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My Top 5 Bret 'Hitman' Hart Figures

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Earlier on today I watched a video on YouTube by Kyle Peterson, check his channel out and subscribe, always great content, and the latest video was on his top 5 Bret 'Hitman' Hart figures, I won't go into his choices as hopefully you'll check his video out but what I'll do here is list my own.   Bret has always been a favourite of mine, big fan of his no nonsense style of wrestling and over the years, he has had some excellent action figures. When I got into wrestling Hasbro had been releasing WWF action figures for a few months and I did have at least one Bret figure from them along with many other of their WWF figures. From there, JAKKS got the licence to make WWF figures. They did a series called 'Bone Crunchers' but I didn't have many of these and the ones I did have didn't involve Bret. JAKKS would go on to release what they called the 'Classic Superstars' range which, as it sounds, was a great line covering wrestlers, managers and annou...

The WWE Retrofest Line

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Hi all, hope you enjoyed the Defining Moments write up, today I am going to be looking at the Retrofest line released by WWE/Mattel. I believe the term RetroFest as far as the WWE/F was used was in an arcade game and thses plays into why the boxes for the figures were in the style of an arcade game. Loads of collectors really liked these, I wasn't overley bothered as a loose collector I was more focused on that, one of the figures in the line was one I wanted them to release for years and another one of them, I didn't think about being released but when they did I knew I must have it, I ended getting them all, there wasn't too many in the series, so with that, let's go. First in the line was Macho Man Randy Savage and Savage was doing commentary mostly I believe in 1993, when this attire is from but I vividly recall him wearing this attire in a match against Doink The Clown on RAW in the summer of 93 which came from an altrication when Savage was on commentary. It's...