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This week on the show, we're all hung over for WrestleMania baby, ahh!
We hear some classic weekly purchases from 2019, as well as the infamous Taz WTF,
what the bleep figure of the week, and then we got the world's largest incarnation of domination,
the giant, the big show, Paul White, and one of my favorite stories about the big show, Paul White,
is told in this incarnation.
And let me tell you something, Jack, if you like Q&A, well we got a whole bunch of it.
We have Q&A from episode 73, as well as Q&A from a special Q&A episode from the WrestleMania hangover,
baby, ahh!
And one of the cool things about this Q&A is you hear Matt and Brian prophesize about a potential
action figure line made under the Major Pod banner, and it's always cool when you hear,
I hear back a lot of these clips and you know, almost since the beginning of the podcast,
this has always been in the back of their minds that eventually they were going to go out and do
it, they were going to make their own figures and they willed it to existence, there's a lesson there.
That's it.
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No!
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But I call them wrestling dolls up until probably three weeks ago, so I'm still transitioning to
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Alright, weekly, purchase time, mother...
Some might cost a little...
Some might cost a lot...
But I'm the thousand dollar brosky...
And your figures will be bought!
Alright guys, it's weekly purchases time. I got a bunch of things on here, we're a little backed up.
A little backed up, if you will. The first thing I'm going to go with is the perfect 10
Jacks set. Jacks specific...
Did you buy that array?
I finally got it, we haven't done the pod.
But I thought you got it months ago when we talked about this.
No, no, me, you and David, see, Anderson, we're talking about it.
Maybe that's what I'm mixing up here.
Yes, I got it. So it's 10 figures, it's called the perfect... There's two versions of it.
Okay, and only Billy Gunn's different.
Well, Triple H is like a DTA version.
No, but that, yeah.
Everything has been released in another capacity.
Well, it's so weird the bone corner is like what was released, what wasn't released.
It's all like what you consider to be an official release or not.
Because something's...
Or a loose collector?
All you need is that Billy Gunn.
Okay, so...
Everything has been...
It's Austin Rock, Triple H, Xbox, mankind, big show, Billy Gunn, Road Dog, Caine, Undertaker,
and a kid size...
A couple of times.
A couple of times in the back.
But all those figures were released in some other capacity,
except Billy Gunn is in a white shirt and that is in a black shirt.
Right.
Okay.
I believe that's the only difference.
I'm pretty sure.
So I got that...
Not a bad deal.
I got it for...
$29 for 10 figures.
What?
Well, $29 shipping as well.
I was...
Okay, yeah.
Don't hold the price.
Shipping.
But to get the one Billy Gunn, to get Hall of Favourite Billy Gunn in that black,
I think it says, come get some.
Yeah, come get some.
Yeah, that's from the two tough.
Yeah.
But he's in the white.
Um, so I needed that.
And I think there might be some minor differences,
but that's the most dramatic difference.
Okay.
So that's my first weekly purchase.
All right, here's my story.
And I know you're going to cut a promo on me here.
Oh, let's hear it.
So...
I don't know how this came out.
I found it or Tommy Boy from Massachusetts found it.
Some smart sweets?
No, I wish.
I wish we had some right now.
That'd be a hit the spot.
Anyway, uh, there's a lot on eBay.
One, two, three.
All three versions of Bret Hart in Hasbro form.
What do I need?
A loose mail away.
But it doesn't count.
Why not?
I don't know if this guy opened the bag.
Dude, if it's not...
I don't know.
If it's not in the bag, it doesn't count.
But how do I know this guy didn't open the bag?
And this is...
You don't know.
That's why it doesn't count.
So how are we ever going to decide that?
I really want to...
I mean, I thought you were the Scotty Pippin.
I didn't realize you were the...
You can't name another basketball player.
So this is never going to...
I can't...
I can't count anything.
The...
I can't name another basketball player.
So anyway, so we find this auction.
And we agreed to cut a deal.
I said, I need the mail away, Brett,
or the foreign card, Brett, whatever you want to call it.
And your neck of the woods.
And he needed the other two breaths.
I don't know why he didn't have either regular breath.
Brett, too, it's hard to get.
Brett, too, has become very difficult and pricey.
And I don't know.
He needed both.
I said, okay.
I said, here's the deal.
Whatever it ends at, I'll pay half, you pay half.
And I get the one I want and you get the other two.
That's a horrible deal on...
Tommy Boyes' part.
Why?
Because you're getting this...
You're not getting a real mail away.
You're getting this like booty-
People like Loose, there's no difference.
And that is where it is.
And the foreign one has become so...
You can't...
It's not the same thing.
Like a foreign, Brett.
Minnow card is still gonna go for a ton of money.
You know, Jonathan Ringstad has like five of them in the office.
It's a summation that could have been brought to my attention.
Yeah, John, I need that.
Anyway, so...
Like, we were all prepared to spend like a decent amount of money on this lot.
Like, what would you expect this lot to end at?
250.
Right?
Okay, so I said, hey, I have right here 205 or something I put in.
I said, that's the most, you know, 100 bucks each-ish, you know, let's go at that.
It ended at 117.50.
That's proof right there that you didn't get the real mail away.
But there's no way of ever proving that.
And so, I mean, the game...
Most people want it in the bag?
I have Hogan out of the bag now, so like, there's no point.
I'd have to go backwards.
Okay, so I understand what you're trying to do here.
You're trying-
I need a loose taker and I'm done.
You're trying to convince yourself, but I know that you know.
I don't know though.
I know that you know that there's a great heart that you have.
Is that foreign one or the one that's not necessarily foreign,
it's just like the Purple Heart variant.
Okay.
And you know it's at the mail away, but you don't want to admit yourself, it's not the matter.
How many people in 1993 got these mailaways and just opened them out of the bag?
Zillions. I don't know if there was a zillion bakes, but a good portion?
A lot.
Yeah.
How are we ever going to prove that?
Right, but you know in your heart-
It's a loose collection.
I just have a, you know in your heart of hearts that that Brett is nine times out of ten,
probably the regular Brett-
That may be true.
That may be true, but if I'm a loose collector, it's the same figure.
If you want to look at-
What's up with your eyes and know-
Do you want me to pay?
Daddy has a mid-on-card, I'm sorry, a loose collection and this Brett's a fake.
If you want to look at your daughter in the eyes and say that, then go ahead.
So you expect me to pay 20 times the price for something and then open it out of the bag
and then now accounts, it's not my loose collection?
No, no, I think you should have manned up and got all of them in the bag.
Nah.
This Brett, I'm sorry, this Brett does not count, it's not the bag.
I was, I don't know if I was dreading explaining this to you or-
It doesn't count, I'm sorry.
I have a Brett, a Purple Heart Brett, and you know where it is?
It's in the closet, like I have it, like it's there, but it doesn't count.
It's not the man-
You have the bag when I'm displayed.
Yes.
But is it your bags of wrong numbers?
Yes.
So you're not going to ever fix that?
Maybe one day.
Pot kettle.
Anyway.
And I don't know what that means, so we're moving on.
All right, another really gorgeous that I got.
Okay, you said like, who's your puppy?
I said, I'm your puppy.
