Post them here.

Got it today, going to dive in tonight.

Love Snow - Informer as the music for disc 1.

I feel a little sorry for Loss now having to make a placeholder post for every thing on the disk... which looks like 650+ by my count.

John

Yes! 1993 had more segments than 1996 by far.

Looking at stuff from that year then, one could liken WWF to the Fall of the Roman Empire. The fallout from the steroid and sex scandals meant that everything was changing, and a revolving door of talent was already in the process of happening. Flair left, Hogan left, Savage was being reduced, Heenan and Okerlund were gone and replaced by less entertaining characters. The one good thing that happened was Raw because it was a breath of fresh air from the canned stuff they were doing at the time.

My general memory of WCW in '93 was that that was the year they really started to mount a credible offense to WWF finally. Wasn't without it's own blunders though (not having Flair wrestle right away, Paul Roma the Horseman, the Shockmaster gaffe, the bloated promo film for Beach Blast, "Lost In Cleveland", etc, etc.). Vader was at his height in the company, and his domination in the ring made the World Heavyweight Championship mean something. It's in stark contast to Yokozuna, who just sat on people for a finish. His Starrcade match with Flair (no doubt in my mind it'll be part of this comp) was as perfect a program as WCW could make it.

It was around 1993 that I first truly discovered WCW. I was 12 years old and grew up a WWF and AWA fan because that's all we got on TV in small-town Minnesota (we were too far out in the boons for cable). My mom would buy me a wrestling magazine every now and then which allowed me to at least be aware of WCW, but that was the extent of my knowledge. The only time I ever got to see the product was if we happened to be on a family vaction and the hotel had TBS as part of its cable package.

A co-worker of my father's would usually record WWF PPVs and send them home with my dad because he knew that we enjoyed wrestling. My dad brought home a tape one day and we popped it in, hoping to see Summer Slam. It was not Summer Slam. It was a WCW PPV instead (can't recall which one). At first my brother and I were pissed, but as we watched, I recognized some of the wrestlers from the magazines. I also fell in love with the product pretty much right away.

My love of wrestling grew over the years and morphed into trading VHS tapes in the late 90s and gobbling up any 80s footage I can find today. Would I enjoy wrestling as much as I do if not for that fateful day in 1993 when I got a WCW PPV instead of Summer Slam? Who knows. Either way I'll be forever grateful to my father's co-worker.

I plan on waiting a bit to start purchasing these yearbooks because I would like to try and watch everything in as close to chronilogical order as I can. Plus I have a lot of other stuff I need to catch up on first. But seeing the lineup on this '93 set really brings back memories and I can't wait to watch it one day.

I'm really surprised you guys left out the AAA 8/1 trios where Love Machine and Eddie Guerrero turn on Santo and Blue Panther joins the tecnicos. I figured that kind of big double turn would insure it had a place on the set. I know I pimped it in the DVDVR thread.

That's been mentioned a couple of times, and will go on the supplemental set when we put it together.

The Flaming Lips - Turn It On on Disk 6 is my #1 so far for menu music. good shit will.

1993 was a better year for wrestling than 1996, but I think 1996 was an easier year to get through in this format, because there were plenty of great, memorable angles AND good matches. 1993 was a workrate year and had some good angles, but most of them were taking place in the remaining territories. I expect 1992 to be easier to get through than either year because it's probably the most balanced year we've done so far. It doesn't have the hot angles 1996 had -- at least not as many -- but it has its share, and there are good matches happening regularly in most promotions, not just those in Japan.