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>>9977001 >i can now get a complete vintage mutagen man for fairly cheap >he doesnt come with any of his accessories playmates what is the fucking point
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Power Con NECA TMNT news: >working on getting toon Casey Jones and Shredder back out >Target is apparently going HEAVY on TMNT next year cause of the new movie. NECA's benefitting from this, and they will have the toon diorama IN STORE for this. >Ultimate April will have new head(s?), retooled body, and "tons" of accessories >Living Room Sewer set going up in September. The following sets will be spread out afterwards. >Technodrome is a "want to" but not right now. >Last Ronin himself is shipping soon, the line is going "deep" including spin-offs and the prequel comics. >Archie line will go for as long as there's support. Wrestling TMNT will be coming.
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>>9977010 Yeah, Mutagen Man doesn't have the floaty bits, his gun, and may be missing the backpack. No idea what the fuck they're doing.
But if anyone wants the set, it's here:
https://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Collection/dp/B09QH6MJJB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=teenage+cohort&qid=1660177777&sr=8-1 Anonymous
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>>9977001 god it's been so many years, I did not remember Leatherhead came in the packaging in that arrangement.. the top of his head came off at one point, got lost, and I couldn't play with him that way anymore, so he was the only tmnt fig i don't still have, except shredder who got flat-out lost.
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>>9977010 jesus shitassing christ. that's beyond the pale
i hope this gets someone fired, because little errors here and there are one thing, but good god.
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>>9977020 mutagen man's gun was pretty rad. I got a painstripping gun that reminds me a lot of it, has a similar nozzle attachment.
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>>9977017 >Target is apparently going HEAVY on TMNT next year cause of the new movie. NECA's benefitting from this, and they will have the toon diorama IN STORE for this. >Ultimate April will have new head(s?), retooled body, and "tons" of accessories This will be the final nail in the coffin for Super7
Kiss your collections goodbye, Brianboys. You backed the wrong horse
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>>9977121 does not need new head, needs a new body.
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>>9977138 it had better be a lot bigger.
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>>9977001 >>9977020 I bought a bunch of the re-issues recently. They're not bad, but there's generally high levels of paint QC with them. This is my collection thus far.
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>>9977189 The Foot Soldier in the line has apparently changed his allegiance. He no longer works for The Foot, but instead... THE SHOE.
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>>9977001 Forgot to mention:
Secret of the Ooze Shredder has been out for a few weeks now (though finding him isn't easy).
And the Secret of the Ooze Turtles 2-packs are hitting as well.
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>>9977194 Some might not be aware, but the vintage line was unfortunately riddled with paint QC for years. There's figures is nigh impossible to get a minty version from a certain release with no paint fuck ups. Thankfully they re-issued certain characters again and again.
Shown here is a mint on card Ray Fillet I have who's covered head to toe in paint fuck ups, to the point where if you opened him and took him out of the package I'd refuse to believe he was a mint condition figure and not a beater that some child played with. So I can't complain too much about the QC in the current re-issues.
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>>9977214 And Fwoosh was given early samples of Renet, Casey, and Archie Slash. We'll hopefully see some first looks soon.
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>>9977194 no longer a feared ninja clan, but as Strong Bad put it, a "Cut-off-your-toes-style collection agency"
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>>9977214 alright neca you can ship mine out anytime now..
and put shredder up for preordle.
>>9977215 you are shaking out some really old childhood memories of this figure (though I had one of the other color versions) and yeah his paint was awful. i wonder if they used a different kind of paint that was meant to be extra waterproof, and the result was it just slopped way too easily or something. hell maybe that's why he changed colors 3 times.
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>>9977236 Out of the Re-issues I have, the Foot Soldier aside from missing the toes on his forehead symbol he's decent. The Krang is also perfect with zero fuck ups. Slash is pretty good, but there's some splotches on his shell where they got sloppy with painting his spikes. I might try to hunt down another one of these re-issues(they're going for $50 on ebay--fuck!). The Baxter is alright, but there's certain things about him that make him seem like a bootleg, such as how his weapon is molded as one piece instead of two separate pieces. And Super Shredder is pretty good, and in fact has better paint than my carded vintage Super Shredder. However the paint on his hands kinda bleeds and is thick with spots of purple plastic showing thru it in a few spots. The vintage had the same problem on my carded copy.
The Reissue turtles themselves are alright, I need to buy a new Don and Leo tho. Don has an unpainted spot on the back of his bandanna, and Leo has white paint on his bandanna that can't be removed without probably also fucking up the blue paint on the mask.
>>9977238 I think the red/purple chest version of Ray Fillet might be more prone to the QC, because I've seen a few on ebay that also looked pretty rough. I know they re-issued him a few times, so I'm hoping to eventually snag a nice copy. I actually got the carded one in a recent haul, and each and every carded figure had paint QC. Pic related is my recent pick ups.
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>>9977335 And for fun here's accessories images from the cardbacks.
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>>9977224 I thought Renet was blue
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>>9977335 >weapon is molded as one piece interesting, that suggests they really did have to remake these molds.. and did so with an old version not realizing they had to separate it
man, that supershredder. i was so god damn happy to get him for christmas. my childhood was awesome.
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>>9977339 yeah they made a little stnank
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>>9977337 Super Shredder's weapons
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>>9977342 They didn't show off April's weapons the same way since she was made before they started doing this.
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>>9977342 it's kinda weird how this is the guy that came with the awesome communicator from the cartoon, pretty sure regular shredder didn't.. and he had the extended hand to use it quite well too.
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>>9977352 I like that they did that. It sort of signaled to kids that you could mix your movie figures together with the rest of your collection, because the toys were like their own continuity. So I mixed them together, and Super Shredder became my default version.
>>9977340 I bought him twice as a kid. The first time I had a dog chew his fingers off, so I picked up a second one, because I had no Shredder for awhile.
>>9977340 It's highly likely that they recreated the figures by casting molds off of vintage figures to try and recreate them. In a few cases the figures seem like bootlegs. I'm having fun with them though, and I hope they do more. I want them to remake Muck Man, Chrome Dome, the Disguise Turtles, Mutant Military, and Storage Shells, and maybe a few other key characters like Rat King. I hope Playmates dig deep into remaking figures in the build up to the new movie, even if the movie sucks. It'd be a good excuse for more toys.
Speaking of the Storage Shells I purchased 3 of them recently on impulse after I originally purchased a Michelangelo off of Facebook Marketplace, only for the seller to say he didn't know why it was still listed, and so he sold me a Leonardo instead. Then some sellers on ebay sent me some offers on a Don and Raph I had in my cart, and now I have 3 of the 4 coming in the mail. I'm gonna take pics when they arrive and when I commit the sacrilege of opening them.
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>>9977387 you know they really might as well do some of the sillier and redundant stuff as reissues, since super7 presumably isnt going to do that. alt heads at most.
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>>9977215 Here's a comparison between my 88 cardback new head April and a 1994 re-release(there's so many versions of this figure that not all of them seem documented.) I own that '94 version(I think it was a re-release for KB toys) as well, but it hasn't arrived in the mail yet, but she looks way better in the paint department. The older carded figure has has weird paint QC on her eyes and even a splotch of blue paint on her nose and some paint splotches on her right leg.
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>>9977424 huh that actually looks pretty good. had no idea the old toys ever had blue eyes though.
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>>9977010 Lol, the only piece I'm missing is the tube.
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>>9977450 They pretty much immediately re-issued April with the newer head and the orange on her jumpsuit, because the designers weren't happy with April's figure. Mark Taylor(creator of He-Man) says repeatedly on the documentary The Toys that Made Us, that April's character from the comics sucked(she's a lab technician in a blue jumpsuit), and that she was boring compared to Teela from Masters of the Universe. She got merged with the character Ms Hynes, who was a reporter featured in issue #2 of the Mirage comic, the same issue in which she was introduced. Ms Hynes is a female reporter who briefly interviews Baxter Stockman about his Mousers.
https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Hynes Mark Taylor also disliked the van that they were making in the toyline originally when he was brought on to run the TMNT line for Playmates. The van was April's VW van which is featured in Issue #3 of the comics, which is sort of boring. So it became the Turtle Party Wagon when Mark became involved. And Baxter also became a white guy, because Taylor and the team thought comics Baxter would make for a boring figure and planned to make him as a possible Doc Brown inspired mad scientist, because Back to the Future had just come out. He then later was made into a David Cronenberg Fly.
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>>9977475 huh, yeah that makes sense. you can kinda see it.
just imagine an alternate timeline where they kept the name Hynes, had her in the movies and everything, then 2003 brought april back in the way Spectacular Spider-Man used Gwen Stacy
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All these dug up Playmates molds makes me continue to hope for a least 2k3 wave 1 to get a release like all these other sets.
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>>9977475 >on the documentary The Toys that Made Us Is this actually a good series or just normie nerd bait?
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>>9977495 A little of both. The TMNT one is sort of like a history of the franchise and not as much about the toys, although they do interview the head of Playmates, and talk about how Playmates was desperate to break into the action figure market back in the 80's and is a Hong Kong based toy company, and they picked up the TMNT license because nobody else wanted it and they thought it'd be a cool frame work for a toy line. Peter Laird comes off like the Chris-Chan of the duo, and the real creative force, being autistic about his creation(he comes off a bit autistic too in one of the collected graphic novels I have), while Kevin Eastman was just some young guy going along for the ride. Laird even talks about what a betrayal it was for Kevin to like the the idea of adding a 5th female turtle to the group(this is his Sonic doesn't have blue arms), and how it soured their friendship. Mark Taylor's in it too, and Playmates scooped him up from Mattel as a sort of fixer to try and make the line a success. To that end Playmates commissioned the cartoon series which was directly based off the toyline, since they knew most people weren't going to be aware of a comic book.
