10 Baffling Pieces Of WWE Merchandise
How many will be on your Christmas list?
The holidays can be a minefield when it comes to getting the wrestling fan in your life that perfect gift. Luckily, WWE have merchandised just about everything in the last few decades, slapping their logo and superstars likeness on even the most perplexing of products.
We all accept the more conventional merchandise we see on shelves today; WWE has been a staple of toy stores and T-shirt sales for years. However, the success of mainstream products is clearly not enough for the bean counters at WWE headquarters, as over the years they have seemingly thrown countless ideas at the wall just to see what stuck, and picked up the ones that didn't and sold them as well.
This list may leave you sitting in front of your screen doing your best Jeff Goldblum impression, mumbling that famous quote "You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now...you're selling it, you wanna sell it."
If only lunchboxes were the most unconventional items on this list. This isn't the worst merchandise ever made and I know I will be leaving out some real hum-dingers but let us rifle through the archives and warehouses, emerging with a basket full the 10 Most Baffling Pieces of WWE merchandise.
10. Superstars Shoot-Out
As a kid you probably always wondered what your favorite WWE superstars got up to between their matches. In fans' heads The Undertaker likely went off to an old fashioned shanty town and made coffins, perhaps Jake Roberts wandered the wasteland collecting snakes for his collection and presumably Ultimate Warrior went back to his home planet.
In the early 1990s toy manufacture Remco put forward another theory. What if your favorite superstars all got together in their full wrestling gear and played ice hockey? Naturally. This take on the classic table top hockey game had all the biggest names of the time, complete with personalised hockey sticks. Jake the Snake's stick was a snake, Hogan's was a dumbbell, Hacksaw Jim Duggan had his 2x4, and Tugboat had a rope. The logistics of trying to play ice hockey with a snake or rope aside, the game is actually remembered fondly and has been known to go for well over $100 on eBay.
Perhaps it is time to rekindle this trend and introduce WWE Curling 2017.