The Complete History Of WWF Jakks Bone Crunching Action 1996-1997

#WWFJakks #BoneCrunchingAction #ActionFigureHistory
Happy Holidays everyone! We hope you enjoy our favorite Holiday tradition for 2023! This is the COMPLETE history of WWF JAKKS BCA 1997-1997!
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Join Wrestling Superstar Matt Cardona (former WWE Superstar Zack Ryder) and IMPACT Wrestling star Brian Myers (former WWE Superstar Curt Hawkins) along with their producer AEW Star "Smart" Mark Sterling as they talk about one of their favorite hobbies...collecting wrestling toys! Each week the boys chat about the latest news, upcoming releases, toy history, vintage collecting and much more! As lifelong wrestling fans and wrestling memorabilia experts, these guys have plenty to say about the world of wrestling collectables. They started the obsession as kids and continued it through adulthood, and now as wrestling superstars they now have their own figures and merchandise and an insiders look at the wrestling figure business. PLUS, with all their friends in wrestling, you never know who could make an appearance each episode! If you collect anything wrestling, this is the podcast for you! SCRATCH THAT FIGURE ITCH!
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[@DSAVAGE92]

These have become annual viewing for me at Christmas

[@canadianmade5838]

Same I look forward to it every year now.

[@WolfLikeMyself]

I always forget. Then, when the craziness of Christmas ends, I am delighted when I can finally open the YT app.

[@djruden]

It’s a great tradition

[@zachary_attackery]

it sure beats spending time with my tired ass relatives

[@maximillionzen]

This is the content I live for...Please do 1998-2000 deep dives

[@HoovraCommander]

For all the involvement Brian's mom had in buying him the figs, I want an interview with her about what she remembers about finding all these and catering to his demands! 😂

[@TheAlSnowShow]

That would be such a nice treat to have a miniature talk segment asking their parents “Christmas 97, I’m in 7th grade. What are you thinking while I’m losing my mind over Hunter Hearst Helmsley’s figure in the weeks leading up?”

[@bloodanddajugs]

Parents Podcast! Clap Clap, Clap Clap Clap, Parents Podcast! Mothers Day and Fathers Day even !

[@Johnny82Utah]

Mid 90s definitely the best time to be a wrestling fan and action figure collector.

[@dogmd7]

Mid 90s product was pretty junk but the figures were better, late 90s was a way better in ring product imo

[@guardian08527]

In hindsight, I wish I cleaned out the Kay Bees of the Hasbro figures they still had. Back in 1996-1999ish you could still get the 3 for $10 deal on Hasbro's.

[@ultimatemagic2125]

Best time to be a fan was 85-90, best time to be a figure fan was 90-92.

[@claytonwoolwine1297]

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[@claytonwoolwine1297]

Please check this out as my son's

[@joseortega7815]

The REAL Monday Night Wars happened in my room when my WWF Bone Crunchers took on my WCW Smash N Slam figs.

[@ryankeefe2102]

The amount of dream matches and multi ppv feuds that would go down on rainy weekends in my room with those figures

[@Ringmaster138]

Amazing video. Already watched it twice. Accoring to Ultimate Warrior's shoot interview with RF Video, the phrase, "Always Believe" was not supposed to be on the Jakks package. When Warrior saw the packaging at a Toy Fair, he was upset and called Linda Mcmahon to complain. Warrior was no showing events and before the figure was sent to stores, he was gone from WWF.

[@ZRKVette]

BCA is some of the best figures ever made love the cartoony style for some of them

[@riffsandwich9541]

This is one of my favorite Christmas traditions. I look forward to these as much as any gift I get. Thanks boys.

[@deadbrothers8348]

Best podcast going today !! Bca fed was the absolute best fig fed of all time, kept books of all the Raws and ppvs , had entrance music , and my imagination was unbelievable! I wish you guys would do these deep dives like twice a year, so awesome dudes

[@JokerzGallery]

I now wait for these History of shows on Christmas like I used to wait for unwrapping wrestling figures on Christmas morning. Appreciate the hard work guys. Merry X-Mas 🤘🎅🤘

[@jasonblanchard9859]

This made me realize something. As kids playing with these, we were all little Bookers in training making matches and storylines with our figures lmao. That’s so funny to me now.

