WCW Smash N' Slam Variants | WFL

Toybiz's inaugural WCW action figure line, Smash N' Slam, had many variants of some of the biggest names of the Monday Night War. Whether you backed nWo black & white, nWo Wolfpac, or vanilla WCW, there was representation in this unforgettable trendsetting wave of action figures. This video covers all the major known variants.
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[@kjuergens1985]

I miss walking into Wal-Mart and seeing these on the shelves!

[@fredjackson3264]

Here in Italy they were sold in a bundle with a VHS containing two matches of that specific wrestler. I had the Wolfpac Sting and the matches on the VHS were Sting vs Scott Hall and Sting vs Hollywood Hogan at Starrcade 97

[@DeckyStrikesBack]

11:10 those weights came with ToyBiz 1991 X-Men Collossus figure.

[@JS-li9ym]

Goldberg’s original “jobber” was a repainted Silver Surfer figure.

[@NikateeN]

The Toy Biz action figures changed wrestling toys for me. I have a growing MOC collection of these, still looking for a Konnan. Great video!

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

That weight from the last Goldberg variation originally came with the toy Biz Colossus figure from their Marvel Comics figures line.

[@ILoveFilm247]

There IS a variant of that single Giant action figure. They had him with and without the neckbrace. I have one with the neckbrace (just like the one in that two pack with Nash), I believe the Mysterio accessory looked the same with both variants. Also, funny note, for the Goldberg Kaybee variant, those "space weights" are actually an accessory that had come with the action figure of Colossus, from XMen, also by ToyBiz.

[@Dfreedom30]

I could watch videos like this all day. I can't wait to see what other videos you have in store.

[@joshfrost5421]

Dfreedom30 Wrong!

[@jayawsome4079]

me to bro

[@gusbaker4u]

4:27 According to the package Sting "trademarked" carrying a bat and wearing a coat...he really was ahead of his time, lol

[@jefferyjones8399]

This is very well made video. It deserves more views/comments! I loved these figures as a kid. I had all of the main versions. I had no idea there were so many variants which is way cool.

[@HiPHOPx87]

Keep this channel going. I will support it.

[@bobbyworrest8183]

"...fox (faux) leather trenchcoat..." HAHA! otherwise a great video. love the old WCW toy lines, as a kid I had my fair share of them.

[@williamkincaid3465]

That figure that came with the Goldberg in the Prototype picture is a repainted version of toy biz Silver Surfer from the Silver Surfer animated line with a different paint deco. It had really good articulation and I remember being really pissed that that didn't come with the Goldberg figure. Not only would have been fun or for him to wrestle but would have made an interesting adversary for the surfer to fight!

[@outrageoustv3594]

This bring back memories 😁 I had Goldberg, DDP, Kevin Nash, sting, lex Lugar, macho man, and the giant.

[@pwc2478]

I still have all my smash and slam figures in great condition even Jericho in the box

[@laenav]

Look like Rey Mysterious Jr. got screwed over.

[@061romell]

Hogan got paid for it

[@ringskirts]

Loved this video so much. The production is top notch. I have been collecting wrestling figures since the early 90's and following the hobby online since about 2003 but you still taught me a lot in this video. I can't even begin to tell you how well put together this video is. Looking forward to diving into your channel and seeing much more. Thank you sir.

[@WrestlingFigureLegacy]

Really appreciate this! Videos like this take a long time for me to make, but I have a couple more on the way (and am always working on stuff here and there). I'm gonna try and do a collection video next once my AJ Styles comes in mid-August. I'll have another doc-style video hopefully ready late August/early September for you guys. Thanks again - I def want to keep this train rolling!

[@mentalrobb5062]

Great video! I love it! I used to be the biggest ToyBiz WCW collector!

[@HiPHOPx87]

I had all those figures. I wish I still had em

[@lollycarola]

Great stuff, man! Very nostalgic. Best of luck to you.

[@MrKenvader]

This is the series I first started buying wrestling figures for I was just a young lad but I remember me and my best friend were always on the look out for the variants of each character from all the variances you mentioned we had em. We also had a ring the had a scaffold inwhichyoucould have sting accent above the ring and it would play the wolf pac entrance that was triggered when you placed a figure on some sort of a platform. Another thing it had was silk fitted in the middle of the ring for which you had to hold down a figure and it would do a 1,2,3 count

[@christittle8137]

Omg dude i think i had all the ezlxact same things u di especially many hrs spent playing on that to g

[@BrianAwesome]

I like how even in the action figure lines, that the Smash N Slam Era figures.. competed against the WWF Bone Crunching & Early Titan Tron Live figures. Even the Nitro Arena had competed with the 1999 Raw TTLive stage & Attitude Ring.