You're a real-
Mark, you can go ahead and edit this and give you a heads up.
You're a real piece of-
A scumbag.
A bite, cost a little.
Piece of-
You couldn't get this.
So buy, cost a lot.
Can you give me-
Can you give me the-
Two of the thousand-
Dollar Bros.
Two weeks of glory.
You couldn't let me just fast.
And your puppies will be bought.
Piece of-
Aish.
Thank you to Matt Chappelle.
He had all the puppies.
And full disclosure,
I was working on a big deal to get them all mint on card.
And the price was going to be very, very-
Astronomical.
Over $10,000.
And I'm like, listen,
I'm going to open these mofos up.
There's no way I'm paying these.
I'm a loose collector.
I'm not in the game to resell them.
Can I like things-
I want to let them breathe.
Y'all want to let them breathe.
Especially the puppies carding is a little bizarre.
And they're all endlessly smashed and mushed.
Right.
Matt Chappelle, legend in the business,
unsung hero.
He had the whole set.
He said, hey,
I'll sum you for what I bought him for.
I said,
Ch-ching, ch-ching, ch-ching, ch-ching.
And-
It's still how to be at these amount of money.
It was decent amount of money.
Let's talk about it.
I'm not going to talk about it.
Well, you're being real scumbag.
And you-
You-
You-
I'm going to say this.
I'll say this.
Less than 3,000.
Okay, it's not horrendous.
For what's a 10?
Yeah.
And these are in fantastic shape.
They go for like
2-4 piece.
Right.
Loose.
Right.
Okay, so-
I have all one shot.
All right.
Not bad.
So thank you,
Matt Chappelle.
He is on Instagram.
His-
His-
Matt Chappelle is so much crazy-ish.
But I feel like he's someone who like doesn't want to be known.
And he's probably going to hate me for calling him out right now.
But he does-
He does so much cool stuff.
I'm going to get an Instagram name right now.
Lousy childhood on Instagram and Twitter, I believe.
Check him out.
He has so much cool stuff.
He's a great old school collector.
And I got those poppy.
So Hawkins Myers, I'm your po-
You're complete.
I'm your poppy.
You're disgusting.
Or poppy.
I'm your poppy.
Coop, coop, go!
I'm your poppy!
Did you open your red rooster?
I did open my Mr. Cock.
A doodle doo.
Awesome.
Blank.
A doodle doo.
Like a doodle doo.
Great figure.
Was something-
There's still not a-
For sale, huh?
It's for sale.
It finally hit the target.
Okay.
I saw people-
And obviously,
Mainly Week was a little hectic and I wasn't so-
Yeah, the day was supposed to hit.
The day was supposed to hit.
The day was supposed to hit.
It did not, but it's finally there.
Okay.
So it's there.
Target.com.
Get your red roosters.
Be your blank.
Oh, you do.
We got them sent to us thanks to the Elite Squad and our-
Oh my god.
You got free figures.
Oh my god.
Yeah, all hell's breaking loose.
Oh geez.
We got like 10 figures a year, chill.
We give Mattel a 90 minute free podcast.
It's awesome.
It's fantastic.
You can't top it.
There's nothing to complain about it.
It's just spot on like perfect.
And I'm just so thrilled that I finally have it
and it's not going to not come out.
And I'm glad it's not like in some bin burning with all
the Harley race here.
Some some Michaels.
No, those are coming.
The big lots.
The vibe below.
I truly believe it marshals one day.
They'll be like, the whole Harley race that's here.
And it's $3.99 each.
Um, but that Terry Taylor is amazing.
All those things like the show.
Isaac Yango.
You tell us we were your dad calling it Mr. Rooster.
We told it-
I told it the bar.
Yeah, I just make sure.
Yeah, like we were like-
I told him he did it.
I wrestled media.
And he kept calling it Mr. Rooster.
Oh, well.
That's incredible.
Oh man.
Anyway, great figure.
Pick it up.
Target.com.
I mean, it's just-
It's perfect.
And I mean, it's just one of those things.
I love like Terry Taylor's had a figure, but I love when-
Well, the only figure he's had was that TNA figure.
So it's like whatever.
But just-
You should have got LJN.
The red Rooster never had a figure.
So like-
This is fantastic.
The jacket's great.
The red Mohawk.
It's a long haul.
Packaging.
If you're a minnocart collector, it's fantastic.
All right.
Also, I want to talk about our good friend,
Hasseltoy.
I got something from him from-
Good friend?
Well, he's our friend.
Okay.
I got-
Hasselt is gonna set me a message about this.
Oh yeah, of course.
Hasselt.
He finds all these Hasbro's.
And he's been rebuilding my little brother,
Andrew's collection.
So he got me a Yoko Zuna, the red and black.
It was Minty Minty Loose.
Got it from my brother Andrew.
So Hasseltoy, I want to say thank you for that.
Last of my list, I don't know if you have a ton more.
I have a bunch more.
Okay.
Well, we both received Retro series.
Oh yeah.
What are your thoughts on that?
Machaman Randy Savage.
Samoa Joe.
Randy Orndt, Goldust.
I'm gonna say this right off the bat.
I love these retros.
I don't want them to go anywhere.
They are incredible.
Of the Machaman.
When I first got it, I think we both said
I thought it was broken.
He was broken.
He doesn't do the clothes on.
He does the chop.
It's Goldust and Macho.
I thought I was like,
what's going on?
But they do the flair.
It's Flair's mechanism to do the chop.
Not the Randy or Zack Ryder mechanism to do the forward moving.
Yeah.
So it was like, first I'm like,
oh no, what happened here?
But it's pretty,
it once you realize that, that's fine.
I took a comparison shot of the Machaman
with the Green Trunks Machaman.
Like only our podcast could do that.
You know the podcast could do that.
That look cool.
It was so cool.
Mattel did a great job switching to that color
or deciding to do that color.
I feel like apologies are in order that Samo Joe's fine.
In that patented T-shirt?
Yeah, it works.
It's fine.
It's not like a bad figure.
I'd rather that than no Samo Joe.
I agree.
We made Fonnavette a bunch on here.
I'm still going to make one of it.
No, no, no.
I mean, I understand.
It was more...
Instead of initially,
and I'll admit this,
I thought it was a lame tactic or cheap.
No, I feel like it's crafty and it worked out.
Well, it's a way to get him in the line,
a way to use that kept in the body.
It's not a lot of hefty molds.
And that's the shorts.
In that line.
So they did it in the shorts.
Yeah, but there's not big dudes.
Right, so they did what they had to do.
It got Samo Joe in the line,
so we're cool with that.
Randy Orton's great.
The decker on the backs.
The really good, yeah, yeah.
And Goldus.
Finally, we have a Goldus.
I don't have to use my...
Thing, Goldus.
This is perfect in the yellow.
I think Gold is my favorite from this side.
And the wig comes off.
The wig comes off.
It looks really cool.
The face is a little heavier.
It's just perfect.
I love that Ringside Collectibles
has series eight and nine
before the store is even have eight.
Well, that's their business.
But two sets ahead?
That's true.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
Yeah, that's right.
Your figure hasn't even hit stores yet.
So RingsideCollectibles.com used code major to save 10%.