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>>9977488 well that's just it, it's clear now at least some of them are recreated.. which is not quite as hooray as dug up would be.
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>>9977475 Baxter was also initially planned to become a good guy and the Technodrome was going to become the turtle's base of operation. Eastman and Laird went what the fuck and nixed this.
Ironically Fred Wolf would later sue them claiming they came up with the idea for the TMNT living in the sewer
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>>9977508 what's funny is eastman basically agrees, that he's not nearly as creative or talented.
teams work well that way, one has more of what it takes to actually make the shit, and the other has more of what it takes for shit to actually get finished.
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>>9977511 ha, they nixed the idea of fusing shredder and krang into one body... but we got a taste of that in 2003
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>>9977508 Laird does have a very nerdy/autistic vibe to him, Eastman is more of the party dude. Makes sense that Laird's favorite turtle is Don(his brother's name was also Don)
Its funny how much of the TMNT iconic imagery comes from his ideas that he isn't overly attached to. Even though he only had 6 mutagen mutants in the comics(the turtles, Splinter, and Leatherhead), he drew a lot of beast men sketches which helped inspire Playmates to do more. Like how he designed Bebop and Rocksteady but doesn't really care much for them.
Another thing is how he's very fond of vehicles, so a lot of the drawings he had were vehicles and that was a huge part of the TMNT play pattern
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>>9977540 yeah that makes sense to me. he knows mutants are better when they're rare, but he still wants to draw cool monsters
so we still get triceratons and shit like that.
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>>9977214 >Secret of the Ooze Shredder has been out for a few weeks now (though finding him isn't easy). gotta love finding a good price and then the disappointment when you see it's aliexpress.
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>>9977546 The triceratons actually predate the Turtles, funny enough
Its worth checking out his blog to see some insight on his ideas and old TMNT artifacts, especially stuff like his 4kids show notes.
When they told him the Utrom Shredder idea initially he suggested that instead of it being a robot , the Utrom was gutting and taking over human Saki family member through generations. The 4kids guys basically told them no way the censors would let them do that and suggested that the robot suit would allow them to actually use their weapons on Shredder , which Laird agreed would be cool to see.
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>>9977571 haha that's awesome. so it was like okay, this miniseries did well, what do we do with em next?
send em into space and use the triceratons
also that is interesting.. man he really tried his best making that show intense.
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>>9977540 >> Like how he designed Bebop and Rocksteady but doesn't really care much for them. http://peterlairdstmntblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/blast-from-past-226-mutants-for.html He submitted them to Playmates as part of Rogues Gallery idea and they ended up getting changed. He seemed more interested in the Bulldog man that never got made.
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>>9977576 Mark Taylor's redesigns.
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>>9977577 Mark Taylor’s interest in bikers( he called them real, modern barbarians) really comes to light with their designs now that I think about it.
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>>9977576 whoa, that bulldog has a one-sided version of what would eventually become Metalhead's auto-chuck arm!
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>>9977495 >Is this actually a good series or just normie nerd bait? most of the episodes are good, about the only one I'd call kind of bad is the Transformers episode, mostly because while it does a fairly good job of covering the early stages of the franchise(particularly the bits involving Diaclone and Micro-Change/Micro-Man), it really fumbles how it covers anything done after Transformers The Movie(among other things it makes it come off like Takara had stopped being involved in Transformers after the first couple of waves until Beast Wars happened, and also it acts as though Transformers just didn't exist between Beast Wars and the first Michael Bay movie, completely glossing over everything made in between)
as for the TMNT episode pretty much the only issue I have with it is that they completely skip over the TMNT RPG even though that was one of the first licensed products for TMNT and predated both the toys and show and was actually a pretty big deal back in the day, which is especially weird because they actually had Kevin Siembieda show up as one of the "talking heads" of the episode
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>>9977511 >Baxter was also initially planned to become a good guy and the Technodrome was going to become the turtle's base of operation I feel like I should dislike this idea but it honestly sounds cool as fuck. If fast forward did something like this I probably would have enjoyed it more. Maybe theres room out there for a cosmic set of turtles that conquered dimension x and its technologies only to become what they fought against. Man now that I think about it theres alot of forgotten iterations of the turtles deserving more attention, pic related.
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>>9977001 I know i shouldnt be enabling playmates with how they didnt include mutagen mans gun but i bought the cohort pack. I couldnt help myself i really wanted it and ive been starved for regular TMNT toys for years at this point ever since the 2012 toyline ended and the rise toyline went belly up relatively quickly. I really hope the new animated ninja turtle movie next year gives us some great new mutants and toys of them to be sure
>>9977577 Why the fuck does barely any of mark taylors artwork for the OG TMNT line exist online at all? Ive constantly tried to look for more of it but the most ive been able to find is that image and an image of splinter figure concept art he did
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>>9977339 IDW colors first, blue coming out later.
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>>9977521 Its a strangely prophetic interview, they talk about maybe making the turtles different species(like Rise did),
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>>9977632 >I know i shouldnt be enabling playmates with how they didn't include mutagen mans gun Wait, what? They couldn't POSSIBLY have... Oh.
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>>9977577 ohhh the drill is for their shells. that makes sense.
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>>9978217 And here all this time I thought it was a reference to his corkscrew boar cock.
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>>9977599 yeah that was pretty cool
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I can't wait for the reissue toon turtles to only come with their weapons and nothing else!
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>>9978281 1 weapon each, you need to buy the accessory set for the second weapon.
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>>9978281 Without their action gimmicks.
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>>9978245 hehehe
>>9978281 hasn't that already happened? someone who originally came with the lenticular TV thing didn't have it or it just had a simple picture?
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>>9977632 Here's Mark's earlier version of the Technodrome. Originally the toy was going to have an inflatable body for the round portion, which was going to be like the turtle blimp, and be removable. But when the line got really popular this idea changed and it went from just a vehicle to a larger playset with an interior.
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>>9978733 This is Mark's original design for the Party Wagon which differs a little from the final toy.
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>>9978733 A big inflatable body isn't the worst idea, but it doesn't have the SOVL of the playset.
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>>9978738 huh. it's a little rounder, and a little more like super7's one, but still retains stuff like the flat bumper.. very interesting. double opening visors is also kinda weird.
also makes more sense to me for the spoiler to say something like turtle power instead of weirdly their... logo? which would they even have?
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>>9977424 This arrived today in the mail so I could compare the '94 release with the '88 new head release.
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https://youtu.be/Zn2cGQRqp28 Robo's got the Mirage Casey Jones for a review.
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>>9979178 Some how this copy I have is waaaay sloppier in the paint than the '88 I have.
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>>9979185 I opened up the figures to compare them. The grey weapons are the ones that came with the '88 and the blue ones with the '94.
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>>9979206 I ended up liking the quality on the '88 figure's release better at least for the two copies I have. There's paint fuck ups on both figures, but my '88's wasn't as bad when I popped her off her cardback. I did like the '94's colors and weapon colors better however. If you look closely you can see that the '94 here has a lot of paint getting onto the forehead, along with her lipstick on the bottom lip isn't that great. There's also the word "PRESS" being printed on misaligned so it's not on her name tag, along with some orange paint slop around that spot. In addition there's a sloppier job on painting her boots and a speck of blue paint on the dead center of her belt buckle. The blue and orange trim is painted nicer on her than the '88 in the positive area.
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Is there a MOTU Origins equivalent for the classic TMNT toy line? It looks like Playmates still releases their vintage style figures as-is but they aren't 100% true to their original counterparts in terms of quality and coloration? Can anybody give a QRD? I'm possibly interested in getting some TMNT figures in my collection if they're faithful to the ones I played with as a kid.
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>>9979217 Nope. Playmates is doing the bare minimum and even when they do new stuff (like the Stranger Things 2-packs) there's stupid Playmates mistakes.
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>>9979217 The Playmates re-issues are interesting, but you probably want the Super7 line if you're trying for something that looks like the vintage toy, but has modern articulation and sculpting.
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>>9979182 Do you think Casey goes commando?
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>>9979231 I forgot that Michelangelo didn't get paint apps on his nails.
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>>9979230 So basically the new ones that are made to look vintage are inferior imitations with missing features? But we've currently got the main four turtles, Shredder, Splinter, a couple of vehicles, and now this four-pack with a Foot Soldier, etc? No Rocksteady and Bebop yet?
Despite the issues I'm tempted to bite. The main four look close enough to how I remember them that they might scratch my nostalgia. The guys in that four pack look great, IMO, and I don't think I had enough TMNT toys as a kid to really be picky about these re-issues.
I'm only wondering if Amazon fucks up the cards as badly as they do with MOTU Origins figures. Also I feel like $50 is a great price for that four pack but will it go even cheaper? Or will it only increase in cost?
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>>9979183 purty. I want to reach into her pockets.
her neck collar area is wayyyy too high up.. I guess rotating cut joints make this difficult.
>>9979214 I thought she was changed much more significantly than that from release to release, including a different head sculpt.. this looks like just a slight repainting.
>>9979231 this is interesting because.. don's skin seems to have changed slightly, but I remember him being chocolate pudding brown in the past, not that olive color (that looks more like 2003 don).
was the wacky action don a different color from regular? that's the one I had.
>>9979233 absofuckinglutely. Real men don't tie their nads up in prisons.
