12 Bizarre Pieces Of Trivia About WWE Action Figures
11. Oh, Canada
Sometimes a toy line will end in one country (in this case, the United States), yet carry on in other countries. The DC Super Powers Collection carried on in South America, for example, introducing new characters like a Green Lantern figure repainted as The Riddler. After The Transformers well briefly dried up in 1991, Europe and Japan were receiving all-new characters, toys, and in the latter case, fiction throughout the gap between then and the Generation 2 resurrection in 1993. When LJN closed the doors to their toy division in 1989 to focus on publishing such video games as Jaws, Back to the Future, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the toy lines they were producing at the time ceased as well, including the Wrestling Superstars line. This left six figures remaining unproduced: Bad News Brown, Brother Love, Bushwhacker Luke, Bushwhacker Butch, Demolition Smash, and The Barbarian. Well, unproduced in the U.S., that is; Canadian distributor Grand Toys (not to be confused with Grand & Toy, for the Canadians reading this) would go on to release the final six, as a result making those figures rarer than their contemporaries.
Former Nintendo Power writer, current Nintendo Force writer. Wrote the book on Mega Man (The Robot Master Field Guide). Was once fired by Vince McMahon. Dabbles in video games, comic books, toys, and fast food curiosities. Once had a new species of exotic bird named after him. It died.
You can find more of his writings, musings, and other such things on his websites at Nyteworks.net.