I have some more weekly purchases.
Keep going.
I'm tapped out though.
I tried to have a...
To just purposely not buy stuff.
It's very difficult.
Next week, I might have nothing.
I was very busy during WrestleMania week
if you...
Too busy to buy toys.
Believe it or not.
I think so.
It's a good problem to have though.
I went back to the devil.
I went back to the bushman himself.
Good Lord.
And he took me to an agency
and it was the Acolyte Protection Agency.
And I got a Acolyte.
This is pre-APA, but Acolyte's Bradshaw
bone crunching action head unreleased.
Why?
Why did I get it?
Yeah.
Because he offered it to me for a good price
and I had to get it.
And it's bone crunching not new?
It's not new bone crunching.
It was supposed to be in the bone crunching.
In the bone crunching.
Short hair, Acolyte Bradshaw.
Okay.
So apparently like
Taka Mishnoock is best friend Bradshaw too, right?
Could be.
Right.
It was that style short.
But I guess at one point there was supposed to be
some sort of Ministry of Darkness 4 pack.
It was rumored.
All those things were rumored.
Who knows?
They never made Midian.
They never made Baruch.
They never made Baruch.
I was even just like Bradshaw for Rook and Henry O.
Godwood.
I'm sorry.
Finneas I. Godwood.
It's a Mishmash.
We like Jeremy came aboard and they go to.
We need someone pre-jared.
We need a pre-jared me guy to like run some of this stuff by
and we don't have any sources.
But I want to thank the Bushman for giving me the Acolyte Bradshaw head.
And you know what?
It doesn't look a thing like Bradshaw.
Meh.
Yeah.
Not at all.
But that's true to bone under one man.
Look at those like newly-doubt loves figure.
They're horrible.
True.
Jibon.
At least like in the bone crunching era like
Billy God has the bandana tied.
It's like a lot.
So this could have been like a boot like from another figure company.
Yeah, right.
This Bushman ripped you off.
I trust the Bushman.
Okay. Also my good friend Marty the villain.
We were out to dinner the other night.
We were at Ruth Chris, a very expensive steakhouse.
And was it just you the women involved?
The women were there.
They were there.
We never know these days.
He enjoys a medium rare stage of wine and he pulls out this bag.
What's inside is a dog face gremlin Rick Steiner,
WCW wrestling buddy.
Very, very hard to get in pretty damn good condition.
There was a couple of little rips in it.
But the fluff was there.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
He wasn't deflated.
No, good fluff.
Yeah.
I washed him about five times in the-
Five.
Yeah.
I just keep going.
In a pillowcase.
First time pillowcase.
Other four times no pillowcase.
Why?
Just do it.
Just watch.
Risky move folks.
I don't condone that.
If you don't like me, bite me.
Guys, we're dog.
Got the dog face gremlin.
WCW wrestling buddy.
He also got me a thousand dollar broski Hasbro figure.
Oh yeah.
What was up with that?
It was incredible.
It was so well done.
It was using a Mattel head.
And with these figures, you know, with Hasbro's,
the Hasbro figures have necks and Mattel figures.
Whoever made this custom had a custom neck.
Yeah.
It was so well done.
Yeah, that's way above my,
uh, my pay grade.
And on the back,
I'd have the ZR sign with like the dollar sign also.
Yeah.
So Marty, thank you very much.
Marty's a good friend.
Good friend of the pod.
Feel like you owe him now.
You need to get him something, something good.
Well, now the pressure's on.
Fuck you guys.
Sorry.
And that is, I think, it for my-
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Before I go.
We have a trace key of the week.
Guys, I'm looking for a lot of stuff.
We need, I need more traits keys of the week.
And to be honest,
sometimes these aren't traits keys of the weeks.
I'll just buy it from you.
Right.
To be honest.
Yeah.
Still mint on card ECW original Mike awesome figure.
Artographed.
Anybody out there been looking for years.
This new Jack, no new situation.
Oh my God.
Still very real.
Oh my God.
Talk to me.
A mint on card Brian Pillman UK.
Glub.
Still in the hunt.
And then there's several loose L.G.
And I still need, as we just said,
the undertaker male away loose.
You know, hit me up.
Let's or hit our social media accounts up
and maybe we can figure something out.
Absolutely.
So I got from SAV, the WWE Kalee one.
I got a ECW one night stand to Jerry
that I'm counting as of now
in my classic Superstars collection.
As a ECW.
Yes.
And it was very hard to get that figure.
Believe it or not.
All right.
Up next is the incarnation of domination.
The incarnation of domination is a weekly segment
where we choose a Superstar and ever week.
We try to stop each other.
We discuss our favorite versions of that Superstar.
This week, it is my turn to stomp you,
but I already spoiled it.
You didn't spoil a little bit, but you know what?
Sadly, I haven't.
Hello.
It's Paul White.
It's a big show.
Are we eliminating giant figures?
Every Paul White figures on the table here.
That's a lot.
A lot of.
I'm not going to talk about all the novels.
Now, San Francisco Toy Bakers,
he's got the vibrator.
He's got the rubber LJN and the plastic one.
Wait, what?
Like the plastic like Hasbro-esque style one?
Yes.
Yeah.
Maybe he's in the first Toy Biz round.
I do, even.
Amazing.
He's got the figure rules.
That's Chokeslam hand.
And it's great.
And it's like, it's gigantic.
What about the two packories of the neck brace?
It was just stupid, but...
That might be one of my favorites, if not my favorite.
The one,
we're out of the bag, the one that comes with the ray
that does the Chokeslam.
Yes.
It's like pretty perfect.
The first figure, even those figures aren't that great.
Is that all Jansal?
Yeah, it's pretty good.
I don't know how there's no beard.
Yeah, but when he first first came, it was a very...
But there was nothing on his figure.
It's five o'clock shadow.
It could have helped.
It's too clean.
Too clean.
I used to use my Hasbro giant Gonzales,
not as the giant, but I would use him like the giant.
You know what I'm saying?
I guess.
You know what I'm saying?
Getting that kind of push.
Yeah, kind of rub, you know?
Yeah, so the action feature, toy maker now.
See?
Yeah.
The vibrator, all those in trouble.
Even though, is he slightly bigger than the other ones?
Are they all the same size?
Wait, up this...
The vibrator.
No, not the vibrator, but the other one, he's slightly bigger.
But the vibrators are all the same, which was really white.
So like, cast master, same size, giant.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Okay.
See ya.
But the toy biz ones, especially the ones with the brace.
I love the brace ones.
There's the...
I would actually love to get him on here now,
if he's back to tell the story about going to Toy Fair.
Oh, that's right.
Taking those pics.
I think he would do it.
He would do it.
Yeah, it's been over 20 years.
No, but I mean like, come on the pot.
That's what I'm saying, yeah, but...
Series 9.
The rumor always was, is that he was still in a contract,
but took reference photos at Toy Fair 4, Jax.
That's why that first Jax figure comes out so fast.
Right.
And it comes out with him in...
Street clothes.
D-shirt jeans, because that's what he was wearing.
And they repaint a bunch of times, even as a ref.
Yeah.
With that figure...
Although not a bone cruncher, still pretty awesome.