[@WFBlackMaiden]

Great radio voice/voice over work man. Very informative and I am looking forward to more videos. Some great nostalgia here.

[@DLKnightstick1989]

I remember when I was younger having so many WCW and WWF action figures. What I remember most, however, is that back then, Billy Kidman was my favorite wrestler and I never found a figure for him, so when I played with them, I'd use my white power ranger figure as Kidman. lol.

[@fdamage]

Thanks for the shoutout on the video for the prototype sting head pic! Awesome video! Great line! Still have a set!

[@JONNYSORENSEN_AU]

Wish I had had kept my Smash 'n Slam Macho Man, Sting and DDP, great figures. Thanks for the video series.

[@manongjayr]

Some really good content on here. Takes me backs to the early WFigs and wrestlingfigurehq days. Thanks for putting out these videos.

[@nickkonarowski7977]

Man I had all the Wolfpac figures, the Goldberg/Hogan two-pack and the ring. This takes me back

[@ch4tterbox966]

I used to have the wcw ring and randy savage action figure when I was a kid. Still have macho figure

[@michaelmearney5721]

Glad i stumbled across your videos. Great stuff

[@wylde678]

I've always felt that any sort of "action movement" hindered action figures.

[@WrestlingFigureLegacy]

I honestly never liked it much with some exceptions in mind. Even as a kid I just wanted my figures to let me do the action. The worst offender was the Toybiz Sid who was always doing a perpetual can-can dance with that knee movement. I'll definitely cover that whenever I get around to doing another WCW Toybiz video.

[@wylde678]

It always seemed like ToyBiz was rather fond of the "action movements". Their figures were otherwise tremendous and have always pushed the importance of articulation. They really nailed most of the TNA figures in terms of playability (Elix Skipper, Sonjay Dutt, Chris Daniels, etc), but there were still a few that were virtually unplayable (Jeff Jarrett springs to mind).

[@joeyeldred953]

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[@EyeamWill77]

Joey Eldred gb

[@SteveGeary52]

You do some great work, sir. Please keep it up! Your videos are fascinating!

[@XFlawlessXxx]

I still have the WCW smash nslam wolf pac sting since the 90s. My mom recently gave it to me. We still have a lot of sting stuff from back then since she's a huge sting fan at heart. I miss WCW alot I still like it more than any wwe product. During 97 to early 99 it was amazing. I was 3 when I started watching nitro and I even have a pic in early 98 where I took a pic with Kevin Nash.. Man the 90s were the best.

[@thepistolguy859]

I had the Scott hall figure at 1:31

[@fulltimebeastgamingntoys8065]

love the video man, always been interested in doing some wrestling figure videos as it's always been my number one collection and passion outside of games. I remember these figures coming out and even picking up the variants. Always thought the jobber Reys were messed up lol

[@Saturday13CLIPS]

I remember my brother and I having The Giant, DDP and Lex Luger!

[@TheInvasionShow]

But like, who disliked this awesome video? This was perfection 👌

[@andresgc770]

You earned a subscription today, my man! These were some of the first wrestling action figures I ever had, so the video had me all nostalgic. I had Luger, DDP, Giant (+ Mysterio), Hall (red), and the Macho Man/Elizabeth 2-pack. The Giant figure is a thing of beauty; I even preferred it over the first few Jakks TTL versions of the Big Show! I also had the Saturn and Piper figures that you showed (from other series), and I wanted Dennis Rodman but when I went back to the store, it was sold out :( Oh man, this really brought back memories... Can't wait for the next videos!! (Hopefully including one about the Grip-n-Flip series lol.)

[@saltinemcqueen5176]

Subscribed, your videos are great. Please keep up the great work.

[@AgeoftheFall88]

Just subbed, love this channel. I still have the Giant, Mysterio sadly broke, he's scuffed as I was a kid, but it takes me back, thank u 😊

[@aaronjames9751]

What a high quality video! You are very knowledgeable and interesting! Great content! 😊

[@ZionKraze]

I still have my figures of these. And my Kevin Nash ones have their legs broken.

[@HalloweenAllYearEnterainment]

Ya mine eventually had one broken leg too guess these were Kevin nash voodoo figures

[@The_Natural_Man]

1:54 Pretty accurate recreation of Nash's actual Jackknife to the Giant

[@RedSoxNation92]

These videos are amazing! You've got a new subscriber!

[@pickettpride6980]

Love your toys videos. Just subscribed!

[@luis07punk]

My very first wrestling figure was Goldberg slam n Slash series..after that, the next one was sting, the giant , macho man and Hulk Hogan...i grew up with this figures and i love this video for that reason. This figures made my childhood very very happy. great work man!