[@WrestlePlanet]

My first ever figures were Steve Austin and The Rock Bone Crunchers on Christmas Day in the late 90s. Tomorrow, my son will open his first wrestling figures, The Rock and Cody Rhodes basics, and a Wrekkin Forklift with Brock Lesnar. This is my chance to start a brand new fig fed from scratch with my new co-booker. Merry christmas Major Marks. ❤️

[@TheAlSnowShow]

I’m looking forward to the day I get to be a dad and host a whole new fig fed w my kids

[@priceyyy88]

Brilliant! Makes you want to get out there and start a BCA collection if you haven’t already. Well done guys!

[@ciano316]

Watched this all on Christmas night. Love the specials like this. Such easy viewing

[@ninowaves4061]

97 Deff the best year of wrestling hands down.

[@Grandtheft37]

My mom wasn’t happy when I taped sparklers to the ring posts and had the opening of raw playing on my boombox

[@robgesualdi206]

I wish we didn't have to wait to be blessed on Christmas with these episodes. I watched each one a ton of times

[@bashcrash9148]

This brings back so many wonderful memories. I remember finding so many of these at Hills and Ames stores. I started watching wrestling in February 1997 so I was ALL IN with these throughout the entire run.

[@CarlDelinden]

Amazing episode. The peak of figures and wrestling fandom for me. Thank you for this great holiday gift!

[@MastersOfGermany]

These Videos are one of the Highlights of any Year for me 😊

[@HitnRunTony]

My brother bought me Bret and my cousin Shawn Series 1. We later got Vader which was the first one that broke. Went to TRU, found the Monster ring, but couldn’t afford it, then I ran into my aunt who gave me birthday money. I bought the ring and my cousin opened it right outside the store. I think we ended up with like 40 figs and I still have most of them till this day.

[@bigvis497]

Seeing BCA Series 1 out of the blue at TRU as a kid was definitely one of those holy shit moments. Funny story - for some reason, I thought the figures talked. They had a quote for each wrestler on the front, and I wasn't clear on what Bone Crunching Action meant. Plus, the microphone on the back. I really thought each wrestler said his quote somehow!

[@_The_Worst_]

Whatta bone💥🦴💥crunching great episode...🤘🏼💯✔️

[@nddoubleu]

This episode brings back so much nostalgia. The first time I remember seeing BCA’s, i went with my mom to Walmart before school and I saw series 1 HBK in blue and series 2 glow in the dark Undertaker. Those were my first two action figures of the BCA’s. When Brian mentioned he kept the cards after opening them I did the same thing. Jakks Pacific transcended the wrestling figures. Great episode. 🙌

[@justingallo3343]

I don’t want to wait another year for more of these

[@aschrisdecays]

I was five when these were out but daaamn do I recall owning a few and being blown away that they had the rubber feel and how gigantic they were haha. Awesome episode.

[@newLEGACYinc]

merry christmas, major pod!

[@rogerl9293]

Great video gentlemen. Some info from I can remember around these in the UK. Initially they were only available via mail order. I don’t think we got the first set until mid-97. The first time I got them was at the merch stand at One Night Only. They had a separate figure stand and they were selling Bret, Shawn, Taker and Goldust. I got Bret and Taker. Good memories. Keep up the great content!

[@anthonyshipman3611]

I don't really remember but I am sure I got the undertaker and Shawn from Argos, I wouldn't have got them anywhere else. Just left a comment and had a look to see if there was any other UK comments for more detail. All the best.

[@CultureShockCollectables]

Unreal guys what a walk down memory lane. Cannot wait for you guys to do 98-99

[@kevinspratt3223]

1996 is a memorable year for me... Jake Roberts came to my high school to do a speech about drugs and i got to interview him for the school newspaper

[@andremarc1275]

tyvm for the video... i wanted a vintage WWF thing and here it is... ty again.

[@greatwhite34ify]

I’ve been waiting for this one for a long time. This is awesome!

[@michaelmeneses8824]

Great podcast fellas. Much nostalgia to simpler times 😎.

[@PaulRiot17]

This made me smile! Absolute nostalgia!!

