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Good places to buy WWE replica belts?

  • 09-05-2014 10:49pm
    #1
    Firewalkwithme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭


    Hey, my son is thinking of buying a good quaity replica belt out of his communion windfall. Can any of you recommend some good shops either online or bricks and mortar where he could get one?

    Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    My nephew has a replica World Big Gold belt from Smyths which is better than my 90s foam WWF belt. For <€20 it's a nice little toy.

    I bought a fancy replica Intercontinental belt years and years ago from Wrestlingmania in Stephen's Green in Dublin. Think it was €250.

    Highspots.com and the official WWE online shops might have them.


  • #3
    Firewalkwithme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    Ape Lincoln wrote: »
    I bought a fancy replica Intercontinental belt years and years ago from Wrestlingmania in Stephen's Green in Dublin. Think it was €250.

    By any chance were you at the O2 in April/May of last year when WWE came to town? I was there with my son and we bumped into someone with a belt just like the one you described. The guy let my son put the belt over his shoulder so I could get a photo of him with it :)


  • #4
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    Cartoon_Head wrote: »
    By any chance were you at the O2 in April/May of last year when WWE came to town? I was there with my son and we bumped into someone with a belt just like the one you described. The guy let my son put the belt over his shoulder so I could get a photo of him with it :)

    No that wasn't me, I wasn't there and I sold the belt years ago. I had this one:

    6VMxgD.jpg

    I was a big mark for Shawn Michaels when I was a kid and he once had that colour strap so when I saw it in that wrestling shop in Stephen's Green shopping centre sense got the better of me! It is an obscene amount of money to spend in something that you can't do anything with but hang it on a wall. If you fold it over to either wear it or just lock the snaps in to put it on a shelf or whatever you end up creasing the strap. They wear and tear pretty easy.


  • #5
    Firewalkwithme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭Firewalkwithme


    Ape Lincoln wrote: »
    No that wasn't me, I wasn't there and I sold the belt years ago. I had this one:

    6VMxgD.jpg

    I was a big mark for Shawn Michaels when I was a kid and he once had that colour strap so when I saw it in that wrestling shop in Stephen's Green shopping centre sense got the better of me! It is an obscene amount of money to spend in something that you can't do anything with but hang it on a wall. If you fold it over to either wear it or just lock the snaps in to put it on a shelf or whatever you end up creasing the strap. They wear and tear pretty easy.

    Yeah I think the one I saw was the white strap version, very nice it was too. Had a good weight to it. The youngfella struggled to put it over his shoulder lol

    I know what you're saying about not being able to do anything with it other than lok at it though. Kids get their hearts set on things so it can be hard to steer them in a more sensible direction sometimes but perhaps when he sees how much they cost he will reconsider. For a kid, he's pretty smart with his money :)


  • #6
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    I bought WWF Wrestlemania Arcade game for Mega Drive and In Your House 5 VHS tape waaaaay back when after my confo. Good buys at the time.

    Then Smyths belts for a score seem alright though I guess you could say there's some resale value in the fancy replicas. A few other users on here have of had belts so they might be along to comment over the weekend.


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  • #7
    BetterThanThou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭BetterThanThou


    WWEShop.com would be your best bet. Depending on the belt, you're probably looking at around 300 euro including shipping, possibly cheaper or more expensive depending on the belt.


  • #8
    Mick Murdock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Mick Murdock


    Seems like an insane amount of money for a kid to spend on a replica belt.. I understand the price but what use is it? Can see the novelty of that €300 wearing off pretty quickly..

    As for grown men buying them.. :o



    EDIT: Just saw Ape said exactly the same thing above.


  • #9
    BetterThanThou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭BetterThanThou


    I just remembered, WWEShop also do full size plastic belts, called "commemorative belts". I've never seen one in person, but they're supposedly modeled exactly off the belt, as the replicas are, but instead of being made from metal, they're made from plastic, they're of much higher quality than the toy ones you can buy. These range from around €110 to €150, excluding shipping, I'm not sure how much the shipping is, it's $50 on the replica belts, but the metal replicas obviously weigh a lot more than the plastic commemorative belts. They also do kids replicas, which are a little more expensive than the commemorative belts, but made out of metal, and supposedly exactly the same as the adult replicas, just kid size, though I've never seen one in person.


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