Bootleg, knock off wrestler figures abound here in my neck of the world. Which is a real shame because they suck badly. The thought of some poor kid getting these things to play with…
This series of wrestling figures comes in not only the six pack seen above, but also in two packs and single packs. To be quite honest with you, I don’t pay much attention to bootleg wresting figures because I’m not a huge fan of WWE (anymore).
For my five bucks, I got six wild looking figures and a few accessories that you certainly wouldn’t see anywhere else. Although it would be a hoot to see a Batman figure accompanied with a chainsaw and ladder. How about Superman with dumbbells? Yeah, the bootleg toys makers should give that a shot. I swear I’d buy superhero bootleg toys with wrestling figure accessories in a heartbeat.
I really really wish I could tell you who these scary looking guys are supposed to be. But it’s been years since I paid attention to wrestling and these guys just don’t ring a bell.
Hey! That’s Kane! I recognize him (the guy on the left). The musclebound figure on the right while certainly imposing, would probably make me laugh if I saw him in real life.
Gawwww! Who let the guy from the Goonies into this set? Isn’t that Sloth on the left? Yeah, yeah, I know it’s not Sloth. Don’t beat me up for it. Who this guy is, I have no idea. But I do know that I’ve got that same wrestler in another bootleg wrestling series from years ago.
I guess the bootleg toy factory these figures were made at doesn’t have a spell check feature anywhere. I suppose they fired whoever was responsible for spelling FIGURES correctly.
Now let’s face it. Anybody who buys these figures after looking at the packaging has to be a complete idiot. I mean, if the horrible looking figures isn’t a dead giveaway, then certainly the typos on the package scream ‘Don’t buy me! I’m a fake!”
Yeah, I bought these things knowing they weren’t real. But that’s what I was looking for. Still, you gotta feel bad for the kid who’s parent buys them this cuz they weren’t paying attention.
13 responses so far ↓
1 Shironu Akaineko // Aug 25, 2009 at 5:34 am
Heck, that reminds me, there’s a wrestling figure at the dollar store over here that sports the makeup job of one of the guys from Kiss, the one with one black star on his face. XD
2 krakit // Aug 25, 2009 at 1:14 pm
The spelling for ACTION being “ACHON”
and
the spelling for COLLECTION being COLLECHON
makes me think that they didn’t
have any text to copy nearby
and so they were spelling the
words phonetically.
lights, camera, ACHON!!!
3 the joshness // Aug 26, 2009 at 1:17 pm
hey joe, last week I stumbled upon your blog through the Articulated Discussion and so I read through all the 15 pages you have posted already. And I thoroughly enjoyed it.
You make me want to start a small bootleg collection myself.(but dollar stores are a rarity here). Anyway I just wanted to say: keep it up, bring on the next 15!
4 Joe // Aug 27, 2009 at 5:45 am
15 pages? Dang! I didn’t know it’s gotten that big!
Thanks for the kind words. It’s nice to know that somebody out there’s enjoying this stuff.
5 pikapal // Sep 3, 2009 at 1:39 am
The one in the purple pants kinda looks like John Cena.
6 shirlanka // Sep 4, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I am see too here in Mexico!
i am see dozen and hundreds! really gross, really cheap and more easy for sale of the original WWF series.
7 Estolcles // Oct 22, 2009 at 9:20 pm
I saw these on sale in a hotel gift shop in Brazil back in ‘05.
Basically, from what I can figure, some toy liquidator bought all the leftover figures and whatnot from the companies that made ECW figures and Toy Biz (WCW figure makers) because ECW and WCW both got bought out in 2001. So because they couldn’t market/sell the toys anymore, someone bought up everything, plus some other figure runs from other companies, and played mix’n'match with the parts.
I only say this because the chainsaw and crutch are ECW-line toy weapons. In the versions of the packs I sw in Brazil, they also had the Sting Scorpiontail Bat, the Chainsaw, and Buff Bagwell’s head (repainted to resemble a black man) on a random body (that looked similar to the body of the figure that is in the photo with the “Sloth” figure).
Vince not only killed wrestling, he caused these abortions to be created.
8 Leon // Oct 27, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I would buy these
9 Pete // Oct 27, 2009 at 9:04 pm
ummm…they are just generic wrestlers. They are not associated with the wwe.
10 Tony // Nov 7, 2009 at 11:20 am
I’ve watched a lot of wrestling, and seen a ton of wrestling figures (both real and bootleg) and have NEVER seen a chainsaw before. So I’m guessing either the people who made these watch some really violent wrestling, or they played mix-and-match with the never released Texas Chainsaw Massacre figures… or something…
11 Jamie // Nov 29, 2009 at 5:22 pm
The chainsaw probably came about courtesy of Terry “Chainsaw Charlie” Funk, when he was teaming with Mankind in the Attitude Era.
12 Bob // Dec 4, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I dont see how this is a bootleg. Its just a really bad toy.
13 Wonder Waffle // Jun 24, 2010 at 11:15 am
Oh yeah I totally remember wrestlers using chainsaws to decapitate there opponet ō – ō
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