[@charlesbarnes3654]

It's crazy to see how good the original sculpts were compared to retail product

[@mikeyhodge6191]

Another Christmas morning with Major Pod 🎄

[@sdzero]

"Bone Crunching Action" was where it was at! Those were my first wrestling figures and once they lost that rubbery flexibility, they didn't feel like wrestling figures in my mind. They should really bring back that rubberized crunching reinvented with the better details and articulation. What would a new era of these figures look like?

[@TheAlSnowShow]

I’ve been saying for years that w a more cost effective, less articulated, cartoonish action figure for kids under the age of 10 to really get rough with would be dope. Figures today are great, but something under $10 that kids could get rough with would ease my pain rather than handing my nieces and nephews a $27 elite figure I’d love some cartoonishly jacked McIntyre with Claymore Kick! to battle it out with Kevin Owens without worrying about paint scuffs

[@sdzero]

@@TheAlSnowShow I can just imagine the new bone crunching action series with new digital tech for the sculpts and accurate proportions to scale. Man...that would be so cool. Why hasn't anyone done this yet?

[@maroon508244]

Awesome video....i wish matt and brian would do a full video on their fig fed days, it reminds me so much of my childhood. Like when you got a new fig, you look at the depth chart, do i bring in this new guy as a heel or face? should he start as a manager? good times

[@albertomontemayor7196]

Awesome episode guys you killed it

[@homelessbrooks]

Merry Christmas to these 3 wise marks and thanks a ton for another Xmas figure vid. It has now become tradition to watch you guys. Happy for the Jakks line .. 🙏

[@koskey06]

I just found out my childhood golddust had three undertaker arms....... I always knew they was as I had both, I just thought that was how it was suppose to be.

[@GH0STHazard]

Wanting to watch this right now!! Merry Christmas everyone!!

[@alexalvarez9916]

Do you guys have a podcast of 98-99 of jakks this was a great pod!

[@666Roadhouse]

I'd love that also

[@brianlouis7219]

Lets go! My fav xmas tradition 🎉

[@rbourgoine1]

I only had two wrestling figures growing up, both bone crunchers. Kane and stone cold. lol and I still remember them vividly today.

[@GamingTechUnited]

I am beyond excited for this one!!!

[@joeybudz2648]

I been waiting for the Christmas special!!! Wwwwooooo

[@MattWeedon]

I lowkey thought about watching this all day on Christmas.

[@Cactus_Shep]

My Xmas ritual, thanks guys

[@spencerhart9227]

Annual Christmas viewing. Please don’t stop doing these lol. Next year continue bca? TTL? ruthless aggression? Toy biz?

[@mboard31]

Dinner done, family all gone home or to bed, and I get to open my favorite present of the year… these Xmas videos! Hope Mark, Brian, Matt, and the whole Major Pod crew have a joyous holiday! You guys rule.

[@andrewgiannetto2500]

🤢

[@SmartMarkSterling]

Love it! Thanks man!

[@blankwavemessiah]

Brian's voice started frogging-out a lil' bit with the Razor-Diesel 2 pack story. Either i"m overthinking it, or he chokes-up thinking about it. Which would be super cool, because I can relate with so many stories like that growing up

[@oddronuctv]

Awesome. Loved all the previous. Fourth most excited I've been all year.

[@supermetabros70]

Where is the 4-Pack that had the Green Ultimate Warrior in it? That set actually came out before Series 2. Seeing these Bone Crunchers again brings back so much nostalgia! My little brothers and I collected them all, back in the days!

[@battlestories5169]

such a great episode

[@ormwoden9311]

My favorite video on KZbin every year

[@GuiOmania]

In the In your house video game the green Warrior it is alternate color so like jakks both figure are actually base on the same color as the video game !!!

[@robmcscotty2974]

Been waiting for the bcas history (this episode) for the last couple of years

[@dennisfletcher7122]

As much as the figs are amazing, the card art is just as important to my memories of this line: the cold blue Wrestlemania XV packaging, the red white and blue King of the Ring, etc

[@Clifford-Dad_98]

The 1 and Only BC Action figure I ever had was the S4 SCSA. I bought it in 97 at a Live Raw in Muncie, In. I kept that thing in the box for almost 10 years. When one of my children OPENED it. 😢.

[@danielkelley2784]

my favorite wrestling toy line of all time I'm so jacked for this, I remember when I saw the HBK at k.b. toys. I had so much fun with the bone crunching figures in my wrestling fed

[@charles616]

That Bradshaw was the first "Bad Boy" I found, and it was great, and then I found Austin. Austin and the Toybiz Iceman was one of the first time I learned about how they would short ship the "hot" figures.