So that counts, but not under the judge?
It's not a bone cruncher action feature,
but it's meant to be in the line.
Same like this, Andre.
That was not meant to be.
That's a novelty pack of figures.
So many Titan Trons.
Which are pretty cool.
Yeah, he is very...
Because of his size, his figures are always pretty unique.
But I think in the Titan Trons, they're never quite right.
I don't think Jax really nails it until we get to Arthur.
He's also changed his look like a gazillion times.
All big show.
There's like ponytail, big show.
Yeah, there's like long hair, big show.
Long hair, big show.
Short hair, big show.
What about the one that has the Al Snow shirt?
That's ridiculous.
J.C. Penny exclusive.
Actually pretty rare.
That R3 big show, I think changed the game for a figure.
That's a good one.
And that's my favorite big show.
I think to this day, it is still like perfect.
It's so perfect.
They use that mold with ruthless aggression figures.
Right.
Years later.
They use it for under the giant.
I mean, his Mattels are pretty sweet.
I know you don't really dabble in the modern day guys.
No, but I love his giant figure.
I know I love his current big show on from like the Survivor Series Esque era.
Right, when he won the title the first time?
Yeah, brand new one.
Yeah.
That one's good.
The modern day ones are pretty good.
Like with the last one, the fan central one that was on the deathbed of Toys R Us.
It's a really nice figure.
I think I'm going to have to go with the toy biz.
Just because I love that figure when I was a kid.
I'm playing within it.
It's size alone.
I'm going to go with the...
No, it's cool about that.
And like, I think this is putting it into perspective because we just did the LJN episode.
Like, Andre was a giant, but they crouched him down.
Yeah.
And there's nothing you can do about that.
But this had joints and stuff.
So like, you put him fully extended.
Oh, yeah.
He's a giant.
I think my favorite one is definitely the R3.
And they made it cooler.
They added like tattoos and stuff later on.
I'm talking about original R3.
Yeah, yeah.
You get the perfect choke slam hand.
He's way bigger than everyone else like that.
Jeff Hardy, you put him next to that.
That figure was a head of its time.
He's had a lot of figures.
So many times.
Like, we didn't even scratch the surface.
Just toys.
Bro, we're forgetting so many.
I mean, there's a lot.
That's why I said are we doing giant ball.
Like, what are we doing?
Now, is there his Jack's Glasser Superstars figures?
So many.
What if Mattel can make one flashback big show,
Paul White?
What would you want?
A wrecking mobile with a hearse and a casket.
Oh, come on.
My dad.
Wait.
I want them to make.
It's a good question.
I want them to make like almost like a series nine,
like a big show like in the street clothes.
I guess, right?
But like, his debut from like Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
Like, is that what he wore that night?
It's something similar, right?
Yeah, I guess that wouldn't be it.
He's had a very blessed figure career.
And he's a cool dude.
Not a lot left.
Remember when we worked on the first time,
you know what he said to us?
I know exactly what he said.
He pulled us into a room and it just come back.
But it's Edge Head Era.
Edge Head Era.
And it was like, we were on a tour
and they randomly changed the card.
Like, we weren't doing what we were normally doing.
And it just said like two on one handicap match.
Like Hawkins right against Big Show.
And he pulled us into a room and he's like talking to us.
He's just,
since you guys ever worked with a giant before,
and he's like, well, let me rephrase that.
Did you ever work with a giant that can work before?
We're just thinking about that whole statement.
He can work.
He's great.
Clearly that was a shot at Kali,
but he wasn't even there.
So like,
Kali wasn't even,
but he wasn't even on the roster at that point.
Definitely.
He was in the roster.
No way.
So wait, he's there.
We're Edge Heads.
And Kali's way before us.
Kali debuted no six.
He did?
Yes.
I thought he was after us.
Oh, he did.
He was like almost a year before us.
Oh, okay, damn.
He wins the belt like our first month on the road.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
All right.
See you later.
Do Kali wrestle at our WrestleMania,
where we ran into the main event.
Was he even on it?
And you guys like buddy?
Was he in the battle mode?
A year before he's against Glenn,
that stinker.
Oh my God.
You're right.
He was on the roster.
Yeah.
And then that year,
I don't know what he does.
There's some weird tag team match I had in Japan,
where I'm teaming with the big Joe,
and he's wearing a broski wig.
It has like these giant orange sunglasses
that to this day I still have.
That's unbelievable.
Like,
giant.
That's what I'm.
He's one of a kind.
I love.
I love Paul.
All right.
That's cool.
So that's a great pick for incarnation of domination.
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast.
I am your host, Brian Myers, aka WWE superstar Kurt Hawkins.
And I am your host, Matt Cardona, aka WWE superstar, Zach,
Ryder, and welcome to an all Q and A edition,
the best wishes edition of the major.
Ask Major Pod.
We did this during the holidays, and I had a blast there.
It'd be awesome to see a special all Q and A.
We went to Twitter, our Twitter account at Major to With Pod.
As always, ask Major Pod,
we chose five questions each,
and we will send you all a best wishes.
Eight by 10.
The next week,
I guess we should get into it.
Ten questions. Take a shot.
If you got those best wishes, barngirl shot classes,
perfect time.
There you go.
Put them to use.
They should be they should be water, whatever you want.
They should be in your hands by now.
So yeah.
All right.
I'll go first.
My question comes from Keenan.
Is it referee Keenan?
Wow.
McAllister's brieze.
McAllister.
Nobody's going to get that.
That's fine.
TJ is laughing.
All right.
Keenan.
Keenan Thompson?
Can you get?
Keenan Gobby.
At Keenan Gobby.
Can you please explain the difference between Titan Tron,
R3, and ruthless aggression figures?
Hashtag Ask Major Pod.
Well, damn.
That was one of my questions.
That was one of my questions.
How do you want to tackle that?
All right.
So I realize we use a lot of terminology that
sometimes we get the kind of folk might not.
And we get really too caught up in how deep our discussion is sometimes.
And that's our fault.
So the Titan Tron figures,
these came out in 1999 or 2000,
99.
Very end of 99.
Very end of 99.
Yes.
It was a Titan Tron playset.
It came with Vince McMahon and all these figures,
they were now more articulated.
They were all plastic, no more rubber.
This is the transition from bone crunching action.
Also, when referring to all these or looking them up,
sometimes you'll see the abbreviation.
So you should probably know that.
TTL.
Well, here, bone crunching action.
BCA.
Titan Tron Live, which is what the playset was called.
That's how they got that name.
It's TTL, R3.
That's an easy one, R3.
And then ruthless aggression,
you'll see sometimes this is an RA figure.
And these Titan Tron figures had little metal chips
on the bottom of the feet.
And you would put that on the Titan Tron
and they would read the chip.
And the Titan Tron had not that many pictures
on it, but for instance, gangrel,
if he went through the Tron, he'd be like,
now, and during the Titan Tron,
kind of like the opening of our podcast.
Yes, that's exactly what it is.
And it would read gangrel and it would,
gangrel's picture would light up and it would play like
a horrible, crabby version of his song.
Yes, so series one Titan Tron Live
and the double slam two packs,
which are also Titan Tron style figures.
