Its Wrasslin Wednesday and this time we hearken to my Polish Heritage and feature the Legends of Professional Wrestling Series 4 figure of Ivan Putski. This figure was produced by Figures Toy Co. and sold by the Wrestling Superstore in 1999. There were three versions of the Polish Power made; a regular, plain wrestler in tights, a "bloody" version and this one with the Polish Power ring shirt.
The card art is nice ! Cool picture of Mr. Putski looming over the shoulder of his figure !!
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The figure is good, but not great. They reused a lot of molds and repainted them so the figure is in a "claw" pose more suited for Killer Kowalski. The paint apps are nice though, and the ring shirt looks well made. The figure does display well.
The back of the card is nice. Its done well and has a short bio of Ivan's career. There was a lot of attention to detail with the card and it shows off well. As a display piece, it does it's job well.
Ivan Putski's best days were behind him by the time I was getting into wrestling as a kid. His legend lived on in my household though. Being of Polish heritage and my Grandfather being an absolute Wrestling Mark back then, there was a lot of pretending to be Ivan by me and my brothers. Singing "Roll out the Barrel" before matches and doing the classic Putski flex was a signature move before we would start to fight !! How many times I fell before the Polish Hammer ..... I'm a lot younger than my brothers, so needless to say, I took the brunt of the action :)
Back in 1999 or 2000 I bought all of them from FiguresInc. Only the regular versions though. I HATE the bloody versions. Terrible. Oh well...I sold them after Dad died. They were alot of fun. Until Jakks started to make most of them in their line.
ReplyDeleteI had great fun with them...Sorry about two comments...Just reminiscing more...I teamed Putski and Kowalski together. Bruno Sammartino was their leader. Tito went after the I.C. belt held by my Shawn Micheals Jakks series 1 bone cruching figure. Too much fun. I put the Undertaker's ministry robe over Baron Von Raschke to become the Baron...The manager of the Demolition etc. I teamed up Hotstuff Eddie Gilbert with my Toybiz half flaming Johnny Storm as the hotpants...HAHA...Lord we make up crazy things as kids.
DeleteDon't apologize, I love hearing this stuff. It's great how our imaginations work and what we conjure up! I agree about the bloody versions, they were just a built in varient that I don't care for, except Abdullah the Butcher, it fits him!
DeleteThese are fun figures and ones i know i have seen before in two of my local "spots" i got to for action figures. : )
ReplyDeleteI lost interest in em a while ago but I've seen that they made a bunch so I may go back and pick up a few of the interesting ones, they seem pretty cheap to get too.
DeletePutski was awesome!
ReplyDeleteNever seen this before...
Thanks ! They produced a lot of figures that were a bit under the radar.
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