“Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Hulkamania runs wild on you?” — Hulk Hogan
The Story of Professional Wrestling action figures is certainly a long one that has traveled through several decades. Unlike some other mainstream franchises, Wrestling action figures and toys were cranked out by a few different toy companies (LJN, Remco, Galoob, Hasbro, Toy Biz and Jakks Pacific) along the way, and they’ve all had their positives and negatives.
Professional Wrestling has been around since the 1800’s in some form or another, but it started becoming a pop culture event during the 60’s and 70’s. This popularity shifted into HIGH gear when Vince McMahon brought the WWF into existence during the early 1980’s. The WWF was stocked full of colorful and fun personalities, which appealed to fans across the globe and was tailor made for action figures based on these larger than life characters. This continued with other wrestling leagues such as the AWA, WCW, ECW and eventually the WWE.
The Professional Wrestling toys that are featured on our Toy Collectors Guide site cover the period between their initial launch by LJN in 1984 through the Jakks Pacific line, which came to an end in 2009. Each individual page covered on our site is separated by the toy brand and year of each. Every page contains a full breakdown of all items released during that particular line, including photos, secondary market values and more. Like the rest of the site, these values are taken from the most current data available from all the major secondary market sites across the internet. This data is based on actual sales of the individual items and not necessarily the listed prices.
I hope you enjoy our new Wrestling Action Figure section and have fun exploring the site.
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