And the Titan Tron itself all kind of came out
at the exact same time when the Titan Tron
came with an exclusive Vince McMahon.
Right.
And that was the big like.
It was a super cool big debut, super cool concept,
but the execution is like, okay,
now after series one and two,
we only have like 10 guys on this Titan Tron.
So guys, there's nowhere to go.
Yeah. So for instance, like,
I think agent Christian would use gangrel
and they would gangrel's music would light up
or his picture would light up.
But then like you would just use like Ken Shamrock
would just play the generic WWE.
So and then they made other play sets
to go along with it to update it,
but it was never, never still the test of time.
So what basically came of it is the name Titan Tron stuck,
but the concept kind of went away.
And I think, yeah, and like even took out the chip.
Yes. Eventually.
Yeah. So those early ones, they actually,
those early ones don't have real skin,
which is very obvious because the faces are horrendous
like this.
Then they added the real skin and kind of got away
from the chip, but the style of figure
and the name Titan Tron live lived on.
Then we got to our three.
Right. Now this is kind of weird because
Titan Tron was still going on during R3.
But R3 had its own set.
Right. R3, real skin, real scale, real something else.
Right. R3, get it?
Yes. And in theory, the whole body was going to be real skin,
not just the face.
So everyone was going to have their unique body.
Which I think series one and two do have.
Right. So like Jet Point.
But then they just got, they got up the rails.
Like Big Show is one of the best figures ever.
Jericho is really good.
Jet Party.
But then yeah, then they saw just reusing the bodies.
And that's when I start liking it personally.
So I mean, same.
What's the three Rs?
I'm trying to find it.
Real scale, real skin, real reaction.
And these I liked because it had like the...
Is the articulation was cool?
And like you said, the ones that were made the way
they were supposed to be made are like really nice.
But then just the laziness kicked in.
You know where they weren't.
Putting the effort into new guys.
Like they did the original guys
and just using the same bodies and stuff.
Then the R3 run is very, very short.
Right. It's only a couple of years long.
I think it's something that gets a couple of years.
But that Big Show they would use forever.
So that we'll get to that.
Okay.
Then as we've covered many times,
the ruthless aggression style figures kick in in the spring of 2003.
When those are the ones that kind of stood the test of time.
What the classic superstars are made out of and whatnot.
That was the whole like ruthless aggression was the thing.
And John Cena, that's how I picture ruthless aggression
is that series one John Cena because it's kind of his...
And Brock.
And Brock was a real popular...
But like John Cena in his promo,
his opening promo to Kurt Angus is ruthless.
Aggression was his biggest big thing at the time.
And he's in series one.
I have a vintage unboxing on our YouTube channel,
youtube.com slash, excuse me, take a shot,
major to have pod.
But then those figures, those body types lasted
till the deathbed of Jax and even the classic superstars
are using the ruthless aggression bodies.
And did you mean to say FTC guys?
Those as well, they say they're not, but they are.
I know.
And then to wrap this all up, what gets real confusing
is that even though ruthless aggression guys were the predominant line that Jax is producing,
they mixed in basically as like a laziness slash cost cutting slash whatever.
Titan trying on R3 and ruthless guys, sometimes all in the same series.
So it would be a series would come out and I mean classic superstars one has all three, correct?
Bro, unbelievable.
Yeah.
Because of the thing, trying on the digger, an R3
onto the giant on a big show body.
And in the term that we've kind of made up on the show,
we call it the mixed error.
This went on.
Totally mixed error.
For way too long.
I want to say into like 05, 06, maybe they finally stopped like.
It's disgusting.
Yeah.
There's no excuse for it.
Yeah.
It really is no excuse for it.
But that's pretty much that's really it.
That's the, I think we just of it.
It's the, I mean, if you didn't live it to know what happened,
it's definitely very confusing and bizarre, but that's just the history of it.
I think yeah.
I mean, just throw it in your Google machine and you'll find it.
And like I said, it's kind of, it's kind of hard because for instance,
you're searching for Titan Tron Lies, but in Stacey Keabler and Tori
come out during the Ruthless regression era,
but they're in Titan Tron Live figures.
So you got to be very careful when you're finding your checklist.
Completely all over the place.
All over the place.
Okay.
This one is from Huss underscore Bizerker.
I love the old Jack's box sets, but Mattels have been kind of disappointing.
What do you think could have been or should change to get some winners?
More accessories, price points, better character choices, hashtag, ask major pod.
If you grew up in the Jack's bone crunching era, those box sets were like,
so don't port your collection.
But I think we're, I think we just have these nostalgic feelings.
If you look back, some of them are absolute garbage.
I make the selection of who's in them.
Okay.
I make make less than no sense.
I'm going to say a set right now and you're going to say what the f***.
Okay.
Stone Cold Steve Austin, for the first time,
well, one of those first versions of him in an Austin 3 16,
which was a huge deal.
Huge deal.
Brett the hit man heart.
Okay.
A referee and Ahmed Johnson with a ladder.
Like what?
But at the time it was so cool because-
What's triple threat?
Triple threat.
Mark Merrow.
Yoko Zuna and Ahmed Johnson.
Ahmed Johnson with a yellow chair.
Okay.
Two yellow chairs.
How did that happen?
But what they did was what Jack's would do sometimes is that would be the only way
to get a figure.
So that was the only time to get Yoko Zuna.
Um, I do agree.
I think a lot of it is sentimental for sure.
Right.
Because we grew up with it.
But on the flip side and their defense and whatnot,
I think where, I mean, I think it's obviously an elite figure and Mattel's attempt at four
packs is a big cost.
Right.
Okay.
These things were jacks, four packs were 1999.
Right.
These.
There's no way Mattel can come to that one figures, 1999.
Um, also to give them some credit, the packaging was always pretty special
on the on the Jack's box set.
There was like a very eye catching and colorful and themed to something.
Um, the Mattel ones have been kind of bland and, and they're like my last point on this.
And it's the same boat.
The Jacksons were also like almost handheld whereas like the Mattel ones have been ginormous.
No, so much wasted space.
Waste a lot of waste of space.
And then waste space on the shelves.
And even in your collection, that's a, that's a lot of real estate.
You're going to keep that in box.
I mean, like the last, um, Mattel one I can remember is that target.
I don't even know what you want to call it.
Mish Mosh.
Was like Larry's a Bisco.
It was WCW nitro guys is what they called it.
Eddie Guerrero.
Which I'll give them a pass because it was their way of getting Zabisco out.
I think there's so much.
Which, which no offense to Larry legend, but if he was sitting on the shelves by himself.
No, I agree.
Now forget about that.
Also, they, I think we sometimes forget that Mattel has made some cool ones like the undisputed era.
Three pack.
I think we're not considering that a box set.
I guess that's okay.
That's a big exception to that one rules and they're selling very well.
Yeah, but these are all, I guess these are new.
Do you count milk omenia as a box set?
It is a box set, but I think.
I don't know why, but to me, Jack's ones were four and these are three.
So there's something about that that's different.
I agree.
And I think the best Jack's four pack of all time is the one that came to the title for the first time.
Yeah, I mean, I can't.
There's so many cool ones on the target.
