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Toffile posted:I was going to mention the cross promotion between Robin Hood and WCW, but there are things beat left unremembered. It's been on my mind lately which is part of the reason I could remember the TNT flops of the day. Back to the original point, being under the Turner umbrella did provide for a fair number of crossovers, contrary to Rad's claim. Hogan and Sting did TV movies, Buff, Steiner and Booker were on Charmed. Nash did guest spots on shows of varying levels of crappiness. They did several crossovers with Mtv, the Raven/DDP feud kicked into gear after an angle shot on Mtv and WCW ran two battle royal specials on Mtv. The weirdest of which featured Fear Factory playing a set. There were more crossovers with WB stuff but I can't remember what. I'm not sure if Vader appeared on Boy Meets World due to WCW or not, I'm guessing not. Did this all make use of Turner? No, outside of the TV movies and WB Network stuff they didn't use it a ton. WCW was the black sheep of the Turner family when it was producing embarrassing television and losing money and when WCW got hot, more mainstream things than Time Warner owned companies wanted to use WCW, so it wasn't going to use them then either.
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MassRafTer posted:TNT produced several original series during WCW's run, some of them with infamous crossovers with WCW. Off the top of my head they produced Robin Hood, Mortal Kombat, Bull, the fifth season of Babylon 5 and the Babylon 5 spin off Crusade. I am still miffed at TNT for screwing up Crusade. They also produced a bunch off TV movies. I swore Witchblade was promoted during WCW's existence, but nope - that didn't start until 3 months after WCW closed. There was also a really bad show named L.A. Heat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Heat_(TV_series) Now, once WCW was off the air, it was primarily replaced with more NBA games, wasn't it? Don't forget that TNT also used to show NFL games on Sunday nights, which is confusing, because that's direct competition with WCW Pay Per Views. MassRafTer posted:I'm not sure if Vader appeared on Boy Meets World due to WCW or not, I'm guessing not. Nah. That was during Vader's WWF run in 1996. One of his appearances had him facing off with Jake Roberts, I think. Red fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Oct 10, 2013 |
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Red posted:I swore Witchblade was promoted during WCW's existence, but nope - that didn't start until 3 months after WCW closed. The Witchblade pilot was heavily promoted during WCW, but the actual series started later. Vader's first spot on Boy Meets World was before his WWF run, but I'm not sure who put it together. As for what replaced it, I don't know about TNT but TBS was pursuing the Seinfeld/Friends rights and went wild with Seinfeld reruns.
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Solomonic posted:There was another WCW appearance on it once but I don't recall who. Kronik, maybe? If it wasn't Mortis, Wrath, or Glacier I will be very disappointed.
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VogeGandire posted:Don't forget, Vince is also a HUGE boxing fan. "WHADDAMANEUVER!!!!" "...it's called a punch, Vince."
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Perry Normal posted:"WHADDAMANEUVER!!!!" "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10--He got em! Wait, no he didn't. Come on, ref!"
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I remember Hogan, Savage, Flair and Vader guest starred on Baywatch. Where Hogan actually sells getting hit in the head with his own jet ski. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwtxnqIhMxY
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Perry Normal posted:"WHADDAMANEUVER!!!!" MD2020 posted:"1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10--He got em! Wait, no he didn't. Come on, ref!" Seriously, watch the boxing match at WM2, Vince calls every punch perfectly. Dude can't remember what a sidewalk slam is, but he can call a left cross right hook without hesistaion.
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BlueArmyMan posted:If it wasn't Mortis, Wrath, or Glacier I will be very disappointed. I'm pretty sure it was Wrath.
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Toffile posted:Turner basically produced no original series for the entirety of its ownership of WCW. TNT didn't really start producing original series until the 2000s, TBS did some stuff in the 80s, but did nothing in the 90s. TCM doesn't produce new content, which is kind of the point. According to The Death of WCW, there were plans at to make a WCW cartoon (which got shelved when the company started tanking), so maybe they were planning to put that on CN at some point. Whether this would have been an NWO cartoon is left up to the reader's imagination. zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Oct 10, 2013 |
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Cozz posted:I remember Hogan, Savage, Flair and Vader guest starred on Baywatch. Where Hogan actually sells getting hit in the head with his own jet ski. This is great television. I like how Savage is actually wearing Macho Man trunks and just repeatedly says OH YEAH in all his scenes. It's also weird that the opening credits list all the wrestlers by their ring names, except for Terry "Hulk" Hogan.
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:This is great television. I like how Savage is actually wearing Macho Man trunks and just repeatedly says OH YEAH in all his scenes. It's also weird that the opening credits list all the wrestlers by their ring names, except for Terry "Hulk" Hogan. I love that chasing rear end is what causes Hogan's downfall in that video. Just like in real life.
