Jim Cornette on Retro Wrestling Figures
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5 ай бұрынFrom Episode 326 of the Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
Guest Artist: George Livanidis ( / georgelivs !
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@GodotOfficial 5 ай бұрын
In a decade’s time, our landfills will be filled with Adam Page action figures
@yoholmes273 5 ай бұрын
WoW...I didn't know they even made those. And why? Well at least they don't take up too much size in the landfill.
@walterclark3198 5 ай бұрын
@@yoholmes273 I didn't even know he had an action figure. Those things are sitting on shelves next to fozzy albums.
@yoholmes273 5 ай бұрын
@@walterclark3198 Fozzy the Bear 🐻 has albums?
@walterclark3198 5 ай бұрын
@@yoholmes273 Yeah nobody buys them except Jericho and member's of fozzy.
@tobiasfarragut292 5 ай бұрын
Probably in the same hidden hole where all the Atari E.T. Cartridges are
@TheOrlandoTrustfull 5 ай бұрын
I grew up in London England, and the best Christmas present I ever got was a Texas Tornado/Kerry Von Erich action figure that did the spinning punch when you wound it up. I used to love that piece of plastic nonsense.
@yoholmes273 5 ай бұрын
OH geez I remember that one!
@phantomjumper 5 ай бұрын
WWF Hasbro Texas Tornado
@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361 5 ай бұрын
Your little town is the worst place I’ve ever visited and I’ve been to Manchester before
@aaronhooper1110 5 ай бұрын
I had to go to hamleys to get my first ever hasbro figure (couldn’t find them anywhere locally) the only one they had was Brutus beefcake 😂
@Stonehopper1067HMG 5 ай бұрын
If there’s an Elf on a Shelf then there needs to be a Cornette in a Corvette. Every era of Jim Cornette with a matching Chevrolet Corvette of that time.
@northleedspoppa 5 ай бұрын
Khan in a barn as part of deletion play set?
@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma 5 ай бұрын
Better yet, a Cornette smearing a booger on Eric Bischoff's Corvette.
@johnkolko5199 5 ай бұрын
or a Mustang on a fence
@Stonehopper1067HMG 5 ай бұрын
@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma I’d rather it be on Eric himself, it’s not the Corvettes fault he was lame.
@jasonfortier4074 5 ай бұрын
Cornette in a corset.
@frednichols9851 5 ай бұрын
Jim is the only person who could release an advertisement omnibus & I'd listen to it 😂😂
@misterslats 5 ай бұрын
I wish someone would do a Stu Hart figure. They could sellout the entire run in Calgary alone.
@rEdHoUsE_1969 5 ай бұрын
Brian trying to keep sponsors despite Jim's best efforts is absolute gold ... 🤣
@markwrenn5965 5 ай бұрын
They figured out a way to make the ad reads bearable for listeners. It's pretty smart... and hilarious
@gurrys2961 5 ай бұрын
These sponsors throw small amounts of money (relative to their size) at absolutely anything that can prove satisfactory benchmarks. Monthly listens and whatever.
@emanuelperez3595 5 ай бұрын
@@gurrys2961i think is worth it. I mean in a way they are getting paid to laugh and mock the product they sponsor 😂 everyone laughs and that helps promote the product better. Im more inclined to pay attention to a funny or silly ad than some serious one
@WyattHolliday 5 ай бұрын
Man, I absolutely loved those WWF Hasbro figures back in the day. Bret Hart won a lot of matches and sometimes he’d team with Hogan against Demolition. Good times.
@christophercleary6780 2 ай бұрын
Good booking
@bradpaton3927 5 ай бұрын
Guessing retro, professional wrestling, action figures' finishing maneuvers has become the new 'guess the program'; I love it!
@kurtwetzel154 5 ай бұрын
I like this better.
@juansanchez209 5 ай бұрын
Wrestling with a plush Hogan doll in my bed with the highlight of my childhood!
@michaelklingenberg7872 5 ай бұрын
Late 80s/early 90s I had a Jake The Snake action figure and it came with a giant snake...my uncle talked me into using the snake as a lure when we went fishing 😂
@natwolf687 5 ай бұрын
Did it work?
@michaelklingenberg7872 5 ай бұрын
@@natwolf687 sadly know....my guess is even the snake had too much cocaine in its system 🤣
@riffhousestudios96 5 ай бұрын
Raw is All Netflix!