>>9979241 can't disagree with that, it looks weird. i expect them to have 'same color as skin' nails, like anime.
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>>9979233 >>9979248 Testicular torsion is a real thing, anon.
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>>9979231 Those look great and definitely like a superior product but I'm mostly a MOC collector that decorates the walls of my work room with stuff like this (please no hate) so I'm just as happy with a more memory-accurate figure on a nice vintage looking card than something to pull out, pose, and put on a shelf.
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>>9979257 You might like the re-issues then if you're doing carded. They're not bad, but there have been a few screw ups in the line.
>>9977189 >>9977194 There's also a re-issue Party Wagon that's fairly cheap on Amazon along with a Turtle Blimp.
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>>9979217 Super7 has the TMNT Ultimates line. They’re based on the same designs as the original Playmates line, but with updated articulation and detailed paint apps. The figures are bigger than the originals though, in a six inch scale.
These are the toys I grew up with, so I love this line. It does have downsides though. The biggest issue is probably loose joints. The main four turtles have wobbly hips unfortunately. They’re also expensive, about $50 a figure.
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>>9979250 exactly. let em hang. build your ligaments. they will tighten up from the breeze and hang a lot more firmly and tightly to the body, instead of melting into puddles in your drawers.
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>>9979246 Here's how little Playmates cares. This is from the Movie Star Turtles re-release from like, last year, or earlier this year? I don't remember. But they couldn't get the movie star Splinter...for whatever reason. So they repainted the vintage Splinter into movie colors.
As if nobody would notice? Or be okay with it? I don't know.
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>>9979267 the proportions in this line really are kinda all over the place.. they weren't always equally sure how to translate the stumpy old designs.. Muckman almost didn't need to be fixed, but he looks way better. The turtles look great. but then you have Mondo with his short legs preserved even though he's a skateboarder who could really use more even proportions... makes his head look all huge.. and good lord that shoulder looks bad turned that way. we REALLY need to figure out rising shoulders in a better way than how they're currently done. I feel like a large wheel-segment that goes inside the body would do the trick... it'd be covered front and back.
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>>9979280 TMNT has kept this retarded company from bankruptcy for far too long.
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>>9979280 oh I just realized why
i think that other anon was right: they're literally doing cast-offs of the vintage toys. and since movie star splinter was flocked, you couldn't make a clean mold of him.
god i love how they reversed his comic-style eyes to try to give him normal eyes... that's like when they wanted to fuck up Cake the Cat by giving her Jake-style eyes and then Nat didn't like it, but when they changed it back, they weren't blue anymore..
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>>9979286 it's so weird how it worked out, yknow? here was this little independent comic book, but it had potential... and they knew it, everyone knew it, but getting someone to PAY for the damn thing in the first place was hard. Playmates was willing to take a chance on them because they were about to go out of business anyway, and fred wolf was hardly the paragons of quality you'd want for an action show, however silly.
it's kinda making me think about what a cheap yet massively profitable venture Power Rangers was. It's no wonder the actors wanted more money, but their cheapness was the only reason it could have been made in the first place.
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>>9979280 I never knew this figure existed.
Definitely Playmates being cheap, as usual. But I find this figure cute, in a derpy bootleg-looking kind of way. I’d definitely buy an Ultimates repaint of this.
>>9979284 Yeah, I don’t think we’re going to get any kind of fancy articulation updates. The figures are still based on the Four Horsemen designs, and they’re not exactly known for their innovative joints.
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>>9979284 oh I guess this would make butterfly joints basically impossible though. you'd have to pick one or the other.
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>>9979287 That’s hilarious, if true.
I’m kinda curious what a remold of a flocked figure would look like now.
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>>9979308 see i could have sworn we actually did get a no-flocking version of that mold later on, as like movie III splinter or maybe even something else.. repainted grey maybe?
and I forget if it was just the naked figure underneath, that mold, or if it was a new mold that had additional molded bumpy fur.
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>>9979287 >>9979308 It's 100% true that they're recasting these off of the original figures. You can tell by the way they cast Baxter's swatter wrong as one piece. He's meant to wear it on his arm with the swatter facing outwards to swat the turtles, but they fucked up when casting it as one piece, so it faces side ways when he holds it.
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>>9979331 There's also some really bad plastic flashing on his shoulders and on the seems on his hands, where you can tell that he's be cast from another figure. He looks like a bootleg when you really examine him.
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>>9979328 Maybe they couldn't afford the $18 to buy a Shogun Splinter on ebay?
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>>9979331 fucking hunyucks.
>>9979340 strictly speaking, this IS a bootleg in at least some respects. In the same way that sometimes videogame companies release ripped material they grabbed from online, and you end up with the packaging images having watermarks..
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>>9979349 Shogun splinter, that was it. the sculpted plastic version of the movie figure, recreating the texture of the flocking by taking the time to resculpt it. this is what they should have used if they wanted to compromise.
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>>9979349 Actually revisiting this thought they probably didn't want to spend the money to tool a new head just for a one time use for a re-issue, so someone got the idea just to make a repaint.
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>>9979349 Even I own that one.
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>>9979367 he's seen some shit.
that illustration in the background.. the coloring of his muzzle.. is that an attempt to look like the toon version, or was there another repaint I'm not thinking of that had that, because it looks weirdly familiar. I remember a graymuzzled splinter..
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>>9979373 You don't know want to know things Irma's seen.
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>>9979394 >>9979395 wheezing with laughter here. guys. be careful. I could die.
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>>9979394 Dumpster Rape PTSD Irma
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Here's the 2021 financial report of Playmates, looks like COVID slapped them pretty hard and the toy division is the only thing keeping them in the black. Remember, 1 USD equals 7.85 HKD currently.
No wonder they're making these weird TMNT crossovers and vintage re-releases. They're desperate to keep them on shelves, since their other golden goose(Kong vs Godzilla) has probably died down in popularity as well. Will be interesting to see this years report.
You can change the year number in the url for different years as well(20,19,etc)
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>>9979394 wait, does she have a scarf tied around her waist? it looks like they intended the sweater-around-the-waist thing but it's tiny and there's clearly nothing back there.
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>>9979430 i feel bad for the legitimate sinoid nationstates, not just being threatened constantly by winnie the pooh, but also taking the brunt force of everything his band of bat-eating idiots do right in the face before it gets to the rest of us.
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>>9979430 They're going to lose so much money on their Star Trek line, and it's a line I'm actually interested in. There's going to be far too many peg warmers that nobody wants from recent shit.
>>9979457 It is a sweater around her waist.
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>>9978738 why did he draw the roof so flat?
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>>9979475 It looks like there's a footpeg on the roof for a figure to stand on it. If you look close you can see it in the middle near the spoiler.
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>>9979466 roffle it's so little!!! a tiny backpack is one thing, lots of women wear those, but..who's supposed to wear that sweater? wouldn't fit Zack's little sister
>start wreck god isn't it funny, in a lot of toylines you have a lot of stupid nobody characters included that nobody cares about, and they pegwarm.. but in things like star trek and star wars, things with ensemble casts and really hard work put in, people actually care about the extras and background nobodies. It's the new shit nobody wants to see. onna counta that shit -doesn't- spend lots of time developing fun characters and carefully filling backgrounds with interesting people.
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>>9979475 that's normal for a box van. actually this looks to have a form of the step-down that the toon version had, so that's probably where it came from. all this time the point of the rear hump was to give them an extra way to see out, but they didnt use that in any version.
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you ever go on a little virtual shopping trip for some recent toys you'd like to have, and realize that, even if they were on sale, you'd be looking at over a grand?
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>>9979262 Oh man... Yeah that's not ideal but it might be okay for carded collecting, especially if it's up on the wall near the ceiling. Also, are ALL those figures in that pick re-issues?? I didn't realize they did Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, Baxter, and that evil turtle that I think is Slash(?)
Are those ones harder to find or already out of circulation?
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>>9979267 Those do look great but they're a little out of my budget. I could justify it if I had the space to display them and TMNT was my #1 vintage toy line (it's maybe my 4th or 5th favorite) so I think the cheap ones are sufficient for me but those are definitely beautiful figures.
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>>9979394 She just needs a little love, a toothbrush, and some elbow grease.
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>>9979478 Star Trek dies for me around the time of Voyager and Enterprise, and I wasn't that big about Enterprise. I don't care or want anything from the period from the J.J. Abrams films and onward. I mainly want Next Generation and Deep Space Nine figures.
>>9979496 Yep, all those are re-issues. The Slash re-issue goes for around $50 on ebay. He's one of the better ones, same with Super Shredder and Krang. Most of those came in the "Mutant Module" box set, which is being sold by re-sellers for around $200 now.
It's $180 here, so about $30 a figure in the scalper price.
https://www.amazon.com/PlayMates-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles/dp/B08TT1Y46S/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BM2SHM3WFVNG&keywords=mutant+module&qid=1660279147&sprefix=mutant+module%2Caps%2C537&sr=8-1 There's also a new set of 4 figures that's on Amazon and selling for $50. And that's the one with Mutagen Man, Wingnut, and Leatherhead:
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>>9979502 They're fun posing figures.
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>>9979512 I'm told Strange New Worlds is better, but yeah I have little desire to collect that stuff.
Prodigy is fine, but those designs, no thanks, not something i'd want as a toy. oddly enough Lower Decks has been doing it for me despite making so many definitely wrong decisions, so.. i'm attached enough to those characters.. and they'd kind of suit the simpler throwback playmates style.