[@vinceangeloni3012]

Merry Xmas Marks! 🤟

[@childofnature4402]

These videos are amazing. I’m so glad I can stop watching the Hasbro one on repeat over and over. 😅 My first ever wrestling figure was a WrestleMania 15 Undertaker Bone Cruncher. Got Goldust shortly after.

[@TheVileOne]

This is going to be awesome

[@bradvestby]

I bought Series 1 at a WWF House Show in October of 96 in Edmonton, AB .. I won 100 bucks playing bingo the night before and bought these from the merch stand the next day.. I also bought a Sunny T shirt and the brown foam IC belt that day too!!

[@bigorangevolsack7763]

I have looked forward to this segment ever since y'all was at The Conradison a few yrs ago

[@maxmote23]

Mike the Miz nice to meet ya!!!

[@bloodanddajugs]

I love the Jakks figures. While Hasbro’s were fun but I feel like Jakks Bone Crunchers for all their flaws were the resurrection of “ Wrestling Toys “ . The Hasbro era, the wrestlers were live action cartoon characters so it made sense to have their toys fit in with your Ninja Turtles and other toys. As the Mid 90’s changed the business the wrestlers felt like wrestlers again and Jakks felt like they weren’t fitting with your other toys, like the LJN’s these were toys for Wrestling! The rubbery bodies and crunching bones, the LJN repurposed ring, they broke and become “ Injured “ and would be glued, these were for slamming and Wrasslin! Fun. My favorite memory is having JJ go off the top ropes with my little brothers careful toss and somehow he landed Head first on top of Shawn Michaels who we had standing on his own, stayed perfectly vertical head to head for a solid second before they both tumbled down. We freaked out, keep your bleeding Jesus Statues, our miracle was the miracle of the Jeff Jarrett top rope Dhalsim spike.

[@brianraposo7360]

Awesome video. Great line of wrestling figures. We need Mattel head bangers .

[@joshhefner8179]

With the hitman on the back of hart foundation vest for Bret they should have put Bulldog and Owen on the back theirs.

[@MykeOwns]

Great, now I’m gonna have to re-listen to the FWF again, and hear Broski almost have a breakdown when Brian drafts Macho again. lol Also, THE SUN GOES OUT lives rent free in my head still to this day

[@Spilchuk]

Had to put the WCW Galoob belt on Goldust for his gold IC. HAD TO!

[@Mikesell35]

Thank you! Distinctly remember the rumor of the Undertaker vs Undertaker two pack! I even remember seeing an imaging that obviously wasn’t real!

[@dasanixcore]

Awesome seeing a fig I won Tradeski of the Week for be shown! I'm the one that traded Broski the Best of 97 Bret figure with "Hitman" on the vest.

[@drewhaueter4502]

I got into wrestling in 1996 ( i was 12 I'm a smidgen older than you guys) and right after that BCA figures dropped and WWF Full Metal album. I was set for my Fig Fed!

[@haydenmatzkows4581]

No major pod Christmas theme music!? What is this! Just joking was a fun episode

[@TVindustries5000]

i still think these figures had the best playability out of all wrestling figure lines. i got my first figures in 98 i was 5. later on there was the titan trons. I thought they looked super cool but not too good to play with. and it was the same with the RA figures that followed. could no longer do power bombs easily or frankensteiners easily. I was out of interest in wrestling when the mattels came out, i thought they looked scrawny and the basics standing straight just like the RA figs but somehow worse. Even in the RA era, i wanted BCAs. I remember ordering with my parents thru Wrestling Super Store i believe. I wanted a jerry lawler figure so bad and got a Bad Boys series one for christmas one year. I also got a Gangrel because i thought he was so cool. I remember as a kid, another kid had a bret hart which was the first time i had ever seen one in person i was desperate for him to trade with me so i brought several figures and he begrudginly gave him to me. It was SUPER beat up, arm almost falling off, crack in torso, and loosey goosey but i loved it and would just look at it and admire it

[@MikeDee412]

I had a lot of those. I remember the cracking joints and wwf stands.