@SmegulonPrime 5 ай бұрын
Irrelevant but yeh
@42069LT 5 ай бұрын
So now Raw will be foreign language and will have to read the damn thing
@riffhousestudios96 5 ай бұрын
@@42069LT yeah bro all the superstars will all of a sudden start speaking Spanish and French 🔥
@weirdfan88 5 ай бұрын
$5 billion is insane
@guardian08527 5 ай бұрын
Haven't watched an episode of Raw through completely since 2009. Don't have Netflix so it's not a huge loss to me.
@bobdonda 5 ай бұрын
I can't believe Cornette heard the mention of Oscar and didn't say she's doing well in the women's division these days
@wildwine6400 5 ай бұрын
It was the Trash Compactor by Duke Droese. It was a spinning pumphandle slam
@phildodson6141 5 ай бұрын
Yeah I was thinking same thing
@tobiasfarragut292 5 ай бұрын
🏅
@positively_broad_st3780 5 ай бұрын
Droese was just a few years early. By 1998, he could have routinely used that trash can he carried to the ring, full of weapons - including the can itself. Duke could have been the original WWF hardcore champion...
@guardian08527 5 ай бұрын
@@positively_broad_st3780 I thought the same thing about Droese for years. He just missed out on the Russorific hardcore era. Edit: Maybe he's lucky in that regard🤔
@wildwine6400 5 ай бұрын
Jimmy's best look is whenever he had the keyboard tie
@seereadnhear 5 ай бұрын
We should get a remco style Midnight Express pack!!
@itscarlosreally 5 ай бұрын
I remember having a bendable Arn Anderson figure from the local dollar store. It got lost when we migrated, but I fondly remember how he'd deliver spine busters to not only Optimus Prime, but the Power Rangers, too.
@chrisdavid3510 5 ай бұрын
I’ve got the full set of AWA Remco figures including all variations.
@Rolbell 5 ай бұрын
Those things were awesome! I had the Road Warriors, Freebirds, Ric Flair, Baron Von Raschke, Larry Zbyszko, Curt Hennig, plus a bunch of no-name masked wrestlers they did as part of a generic wrestler line. They were the perfect size to battle my Thunderlips action figure.
@tobiasfarragut292 5 ай бұрын
Nice…u are god
@WyattHolliday 5 ай бұрын
That’s awesome!
@taisou108 5 ай бұрын
Amazing art by George Livanidis! Keep it up!
@dejuans1328 5 ай бұрын
Love this artwork.
@michaelrayii7102 5 ай бұрын
I still have tons of retro figures from childhood
@greghughes8147 5 ай бұрын
I heard "Oscar" and immediately thought Asuka, then realized it was actually Oscar
@InfiniCalendar 5 ай бұрын
When I was a kid, my friend had the old WWF action figures AND the ring. That was pretty cool.
@1prettyboymobbin 5 ай бұрын
I clicked this thinking I was gonna just hear old action figure stories…but no, Jim gives you an analysis of early Hulk Hogan days and an insight that only he has.
@hollowayquotes 5 ай бұрын
Corny looks like Heihachi in that tattoo.
@gitarkin 5 ай бұрын
Corny doing an axe kick is quite the visualization
@KomradeKrusher 5 ай бұрын
Not a tattoo, it's a pattern shaved into the chest hair. That was Hogan's look in the late 70s as "Terry Boulder".
@hollowayquotes 5 ай бұрын
@@gitarkinPreferably on Shitstain or Pockets.
@thebigoilkanlarry 5 ай бұрын
"Fellas With A Purpose?" ....😂😂😂
@colonelrobertsjr.7882 5 ай бұрын
This is great!! I'd love to see a Norvell Austin Randy Rose and Dennis Condrey variation as well!!
@tobiasfarragut292 5 ай бұрын
OG express..don’t forget Wendi 😅
@HessenUK 5 ай бұрын
Is there a retro Corny figure out there somewhere that comes with swinging tennis racquet attacks?
@tobiasfarragut292 5 ай бұрын
@@thelastmotel📋 sign this NDA please..
@Recycledhooligan 5 ай бұрын
Yes he had a figure during the attitude era of wwe.
@shanehero 5 ай бұрын
I would love to see a Jim Cornette Hasbro WWF style figure eventually to go with that collection. Jim was a huge part of that era of WWF, with the various talent he managed. He needs to be represented in that collection!
@walterclark3198 5 ай бұрын
One Man Gang and Bam Bam Bigelow were the best big men in the business. To be that big and have that much movement in the ring. Just amazing.
@ShadowAngel606 5 ай бұрын
Never seen Vader?
@walterclark3198 5 ай бұрын
@@ShadowAngel606 Vader was good too. He had a great match in Wcw with Cactus jack.
