5 WWE Toys We Wish We’d Had When We Were Kids
One of WWE’s key areas of strength since its national expansion in the 1980s has been merchandising.
Eric Bischoff has openly acknowledged on the 83 Weeks podcast that WCW never had much of a merchandise infrastructure until he took over, and even then he was always playing catch up to meet the demands of his growing business.
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Meanwhile, WWE seemed to realize the power of not only making money, but helping fans feel connected with their product through T-shirts, replica championship belts, and of course toys.
Toys may be the most essential piece of WWE’s merchandise empire as they appeal to young fans who can command their parents’ purchasing, not to mention the degree to which WWE typically appeals to kids, and that those kids will hopefully have years of dedicated fanhood ahead of them.
WWE’s line of toys hasn’t remained the same over the last thirty years, though. The products have evolved to not only include a more advanced and diverse array of action figures, but also other products that kids from decades past could only dream of.
This article looks at five WWE toys available now that we wish we’d had when we were kids.
#5 The 10-Piece Hardcore Accessories Playset
Action figures have been a staple pro wrestling product since the 1980s, but for the longest time kids had to imagine their own settings for matches.
Particularly as hardcore wrestling came into vogue, kids would have to pull toys from other sets or rely purely on their imaginations to concoct the elaborate brawls that WWE staged on a weekly basis on TV.
The 10-Piece Harcore accessories playset from Ringside Collectibles includes a cage, trash can, baseball bats and more to allow kids to create all manner of scenarios and reinvent staples from WWE’s hardcore, TLC, and street fight style matches.
Best of all, these accessories are built to match the scale of most wrestling figures, thus avoiding some of the awkward mismatched sizes that kids come across when they take a more do it yourself approach to providing their toy men and women with hardcore arsenals.