[@dressedtokill192]

Wow great vid man!

[@tsmdyrus6215]

I had so many of these figures when I was a kid. They blew away the WWF figures I had at the time. I would love to have them again.

[@koreysmith4874]

i miss WCW so much. and you lit the 90's child in me! thank you sir. P:S you sound like Raiden from Metal Gear..lol

[@moneymerritt792]

Subscribed after first 20 seconds, my first series as a kid still have a few. Love the video, about to binge watch them all lol. Would love to see the other WCW lines and Jakks (ecspecially classic superstars) if looking for ideas. Keep up the great work, amazing videos

[@WrestlingFigureLegacy]

Appreciate it! I definitely want to do another WCW Toybiz video some day, and CS deserves its own sub-series with how much there is to cover. Would really like to get to CS sometime in the near future - made a few graphic assets for it already, so it's definitely on the big "To Do" list haha.

[@Jay_Digital]

Probably my favorite wrestling toy line. Toy Biz was my childhood. WCW, Resident Evil, & X-Men. Rey should've gotten his own toy in his WCW/nWo Revenge Spiderman attire.

[@TheJiljo]

I forgot all about slam force! I had a sting from that line. Thanks for the blast from the past!

[@sw8467]

I really miss these days, i really really do

[@Bats-7]

Loved the smash 'n' slam series , had all of them , great time to be a wrestling fan in the late 90's🤘

[@SmarkusAurelius]

The Scott Hall and Sting from this set were the very first figures I ever got. It kickstarted my collection of figures and probably my love for wrestling in general

[@929292matt929292]

great vid. keep them coming

[@AndreEichstedt]

Hi, This Figures are great. I got Sting from this Serie. Bought him 1998 and I still got him. You can see him in my Sting review.

[@darkavengermanowar]

My Cousin and I went crazy back in the day buying up these figures for WCW, we were pleased that they were way better than the WWE ones were back then. They were not hard to find as our local Ames store carried them like crazy bedsides Kay B Toys

[@TJ52359]

I had Hall, Hogan, Giant and Wolf Pack Sting and a Sting/Hogan two pack... as well as the 'Ring Master' version of Goldberg, looking like a Village People reject as a Construction worker with a Jack hammer accessory, and Lugar as a medieval Executioner, complete with pole Ax, and a Torture Rack accessory (pretty sure that the accessory had more plastic in it than the figure itself did) that appeared to double as a stockade, but the dimensions were such you couldn't actually put anyone in said stockade w/o risking breaking the toy, nor use both devices at the same time

[@UnlimitedProduction1]

You are absolutely correct at the time these toys were amazing. I had so many WCW toys and the toybiz ones were easily my favorite of all my wrestling toys One negative about being a kid was that I relied on my parents to buy me the toys so I was never able to get Macho Man or Scott Hall

[@Shlumbus69]

I had the Savage in red and black. I wish I still had him lol

[@jasontenorio6651]

I had the white and black randy savage I had him. And about a year ago gave him a some figures away

[@ApocalypticP]

Awesome video!!

[@getoverhere9126]

Sting was pure WCW

[@kobrakiller726]

in Finland these figures came with VHS tapes that had recorded matches of wrestler that figure was based on. like Goldberg figure had tape that showed his matches against Mr Perfect, Kevin Nash and Bang Bang Bigelow.

[@vividlydisoriented]

i still have the giant slam n smash fig....and by watching this....i also remembered having Rey with him....good times

[@deuscida88]

I remember buying the Kevin Nash one here in Finland and it was first taste of pro wrestling in general. It came with a VHS with hilarious finnish dubbing of clipped WCW matches.

[@nickvertucci8528]

I received the vibrating ones for Christmas, as well. It was definitely weird and a little embarrassing. Please keep making these videos!

[@richiekuklinski1203]

Your show is awesome my friend love retro wrestling figures

[@advocatefish3562]

These were the best wrestling toys as a kid. WWF/WWE figures never looked as good or played as well. One of Kevin Nash's legs did break off our figure, though. Would've loved to have that Giant with the neck brace

[@JohnWayneLegend666]

Still have a bunch of these

[@shadycnetwork]

This was kind of like a commercial for Mattel

[@jordand4330]

I had at least one of all of them, I remember the Goldberg a little different tho. I hated that the Wolfpac Stings elbows didn't bend

[@marioh5402]

Awesome Video, I still got my WCW Toy Biz figures. Would be great if you do another Video about the other Toy Biz series.

[@NikkiWrightVGM]

I'm not gonna say too much but the vibrating Kevin Nash served as my first vibrator >.> ....that was too much, wasn't it?

[@WrestlingFigureLegacy]

Same here.

