exaggerated cartoon style works real well for that purpose. Historically these secondary lines never last too long anyway, no matter how good or popular they are.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 9:01:21 GMT -4
Build N Brawl is a good example of that. I'm still sad that line had to happen right at the end of the Jakks/WWE deal. Easily my favorite thing Jakks ever did: GI Joe scale rasslers. Granted, my Street Fighter GI Joes were like Khali next to them, it was still nice to finally get wrestling figures in that scale with that kind of articulation.
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Post by swarm on Aug 8, 2014 16:29:33 GMT -4
I don't know, my kids love the Slam City figures, which are pretty close to the old LJN figures. They're cool, but those are more like the old "Bendies". Also, my kid wanted one of Kane and those things are like six dollars each! Toys are expensive now (said like a guy who doesn't have a Mattel Ultimate Warrior and a Rick Rude figure on the shelf in the gym in his garage!). I train at a gym now that is pretty good when the bros aren't curling in the squat rack and the PT's w their clients aren't hogging up all the benches. But nothing beats a sweet home gym. And I LOVE the added touches w Warrior and Rude. That is special shit you only get with a home gym. I can't wait to put stuff like that up in mine. I plan to throw a rack in my garage somewhere. Just enough for deads, squats and bench along w some dumbbells prob 25, 50, 85, 110's and 150's. Not too many. Just the essentials. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 21:22:19 GMT -4
Personal trainers are largely why I avoid going to the gyms around here. Dudes are obnoxious and the majority of them I've seen teach improper form to their clients.
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Post by toasterboy on Aug 11, 2014 19:05:28 GMT -4
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 23:24:28 GMT -4
I wish I still had all my LJN Wrestling Superstars.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 19:43:48 GMT -4
This is pretty awesome. The price on Ringside Collectibles ($48 before discount code/shipping) isn't too bad either. These figures are really cool and I'd like to have a small collection but I can't find them in stores.  |
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Post by guiltyparty on Aug 29, 2014 21:26:15 GMT -4
The Stackdown stuff is actually on clearance at Toys R Us, though I haven't seen that hauler before.
They are, in my opinion, a great concept, and the mini-figures are cool, but the construction bricks themselves are of real poor quality. Like Target or Wal-Mart off brand poor.
I couldn't properly assemble the WrestleMania XXX ring because so many pieces were warped.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 21:39:35 GMT -4
I've heard that about the sets and that makes me want to stay away from them too. I've read several reviews that said they got about halfway through building a set only to have it fall apart because the blocks wouldn't connect.
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