[@TowerofTerror23]

That Warrior is my all time fav. I used it so much back in the day I broke his leg off, my parents got me a new one but wouldn’t let me open it because it would be worth something one day

[@glusnifr]

absolutely amazing episode,,, ,im bone crunching figure itchy ,,,,,ebay here i come ,,,,,lol,,,,,merry xmas ,

[@Johnny82Utah]

Just finished the complete Hasbro video, it's a Christmas eve tradition!

[@gcgc6381]

BCA, the best line ever. I remember shitting myself walking into the toy isle at Walmart one day and seeing Razor and Shawn hanging there, my Dad got me both of them, then later Bret and Taker, then Deisel, and last Goldy, and not because I didn't like him or want him, but he was gonna be last by default, lol. 😉 And that damn Monster Ring, I f'n loved it, especially after that flimsy ass hair tie rope Galoob WCW ring.

[@artkhachatourians4643]

So true on 1997. My friend and I were talking if we can go back in our lifetime, what year or age? I chose 97, my action figures were coming along, I was turning 10, and Stone Cold was my guy.

[@MattWeedon]

Let’s go!!!

[@clintonjohnson9061]

Can’t wait!

[@joshhefner8179]

Same with me going to be in 7th grade in 97 when getting bad boys series, it's crazy timeline wise by the time the Justin Hawk Bradshaw figure comes out he is Blackjack Bradshaw but that's it goes with these figures.

[@PRIME-numbers]

Fallen out of wrestling again over the last year, and forgot about this amazing channel until I realized tomorrow is almost Christmas and went to check if a new "history of" vid was posted... And here I am! Thanks guys!

[@dogmd7]

Hope you pick it back up product is on fire right now!!

[@PRIME-numbers]

Been back since Wyatt 6 stuff caught my attention!!! Love it again! Lol ​@@dogmd7

[@IamIzayis]

I used to bug my older brother to take me to toys r us or Walmart like every weekend to look for figures… the first ones I had were Bret hart and diesel… picked up glow in the dark Taker and stone cold after.. had to have been the bad boys one.., I remember an employee stocking the shelves saw me picking it up and him saying “man everyone asking for that guy.. everyone a stone cold fan… I literally just put him on the shelf and he’s gone” 😂 …my mom would give us $5 every morning when we head out to school.. I’d use it sparingly until I saved up $20 and beg my brother to take me to the store… I was bummed we never got a Roddy Piper.. always wanted one for my Goldust to fight..i never got a razor either.. when in later waves we got Vince in wrestling gear… I swapped his arms out and put them on my stone cold because he had the black taped wrists without the elbow pads… and vise versa…also by this point they brought out a new stone cold head mold much smaller and fit way better…

[@ChitChatGaming]

Watching this took me back, I need to do a video on this and I am still upset that sold all my Jakks figures, I had the complete line, except a few including the warriors but man I let them all go in a damn garage sale. So mad til this day but I didn’t have room and needed the money.

[@FriarFink]

This reminded me all about my Goldust woes. Every Goldust bone cruncher I got lost his head! I hated how they did it

[@zachjohnson637]

He did wear plain white trunks with Bull Dog on them. That’s what the new Championship Showdown with HBK depicts.

[@pingkangchen7368]

My favotie christmas tradition😂

[@advocatefish3562]

Let’s go! Opening up my Batman & Robin McFarlane wave while watching.

[@titansrule72]

i was a die hard hasbro kid. however, I only had a handful of the jakks style figs. I grabbed a vader and mankind on a road trip when i was in the 6th grade and later an austin repaint when he was in his stone cold university gear and the last one I remember getting was a jim ross with the 'war tony' misprint. i also got a raw is war monster ring later on.. but I think I had tapped out on wrestling figs after that.

[@zachary_attackery]

I believe that's Jerry Lawler's first ever figure too, which is crazy to think he didn't get a figure of any kind until 97

[@artoftouringpodcast6675]

LEtS GO!!!

[@dennisfletcher7122]

Better than A Christmas Story

[@hvywghtheaver]

Got Taker, Shawn, and Bret from first series as a gift. Bret and Taker lost limbs very quickly.

[@wallybescotty]

man i wanted the red HBK so bad but was damn impossible to find, i finally ended up with the white one because i couldn't find the WM14 one or the red hearts, but i remember being so excited to finally have a HBK