Brian Myers and Matt Cardona have changed the perception of collecting wrestling action figures for the better.
IMPACT Wrestling‘s Brian Myers recently sat down with Ross Forman of Sports Collectors Digest to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about everything he and Cardona have done for wrestling action figure collectibles, Myers said he believes they’ve made it okay for people to admit they like collecting wrestling figures.
“We’ve made it OK for people to say, ‘I like wrestling action figures,’” Brian Myers said. “We started in WWE at [age] 21, and the last thing we were going to do was tell one of the [veterans] that we just found your figure at Walmart. It was our deepest, darkest secret,” Myers said. “Through our podcast, we were and are totally honest about collecting and figures, even if it was critical of the paint on a figure. When others heard and saw that we were OK with action figures, then they too were OK with figures.”
Myers pointed to the Steve Carell film, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, as something that wouldn’t work today as it did 20 years ago because it was based on an adult who collected toys.
“‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’ [movie] is almost 20 years old. It was a very successful movie, based on a virgin who collected toys,” Brian Myers said. “Today, that concept wouldn’t even work. No one now would think he was a nerd.”
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