@yoholmes273 5 ай бұрын
One Man Gang from his professional debut to Wrestlemania 4 was an absolute UNIT. As legit scary of a heel in the business during that time.
@walterclark3198 5 ай бұрын
@@yoholmes273 I use to think one man gang was 911 from ecw.
@yoholmes273 5 ай бұрын
@@walterclark3198 HAHA Gang is much bigger!
@noamto 5 ай бұрын
Droese's finisher was actually called the trash compactor, but it was some kind of suplex.
@Gary_Youtube1 5 ай бұрын
Fellas with a purpose! I had so much fun with that.
@vinceraven1501 5 ай бұрын
Used to have every 80s WWF figure, 90s WCW figures & various ones from the mid to late 90s too. Sold all of em to another collector years ago. I've never seen anything about it anywhere, but, I had a 80s WWF Rick Martel one that stood out because his trunks were colored yellow with his initials in green on the backside & have never seen another like that anywhere. Also had a set of Demolition, for some reason, that didn't have facepaint.... 🤔
@tobiasfarragut292 5 ай бұрын
The 90’s wcw figures were dope I had sid and Ron Simmons my cuz had Butch reed wanted the ring but didn’t press the issue 😅
@darkside7802 5 ай бұрын
Oh shit. I guess there Garard’s move the same second Jim did. Hell yeah.
@jasongott1094 5 ай бұрын
Epic Toys in the UK is making a Hasbro style Bobby Heenan figure, and I am holding out hope that they make Corny and the Midnight Express.
@pendafen7405 Ай бұрын
Would highkey love a Major Figure Pod/Drive Thru x-over episode. Imagining Jim's bemusement when faced with the full force of Matt special-interesting while the two Brians try not to evaporate with second-hand embarrassment. Or Corny having to go on a Toy Hunt.
@Dontbeasquarepeg 4 ай бұрын
I loved the Hasbro figures, so I’m definitely a fan of the new retros. We finally got a lady in the collection, Windy Richter!
@mistahwrestling1430 5 ай бұрын
I ordered the big four pack in September when it became available. I should probably get to opening that box. I will definitely be waiting for February 10th to buy the heavenly bodies tag set
@charles616 5 ай бұрын
I just saw they're making a "TL Hopper" and an "Uncle Tony" from his time as "Uncle Cletus" with the Godwinns
@kennethtolley9374 5 ай бұрын
Great job Jim on making all the ring gear different too making even those with the 4 pack want the tag packs. A+ marketing for the completist out there
@tobiasfarragut292 5 ай бұрын
I have a lot of the hard rubber 80’s LJN figures, actually still have Harley Race’ crown and Funks Hat no branding iron 😕
@rubenmartinez6541 5 ай бұрын
They should make a dr. D John stossel bundle and give dr. D slapping action.
@dwade6322 5 ай бұрын
Oh! 🤣
@whydat684 5 ай бұрын
I'm holding out for Jimmy Delray
@SedatKulafofski-eh5pc 5 ай бұрын
Man I wish i still had my LJN figures. Had 24 of them, including the ring and steel cage accessory. Had the stretch Macho Man doll too. They were amazing value for the quality that they were built with in retrospect.
@ELLx-wl5lo 5 ай бұрын
… joints in the elbows and stuff. -Vials of white powder in their trunks (classic backhanded insider wakeup slap) -courtesy of Jim Cornett
@kurtwetzel154 5 ай бұрын
Marc’s grocery store had Drew McIntyre action figures for $2.
@OuTSMOKE 5 ай бұрын
Fellas With A Purpose 🤣
@lalomontoyajr.9282 5 ай бұрын
I thought that shaved symbol on Hogan's chest was the letter "T" for "Terry" for his wrestling name Terry Boulder lol!
@RAZERDsXe 5 ай бұрын
Netflix and Chill about to get raw
@brendanwilliams106 5 ай бұрын
Russian cossack hats that tony khan wears at media scrums 😂😂🤣
@billwebber400 5 ай бұрын
LMAO❤🤑🤕😂
@DEATHTRAPTRAILERS 5 ай бұрын
Lost it at ‘Fellas with a Purpose’
@aretnap3653 5 ай бұрын
I'd Like to Have The "Knock-Off" Wrestling Figure(s) I Scored from "FamilyDollar", as an 80's Kid.😜
@Recycledhooligan 5 ай бұрын
There’s a hulk hogan thunder lips action figure out there.
@vortega472 5 ай бұрын
I just wish Ray had a few more years (except for Stan's mom the good ones really die young) - it would be really nice to have a Big Bubba action figure with the Midnight.
