Not sure how I missed this figure existing.I don’t have the strong connection to Bret Hart most wrestling fans have, because his prime times were all times when I wasn’t actively following wrestling. So I know him historically. I’ve been told about the ladder matches and how he changed the game and the Montreal Screwjob, but I experienced none of that extemporaneously.
So I wanted a Bret Hart in the collection, but what I wanted was the Bret Hart you get when you do an image search on Bret Hart. I want Costume 1 of Bret Hart from the character select screen of any given videogame. And they made one! In fucking 2019! And third party sellers still have them for retail or below! I found one from a third party on the Walrmart site and snatched that right up. Didn’t even realize it was a five year old figure until I looked it up just now.
They say this is “King Of The Ring 1994” Bret Hart but all I know is it’s fucking Bret fucking Hart. The pink and black tights. And since it’s an Ultimate, you can (not pictured here) swap all his bits out and put him in the black jacket entrance gear with the black jacket and the mirror shades. It does that thing with the swappable arms for a jacket look that is my favorite way to do a removable jacket on an action figure. Buncha hands, three heads in total. Just a perfect, for me at least, Bret Hart. I will never need to shop for another.
For the pic, I got out the Ultimate Roddy Piper, got them into a passable Sharpshooter (though this was more difficult than I expected), looked up what the ring apron for Wrestlemania 8 looked like, then didn’t bother to black out the AEW logos on the turnbuckles, whoops. So much for attention to detail.
Yet another iteration of the Digital Arena here, White ropes, middle height, 30-ish degree horizontal angle.
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