>>8692479Some of the Archie Writers were allowed to keep the rights to characters they created, such as was the case with Ninjara.
>is THAT what they're doing?It's 100% what they're doing, take a look at this:
>>8690302>>8690303>>8690306You can see it's bubbling and in the one arm photo a different color plastic underneath.
Casting a figure or certain parts of figures in one color or as few colors as possible can save a lot of money on tooling molds. Hasbro has done stuff like this in Star Wars before, and Super7 a few times early in MOTU Classics did it, such as Ultimate Skeletor who had painted hands, which was a bit annoying, because you just knew eventually it'd cause paint rubbing from holding his weapons. Or on their Club Grayskull Sorceress where they painted her upper arms, which caused the sholder joint to rub away her paint exposing her flesh colored under arms. Neca's probably saving a fortune casting most of the toon turtles in one color and then painting them. Takara has issues like this with their Transformers Masterpiece figures, where they paint the entire figure and it just results in paint chipping and rubbing, but Takara does it, because they think it makes the figure look higher quality and can hide things like sprue marks.