Because now like we get titles, we take it for granted.
Yes.
Because they're literally the only way to get them.
Yeah.
Was the only way to get them was in these four packs until later on, like they would do it.
But not for bone crunches.
Yeah.
You had to get these special four, but not hardcore four pack.
They all came with a hardcore title.
But that you needed that because it's the only way to go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you appreciate it.
No hardcore title, then you had four.
So what can Mattel do differently?
I don't know.
I think I would love to see the four pack come back.
You got to cut the packaging size down maybe.
And I mean, I, and then.
You know what?
This is way out of our wheelhouse, but like it's got to be cost effective.
But like I said, you're not going to compare it with 1999.
There are some good Mattel ones that we just said, but also, you know, we're trying to really
love the one with Bobby Heenan, Andre, Big John Stutt.
Because it's the Heenan family.
I mean, the four horse are the only way to get Big John Stutt.
I don't know.
You weren't actively collecting Mattels when that four horseman pack came out.
I, the tail end.
That was like the way.
Headless city though.
No, no, no.
At first, it was very similar to the way people just went nuts.
To get this Alster Black set.
You know, people just like, this set's going to be on the shelves.
People went nuts to get it right away.
It was the same thing with this four horseman set.
I mean, people were going nuts to get.
I remember I was at a convention for like 150 bucks of people were buying it.
But, and then eventually it was just there, you know.
I just like that.
That's the only way to get Barry Windham, right?
Which I think is cool.
That's what I'm saying.
If you're going to make a four pack, I know, of course, they're going to be repainted there,
of course.
But give us an exclusive in there and make people want to go get this four pack.
Or three pack or sometimes they make like six packs, right?
Like those never spotlights.
Those old school, now old school toys are us ones.
Yeah.
But those are basics.
Okay.
All right.
That was a good question.
Cool.
All right.
Mine is from Keith Blacknick at Media Goon.
How do you guys feel about the figures that come in the slam crate worth collecting?
Don't care about them.
Don't like them.
Hashtag Ask Major Pot.
Um, I don't collect them.
Not saying I don't like them.
I just don't, I guess, know enough about them.
I've seen them.
They're in rings, right?
They're displayed in rings.
Um, so what about these that intrigues me and why I picked this question?
Is because they're designed by Brian Beatty.
Are you familiar?
The old custom guy?
Yes.
Wow.
I didn't know that.
I was wondering if you knew that or not.
That's pretty cool.
And he, there's the reason I even know this is because I did a, uh, baseball crate that, um,
had the same thing with baseball guys and the same style and stuff.
And then I, I was connecting all the dots and actually the kabana might even told me or something.
Oh, you know what?
Yeah.
I think so too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or maybe he told us both.
Or just he knows Brian Beatty.
He went to school and was like, he's like a Chicago guy or something.
Something about that.
But, uh, that's why I think they're cool.
Who do they made?
Can you show me a picture of someone?
Oh, there's tons.
I hope they're not that cool because now I'm going to go back and get up.
Oh my God.
There's a, on the wrestling pigs forum.
So remember Brian Beatty and there's a whole thread about people talking about.
So.
Very talented customizer.
He was like a breathtaking customizer and like the attitude every day is an
infancy of, uh, figure forums and stuff and would post stuff and people would be like,
how are you doing this?
You know, um, there's a, there's a Sasha.
There's a Seth, a Hunter, a taker with a mask.
So this is like his site with all his art and stuff.
That's cool.
I mean, he's very, very talented.
There's no doubt about that.
Oh, wow.
But these aren't all figures though.
These are just like, this is just art.
There's the WWE guys.
Oh, wow.
That warrior.
Damn.
Wow.
I mean, he's, he's the real deal.
It's very unique.
Everything is like enlarged head.
Look at this Michael Jordan.
Now, these real figures that were just see, I think some of them are just concepts.
Gotcha.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
I might have to go back and get some of these.
They're cool.
I wonder if Slamcrate wants to be a sponsor.
So send them some, uh, send us some crates and we'll get the figures.
There's whatever one a month and, uh, I mean, they're cool.
I said, I've contemplated my scene when eBay.
Maybe, I mean, you'd probably want more of, uh, the classic guys.
I'm a classic guy.
Yeah.
Just the classic guy.
The stone calls really cool.
Cold stone.
Oh, yeah.
It's definitely something worth considering.
All right.
Very cool.
My next question is from Nicholas to desk.
Go at Disney and beyond.
If Mattel made a major W of pod line of figures and there were five figures in a series one set,
who were those five figures B?
All pertaining to our show.
All pertaining to our show.
I already know.
My opinion.
So like you're talking like Tommy Boy from as.
No, no.
If I like, like first of all, we'll never be Mattel figures of this podcast because this,
this podcast is technically not affiliated with Mattel or WWE.
Yeah.
We're actually full disclosure working on a toy line.
By now there might be some news out there on that, but if I could,
if I could really pick series one and I don't even know if we could do this,
it would be us and like our podcast street clothes, us and stop and paradise gear.
Mm.
And then I would have Hornswoggle naked with the title.
Yeah.
That would be my five.
Okay.
I can't top that.
Right.
That's pretty good.
I didn't understand the question at first.
I was like, but the Hornswoggle, how do we do a naked?
I think if you take the title off, it's all like blurry.
I think he just has a tan trunk song.
Tan trunk.
Okay.
Yeah.
Trunks.
Yeah.
But we obviously we wouldn't be able to do all his.
We'd have to get that.
Batatos. But we'd have to buy the rights to the Rikishi Titan Tron.
You know, butt cheeks.
The butt cheeks to get the accurate butt cheeks.
Bunchy.
Stamply Rikishi butt cheeks.
And then we could do the flocked leg hair.
Ugly.
This is getting real expensive.
Ugly.
Ugly.
Oh my God.
You're getting real expensive.
You know, we'd have to pay for the rights for those ugly,
muppet tattoos or even it could be a target exclusive because
Hornswoggle's a target logo tattoo.
Maybe there is a build a, build a Tommy Boy for Massachusetts.
No.
All his parts come with all the other.
Oh.
We get a maximum sweat bill.
A build a smart mark.
Definitely a smart mark.
I would love to make a raw toy line.
Of course.
But I'm doing a dream.
On that very, very soon.
I thought it was a great question.
All right.
The WTF figure of the week is a figure when you look at it,
you go, what the f***?
Weep that mark.
This week, it's from our good friends at Ringside Collectibles.
And I already told them we were doing this,
so they're not going to get all pissy.
Yeah.
But it is a Ringside Collectibles exclusive.
Now also, full disclosure, I said on, on Twitter that we were looking for this,
looking for WTFs.
And if you suggested it, we'd send you a best wish date by 10.
So the guy who suggested this, Chris Marino at Crusader 6188,
you will be getting a best wishes date by 10.
And his suggestion was the Ringside Collectibles exclusive,
Taz Classic Superstar.
Okay.
But it's, how do you describe this?
Okay.
I'm trying to, you said you asked John about this and he didn't really give you too much detail.
He gave me just like what happened?
Okay.
So it's Taz.
Okay.
It's a Taz ECW Taz in the singlet.
He's got a towel.
