Do you collect basketball figures?

Do you collect basketball figures?

Do you know what the very first sports figure was?

The very first and original sports figure was called Johnny Hero produced by Rosko Industries in 1966!

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The next big innovation in sports figures didn't occur until 1988 when Kenner released their starting line-up figures.

These were the first truly specialist figures and introduced the first line of Basketball figures that were based on the real life players.

However, one of the biggest complaints with these figures was that they had very little resemblance to the players they were meant to represent.

Despite this they became very popular with collectors and hundreds of figures were produced over the 10 years that Kenner had the license.

Then in 1998 Mattel took over the license, but this only lasted for 2 difficult years.

Then in 2001 everything changed when McFarlane Toys were awarded the exclusive license to produce NBA figures and treated collectors with highly detailed and accurate figures of their favorite players.

The first series hit toy stores in March 2002 and included six players:

• Allen Iverson - Philadelphia 76ers
• Jason Kidd - New Jersey Nets
• Kevin Garnett - Minnesota Timberwolves
• Kobe Bryant - Los Angeles Lakers
• Tim Duncan - San Antonio Spurs
• Vince Carter - Toronto Raptors

Since then a few other companies have released NBA Vinyl Figures trying to cash in on the popular Urban Vinyl market, but no-one else has reached McFarlane's degree of success or popularity.

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