Vintage Nikolai Volkoff - Now The Kids'...
Last Christmas, my parents moved out of their home down in Frankfort that I grew up in and lived all the way through my post-college years. As part of that move, a bunch of items that my Mom had been 'keeping' for me came out of their attic and closets and ended up at our current place (and some in our storage unit). Mixed in amongst the youth soccer trophies, press clippings and other artifacts of my childhood were a bunch of my 'wrasslers'. That guy above - Nikolai Volkoff - is one of them. These were my most favored toys in my entire childhood. Like....nothing came close to them. Until the Sega Genesis. But before that, these things captivated me like nothing else. More than Legos, more than even GI Joes. It was these bendable wrestlers from the WWF. I had so many of them and loved them. And now, they're in the mix there amongst my kids toys. I stick them in with their toys in their rooms. The King of the Ball...