[@pauljoyner4338]

No ma'am... More information please

[@notarmani2347]

Nikki Wright wait....FIRST?.

[@liamramsay6922]

U go girl

[@robcolone8546]

Mine was the vibrating Jim Cornet

[@josephisdeadinside2112]

RIP this channel, still see you on wrestling figs forum

[@mrkind13]

I had the shirtless DDP HAHA!

[@JohnDee633]

I use to get my mom to take me to so many stores to get all those variants. My favorite wrestling figure line of all time. Hollywood Hogan figure was sooo cool as a kid. Man the good day!

[@skullface2694]

Loved these... they were pretty spiffy for there time... thats a great issue of toyfare as well.... i miss that magazine...

[@justinwhu5918]

I used to have the white sting, lost his head tho....when i was younger I tried to fly him on a paper airplane and his head popped off in neighbors yard Ps: I had the wcw ring with the stretchy piece in the middle

[@616Entertainment]

Don't you dare make me want to collect these MOC.. Don't you dare.

[@chriswinter8511]

I had most of these back in the day. I had that version of Giant as my WWF Heavyweight champion only to be shockingly defeated for the title by Crash Holly.

[@jhohnerman2223]

Smash n slam figures were my favorite from wcw. I still have Kevin Nash, both red and white stings, unopened and opened hollywood hogan, and both Scott halls, and last the giant.

[@joaquinalcatraz1990]

Hehe i was in high school during the monday night wars. I never like red sting. When this figure line was release in stores. I was so glad for the crow variant Sting that includes with Hollywood Hogan. Its so awesome how it includes the championship belt

[@vincea2996]

Nice , I still have all these figures mentioned.

[@ErnieJ89]

The t gold dust signature series with the bone crushing knee was my first ever wrestling figure!

[@violagreene4643]

Those weights with Goldberg are a reuse of an accessory from Toy Biz's first series of X-Men figures. They originally came with Colossus.

[@Alex_DC413]

I had that DDP figure and yeah, I distinctly remember being pretty limited in what we could do with him

[@pickettpride6980]

My very first Wrestling figure was LJN junkyard dog. I got it for Christmas 1985. Now I own over 350 MOC figs.

[@hineylive]

I had all of these As a young lad think between 1999 or 2000 maybe ?? Kidman an raven where two of my all Time favourite, I loved so much more then the WWF figures of the time purely because the WCW figures where too scale I even had the unmasked ray, still to this day it’s breaks heart knowing the we’re all Lost when moving house...

[@canucklehead70]

I have the original hogan figure but it has fake blood all over him with permanent marker. That figure and a jeff Hardy mesh shirt were my favourite to use

[@shinobi-Wan]

I remember when these and wcw nitro video game came out I felt like wcw had the edge over wwf with their bone crunchers and their video game war zone.

[@trevorwinn5012]

I had the white and black Scott hall awesome figure and the table he came with was awesome

[@dustin4432]

I had Wolfpack Sting, Kevin Nash with red fringe, Scott hall w sting mask, and I can’t remember having Lex Luger, but I distinctly remover having the police accessory so I guess I did? I had a Goldberg from a different line, he had on jeans, a jackhammer and hard hat, and a green tongue. Lmao don’t know why

[@cjwilliams1124]

So strange... I live in Scranton PA and I feel like our Toys R Us and KB Stores were always the last and WORST getting Smash n Slam Figures in stock. I was 11 years old calling the stores every day looking for Scott Hall... not in white or black mind you... Just in general. He was my fav of all time and I HATED the old hard plastic one. To this day the Smash n Slam Scott Hall is my favorite figure (of my favorite wrestler) of all time. Anyway, being a mark aside and despite thise stores sucking ass I have all the rare weird variants. Black n White Macho (WITH LIZ!), Wolfpäc Sting both Scott Halls naturally. But I'm super proud that living through such awful stock issues as a kid I have some rare goodies!

[@CeLIfUbIaC420]

That KB Goldberg variant came with the same barbell as the first toy biz Colossus figure.

[@patricksvensson3104]

I have some of these figures boxed, but here in Sweden they came bundled with a VHS tape containing a couple of matches and some commercials. I haven't seen ANY information about these on the internet though...

[@tomdavis3502]

I wish there was WCW action figures make a come back

[@umaiqual8287]

8:50 omfg I used to have that but GAVE IT AWAY!!!!!! To a kid on my street

[@craignelson6073]

would like to see you cover the 90s mini wwf figure sets that came with mini action rings

[@anthonyosullivan268]

I have most of those figures. I wish the mini wrestlers that came with Goldberg and The Giant were to scale though as I could have had some more midcarders to add to my collection.