>>9979512 the RE-ISSUE is fitty bucks? good lord. you could get the Ultimates one for that price and he's actually good. what is the point of reselling remolded bootlegs of your own stuff if you can't keep up enough stock to meet demand?
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>>9979519 Here's some more pics from my collection
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>>9979526 can I just come to your house and play with these? I can't afford em.
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>>9979521 People are willing to pay the money for a re-issue just to try and get a minty fresh looking figure, but most of the re-issues have bad paint QC, and are being re-sold at rape prices. If Playmates put more effort into the QC department, even with less paint apps these releases would be better than the originals. They're even using better plastic, using more flexible and softer material that feels more durable albeit lighter. The vintage figures used a harder plastic that in my opinion got banged up really easy. I had a minty fresh storage shell Leo before that ended up with a dent on the top of his head from a minor fall of only a foot or two when he slipped out of my hands while taking a photo. The fall was so minor, I couldn't believe the dent. I ended up giving him to a friend, and now I have a new coming in the mail.
I'm mainly focusing on Ultimates but I want Playmates to get it's act together.
>>9979534 If you can afford the travel expense.
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>>9979565 hmm interesting. I know the original-original figures had soft rubberish heads. I do seem to recall the plastic in a lot of the old toys being very clacky by today's standards.. nice and shiny and seemingly durable, yet I did still break things with frequency. usually the pegs on cut joints.
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>>9979512 Ohh man... This debuted at $100, which is a fair price for so many figures... Looks like I missed the chance to get it at that price by a few months. What is the likelihood of these figures getting individual releases?
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>>9979577 I broke a lot of vintage figures back in the day. I remember breaking the legs on Foot Soldiers twice. They seemed to like to lock up at the hip joint. I also recall breaking the hand of a turtle and then pretending the broken peg inside the wrist was a gun hand, like he was Mega Man. But damaging that Storage Shell figure really startled me. It was the kind of fall that wouldn't have damaged most figures, and pretty much all modern figures would have been completely unscathed. My Leo had a flat dent from the floor on the top of his head, like he was made out of play-doh. It's was a shame too. I purchased him mint on card off of Ebay back around 2018 for like $80, and like 2 weeks later while taking some pics he slipped out of my hand and I fumbled trying to catch him and almost stopped the fall-- but then he tapped the floor.
>>9979597 Maybe to force out some product at stores for that Seth Rogen movie. They had the reissues at Walmart and online retailers, but those were only the 4 main turtles and the Party Wagon and Blimp. BBTS is selling them at exorbitant prices for whatever reason.
You can get the Turtles for $13 on Walmart's site
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Classic-Basic-Mikey-Action-Figure-Set-3-Pieces/991674434 And the Party Wagon and Blimp at decent prices on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-81288/dp/B09B9182BK/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09SN6HQVL/ref=ewc_pr_img_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 BBTS wants $75 for the Blimp
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>>9979615 >gun hand yes I seem to remember doing that too. especially if the peg was on the hand side, leaving a hole.
I dropped an Earthworm Jim once and he just broke apart into (intact) pieces I was able to reassemble. I lost the spring that launched his head, so I could now just take it out as I pleased, which I thought was kinda better anyway. Playmates basically did everything there the same as TMNT, including unpainted accessories and buddy figurines.
I also dropped this cool wolverine-in-coat-and-jeans figure and its pelvis broke, so I ended up putting him in the HISS tank I got from goodwill, he fit in the gunner seat just fine without legs.
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>>9979615 Thanks for the heads up. I've been trying to buy those turtles on Walmart and it lets me add them to my cart but when I try to check out it says they're out of stock? No idea...
I think I'll pull the trigger on the Classic Cohort Collection because even though I don't think I had any of those particular figures as a kid they look really awesome and I don't think they'll ever be as cheap as they are now. As for the villian 6 pack I'll keep my fingers crossed that I can grab one for around $120. And as for the turtles themselves I think I'll just try to get them from Walmart when I can. At $13 a pop they're kind of a no-brainer.
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>>9979655 that's a lot of money to me. Especially for a 5poa figure especially of such low quality.
i'm miffed at the high prices of beast wars reissues these days but at least those were good toys, and the only issue with the reissues seems to be a few missing paint apps.
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>>9979655 >I'll just try to get them from Walmart when I can. At $13 a pop they're kind of a no-brainer. As long as you can snag them online. I don't think you'll find 'em at any physical store location right now. They kinda got all bought up and I never even encountered them in the wild, but always saw people on Facebook bragging about how they found Turtles and bought up all the vans and blimps. People like to horde TMNT toys whenever something new comes out. Just the other day at Walmart I stumbled on the Loyal Subjects figures in store and I was looking at them and how nice they were in person and wondering if I should buy into those as well, and then this s o y boy wearing a covid mask suddenly shows up and starts slowly invading my space as he noticed that I was looking at the turtles, and I could tell he was getting excited and wanted me to move so he could take the turtles from me-- I could actually see him do a double take noticing that I was looking at the new turtles. And he starts immediately trying to nudge me out of the way, moving closer and closer, physically in front of me so I can't even look at them anymore, and I was already extremely close to them and had a Foot Soldier in my hand a moment before. All the while he's trying to keep me out of the way so I can't look at them as he stands with the back of his head about an inch from my face, because of how close I already was; didn't even say excuse me, while he parked a shopping cart next to himself in the space as well. I said to him, "do you mind," and he stuttered out a few really quiet words, kinda surprised I said anything about him basically forcing me out of the way and taking the turtles away from me. I ended up not buying anything, since this guy decided to claim the entire section to himself. They even had some neca movie turtles on the shelf and the Frankenstein Raph that I wanted to look at, but this dude was being obnoxious with the way he just sort of took over the aisle.
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>>9979694 Wtf... what a piece of shit. He probably flips them on eBay for a small profit since they're hard to find in the wild. I only buy extras to sell later after they've gone up in value. Buying to sell immediately just to make a small profit while simultaneously creating the scarcity you profit from is a piece of shit move.
I'm kind of curious as to why Amazon has these TMNT figures listed if they're supposedly Walmart exclusives. Is there anything different about them in terms of their packaging etc? I notice some have a shitty Nickelodeon logo on them.
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>>9979724 I was taken aback by a dude trying to force me out of the aisle, because he wanted the TMNT toys I was looking at. I would absolutely recommend the Loyal Subjects from what I briefly got to see. They're small, about 5-inches and pretty nicely prices at $20 with a great amount of accessories I was seeing: extra hands a few weapons, and well articulated.
>why Amazon has these TMNT figures listed if they're supposedly Walmart exclusives. They're the same figures. I think Amazon just ends up exclusives sometimes from other retailers. They could have been temporary exclusives for Walmart and then re-issued to online retailers like MOTU Origins was.
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>>9979694 all that unsold shit is going to fuck most of them over. it's just another get rich quick scheme, a few prosper but their souls rot.
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>>9979782 if we're in a fighting game? no question, my man miyamoto usagi
if it's about who would actually win in a fight, I guess supershredder.
for fun to play? metalhead
holy shit do they actually have both 'april o'neil' and 'april' listed as separate figures? what even is that second one, looks to have windswept hair
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>>9979373 There was a non-flocked movie 3 Figure
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>>9979502 >TMNT is maybe my 4th or 5th favorite I'm curious, what're your top three?
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>>9979919 ahh yes. so I did remember that right. wow and he got new weapons too.
so yeah this is the one they should have self-bootlegged. what maroons. i wonder if there was some communication like "we can't mold the flocked one, so find the one with textured plastic fur" thinking that person would understand they meant one of the remolded movie figures.
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>>9980343 >1: Vintage Lego (80s & 90s Castle, Space, and Pirate) >2: Battle Beasts >3: Masters of the Universe I actually didn't have a lot of TMNT toys as a kid. I really liked the show, loved the games, enjoyed the toys... But I feel like I only had the four main turtles, Rocksteady, Bebop, and I can't remember if I had anything else. I remember getting interested in the line because I was at the dentist's office and saw some other kid playing with a turtle that had eye or tongue popping out play feature and I was immediately interested.
I feel like TMNT would be #4 in my top childhood toys because I really like the aesthetic overall. To continue the list it would probably be something like:
>5: MUSCLE >6: Spinjas >7: Rocks & Bugs & Things >8: Wheeled Warriors >9: Micro Machines >10: Toss up between Supernaturals, Dino Riders, and those Ghostbusters action figures maybe? Honorable mentions of other stuff I remember having: Starriors, Sectaurs, Starcom, Sky Commanders, and probably a few others I'm forgetting.
Inhumanoids would have probably made the list but I don't think I had any. Mighty Max would probably be high on that list if the list wasn't 80s-centric. If I had to include Mighty Max it would probably come in at #4 or #5 possibly even bumping TMNT down a notch. Z-Bots were another good 90s toy but they'd probably be towards the bottom of my top 10. Attack Pack was also fun. The 80s were peak childhood for me and the 90s kept on giving.
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>>9980526 I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even know that figure existed.
That line was 20 years ago. There probably aren’t many, if any, employees still there from that time.
Like with their Star Trek line. They got the same studio to do the new sculpts, but the new figures don’t look quite right because it’s not the same sculptor.
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>>9980772 yeah they probably only know the most classic stuff because that was the biggest deal. even back then it seemed like they didn't know what was going on, they would re-run concepts with new molds as if they forgot "oh yeah we did that"
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goddamit
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>>9980912 SO much cool stuff
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>>9980912 I hope that's legit because vg preservation is the joint.
>>9980918 some cool stuff, some kinda less cool stuff, but yeah this package does appeal..
