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Jakks Pacific pushes its World Wrestling Federation action figures further out on March 17,when the WWF's master toy licensee unveils prototypes of New World Order bad-guy wrestlers at Toronto's Wrestlemania, including Hulk Hogan, now coming back as Hollywood Hogan.
"They will ship June I as part of our fall assortment," said Stacey Pauly, Jakks marketing director of boys action.
The WWF last year acquired the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and NWO, with Hogan returning in both this spring's WWF storyline and last month's pay-per-view No Way Out. Hogan and fellow NWOers Scott Hall and Kevin Nash have been laser scanned to create two Jakks figures each in a limited collectible assortment, "a get-it-while-you-can kind of thing," Pauly said. "This is like vintage wrestling talent."
The NWO figure prototypes will be under glass at the Jakks booth at Access, WrestleMania's Fan Fair-style area. They were not at Toy Fair....