{"id":31882,"date":"2018-12-03T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=31882"},"modified":"2018-12-03T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:25:08","slug":"ljn-rubber-action-figures-making-a-return-to-pro-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/12\/03\/ljn-rubber-action-figures-making-a-return-to-pro-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"LJN Rubber Action Figures Making A Return To Pro Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a child of the 1980&#8217;s and a fan of pro wrestling, chances are you had some of the <strong>Wrestling Superstars<\/strong> collection of 8&#8243; rubber action figures produced by <strong>LJN<\/strong> from 1984 through 1989 (when LJN closed their toy division). Featuring all of the top stars from the WWF during the height of the Rock N&#8217; Wrestling Era, from <strong>Hulk Hogan<\/strong> and <strong>Andre the Giant<\/strong>, to <strong>Roddy Piper<\/strong> and <strong>The Hart Foundation<\/strong>, in even included managers like <strong>Bobby Heenan, Mr. Fuji<\/strong> and <strong>Miss Elizabeth<\/strong>. Even today, these are still treasured items for collectors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wrestling Superstars LJN 1984\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zA5aC3glq54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well it appears that LJN is making a return to the world of producing wrestling themed action figures, but it appears that they won&#8217;t be resuming their partnership with the WWF (now the WWE). On Monday afternoon, <strong>Matt Jackson<\/strong> of <strong>The Young Bucks<\/strong> released a photo and Tweet that the Bucks had signed a deal with LJN to produce Young Bucks figures, presumably in the old Wrestling Superstars mold.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattJackson13\/status\/1069660647531601920<\/p>\n<p>With indie wrestling at an all time high, LJN may be looking to market action figures for many of the indies top stars, and The Young Bucks are smart investments for re-starting the once popular line of WWE action figures.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The History of LJN WWF Wrestling Superstars,  DIG IT!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHKDcsVLpeI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a child of the 1980&#8217;s and a fan of pro wrestling, chances are you had some of the Wrestling Superstars collection of 8&#8243; rubber action figures produced by LJN from 1984 through 1989 (when LJN closed their toy division). Featuring all of the top stars from the WWF during the height of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":31886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[3965,3966,99],"class_list":["post-31882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-ljn","tag-wrestling-superstars","tag-young-bucks"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}