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>>9980918 necanon fomo bought this even with his hatred of playmates
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>>9981047 You're a fucking retard
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>>9981101 I saw your humblebrag post on thefwoosh, the same tabletop was present as the breaka images here. I saw it, yes I did.
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>>9980912 August 31st is the expected arrival time for standard physical copies of the game on amazon, maybe the special editions will ship around that time too.
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>>9981117 So prove it. Show the post. Or you're a liar.
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>>9981161 Playmates vintage thread of the sewer lair subforum but you already knew that since you deleted your post after being called out
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>>9981355 OH isn't that convenient for you and your complete fucking lying ways? Retard.
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>>9981402 man Slash can never give anyone a high five with those wrist-mounted blades.
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>>9981497 He doesn't have time for petty concerns like that, his time is consumed by constantly rebandaging the cut-up backs of his hands
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>>9981402 It looks really good, but that's literally all they talked about. Not even a mention of articulation.
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>>9981517 hehe
man I looked it up, and he's pretty accurate to one of the pages I found, but not the original design which had way longer claws that you could see being actually useful instead of wasting 90% of the length of the blade.
i'd post them but, fucking .webp
anyway someone get him some fucking nekode.
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>>9981525 webp is a scourge. Even with webp blockers installed many still get through.
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>tfw I didn't cancel the cohorts set in time.
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>>9981528 well i dont want em blocked, i still wanna see the images, i just want some warning 'don't try to save this to use somewhere, it won't work'
i'm 100% certain formats like that will be the only available formats in the future. we let it happen with DVD not having any easily used home recording device that could record from TV, instead paying for subscription services, and that was the end of it.
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>>9981536 man if you wanted a classic mutagen man missing its accessories, I have one in a box.
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>>9981402 >>9981522 VeeBs that greedy fuck didn't give all 3 to robo to do proper reviews.
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someone talk me out of blowing 500 dollars on super7 turtles slightly discounted on amazon
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>>9981632 a-also what was that other site where they were spotted at a discount...
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>>9981636 oh it was Dorkside, and the discounts have passed.
okay I'm going to sleep on this, but it's getting hard to convince myself it's a bad idea.
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I think this might be one of my favorite toys. It's so good I can't put it down. I'm a little bit in awe that they tried so hard on a jokey bootleggy character from a single gimmicky throwaway episode. It's bonkers. But I'm glad for it, it's an amazing figure.
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>>9981522 What is there to talk about? It's built off the toon Tokka body for the most part. It moves well.
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>>9981849 The green spikes on his shell look bad. They look bad being green as the shell and don’t stand out, just a green blob on his back
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>>9981854 Oh okay, thanks for admitting you've never read the Archie comics before.
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>>9981858 I will paint them white with a blackwash
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>>9981854 >how dare they make the comic accurate toy comic accurate Anonymous
>>9981879 Then use black line work to differentiate, like dayum
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>>9981636 >>9981707 Entertainment Earth also had them on sale with some priced better than Amazon.
>Splinter- $30.60 >Raph- $34.43 >Bebop- $38.24 They also have a deal where you get a set of four for $110.93. The set includes:
>Shredder >Glow in the Dark Mutagen Man >Raph >Leo And divided by four, that's around $28 a figure.
https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-ultimates-6inch-action-figure-bundle-of-4/suptmbun1 Amazon for their sales have:
>Leo- $36.90 >Baxter- $34.88 >Foot Soldier- $39.90 >Shredder- $33.79 >April O'Neil- $39.99 >Mondo Gecko- $36.99 >Muckman- $39.99 >Mutagen Man- $36.43 >Glow in the Dark Mutagen Man- $36.90 I'd reccomend the Entertainment Earth bundle of 4 and then picking up whatever else you need on Amazon for their other on sale figures.
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>>9982267 I just checked and the seized joint on muckboi’s left hip was because randulf personally used jb weld, any idea of a fix??
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Check out what arrived in the mail today
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Naturally I opened him up and posed him next to my re-issue wave 1 Don.
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>>9982383 A tale of two Dons!
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And you're probably, asking, "what about his action feature?" Well, it's there lads, in all it's Turtley glory.
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And he's ready to rock with his fish knife and shark fin hatchet!
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And his Killer Pizza is ready to give heartburn to hoodlums!
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>>9982061 that makes too much sense to resist! i'm being crimson commanded.. yeah I think I'll do just that. I don't even want glow in the dark mutagen man and it still might be a better deal. I could resell him even.
>>9982370 eyyy memories!
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>>9982395 I just realized why the hip joint never broke off on these toys. Thanks for sharing CC
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>>9982383 >>9982387 perfectly shows how playmates fucked up the colors on their rerelease.
Huh, I remember that slingshot. did I have one of the storage turtles? maybe I did.. I definitely remember the pizza buzzsaw disc.
speaking of weapons, I wonder if anyone will do upscaled versions of super7 bebop's weapons, bigger but with smaller handles to fit his tight hands...
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>>9982061 >>9982609 ahhh my inner hagglejew is satisfied. I'm glad i slept on it last night, I knew there might be an even better deal. 13 figures for 425 bucks, several of which are oversized, all free shipping.. I guess I'm in for the long haul now, it's going to be a hell of a wait for new figures AND waiting for them to be discounted.
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>>9982622 >cc replying to himself Anonymous
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>>9982267 Fuck off and die already troll.
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>>9982016 You mean like they literally did? You're very bad at trolling.
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>>9982774 cc is the HEART and SOVL of /tmntg/
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anyone who owns super7 metalhead, what do you think about my plan to deliberately sever his leg cables, then drill a hole in the back of the calf (or back of the thigh? depending which end severs) so that the wire will naturally recede into the hole as the knee bends?
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>>9982267 Check your outdated trolling. That guy bought a bootleg reject from China trying to be first. You lose again. Fitting for a shitposter like you.
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>>9982788 It could work, be careful not to drill into the joint pegs connecting the shin + knee to the thigh. You should record the process and share it if it's successful, might be a decent fix for others if it goes well.
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>>9982370 oh man that pizza sauce looks like blood, that's pretty rad. i love that he's flinging a shuriken with his slingshot..
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hmm how well-jointed are Super7 baxter stockman's digitigrade legs? I can't expect miracles since the standard figures don't have toe bends, but
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>>9982609 >I could resell him even. Always an option. He's only $28 in the bundle
>>9982688 It's a good time to buy into the line with so many early figures on sale.
>>9982622 Yeah, they had to make them swivel joints for the shells.
>>9982670 >did I have one of the storage turtles? They released Storage Shell Don at least 3 times. The first time he was just a new version of Don with a gimmick and none of the other turtles had his storage shell gimmick. The next year they re-issued that version of Don and also put out the other three Storage Shells. Then they re-issued them again with black belts and translucent weapons.
>>9983073 I always thought I invented the idea that it should fire ninja stars when I was a child, but then I looked at the package and it had him doing it on the artwork.
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>>9983178 He's a top heavy figure so his knees often bend, but he's supposed to stand with them bent anyway. I'm not sure if they're stronger on the re-issue, since I only have the version 1 release. He stands fine otherwise.
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>>9983180 hm I definitely didnt have translucent weapons. but if I had ... storage shell raph maybe? then I must have lost him very early, because I don't remember him being part of my collection from '92 on.. but definitely remember the slingshot, the buzzsaw pizza.. I wanna say it was purple? wait did that come with the toon turtles?
>>9983192 hmm but, what about the ankle and the toe bend? either of them jointed? or is it just knee and hip?
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>>9983178 They're basically the epitome of Super7's oddball choices for the articulation in the line. They are too loose to hold him up for very long, if at all, and he has no ankle rockers. So he's just stuck in his vintage squat. So the articulation is pointless.
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>>9983215 unfortunate, but somewhat understandable. he can fly, he doesn't exactly need to stomp around like a dinosaur just because he has the cool legs obviously based on Brundlefly
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>>9983211 > I wanna say it was purple? wait did that come with the toon turtles? With Toon Don. He's getting a reissue.
>what about the ankle and the toe bend? Has ankle joints, but no toe bend. He can stand pretty tall, but his heavy upper body makes his knees bend into a pose similar to how his vintage figure stands.
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>>9983231 While yes, that's true, but they don't include a stand. So the figure suffering because of bad engineering -does- hinder some of the enjoyment.
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>>9983241 interesting. If a lot of super7 guys have loose hips as i've heard, I might need to invest in some Pledge.
>toon pizzas yeah that's probably what i'm remembering. someone else probably had the slingshot too, or A slingshot. I remember being aware of the storage shell turtles back then but I didn't think I owned them. My early lineup was
>classic leo, shredder, and splinter >wacky action don, mike, and raph >metalhead, leatherhead, samurai leo, baxter, and mouser. god I imprinted on those so hard. my mom even carved their likenesses into some clay while taking a pottery course. I loved that etched slab of clay so much.
>>9983244 I suppose. I have a few okay stands, but I can always use more. My old shelves were perfect for just hanging figures from string, I miss those shelves. they had holes, see... for that.
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>>9983249 I only had loose hips on one figure. The one thing people encountered more of was a loose waist joint on Raph for version 1(my version 2 has a tighter waist), since he's got a joint inside his shell that lets his waist move around independently. If you shake the figure that joint sometimes rocks side to side, but wont do that otherwise.
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>>9983249 >a lot of super7 guys have loose hips as i've heard It's the biggest issue with the Ultimates line. It seems to affect TMNT most, but Thundercats has issues with it as well.
