WWE Figures

For a period of a couple of years, I bought every new wrestling figure on the market. I wanted to have everything that the WWE released. I finally stopped heavily buying WWE figures about a year and a half ago. Since then I've only bought a handful of WWE figures (specifically the amazing Demolition... best tag team ever). With that said I have a huge collection of wrestling toys, both new and old... all the way back to the large scale LJN figures, to the smaller, cartoony Hasbro figures, to the current Jakks Pacific figures.

The body sculpts for the figures are relatively the same. I feel like they have five sculpts. Fat (Yokozuna, Earthquake, King Kong Bundy), Large (Andre, Big Show, Undertaker, Kane), Regular (Cena, Batista, Orton), Small (Benoit, Kendrick, London) and the female form. The thing I'm always impressed with on these figures is the faces. The WWE uses Gentle Giant technology to scan the faces which gives the faces a almost pcture perfect quality to them. They are very exact in their details... all the way down to the smirk on Triple H's face.

Over the following weeks I will be posting pics of some of my favorite wrestling figures. Here are two to start:



I was a big fan of ECW. I would stay up late and watch original ECW on the MSG channel when they ran locally at late night. Paul Heyman had such a breeding ground for phenomenal talent. One of the original stars was Raven. He had a huge following, a great stpryline and war with Sandman and just a cool schtick. Before ECW he was the character Johnny Polo in the WWE. He was awful and completely misused. Then he went to ECW and developed his character. Once he did that he became so popular that he then went on to have succesfull championship stints on both WCW and WWE and is now starring in TNA.

Me being a comic geek and a wrestling fan, I love that this figure was wearing a Punisher T-shirt. It also captured Raven's always pained look. That on top of the leather jacket and the grungy shirt tied around the waist completed this great figure. It's a lot more than the standard figure in wrestling tights.



This other figure is The Hurrican Gregory Helms. I must admit to knowing nothing about him when he was at WCW besides the fact that he was a lightweight champion that had lots of exciting aerial moves. When the WWE bought out WCW Gregory Helms was one of the guys on the roster. Then in the invasion story when WCW and ECW joined forces to fight the regular WWE guys, Steve Austin joined the WCW/ECW contingent and asked this guy to become someone. Gregory Helms took him a little too seriously and became The Hurricane. Some of his early skits in the reporter outfit, spinning around and becoming a super hero are still to this day hilarious. Plus when he tried to take Rosey under his wing and make him a Super Hero In Training and Rosey ran around the ring with a T-shirt reading SHIT was always funny. He's always been a splash of lighthearted humor in the male soap opera that is the WWE.

The Hurricane has had moderate success in the WWE. He's been a multiple time tag-team champion and a multiple time lightweight champion. In the orchestrated world of professional wrestling he's always someone who puts on a good show. This figure similar to the Raven figure is one that I like for the extras. Again I like that its not just a tights figure. Its a full on costume with cape and mask. The paint job works well and the cloth cape work nicely. Plus it has a spot on goofy Hurricane face. A very nice figure.