Who Would Be Interested in World's Strongest Man Pops?

[eastWOLF]

It's a pipe dream but I would really love to see World's Strongest Man pops. Every year 30 of the strongest men from around the globe gather to test their might and claim the title. It has grown tremendously throughout the years and is very popular in Europe. Frankly I just want to shine the spotlight on strength athletics! It needs way more love in America especially since we have a 4 time world champion. Anyway, here are a few of my picks with both modern and classics era lists with pics included in spoiler tags

Modern Era:
Brian “Gigantor” Shaw, USA
-x4 WSM

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Žydrūnas “Big Z” Savickas, Lithuania
-they call him the strongest man to ever live, he has over 300 world records and has x4 WSM titles

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Eddie “The Beast” Hall, Great Britain
-2017 WSM and world record deadlift holder

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Hafþór “Thor” Júlíus Björnsson, Iceland
-aka the Mountain in Game of Thrones and one of the best strongmen who haven’t won the title (yet) also x5 Iceland’s strongest man

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Terry "Big Tel" Hollands, Great Britain
-Europe’s strongest man

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Jean-François Caron, Canada
-x7 Canada’s strongest man

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Mark Felix, Great Britain
-the oldest current competing strongman at age 52

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Classic Era:
Bill Kazmaier, USA x3 WSM
Mariusz Pudzianowski, Poland x5 WSM
Magnús Ver Magnússon, Iceland x4 WSM
Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Iceland x4 WSM
Geoff Capes, Great Britain x2 WSM

If my post has interested you even in the slightest ALL 40 years of competitions are on YouTube. There's also a hand full of documentaries on Netflix, Eddie Strongman and Born Strong are the ones I suggest.

[Mizarkie]

How have i never heard of this?! Seems awesome. I think it would be cool if all of them are 6inch Pops

[WarHmongHer]

Only if they are all 6 inch pops minimum. any thing smaller would be a shame.

[jeffcrazy]

happy as all get out to actually see a Magnus reference along with Kaz and Mario Pudzjdfsdlaaaoskie references anywhere on this forum!

Who's ready for the Sumo Chase Variants? Remember that??? hehe

[jimma]

Cool idea! They must be 6 inch pops at least

[TriFeckTa]

Interesting idea, but i probably would pass on these.

[lavery01]

It's a pipe dream but I would really love to see World's Strongest Man pops. Every year 30 of the strongest men from around the globe gather to test their might and claim the title. It has grown tremendously throughout the years and is very popular in Europe. Frankly I just want to shine the spotlight on strength athletics! It needs way more love in America especially since we have a 4 time world champion. Anyway, here are a few of my picks with both modern and classics era lists with pics included in spoiler tags

Modern Era:
Brian “Gigantor” Shaw, USA
-x4 WSM

Spoiler: show

Žydrūnas “Big Z” Savickas, Lithuania
-they call him the strongest man to ever live, he has over 300 world records and has x4 WSM titles

Spoiler: show

Eddie “The Beast” Hall, Great Britain
-2017 WSM and world record deadlift holder

Spoiler: show

Hafþór “Thor” Júlíus Björnsson, Iceland
-aka the Mountain in Game of Thrones and one of the best strongmen who haven’t won the title (yet) also x5 Iceland’s strongest man

Spoiler: show

Terry "Big Tel" Hollands, Great Britain
-Europe’s strongest man

Spoiler: show

Jean-François Caron, Canada
-x7 Canada’s strongest man

Spoiler: show

Mark Felix, Great Britain
-the oldest current competing strongman at age 52

Spoiler: show

Classic Era:
Bill Kazmaier, USA x3 WSM
Mariusz Pudzianowski, Poland x5 WSM
Magnús Ver Magnússon, Iceland x4 WSM
Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Iceland x4 WSM
Geoff Capes, Great Britain x2 WSM

If my post has interested you even in the slightest ALL 40 years of competitions are on YouTube. There's also a hand full of documentaries on Netflix, Eddie Strongman and Born Strong are the ones I suggest.

They look great! I hope it happens for you.

[eastWOLF]

lol happy as all get out to actually see a Magnus reference along with Kaz and Mario Pudzjdfsdlaaaoskie references anywhere on this forum!

Who's ready for the Sumo Chase Variants? Remember that??? hehe

Kaz is the man! I would totally be down for sumo variants.
Ripped shirt chases for all!

[CaseyJones14]

I don't think we'd ever see a complete line, but definitely could see them making a buff Arnold

[zaghawk]

Only if it is this guy:

[JuzUK79]

Funny you should start this thread as this Saturday I am going to Europe’s Strongest Man competition in Leeds, UK.

I love strongman and can’t wait to see Eddy, Thor, Loz etc

My fave strongman is Mariusz and I would deffo buy a pop of him and possibly others.