Who was known for the towel that he were in his head?
But this package, oh no, has it clipped around his waist valviness style?
So there were some symptoms?
Some kind of really bad mix up with jacks where they,
instead of putting the towel next to him in the package as an accessory,
wrapped it around his waist and clipped it onto it.
It looks like he's wearing a black dress.
Black dress.
It looks like Saturn in the dress.
So this figure, when it came out, I was like, oh my God.
But when it came out, it didn't come out.
Ringside didn't, Ringside sold it loose.
Yeah, they didn't know it was a mess up and they unpacked it,
I'm gonna send them out.
But then I guess they kept some and then eventually did.
I can't remember the story.
I think they kept some.
Cause like, obviously they're embarrassed by this too.
And then I'm gonna be like, hey, here's an exclusive.
Some did sneak through the cracks and get released with the-
I think they purposely kept like 50 of them or so, whatever.
But, so Ringside would sell them loose with the towel off.
But sometimes the towel would stain the guy's legs.
Which is a major problem, no pun intended, with all Jack's cloth accessories.
I think Mattel as well.
I think so too, but I'm also so nuts about it that I-
I won't even take them off.
I won't even check.
I- Okay, well, I don't do that.
But I- Look, if I'm not gonna display,
if I don't want to figure display with this cloth accessory,
I take it off and I put it in a Ziploc and then-
Your psycho.
And I don't let it even touch a plastic because I don't want it to stain.
Right.
But it's a big problem.
So anyway-
I was thinking about like, I watched those, uh,
Vice Landox and stuff.
Right.
And I was thinking about the Free Birds and the Vonaira stuff.
Oh my god, what a-
And the-
The-
That Free Bird set is the number one thing I think of when I think of Jack's stained product.
Like all three of them are just destroyed when you open those now.
Right.
There's no turning back.
And it's been years and years and years.
If you open a Minowcard Free Birds,
you think, oh, it's Minowcard, it's gonna be great.
Oh, it's destroyed.
It's destroyed, man.
And you just gotta like accept it.
But with this taz, they originally, like I said,
released it with the towel around his waist.
But then they fixed it regular packaging, towel on the side.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They fixed it.
All right.
So if you were to buy this, if you had a pre-order, I guess, back in the day,
you would get it loose.
I'd be pissed.
I think the real thing here is-
Well, Jack's John doesn't-
Jack's John doesn't-
Well, yes.
And if John doesn't know, then we'll never know like what the numbers are.
Like what was-
How many had the towel around the waist?
How many got opened?
How many didn't?
How many got replenished and fixed?
All right.
And it's just-
It's literally clipped on like the Valjeanist towel.
It's kind of-
It's very Googleable.
Imagine like Trevor or John's face when that shipment showed up.
Oh, man.
That's gotta be all the time.
Like 20,000 taz like that?
Nah, I think like three or 5,000 or exclusive.
Whatever it was.
That still has to be like-
Hey, shit.
What the-
Hey, well, that's why it's the WTA.
Yeah.
Figure of the week.
And this is right, I believe after,
Taz got upset about the one night sand mumu.
Yeah, so it's like he's got like-
He's cursed.
Yeah, he's cursed.
Oh, man.
All right, so thank you, ringside.
Thanks for being a good sport.
Next up is the Q&A.
All right, let's round this out with the Q&A.
You ask us a question using hashtag.
Ask Major Pod, we answer and we send you the infamous best wishes eight by ten.
We're running over nowhere, by the way.
No way.
Yeah.
Again, I want to switch into a new design.
A new design.
Yeah.
To keep the incentive.
Orange card.
And I don't want to do that.
I want to do like-
Yellow card?
Like classic superstar packaging or something.
We'll talk about it off air.
Anyway, here we go.
My question is from Dave Lee.
At Dave Lee.
Oh my god, are you kidding me?
You ready for this?
At Dave Lee.
88018704.
How many Dave Lee's are there that you need to do?
Oh, oh god.
You couldn't come up with something else?
Anyway, I've started buying WWE retro after years away from collecting.
Some of the figures I have bought, I don't really want such as two stings,
two Kevin Owens, Triple H, etc.
Do you think I should sell or keep to complete the collection?
There's a couple of things about this.
Keep them all.
Well, like, okay.
You got to.
One, four.
Okay, really?
You're-
You're-
Your collections are a collection.
You set the rules.
Sure.
So you need to first decide.
Am I a completist or am I not?
If you're a completist-
Why do you think you're triple ages?
He just like randomly wrote N triple H like he didn't want it or something.
Oh, because the variant relates to one logo?
Um, maybe, but I don't think he's counting that.
You-
Listen.
The variant triple H is a mess up.
I don't count that.
I think that's ridiculous.
Yes.
Uh, two, but like, there's no like,
you're the boss of your own collection.
So if you're a completist, you're a completist.
If you're not, then you make up your own rules and you get what you want to get.
And that's your deal.
So if you don't want something, you got to decide that.
I think, you know what?
Don't listen to Hawkins.
It's two extra figures, this thing in the KO.
Just get up and-
I also-
Okay, you can never regret it.
This early in the game, like,
retroline's going to be around forever and ever and years and years and years.
I mean, why wouldn't it be the best-
And it's the best line-
And we've got-
And we've got-
The most popular thing in Mattel history.
So, uh, only-
It's right now-
The retro is right now.
Literally right now, you're thinking about-
Two things in two cavities.
This is the only repeat.
Just spend the 15 bucks.
And we're coming on 10 sets, you know?
Right.
That's not-
That's not like a big deal.
And I get it.
The KO-
Listen, I love KO.
I wish there wasn't two of KO's though,
but it had to be done.
And either that or no figure.
No, that or yeah.
I mean, people get fired and whatever they all happen.
I don't remember-
You were idiots and-
Yeah, I remember.
Yeah, whatever.
Yeah, I don't remember who he replaced.
But he had to replace somebody very last minutes.
It was not-
Not a Bill Andall.
And luckily, he's different.
He's not the same figure.
Right. And Woltback's thing,
and it'll be all-
Oh, sorry.
That doesn't bother me at all.
Because that's like significantly different, in my opinion.
That's like saying you don't have to get both macho-mans.
Right.
You have to.
You have to.
Yeah.
100%.
So that's your call, buddy.
I mean,
a collection is what you make of it.
There's no set rules.
You're the boss.
You make the rules, you know,
collector to one.
It might be.
And I would get them now
just because they're going to go up in value.
And that's what's going on too, yeah.
And now we're like-
We're making these retro rings,
stickers and ropes, and like,
yes, it's a plug for our stuff.
But at the same time, it's not.
Like one day,
these rings are going to disappear.
You know what I'm saying?
Like they're not going to be available on Amazon
or Ringside or whatever.
They're happy to bring in.
They just have to.
Right. So I would say,
buy them up all now.
Either to have them as like gold in your closet,
or to make retro rings.
Like-
We're just, yeah, just to be safe, you know?
Yeah, that's what I would say.
And I mean,
I don't think he's retro as a good name,
whether the best thing Mattel's got going right now.
I say get them all collectable.
That's what I say.
That was a great question.
Now, my question comes from Ryan Logs Don
at its RMFL.