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To answer the Boy Meets World/Vader question, episode aired May 5th 1995 and was called "The Thrilla' in Phila". He was still with WCW at the time.
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Vader was on Boy Meets World twice, then. Because I definitely remember reading about him being on Boy Meets World and beating up Jake Roberts in WWF Magazine.
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:This is great television. I like how Savage is actually wearing Macho Man trunks and just repeatedly says OH YEAH in all his scenes. It's also weird that the opening credits list all the wrestlers by their ring names, except for Terry "Hulk" Hogan. that's Huckster's stage name for when he wants to be taken seriously on his acting merits, brother
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The best part of the WC on bay watch episode is that the B-plotline on it is a very serious story about one of the lifeguards possibly having skin cancer, which leads to badly acted scenes with a character facing up to their own mortality airing right next to Hulk and Macho training in their ring gear and working out how to save the kids gym from cartoonishly evil developers. Spoiler: the developer is Ric Flair.
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Not only that but a skin cancer message against the backdrop of guys who have very obviously spent half their lives in tanning beds is pretty tonedeaf, even for a show of the quality of Baywatch.
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Oh and on the wrestling side of that episode Hogan taunts Flair into putting the deeds to the gym on the line against the one thing Flair has never gotten his hands on: the WCW title. Of course Flair then proceeds to turn the match into a nontitle tag match for reasons that are never explained other than Flair is a moron.
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Toffile posted:Macho Man lost to a hamster on some show. But only after verifying that the hamster wasn't female.
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There was that TV movie Sting was in. I remember they ran a ton of ads for it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210984/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_35
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I spent so long looking for that movie when I was airing old Russo nitros a couple years ago, but could never find a copy of it anywhere.
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Shutterspeed and Assault on Devil's Island have sadly vanished into the ether. The frustrating part is the sequel to Assault on Devil's Island (Shadow Warriors) is often mislabeled to make you think it is either Assault or a non-existent third movie in that epic Hulk Hogan franchise.
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I have a copy of assualt on devils island on vhs. If I can find a way to rip it I'll get it uploaded somewhere.
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Skinty McEdger posted:I have a copy of assualt on devils island on vhs. If I can find a way to rip it I'll get it uploaded somewhere. If this turns out to be Shadow Warriors again I will be so bummed, but if it is Assault I will be so happy until I watch it. Then I will be so bummed.
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I own the VHS of 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain starring the Hulkster, brother.
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MassRafTer posted:If this turns out to be Shadow Warriors again I will be so bummed, but if it is Assault I will be so happy until I watch it. I can confirm it's not Shadow Warriors. As I also have that on VHS.
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Skinty McEdger posted:I can confirm it's not Shadow Warriors. As I also have that on VHS. If you can't personally rip it I'm willing to pay for a copy and shipping to someone who can.
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I'll track it down, and see what I can do. If I can't do it personally I'll take you up on the offer.
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Was Shutterspeed ever released on VHS/DVD/at all?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:He sure did. And Red insisted he make the autograph out to him instead of Eric. I did what now? coconono posted:Bear in mind that RAW was regularly trumping Monday Night Football in the head to head ratings around that time. But yeah, XFL going straight to TV was beyond dumb and a running disaster. No standout talent, no media presence, no buzz. Running a few seasons off TV would have helped iron out the kinks but that would be awful pill for shareholders to swallow. Is there any truth to the claim the NFL offered Vince a large pile of money to move Raw to another night?
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Someone should Tweet Sting and ask him for a copy of Shutterspeed.
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Red posted:I did what now? It's hard to believe or remember but the nfl was sorta tanking at the time. The only real reason why nfl took off was because hockey and basketball were retarded and kept trying to lockout and be stupid. Basketball was way bigger at the time but due to weird tv contracts and the league being dumb as hell nfl took over. Love him or hate him roger Goodall took nfl to new heights and ill say it. He took modern football to the height it is now. Dude still pisses me off though
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BigT posted:It's hard to believe or remember but the nfl was sorta tanking at the time. The only real reason why nfl took off was because hockey and basketball were retarded and kept trying to lockout and be stupid. Basketball was way bigger at the time but due to weird tv contracts and the league being dumb as hell nfl took over. I'm pretty sure none of this is correct. (Except for hating Roger Goodell.)
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BigT posted:It's hard to believe or remember but the nfl was sorta tanking at the time. The only real reason why nfl took off was because hockey and basketball were retarded and kept trying to lockout and be stupid. Basketball was way bigger at the time but due to weird tv contracts and the league being dumb as hell nfl took over. lol what
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