@DavidOwen-yv8wz 5 ай бұрын
I remember Tony Anthony also being The Godwinns’ manager Uncle Cletus! I also seem to remember they beat him up after he cost them a match against Legion of Doom, and as Raw was going off the air, Henry Godwinn was starting to take off his dungarees, to suggest he was going to sodomise him Deliverance style. Which l thought was a bit much. We never saw him again…
@Brando-Lee3725 5 ай бұрын
I couldn't remember Dukes finisher but I thought Waste Management sounded good lol ! Or maybe The Landfill or Thrash Receptacle heh heh .
@willowfalls7528 5 ай бұрын
3:42 - sitting here, screaming at the computer... "TRASH COMPACTOR!!!!!"
@willowfalls7528 5 ай бұрын
Pretty sure Duke "The Dumpster" called his move that too....
@hughjass7101 5 ай бұрын
WWE is about to release a 2 pack of "Throsh and Masher"
@guardian08527 5 ай бұрын
That's a long overdue on the tag team figure want list.
@titansrule72 5 ай бұрын
kudos to the rock for getting his ip from wwe with the tko deal. so smart as now his family can thrive for generations on that alone.
@aretnap3653 5 ай бұрын
TheArtWork on TheChest Looks Like Dr.Wily-Cornette!😜 (8-Bit MegaMan)
@DaRealBenRichards 5 ай бұрын
I have a retro cornette from wwf that came with the sultan. I lost his racket though.
@bigvanpapi 5 ай бұрын
Vintage > Retro especially Hasbro WWF figures & those Charapro AJPW & NJPW figures from the 90’s!
@sabrinaartois-davis2820 5 ай бұрын
A landfill with Britt baker action figures
@Recycledhooligan 5 ай бұрын
Wish I still had my nwa road warriors hawk & animal.
@J.B.Whiteside 5 ай бұрын
I had a Jake The Snake figure back in the day
@greenbasterd9425 5 ай бұрын
Mushroom cloud......riiight. Totally not a phallus.
@eklypised 5 ай бұрын
I had alot from the 80s but sold um about 3 years ago...
@dwade6322 5 ай бұрын
Make any decent dough?
@nickm2483 5 ай бұрын
Always loved the Galoob WCW ring that had the detachable cage pieces. The figures themselves were garbage
@tedingram516 5 ай бұрын
Maybe bobble head action figures for some of these characters
@mjdf122 5 ай бұрын
Tony Khan action figure will be coming soon he even has one saying Everything is Great!
@LeHe040 5 ай бұрын
Who would buy the Jim/Brian two-pack, including land line and leaf blower?
@Gary_Youtube1 5 ай бұрын
Fun fact!......sprite zero tastes better while listening to this channel
@jasmith85 5 ай бұрын
I've still my Hasbro's locked up away.
@supertruck610 5 ай бұрын
Nightmare and speed? 😅 Cody and gravity are next!
@pccleric 5 ай бұрын
Stan Lane figure should come with a DNA test lol!!!!
@TextbookPhillyMadison 5 ай бұрын
Hastell should make a Jim figure. Instant buy.
@Recycledhooligan 5 ай бұрын
In the attitude era of wwe.there’s a Jim Cornett action figure.
@TextbookPhillyMadison 5 ай бұрын
@@RecycledhooliganCorrect! But it’s made by Jakks and for a Jakks figure it’s actually pretty nice. I would love a Hasbro style figure of Jim and a I feel Hastell does the best job making the Hasbro style figures.
@ThePartyupentertainm 5 ай бұрын
Start a petition! Seriously!
@jorgebarrera2165 5 ай бұрын
One Man Gang used to scare the crap out of me
@onehellofapunkrockshow6181 5 ай бұрын
Mike 'the bin man' Drowsee. OSW forever
@edwardsanders5926 5 ай бұрын
How much was Jimmy Hart’s air brush budget?
@walterclark3198 5 ай бұрын
Wonder how much a Tito Santana or Greg Valentine retro figure is worth.
@ShadowAngel606 5 ай бұрын
The LJN's are worth around 200-250 dollars. The Hasbro's aren't worth anything noticable.
@chadjustice8560 5 ай бұрын
@@ShadowAngel606that's false lol better look at Hasbro's again especially new in card ones. Alot of ljns aren't worth much unless new in box or the last series
@tobiasfarragut292 5 ай бұрын
@@ShadowAngel606in what condition? Perfect?..mint??
