October 31, 201212 yr Author comment_5518287 YOU GOTTA LOVE THE NEW WWF ACTION FIGURES. YOU GOTTA LOVE THE NEW WWF RING.
November 1, 201212 yr comment_5518376 Not that it stopped me from buying them, but I was pissed when the LJN rubber bludgeon line got discontinued in favor of these.
November 1, 201212 yr comment_5518451 Summer sounds right. I seem to remember these ads being close to the end of Ventura's tenure with the company.
November 3, 201212 yr comment_5518773 Had none of these figures but always wanted them growing up but my toy buying was more geared to G.I. Joe. The ring looks pretty good.
November 3, 201212 yr comment_5518782 This commercial is one of my first wrestling memories ever so that holds a special place in my heart and pausing the video confirmed that I owned all the figures shown as well as the ring. Still saddened that one of the arms on my Andre figure fell off.
November 4, 201212 yr comment_5518887 I put this on next to the Savage - Piper match because they both were on the Wrestlefest commercial tape.
November 12, 201212 yr comment_5519760 Ventura had no mustache so I think the original airdate was closer to the summertime, but I guess that's largely irrelevant. I'm guessing they had to work hard to find the one moment in an Andre/Warrior match where one of them does something that looks vaguely painful for this commercial.
November 21, 201212 yr comment_5520708 I had that ring! Some kid asked to borrow it from me and then he moved away like a week later. Never saw it again. That was a sad day for the Captain.
November 21, 201212 yr Author comment_5520709 I get why it came with a championship belt, but why a flag? Wrestling rings don't have flags.
November 22, 201212 yr comment_5520723 I had (may still have) that ring. In my action figure league at some point I made Hacksaw Jim Duggan a heel and had him beat the shit out of ppl with that flag. I also pretended the Berserker was his brother and fantasy booked them like Kevin & Evad Sullivan only more evil. The ring itself was kinda crap actually in hindsight or maybe I just abused mine The freakin post always used to break so i'd have to jam a pencil or stick in the hole to keep the two parts together and the ropes would snap so I had to re-tie them a bunch.
December 23, 201212 yr comment_5523678 Anyone notice how Ventura had all the heels on offence during this? Very subtle but a nice little touch of continuity there.
April 27, 201312 yr comment_5543132 A lot of nostalgia in this one. I remember seeing these commercials on the tapes I rented and I had a few of these figures. Also, the ring coming with a flag was kind of weird.
October 22, 201311 yr comment_5568366 This commercial is one of my first wrestling memories ever so that holds a special place in my heart and pausing the video confirmed that I owned all the figures shown as well as the ring. Still saddened that one of the arms on my Andre figure fell off. Awesome. I love toy commercials from back around this time. I'm out of the loop but can't imagine they are as amped up now as they were in 1990.
November 3, 201311 yr comment_5570371 I enjoyed the hasbro figures. Too bad they didn't have a steel cage accessory like the LJN set.
November 4, 201311 yr comment_5570389 I enjoyed the hasbro figures. Too bad they didn't have a steel cage accessory like the LJN set. It was unfortunate that they didn't have a cage accessory for the WWF ring, but the WCW galoob ring came with a red cage. I painted that sumbitch blue and used it with the Hasbro ring! I also bought two WWF rings and used the LJN cage accessory to stage War Games matches. (I didn't get out much as a kid....)
November 4, 201311 yr comment_5570402 Did anyone collect those WWF thumb wrestlers? Had a bunch of those such as Hogan, Iron Sheik, Hillbilly Jim and Junkyard Dog. I managed to not get my thumb dislocated in competitive battle. I wasn't so lucky when playing Dodgeball.
November 30, 201410 yr comment_5642711 These were charming, especially because of Jesse, but overall I liked the commercials Vince voiced in the eighties a little better, particularly the one where the Iron Sheik shows up on the school steps and says, "Okay kids, back to class". Like they'd actually listen to a no-good lousy stinkin' Iranian, right?
November 30, 201410 yr comment_5642758 Ventura had no mustache so I think the original airdate was closer to the summertime, but I guess that's largely irrelevant. He'd gotten rid of the stache sometime in '89 actually.
November 28, 20168 yr comment_5776870 'WWF figures, so close to the real thing, it's like being in the ring!' Jesse Ventura advertises WWF toy figures and a WWF toy ring with a little help from Randy Savage, Ultimate Warrior, Brutus Beefcake, Smash and Jake Roberts.
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