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>>9983262 wow, there's a rotating waist joint inside the shell.. that's kind of nutty. I feel like they could have left that out and saved a little money.
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>>9983274 The majority of the TMNT line suffers from loose joints. They are a -little- better with Donnie and Raph v2, but figures like the foot, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady (they're especially bad), and ESPECIALLY Metalhead are loosey.
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>>9983282 All lies, disinformation meant to harm bangin brian
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>>9983282 I don’t know about majority. My four turtles and Metal Head have loose hips, but my Shredder Beebop and Rocksteady are fine. My Splinter, Baxter, Mutagen Man, and Casey don’t really have any issues either.
>>9983292 Don’t be dumb.
I love these figures, but they’re not without problems. This line is expensive, and people who are interested in the line should know what they are in for.
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>>9983306 Rocksteady's a little better than Bebop, but Bebop is a damn wrecking ball cause his hips are too damn loose. Super7 needs to figure out a better system, cause it really hurts these figures.
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>>9981402 Never had any of the comics growing up, but I'm excited for this figures. He just looks good.
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>>9983309 funny, my original bebop had that issue too. very top-heavy, plus those ball joints..
but yeah I guess I'll use Pledge. it is Pledge for tightening, right? not loosening.
I think all they need to do is carefully engineer the balls to be a micron thicker or so, right? friction joints work fine, but need very careful measurements.
>>9983321 he does, right? but the longer-claw version was even cooler.
it's so fascinating to me seeing characters who have color-coded uniform items, such as turtle masks or power ranger outfits, when a new color is introduced and somehow it feels so amazing and fancy.. a black turtle mask with the proper white eyes, you just go whoa what?
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>>9982383 >>9982403 This still pops even today. The sculpt on these were some of my favorite "plain" turtles, they looked so radical. The screaming hot pink gums just look so good, and their colors look refined and elegant. That shade of twilight purple is so good on the brown.
And the accessories on these guys were the best, goofy but brutal at the same time.
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>>9983634 yeah they were so freakin angry
then the wacky action turtles seemed happier
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>>9983339 >it's so fascinating to me seeing characters who have color-coded uniform items, such as turtle masks or power ranger outfits, when a new color is introduced and somehow it feels so amazing and fancy I remember those feels.
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>>9983863 fuckin mortal kombat am i right
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>>9981733 Did you pick up any figures before this one? I've found the line to be pretty solid overall
Anonymous
>>9984421 No, it was my first toon line figure. I thought the aggressive black lining and painted-on shading to be a turnoff in pics, but it turns out it looks stunning in-hand. I feel like a bit of a dope for sleeping on this line for so long. I am hoping I can pick up at least a handful of the cooler looking ones without breaking the bank too hard, but that doesn't seem too feasible coming into the line so late.
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entertainment earth is known to be really slow to process orders right?
Anonymous
>>9980757 I was going to insult you for not loving TMNT as much as me, but your other picks are solid too, so since I can't find fault with your tastes, here's a quick peace offering photo instead.
>I feel like I only had the four main turtles, Rocksteady, Bebop, and I can't remember if I had anything else. The four turtles came out great (expect for their worrying hip joint), and honestly Rocksteady and Bebop are the chonky ass gods of muscle I always imagined them to be so bonus there.
Honestly, I was only going to get Rocksteady, Bebop, and Donnie, but all the anons showing off Raph's modern scowling face turned me around and I ended up grabbing all four turtles too. (Plus Mutagen Man). I think that's all you really need if that's all you remember, you certainly don't have to go all in, I think most us anons are picking and choosing our childhood favourites from the line.
If it's too hard to justify, there's always just grabbing your favourite turtle as a way to check out how the line captures the nostalgia.
I mean, me personally, besides maybe disguise donnie, fugitoid, and andoid krang I'm not sure I "need" anyone else from the playmates line, but I'm certainly happy to have anons convince me otherwise on some of the guys I've skipped so far too. I ended up preordering robo bebop so he and robo rocksteady can flank android krang in the future, while regular rocksteady and bebop flank shredder next to them on the shelf.
Anonymous
>>9980757 >a turtle that had eye or tongue popping out play feature and I was immediately interested. Not a turtle, but you may be thinking of this guy from the turtle's line.
Anonymous
>>9983241 Aren't the toon turtles getting a re-release in a box set? When is that supposed to release?
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>>9984818 >Eyy we gotchu a boar's head >But I already got wunna doze amusing pic-a-ture here..
>most us anons are picking and choosing our childhood favourites from the line. indeed. And on top of that i'm screening out ones I don't really like how they look that much. even though I loved mutagen man and casey jones as a kid, now I'm kinda thinking I don't need those super7 guys.. i don't think I'll get Rat King or Scumbug either, but I will really enjoy looking at how they turn out
On the other hand, won't be able to resist guys like Merdude and Walkabout, even though they're a bit more inherently silly.
Anonymous
>>9984820 either that or the toon line, leo had the bugging out eyes and mike had the tongue sticking out. Just another example of how confused the toon line was, it really had no idea what it was trying to be.. soft, pillowy turtles in metallic colors with softer-rounded weapons.. why? with cartoon facial gags that the TMNT show never did.. then finishing up the neutrinos (sensible enough) and then the channel 6 crew in more classic playmates 'looks nothing like the show' style.
Anonymous
>>9984818 Personally I'm only waiting for Rat King,slash,one of the better shredders, and maybe Android body Krang if the price isn't too insane.
A few meme figures like Rappin' Mike would be nice too.
Although, I won't say no to a decent ninja April...
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>>9984910 i do not look forward to having to pay full price for android krang, but I know full well that is never getting discounted, and is going to be a limited run. it's just... not optional. It doesn't matter what a dorky giant fleshtone stitchy babyman he is, that toy was everything to me and the fucking boss fight music plays every time I see him.
also this was a good april, I had her.
Anonymous
>>9984818 I probably should have been more pick-and-choosy, but I own everything in the TMNT line so far and I like them all except April, with her weird headsculpts. I wish someone would release a third party head for her.
I'm kind of wondering what to do now. I still have a bunch from the next few waves preordered, but so many of the early ones have binned, and I bought them at full price. I'm wondering if the new ones will too, or if I'll miss my chance.
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>>9984941 it was interesting they gave us a more toonlike head but they still fucked up the eye tampos on all of them. one hopes a potential re-release would solve that, but she's still kind of a boring figure no matter what you do. most of her appeal is her pretty cool accessories.
as I understand it, the current sales are likely a result of overpurchasing. chances are low in my opinion that that will happen a second time, but I also doubt that you'll somehow miss out on them entirely if you don't pay full price.. worst case scenario, you still pay full price but do so later on than if you'd pre-ordered. tldr I never pre-order stuff anymore that I don't expect to immediately become hard to get (like most of neca's movie line)
Anonymous
>>9981733 Literally one of my surprise favorites from the line. It's such an expressive figure with the big head and jaws.
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>>9985184 i mean what's not to like? it's a big crazy xenomorph with eyes and bright fuckin yellow
i found it interesting how Shredder's Revenge kinda filed the serial numbers off further, giving them pizza-slice heads and making them more gooey, but it is also cool. would be neat if that got a toy too.
Anonymous
did those Comin Out of Their Shells figures ever come out? I can't help but be fascinated by those and their existence. For one thing, there's not even just one costume to adapt, there's two and a half.. the (much better but still terrible) suits from the behind the scenes bullshit, the stage suits with the fucking boots for better mobility and the uniform heads with nearly immobile mouths... then those same suits minus the bulky shells, with denim vests to hide that fact. You could probably approximate the entire thing by making the clothes and shells removable, and using alternate heads, but.. it's weird anyway.. i don't think I'd ever buy them, but their bizarre nose-showing version of Shredder? God, I have nostalgia for that guy. Get the eye makeup right on the figure and I will be sorely tempted.
Anonymous
>>9985246 I think they were delivered last year. I had zero interest in them but it's fascinating to live in a world where they exist.
Anonymous
>>9985251 right?
god that music was actually okay. some of it kicked ass.
Anonymous
>>9985254 I don't think I've ever actually listened to it, never quite got passed the intense faces of the costumes
Anonymous
>>9985259 the whole thing is on youtube, I say give it a watch. it is an ~experience~
and if you can't get through it, skip to Shredder's scenes and get ready to piss yourself.
Anonymous
>>9985261 Do I watch the show, or just listen to the soundtrack?
Anonymous
>>9985263 the soundtrack is just good, but the whole show, the interstitial bits, the bits where Shredder comes out and taunts the audience,
-the bits where the news guy is running through the crowd of kids improvising about the trouble the turtles are in and asking for help-
it's just something. you've got to see for yourself.
Anonymous
>>9985266 Been watching bits and pieces, did they get Cam Clark to do Leonardo but nobody else to voice their cartoon equivalent?
Anonymous
>>9984820 >>9984831 Yeah, I think it was the Toon Mike that I saw, but it's really bugging me now because it says that figure was released in 1992 but that seems like that would have been at least a couple years after I started collecting them... So there's definitely some kind of misremembering going on here.
>>9984818 Haha, I'm glad that we share similar taste in toys and that's a pretty awesome pic!
As for tomorrow I noticed that someone selling the Villains 6-pack on eBay was actually a local toy store like 20 minutes away from me, so I'm possibly going to go there tomorrow to check them out and buy the pack for $120 (or a little less if they're willing since I'm dealing with them directly and not through eBay -- wish me luck!)