@guardian08527 5 ай бұрын
@@tobiasfarragut292 I got Tito's autograph on his Hasbro way back in 96 at a toy show. Interestingly enough, Valentine was supposed to be at the show too for the signing but didn't make it or cancelled. Got Fred Ottman to autograph his Hasbro Typhoon figure, a great guy to talk with!
@guardian08527 5 ай бұрын
@@chadjustice8560 I never had LJN's as a kid and never really got into collecting them as an adult because they were such a pain in the ass to find in good-very good condition. Used to see them at the toy shows for anywhere from $10-$80 a figure and they were just beat to death! Honky Tonk Man was notorious for the paint wear and I couldn't justify paying almost $60 for a rubber toy that looked like it was left in the woods for 20 years.
@insupportofjunhado 5 ай бұрын
Wrestlers would complain about Jim Cornette not caring about them because he didn't want thirty guys on every card and saved money by paying local job guys. Maybe he didn't care about certain wrestler individually, but his treatment of The Headbangers shows Jim does care about wrestlers having work, for the most part. More and more, with the money wasted by WCW, ECW and now AEW it seems like Jim was just trying to run business responsibly.
@claytonjones8358 5 ай бұрын
You can calllllllll mmmmmeeee AAAALLLLLLL
@chrischar9428 5 ай бұрын
Trash compactor was black bart
@gpsbowl 5 ай бұрын
Is it true Jim was banned from the locker room for sniffing jocks?
@vinceraven1501 5 ай бұрын
Like below, should do a Randy Rose & Norvell Austin set or singles being the original ME with Condrey & also a classic mid 80s Big Bubba Rogers too.
@trave5779 5 ай бұрын
Joints = Points of articulation to figure collectors
@mikejejenich-pb5zx 5 ай бұрын
One man gang. Was an underated wrestler. 🤼♀️. The big guy could move. Also. He pulled off the akeem gimmick quite well. When the slickster went to the deepest darkest parts of Africa to go get him. 👋✅
@joylane2960 5 ай бұрын
Clueless tony khan has all the human wrestling action figures he could ever need or want now. No need for the miniature ones anymore...>
@Kikujirosan 5 ай бұрын
Ok, who's gonna be the first cult member to get the Cornette face shaved into their chest hair? 😂
@tigernorm713 5 ай бұрын
Jim's pretty darn intelligent
@jonathandevereaux298 5 ай бұрын
He's not, just seems a grumpy old man and losers flock to insults and grumpiness so they don't feel lonely.
@tigernorm713 5 ай бұрын
@@jonathandevereaux298 are you a Vince Russo guy. Because I am and I like cornette too. And I hate cornettes anti trump and russo rhetoric
@maxhord1490 5 ай бұрын
Wow 10 mins in and no GD word I love it
@yusufgazi7 5 ай бұрын
RAW and chill?
@heelturnsface 5 ай бұрын
Duke “The Dumpster” Droese was a great wrestler, but the gimmick they stuck him with was trash.
@jilujoilujiut2165 5 ай бұрын
Is granny spry ?
@benespinosa6725 5 ай бұрын
LMAO a retro cornette figure would've been awesome I guess this a figure this style segment jim and Brian talking about action figures this is great stuff jim guessing the finishers of these figures is my favorite part of this.
@louis3141 5 ай бұрын
Does Duke come with a detachable foot??
@bobpatel5646 5 ай бұрын
There are starting to be too many of damn lines and some are really questionable. PN News, Conrad Thompson, Mantar, the Bank Addicted Drug Robber has one now. Personally I didnt like any of the pre Bone Crushing Action WWF figures (Hasbro or LJN) or pre Toy Biz WCW. Galoob and OSFTM were just god awful, i do have a Vader and 2 Surfer Stings. Sadly one of the worst offenders of shit figures, Cornette is in bed with them. I have 4 of his FTC ones and they are beyond crap. Doesnt fit in the chair for the commentary set but then the headsets dont fit either so. Theres that Say what will about WWE and hell even AEW, AEW are at worst decent. Compared to these lines that like the old WWF Hasbros or LJN, its just too much crap. Powertown Toys are really good though. Although they are starting a Remco (AWA/80s He-Man Style) line soon.
@mjdf122 5 ай бұрын
Toy time
@deepblue8143 5 ай бұрын
2nd!
@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361 5 ай бұрын
Mattel are literally the worst toy manufacturers I have ever seen, all their toys I got as a child sucked compared the ones I could get for cheap in a car boot sale. Mattel Shawn Michaels can’t even do his finisher with legs that only move forward and backwards
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