[funkystark]

I always watch these when I catch them on TV, don't know if I would buy the pops but would be interesting to see a pop take on these giants that make most WWE personalities look tiny

[eastWOLF]

Funny you should start this thread as this Saturday I am going to Europe’s Strongest Man competition in Leeds, UK.

I love strongman and can’t wait to see Eddy, Thor, Loz etc

My fave strongman is Mariusz and I would deffo buy a pop of him and possibly others.

That's awesome! I wish we had more Giants Live events in the states or at least be televised. Can't wait to watch Europe's went it gets uploaded to YouTube.

I have Eddie's book and I went to a log lifting seminar with Big Z back in January! Got me into actual strongman training!

[[llO_oll]7]

That be pretty awesome!! Hafþór is already in my collection as a GoT piece, but I honestly would have never though about it. I'd buy them. They should make Heinz Ollesch too. This can possibly open door to the bodybuilding and powerlifting world as well.

[Brutesquad]

Doubt this would happen but who know right..either way good luck in your petition and I love watching these shows..

my bro trains and competes in local amateur strongman events..I met Brian Shaw yeeeears ago at some event before he won the title..he was at a challenge booth, he was still ginormous but no one knew who he was yet..the challenge at his booth was to lift a 175lb dumbell off the ground with one hand..seems "easy" enough but the damn handle was so thick it just kept rolling away..was like Thors Hammer and I wasnt worthy...

he however picked up like he was answering a phone..

[Chase Variant]

Only if it is this guy:

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[Lonikins]

Only if it is this guy:

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Thank god I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of Artie!

[Jalapenopete]

I don't think we'd ever see a complete line, but definitely could see them making a buff Arnold

Old skool Arnold is great idea but the rest I don't see it, they would have to be limited release at that event that could fly

[The Head]

Yes, I would be interested in a pop of myself.

[newhousebailey]

I was in graduate school at UT when they opened the Stark Center and the professor who put it all together was one of my favorite faculty members. If you ever make it to Austin it sounds like it would be right up your alley.

Stark Center

[julseyme]

Yes! My husband and I watch them on Youtube all.the.time. I would totally buy some of these!

[Funko-N-Fitness]

Only if they were all 10" Pop!s. That's as close to life size as it can get in the Funko world. I'd probably only get Shaw and Hall if this came to fruition.

[JuzUK79]

I went to Europe’s strongest man this weekend in Leeds. Me & the wife.

And WOW what a show. We both loved it.
Hall, Thor, Savikas, etc. Every contestant was an animal.

We will deffo be off to some more events.

[Biff7annen]

I'd definitely be down with that. Great idea! I met Shaw twice at a fitexpo in Davenport IA. What a great guy. He'd let you talk to him all day.

[InternationalPopper]

This could be really cool! As soon as I saw this post I also thought about a Stretch Armstrong pop!

-IntlPopper

[Jon319jon]

It would be awesome to have a line like this. If each person was doing an event...even better

[Lyndsay_wagner]

I hope just for you, that they would make
A couple but I honestly wouldn’t have a reason to buy one. If they did have one, I would buy and Arnold Onw but that is it.

[eastWOLF]

World's strongest man starts tomorrow! most of the contestants have arrived in the Philippines!

Anyone in Manillia going to watch? It's free to the public.

[Swatrob]

I watched this competitions as a kid, but I don’t know if there is enough crossover. Strongest man has a huge following, but I don’t think enough of them would be collectors for it to be worth it. But who knows, there have been some off the wall lines before

[eastWOLF]

Bringing this thread back simply because

Don't click if you want to wait until December to see the WSM results

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Congradtulation to "The Mountain" Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson on being 2018's world's strongest man!


After 7 years Thor has finally won the title of world's strongest man! He is also the first man to pull off the hat trick of strongman titles. He won the Arnold Classic, Europe's Strongest Man and World's Strongest Man!

[alphabay]

definitely me! He is the greatest haha.

[eastWOLF]

World's Strongest Man US broadcast starts today at 3pm EST! here's the listings for each airing!



https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj0lRJXBWz0/

[zwahelian]

In my opinion these would not sell very well, so I doubt they would ever get made. These would have to be made with a very low run number to be feasible.

[eastWOLF]

In my opinion these would not sell very well, so I doubt they would ever get made. These would have to be made with a very low run number to be feasible.

I know for a fact they would have to be low number runs and that would be perfect for me. I see a lot of lame or awful pops that are shelf warmers so if these were sold only at events I think they would sell decently. Like the special event baseball pops.

[Toronto]

Definately... so many eras to choose from


2013 Pop would have a chase of him wearing:

From his awesome fake retirement promo