Provided I can score that, I'm thinking I'll grab two of those cohorts packs from Amazon and keep one to sell later on when it goes up in price just to recoup some of the money, since that's what I seem to be trying when collecting toys now (although some of the stuff I bought like Lego sets I will be holding on to for years before it makes sense to resell them)
As for the main four standard turtles, I hope to get them all at their $13 MSRP via Walmart, but I'm nervous about the way they'll handle shipping them since I'm a MOC collector with stuff like this.
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Other thoughts: I watched a video to see what the vintage mutagen man was all about since I never had him. What a cool toy... It's a shame the new release doesn't include all the floaty bits, but I imagine that's something that will at least get fan-printed offerings. Is there a good modern slime to fill him with? Not that I'll try given that I will probably just keep him on card, but I'm curious to know what modern slimes capture the same viscosity of vintage slime.
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>>9985357 Well by the picture you posted you could just fill it with cum
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>>9985342 astoundingly yes, though only for the spoken bits.
i THINK splinter is peter renaday for his spoken parts too? but he's uncredited.
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>>9985357 memories are funny that way. people tell you oh they're fuzzy, they fade, they change, but that's not really right. memories get cross-references, they get earmarked with associations, there's all kinds of safeguards to keep memory intact
but just like DNA with all of its safeguards against any changes, a -swap- can still happen. and just like matching genes hopping between chromatids, similar memories can totally change places and screw up your sense of time. the memory's still real, and your associating it hard with a certain year is still legitimate, but the year part got moved..
anyway I'm not sure about collecting these flawed-ass playmates rereleases, but at least there is some kind of market for them, so hopefully your investment pays.
Anonymous
>>9985357 oh and re: mutagen man, the new toy isn't watertight. anything you put inside him is going to ooze out where his thighs plug in, unfortunately. Best you could do would be some kind of clear gel material that sets firm over a period of time, with the bits suspended in it. and then you're risking gluing the legs into place if it REALLY sets.
Anonymous
GameStop is having another sale on the 1/4 scale tmnt. Michelangelo is $76.
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Any news on when some of the figures shown off last month will be up for preorder, like Mona Lisa?
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>>9983634 The sculpt work fits with the direction the line went with the hyper detail, and those wave 1 Turtles just look boring in comparison. I'm crossing my fingers that Playmates re-issues them in their boxset line. It's interesting to note that his slingshot appears to be a redone version of the slingshot that came in an accessory pack they did early in the TMNT line, and on that version it had a string, while the Storage Shell version is cast in a fixed position so it cannot be stored in his shell.
The original version of the slingshot:
https://www.tmnttoys.com/88others/gags/two.html I was thinking about tracking one down just to store it in his shell.
I asked Brian Flynn to make Storage Shell Turtles in the Super7 line during an online Q&A as perhaps head swaps, and he comments on how they're fun sculpts.
Here's the interview, @39:44:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAOyCy4n8M8 >>9984826 Yep, that's a pic from the set.
Anonymous
>>9986058 I can't wait for those Toon Turtles to get released. I have a huge nostalgia boner for them because aside from the Turtle Troll figures, the Toon figures were literally the only set of turtles I managed to complete as a kid.
Also, I know it may be a long shot due to licensing, but I really hope we get a rerelease of pic related. These guys were fucking awesome as a kid.
Anonymous
>>9986111 I'm also really on board for the toon rerelease but for the opposite reason. I never had these as a kid, but they're just so weird and lowkey creepy that I want to experience them first hand. Is there any confirmation as to who is selling it?
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>>9986123 >Is there any confirmation as to who is selling it? As far as I can tell, there's no confirmation on US retailers or price yet.
Anonymous
>>9985620 that is amazing.. I'm genuinely tempted. I guess they had a lot of em, they were expensive so they didn't sell well, and they're big so they take up shelf space. 1:6 scale would have been a better choice
but man they look so good, the proportions are better than the 8-inch-scale ones, details so flawless.. they'd look so good on a shelf, gahhh
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>>9986058 i forgot about the early accessory packs. those things were NUTTY. they even had little prank items and jokes..
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>>9986111 >>9986123 I want the Leo from the line. He was my favorite Turtle, and he has the gimmick.
>I know it may be a long shot due to licensing Troll licenses are tough. Back in the 90's anyone could make Troll dolls, but then the original company that made the dolls in Europe managed to finally shutdown other people the style of toy, and now nobody can, since the dolls are owned by Dreamworks/Universal now.
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How come nobody ever talks about all the cool vehicles in the turtle line? I was looking on youtube and there's very little in the way of toy reviews on them. Sure there's a bunch of Party Wagon and Turtle Blimp reviews, but who cares about those? I've seen a couple on the Bubble Bomber, but nobody ever shows off it's unique bombs: bubbles filled with smoke.>Muta Carrier >Leo' Jolly Turtle Tubboat >Pizza Powered Turtle Prop >Raph's Sewer Speedboat >Pizza Skimmin' Jetboat >Mike's Kowabunga Surf Buggy >Shelltop 4X4
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>>9986275 They removed all the American flag stuff from the foreign release on the Bubble Bomber.
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>>9986275 With vehicle toys I imagine a lot of them don't survive children's toy collections since they promote outdoor and rough play.
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>>9986278 >waaah waah they removed my amerimutt flag waah Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
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>>9986319 But the American flag bits made it more fun and gaudy.
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>>9986275 half the vehicles were fucking badass, half were kind of stupid and would need significant reimagining to be worth buying..
but all of them would be way too expensive if redone in the super7 line.
I still have the muta-carrier in a box somewhere, fucking awesome and fun way to do a transforming vehicle.
i also had the... camo donut, whatever it was. came with a fucking awesome gun.
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>>9986278 lol do foreign kids like to pretend the turtles are living in their own country? they're pretty fucking american.
Anonymous
>>9985376 I think you could probably do a messy little mod with like, hot glue or something to separate his upper torso from his lower (maybe you could hide it behind his belt). The main issue seems to be that there needed to be wiggle room for the joints to insert and move around, so if you can isolate that area it would theoretically be able to hold liquid.
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>>9986058 If Super7 did the storage shell turtles (with the same brutal looking faces as the old ones) I would buy them instantly. Those were my absolute faves as a kid.
Anonymous
>>9986058 Also, the bubbly weapons are super weird, that entire toon set is like they asked someone who had never seen the cartoon to take the TMNT designs and cartoonify them. They look like they came from an alternate universe where the cartoon more resembled Looney Tunes.
Anonymous
>>9986205 They are definitely awe-inspiring in person. But I have one so far and I think I'm done, lol. They just take up so much space, and they are VERY heavy. I fear for it ever shelf diving, because I think it might dent my flooring, and probably destroy any toys that might land under it.
A full set of 1/4 turtles was just never in the cards for a relatively small place.
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>>9986353 hot glue.. maybe. I feel like something like silicone sealant would be ideal, something that dries to a flexible clear rubber. surely the ball joints wouldn't mind touching that.
>>9986362 right? I was just saying that. it's truly bizarre. I can't help but wonder if there were actually legal agreement reasons why they couldn't make anyone show-accurate.. but I think the new neutrinos relatively were? and they did a new deco of old shredder, which looked weird because the original was topless so all of his bones showing kinda made more sense.
>>9986368 the tyranny of space...
i would buy a 1:4 movie II splinter, that's as far as i'll go. your move, neca.
Anonymous
>>9986275 I had the Bubble Bomber. What a cool toy, I got it on Christmas and it was so exciting. The handle, an idea previously utilized on the Turtle Blimp, was ingenious and allowed for easy swooshing and swooping.
HOWEVER, I don't remember the smoke filled bubble feature working well. Me and my parents tried valiantly to get it working, and it would produce bubbles, but the smoke effect was very minimal (if present at all). I dunno, maybe I was doing something wrong. The bubble solution also was very messy, and it would often leak or drip out of the nozzle and make the whole toy feel slippery and oily. I didn't use the feature much in the end just because it was such a big pain for such little payoff.
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>>9986379 hmm I'm not sure how that worked. i had this motorized kaiju toy that was supposed to breathe smoke when you poured this special liquid into him and he'd vaporize it.
Anonymous
Brian better be shipping wave 5 before he begs for another $400 for a preorder I won't see until 2024
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>>9984457 I just got Splinter and Baxter. Real nice! It's my TMNT line of choice for sure.
Anonymous
>>9986492 Aww yeee, Genghis motherfuckin Frog time
Anonymous
So are we even getting Ultimate April this year at all?
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>>9986562 Nothing new was shown off at SDCC so probably not, not unless they're holding onto something else for Christmas
Anonymous
>>9986554 I will not be able to resist getting this guy.. he was just so important to me even if he's just a goony lil frog guy.
Anonymous
>>9986610 If they do the other 2 half as good as playmates did Napoleon it would be a no brainer.
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>>9986630 right? I hope they actually track down some of those old designers and ask them for some designs. maybe something unused from back then. I'd love to see some schmuck who was involved in he-man and then ninja turtles getting some specific recognition and a little money thrown his way even though he's presumably retired as fuck by now.
Anonymous
>>9986554 i only had bonafrog as a kid but might go in for him too if they give us a good enough alt head
Anonymous
>>9986639 you're sayin give him a more normal-frog alt head so they can fit together more cohesively as frogs? or do you want two different toy-accurate portraits in different expressions
Anonymous
>>9986684 They could do 4 frogs each with 4 different heads colour matched to the bodies, so you could do all one style of head or mix and match head styles while maintaining cohesion between the body and head colour. But then Brian would need to upcharge another $50 onto each figure.