Hashtag Ask Major Pod.
When coming up with WrestleMania gear,
do you take into consideration what it will look like in figure form?
Congrats on your success.
Sure.
I don't know what you're going to say about this,
but I don't think I've ever gotten gear
where I wasn't thinking about the toys.
But that's-
Every time.
But that's me and you because we're psychopaths.
And toy addicts and think very differently than our colleagues.
When I wore my like,
sing USA inspired jacket,
I thought for sure like,
oh, if Mattel makes this,
they'll just like,
repaint the great American bash,
sting jacket.
But no, Bill won the extra mile of maybe a brand new
Nick Off jacket.
And this WrestleMania,
I mean, this WrestleMania,
obviously, you know,
we're not going to talk about it,
but something cool happened for us.
And but we didn't know that when we got the gear made.
You know?
My gear in my mind,
just because WrestleMania was in our hometown
and all my friends and family are coming.
Well, one, my favorite-
It's my favorite football team.
Okay.
And I had this idea like one night only,
like I've only worn orange and blue since
2004.
Oh man, 2013.
I haven't worn any other colors.
And I was gonna be one night only thing.
I'll never do it again,
which was still the idea.
And I was like,
and hey, you know what?
My friends and family are gonna be there.
They can pick me out of the Andre.
A lot easier in this bright green outfit.
Right.
That was literally what I thought.
So that's all I'm saying about that.
So mine, a couple of things.
First of all, I want to thank TTD Wrestling,
the guy who designs a lot of our
major derivapod t-shirts.
I went to him and got some gear made.
You saw what I came up with.
He's like, oh, I need him to make my gear.
You showed me what he-
And I just blew my mind.
I went, oh man.
TTD Wrestling kills the game right now.
I had my idea,
but it had no way to like execute it.
Right.
And then he did it for me,
which I can't ever think of enough for that.
So I knew that we were coming back to New York, New Jersey,
whatever you want to call it.
And the last time WrestleMania was in New York, New Jersey,
we didn't do nation.
But I had special gear made up for that day.
It was like Statue of Liberty with like the headband and the vaud.
But I ended up wearing it on the raw the next day.
I was a big eight man.
I don't think I had gear.
I don't think I had gear.
And I had all those stickers.
We're not gonna talk about that.
Wait, let me know about that.
Sorry, but I don't think-
I don't think I was disillusioned enough then to like have gear.
I was totally disillusioned.
This is like Z-Troll and that's what's going on.
I had it.
Was it still a thing?
Yeah.
2013.
It was like you're-
Was it 2013?
100%.
March or April 2013 is that mania.
Also, maybe it was the tail end.
I think you're like dead.
It just ended.
It just ended in that January.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm dead.
You're dead.
Like buried,
allied.
You know?
I'm over.
But this year I knew it would be special to be in New York, New Jersey.
So I wanted to pay tribute to Christian,
one of my favorite wrestlers when I-
I guess he probably doesn't think I'm a friend,
but I think he's a friend.
He's very Bill McKeena-esque.
Yeah.
I don't know if he actually likes you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I wanted like the WrestleMania 20 gear.
I love that figure.
I love that gear.
It's that white with that gold.
So I got like that kind of design,
but I wanted logos that kind of told a story,
you know, my gear told a story.
So like, I'm a told story to me.
If you're looking at it, you're probably like,
what the fuck is this?
But so it had like the WrestleMania 20 Christian-esque style
in the waistband.
And then on one knee pad,
it has like the Broski logo,
but on a skeleton, like the Broski's dead.
Like no one else would know that,
except for like me, if you're really like analyzing it.
This question just got so deep in general.
Whereas like if you, I feel like if you asked like
nine out of 10 superstars,
they're like, it's red because I picked red.
Like there's nothing to it.
Well, I mean, that's what I want on one knee pad.
It was like a skeleton like with the headband and the crack.
It was a cracked glass like the Broski's dead.
And the other knee pad was like the rated R superstar,
but ZR in the back was instead of like the still here,
it was the still major.
And I thought like this would be great like as gear,
but I didn't, I didn't think anything would ever come from it.
And then I had awesome entrance gear that I got
from Maya from Clay Man, she makes the Backstreet Boys stuff.
And just so having the like by the time I ordered it,
it came in time.
And then like we ended up getting that match.
So like while I'm wearing all this,
like it's gonna be great night.
And then we ended up winning, which, which is cool.
And if we get figured out of this, like wow.
My gear said C-U-R-T, Kurt Kurt Kurt.
J-E-T-S, Jets Jets Jets.
Oh my God, we're gonna end in that.
Brose Key just came at me with some sports knowledge.
I don't know what to say, I'm speechless.
I saw the ZR-DZ sticker on my jacket.
You said that already.
But like, you know, it was on the inside of the jacket,
like it wasn't supposed to be shown.
And I took one step up the entrance rep and it busted open.
So hopefully...
I haven't watched the match back.
Hopefully it's all makes a little easier like that.
All right.
Guys, thank you so much.
That was a long time.
Guys, ProRes and he's.com slash major,
wfpod, youtube.com slash major wfpod on Twitter.
And Instagram at major wfpod2dayzombysailor.com.
The stop and paradise pins 200 of each.
As a set, pick them up 35 bucks.
We're gonna autograph them all.
And until next time, what do we got to say?
Have these ZR-DZs really over?
Zigman101.
Oh boy.
Later, Marx.
Well, you know, Daddy Jack, the fact of the matter is,
May 13th.
Is that the next Create-A-Pro show?
May 13th.
We also have Create-A-F-W-F. Live.
I believe it's six or seven or eight or nine.
It doesn't matter because the one constant,
the one thing that will always be there is the J. George Open challenge.
And May 13th, you already know what it is.
I'm taking on Chick Donovan, but that's not what this is about.
It's not about promoting my upcoming events.
Because guess what?
Homecoming is sold out.
So I don't even got to talk about it.
I don't have to mention it ever because it doesn't make a difference
because it has been sold out.
Brother, let me tell you this, dude.
You just listened to the major rewind and I've been experimenting.
I haven't been including some of the jingles.
Part of the reason for that is because when I download these,
the older episodes, and you could hear the bad music in the background,
I forgot to mute it.
Hold on.
We're back in fighting form.
When I download these older episodes,
I was originally downloading them from the public feed.
And a lot of those include the ads and the jingles and everything.
It became easier for me to download stuff directly from the Patreon feed,
which after a certain amount of episodes includes all of the ad-free and early shows.
And a lot of those, the ones I download,
because it's also a smaller file size,
are the ones that don't have the jingles.
And you know, listen, I'm a die-hard major mark,
just like all of you.
Just like all of you.
I listened to the episodes.
I know what the jingles are and I could,
I hear them, I could repeat them,
verbatim with a gun to my head.
If there were a million dollars,
I would be a millionaire if I were told to repeat one of these jingles word for word.
Unfortunately, you know, I don't know.
I don't know if it's necessary.
You tell me, if you want to hear the jingles,
let me know, shout me out on Twitter.
You already know the deal.
It's your boy Jay George wrestling's premier cinematic genius,
the producer and host of The Major Rewind.
to.
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