>>8455389What a wholesome interview. Very plainly said that Neca and Super7 had a gentleman's agreement to do their own things with the same line and not fuck each other over, Neca wanted to do cartoons/movie versions and Super7 wanted toy versions. "Buy the one you like", and you can fuck off with the brand wars.
Character hype because no one is talking about it:
Donatello (Best turtle) in October.
Bebop and Rocksteady are chunky as hell. Makes me hopeful for the Krang android and other big characters.
April: Redid her entire sculpt to be closer to on-model from cartoon because they know most of their customers are men who want a nicer looking human toy. Very delicately said that the original toy wasn't the best looking human figure, and that no one was terribly excited with their faithful update on it (most reactions were either "meh" or "ok") so they redid the figure so that more people would be interested in it. Most important thing for me: Second head is specifically a headset head, no more need to guess what it could be.
Casey Jones: Brian's favourite character besides Baxter, so I'm hoping that means this toy has a bit of extra love put in it.
Usagi Yojimbo is confirmed and guaranteed next year. (2021). No speculation needed about rights or whatever. It's a done deal. Straight up. "You gotta have him. He's part of the club."
They're planning on making Turtle variants after the main/basic four for sure. "Name-dropped" trenchcoat Raph as an example.
7 waves planned at minimum, so 15 more characters not counting the guaranteed Donnie in the next few waves to speculate on.
I'm hopeful for bubble walker Krang, personally.
