morning sir how you doing doing pretty well what do you have here i have an hasbro
yellow card kamala action figure this is pretty cool kamala was a wrestler for the wwf a lot of
my friends love wrestling and they watched it with their kids growing up and now their kids
aren't into wrestling anymore but guess what dad still is right i'm here at the pawn shop today to
sell my hasbro kamala action figure i found my kamala figure at an estate sale i'm hoping to
sell my kamala figure for 7 500 today this is pretty cool so the world wrestling federation
i think it's now the wwe world wrestling entertainment and it is just that entertainment
so this is uh kamala he was a wrestler in the 80s portrayed by james harris he was supposed to
be like this cannibalistic headhunter kind of guy and he would come out with his mask and his spear
he was considered to be a villain not the most popular of all wrestlers but he got a chance to
wrestle with some of the greatest wrestlers like hulk hogan the undertaker andre the giant one of
the really cool things about kamala is he is one of very few professional wrestlers to have body
slammed andre the giant probably most wrestlers can't body slam lingerie the giant that is 100
correct so the cool thing about this is there's a moon on the belly and that is originally how
he would come out but for production they put a star on his belly they did it's believed that this
maybe would have been like um early pre-release kind of thing that accidentally got packaged
actually this was going to be the original plan for the mass production but they went with the
star instead oh wow it's a really nice piece i mean this is considered to be one of the holy
grails for wrestling collectors this is a piece that any collector would want to have for sure
and what are you looking to do with it i would like to sell this
and how much are you looking to get i am hoping to get 7 500. okay i mean the condition of the box is
i don't want to call it beat up but it's got like some issues with the glue kind of like
it started to separate but i know these things go for a lot even though it looks authentic to
me i need to have someone who knows what they're looking for come down and take a look at it fair
enough give me a few minutes i'll have someone write down absolutely i look forward to hearing
what the expert has to say i'm 99.9 percent sure that my figure is 100 off i'm sure you're familiar
with this very familiar yeah take a look at it and tell me what you think this is a very very rare
and desirable figure in the wwf hasbro line and maybe in all wrestling toys this is going to be a
top two or three grail for collectors he was one of those large-in-life characters that although
he didn't have a big fan base everybody knew kamala and his story and made him relevant in wwf
so in the wwf hasbro line it is traditionally known that they would run a set of 24 samples
right before production and those 24 samples would go out to the lawyers or the head of brand it's
kind of like this is what our production piece is going to be can we get the final signatures on it
that's where this is expected to have come from and this piece in particular what's really unique
is that they had his signature moon on his belly and it speculated that he didn't sign
off on the final approval of what was being produced by hasbro so the actual production
figure was kind of a star and they were able to produce it without his okay wow
what do you think about the condition of this i noticed like some weird stuff going on with
the glue does this look original packaged and everything to you so um i do notice there's a
little bit veining here and also in here somewhat consistent looks like someone's removed a price
sticker at some point and then i want to take a look at just a couple more things here and let
me pull this out so basically what i'm seeing here when i look at this is i'm looking for
this really smooth texture to the paint right you can see all that and then i get into here
and it looks more crude looks more rough so you're saying that someone might have painted over this
yeah i hate to be the bearer of bad news but unfortunately it's one of those things that you
have a fake and it's actually not the real figure now this is common to find and some dead giveaways
the sticker residue okay because my belief is this is a figure that would have never actually made it
to the floor of a store so therefore why would it have a price sticker on it because the store would
apply that not the manufacturer okay right and even though this looks like it's done pretty well
the points that you pointed out chum you can tell where there's inconsistencies in the glue
throughout it so it is that holy grail piece but unfortunately man i'm sorry but you got a fake
one at least now i know all right appreciate you coming out no problem thank you thank you
very much sir well i'll be honest with you even though i had those few questions in my mind i
literally had no doubt that this was real unfortunately we're not gonna be able to
make a deal this time but i just hope you didn't pay too much for it i didn't but thank
you anyway sir have a good day it still looks cool on the shelf thank you it's still a really
cool conversation piece for people who see my collection so it's not a win but still a win you