{"id":48332,"date":"2021-12-17T21:49:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T02:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48332"},"modified":"2021-12-29T21:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T02:49:28","slug":"23-if-it-had-come-out-sooner-it-probably-wouldnt-be-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48332","title":{"rendered":"#23: If it had come out sooner, it probably wouldn\u2019t be #23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-48333 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BLETSBLETSBLETS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BLETSBLETSBLETS.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BLETSBLETSBLETS-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Nearly three years after it debuted on television, it was finally released as a replica, and I managed to wait it out until it was nearly $120 off its retail cost to snag it at a price point that I could digest: an NXT UK Tag Team Championship replica blet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I can finally put this chapter of my collection to rest finally, and go back to pondering on whether or not I\u2019ll ever consider getting moar blets for my ridiculous collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The funny thing is that had the UK Tag blet come out sooner, there would probably have been a good chance that I wouldn\u2019t be up to 23 replicas in my collection.\u00a0 It\u2019s because it was never available, that the itch for new blets was never sated over the last three years, and how I ended up with probably 4-5 more blets than I probably would have considered getting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Seriously, I wasn\u2019t really that interested in the NXT UK blet, but I ended up getting it anyway, because it was on a ridiculous Brack Friday sale price, and I bit on the sale price fallacy.\u00a0 Plus, I had gotten really into the NXT UK scene, and wanted to have any blet to represent the brand in my collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Same goes for the WWE US Championship, the only reason I ended up buying it was that it was on a Wrestlemania sale price, and I wanted to spoil myself to a little retail therapy to soften the reality check that fatherhood was proving to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The NWA and WCW Television blets are prime examples of just wanting new blets for the sake of having new blets to add to the collection, and I probably never would\u2019ve ever searched for them ever if my collection were in a state of satisfaction, but I gave them the old college tries and eventually tracked them down and plunked down for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And frankly, the Ring of Honor World Championship, I probably never would\u2019ve made it a unicorn blet in the first place had I had gotten an NXT UK Tag replica to sate the itch earlier.\u00a0 But once I found out that official replicas of it existed, I knew that I had to have one and some Pakistani knockoff would not suffice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Lest it not go unmentioned, #22 was also recently acquired, being a white strap WWE Intercontinental championship, which has the dubious distinction of being the first time I\u2019ve basically bought the same blet twice, seeing as how I already had a black strap WWF Intercontinental championship.\u00a0 The plates are nearly identical in both, and for lack of better term, the only real difference is the strap color.\u00a0 But it was yet another sale price fallacy, and seeing it nearly 45% off made it very easy to pull the trigger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Which brings us to the long-awaited UK Tag blet that I\u2019ve wanted for three years.\u00a0 Now that I have it, in a previous life I would say that my collection is complete, but as I\u2019d already mentioned before, with the gaudy John Cena US Spinner back on the market, I\u2019m only a waiting game away from having #24.\u00a0 But once that one is acquired, I actually really can say that I don\u2019t know what I\u2019d want afterward, however I won\u2019t say that my collection is complete this time.\u00a0 There\u2019s always a blet, or an idea for a blet, to make it happen again, where I plunk down hundreds of dollars for these useless toys, no matter how cool I can make them look, all hanging from my wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But as it stands, my wall is pretty much full, and nothing short of a massive reconfiguration (a second row) is going to give me the room for expansion that I need to go beyond 23 blets.\u00a0 Never say never, though.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three years after it debuted on television, it was finally released as a replica, and I managed to wait it out until it was nearly $120 off its retail cost to snag it at a price point that I could digest: an NXT UK Tag Team Championship replica blet. I can finally put this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#23: If it had come out sooner, it probably wouldn\u2019t be #23<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,79,76,182,54],"class_list":["post-48332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-cashmoney","tag-geeks","tag-tryharding","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48334,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48332\/revisions\/48334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}