Anonymous
>>9986704 i don't think that would work out so well, given the very different -body- types.
this guy could get away with having a more anatomically legitimate TOAD head, but that's the furthest you could push it. His body just wouldn't fit with a fully Genghis-style head, nor would Genghis if he came with another head similar to this one.
i'm sure they'll do all very different forgs for each of the four, including one that has one of those long-ass torpedo noses, and quite possibly one of those adorably ugly fat frogs, you know the ones.
Anonymous
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>>9986492 You know for a fact that he won't. We're gonna be waiting on shit for a while.
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>>9986275 I had the Pizza Thrower. You could kill a cat with this thing, it's a legit fucking weapon.
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>>9986920 Sitting on an entire pizza? Gross.
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>>9986731 weirdly not the one I was thinking of, but those are also adorably ugly
naw i meant like the fat flat fucks with the eyes all close together up top looking like some kids' book author drew it
Anonymous
>>9987030 Well the turtles do live in a sewer though. And most of their vehicles are made from trash.
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>>9987120 youd think Don would have something better to use as a seat than a fucking cardboard box, pizza inside or otherwise.
Anonymous
>>9986492 Really hope that they also do rat king, Wrym, Mona Lisa, Fugitoid, or Antrax. Can’t think of a variant of the turtles from the vintage line they could use. Maybe Sewer Spitting Sewer-cyclin' Raph.
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>>9987231 i definitely want wyrm and fugitoid. loved those as a kid. I had Wyrm singing Aerosmith.
I really hope they continue to fuck up and overorder these because I don't like the idea of typing that out and realizing i've pledged a solid hundred bucks.
Anonymous
>>9986275 I just want the toilet taxi and the motorcycle with the trash can sidecar
Anonymous
>>9987260 oh man i had that bike, it was fucking awesome.. in my memory at least.
Anonymous
Thanks /toy/ I stumbled through painting, and will leave this as is.
Anonymous
>>9987269 whoa, not bad. remind me what this used to be.
Anonymous
>>9987272 Pepper potts, rogue, black widow, and April x power rangers.
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>>9987284 ah nice!
hm no gloveless hands to use though? not that April shouldn't wear white driving gloves once in a while
Anonymous
>>9986920 >got this as a kid >it was super noisy, my mom hated it, she removes battery >me stupid kid, didn't understand about battery >dad helps me by taking battery out of his meglight >when the battery died I take the battery from the meglight >one day dad runs out of battery, gets mad >parent started fighting blaming each other for buying the toy >dad disables the motor, and Never got a battery operated toy here comes the best part, I don't remember any of this
my mom told me this few months ago because I was buying a lot of tmnt toys
Anonymous
>>9987324 haha wow.. there's a lot about that story that makes no sense, but it's old, so details probably fuzzed. Like he helped you by giving you his battery, then you took another one later? I wonder how he actually disabled the motor.. also, did it actually have a speaker? or was the pizza launching just that loud.
Anonymous
>>9987030 I bet this is someone's fetish.
Though I never noticed before that the seat is an open pizza box, that's clever.
Anonymous
>>9987262 >>9987260 the toy itself was good, but the packaging was what really grabbed me. it's so dynamic and exciting, and the Turtles looked MEAN. This artist always drew them lookin like they were ready to fuck someone up.
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>>9987324 fuck man, when i first read this i thought it said your dad took the battery out of his fleshlight and i was like damn, he just showed it to you like that?
Anonymous
>>9986920 I had this thing too and it was fun as hell. Thought it was dumb that the turtles would waste pizza like this, but still fun. That's like one of the few things the cgi film did. Make this thing but have it shit out manhole covers.
Anonymous
>>9987356 I literally just saw some cute art of a girl just rolling in a pizza box being a filthy goblin.
>>9987358 man you aint just whistlin dicks, this rocked. you never get that kinda thing anymore.. i forgot about the slingshot, I don't think that survived very long in my hands
Anonymous
>>9987371 i wanna say 2003 series rereleased it first, with manhole covers? because there was definitely a version that did that.. which is way less silly and way more 'oh god you are causing actual destruction donatello no'
Anonymous
>>9987410 Was it from this video?
https://youtu.be/kC0uFrQr7z8?t=30 >>9987411 The 2012 Shellraiser had a manhole cover launcher IIRC.
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>>9987410 I think most kids lost it, lol. It was literally attached with just a regular brown rubberband, the standard kind you get at Office Depot. Mine quickly snapped and the pot was lost soon after that.
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>>9987356 I'm not saying I'd eat a pizza after Rocksteady sat on it, but I'd eat a pizza after Rocksteady sat on it.
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>>9986492 wave 5 is on the water
trust brian, trust super7
they are on the water now
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>>9987269 Eyy that's looks pretty good compared to how it looked when you started. Nice work anon.
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>>9987522 Shut the fuck up
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>>9986849 Yeah it sure is a shame they make him personally do it all, such a weird way to run a company.
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>>9986492 The only reason they'd be showing off the figures for the next wave would be if Wave 5 was about to start arriving for everyone. Brian Flynn told Pixel Dan at SDCC that the figures would probably start shipping by the end of August. So, expect either end of this month or sometime in September. I'd assume tho, if we're seeing Wave 8 it means that Wave 5 might be at their warehouse in the US.
>>9986335 I'm planning to eventually buy a Muta Carrier. I want to track down the Mutant Military figures first, so I can load it up.
>>9986379 I was curious if the oil type solution used for the smoke can be bought anywhere in case I track down a Bubble Bomber. There's got to be somewhere an official name for the substance.
>>9987030 That's a seat warmer
Anonymous
>>9987946 No it's because they're panicking and know they won't be getting Wave 5 in fast enough. So they're going full steam ahead to get more money from people for pre-orders while having 50 other open orders going.
Anonymous
>>9987981 wouldn't surprise me at all honestly. Selling wave 8 while wave 5 is still in limbo would be my breaking point with super 7. You can't have as many waves on pre-order as you've managed to actually put out. That's fucked.
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>>9988039 BRIAN YOU FUCKING SCOUNDREL
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>>9988109 I’m getting really fucking annoyed with the repaints in this line. It is too early for them to be pulling this shit every wave now.
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>>9987981 >No it's because they're panicking and know they won't be getting Wave 5 in fast enough. Anon, they already showed off in hand physical copies with Pixel Dan and said they were arriving in about a month's time. And people in Asian have had Uncover Raph for over a month now.
Anonymous
>>9988109 >Toon colors but no shirt I'm good with wave 2 Shredder for now, thanks.
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>>9988109 Shredder's alt head
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>The sculpted alien that was on his back is now a sidekick
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>>9988130 The clear winner from this wave, although Ghengis is a close second
Anonymous
That Shredder is lazy as fuck.
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>>9988126 Crap
>>9988130 Crap
>>9988143 Crap
>>9988138 Not only that, but with prices going up? Fuck them.
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>>9988138 I wish he at least cam with a shirt, like the Toon version of the playmates figure. I don't remember there being a silver helmet/purplle mask or silver helmet and mask with no shirt.
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What an incredibly disappointing wave.
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>>9988130 The variant turtles keep impressing me the most out of all the cad files.
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Anonymous
>charge $55 for Robotic Bebop >charge $65 for Robotic Rocksteady
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He comes with a freeze dried space pizza
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>>9988168 B-b-b-but anon Brian is broke! He NEEDS to charge more for less product even though all other companies aren't increasing their prices at anywhere near the same rate!! He's just a humble millionaire living off the loans of preorders he won't fulfil.
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I wonder if they wanted to do a toon shredder, but couldn't because of Neca doing toon figures? Or if this is a reference to something?
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Anonymous
>>9988180 I think it's just an option to have playmates Shredder in cooler colors? Might not be bad when this guy falls down to 30 bucks.
Anonymous
>>9988180 There's nothing stopping them from doing a toon Shredder, other than the gentlemen's agreement, of course.
Anonymous
>>9988180 Now that's a lazy repaint right thur
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>>9988186 I was wondering if perhaps it might be a reference to Archie Comics, or something of that nature, or if it was just to do the blue toy armor colors in a more serious silver?
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>>9988180 It’s a reference to S7 realizing they are going to have to raise prices even more and panicking trying to drag it out with lazy repaints instead.
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>>9988208 Wasn't the reason Shredder was done in blue in the first place was a mix-up between production and the original design? Maybe this is the "corrected" version
Anonymous
I think Super7's hit the point where instead of "Oh cool!" now is the response to the line it's "Oh...what? Why?"
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>>9987419 no but that is cute.
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Why does Necanon reply 40 times to Super7 news?
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>>9988254 >being this paranoid Anonymous
>>9988238 Randy and Trevor's aggressive but successful product launch strategy resulted in Super7 missing the boat, they can't offer much that Neca is already offering at a better price.
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>>9988109 well, there goes my wallet.
wait a minute, they fucked up. his menpou should be silver. I hope there's still time to fix that like mondo gecko's paint error.
that's a very odd head choice for space cadet raph, but I'm sure it comes with the normal one too so meh.
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>>9988259 I mean, kinda. I'd still buy the Super7 Dirtbag and Groundchuck, or Scumbug...like why aren't they doing those guys? Scumbug especially. He was one of my favorite vintage figures.
I have room in my heart for both. But these selections are so...dull.
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>>9988261 There's an alt head with a silver mask
>>9988126 Anonymous
>>9988259 What's the quality like on the Neca?
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>>9988267 The NECA's are great.
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>>9988266 They ought to do a third head with the silver face mask and now shadows on his eyes, just for the sake of making it, unless they plan to save it for a toon version.
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>>9988267 Pretty good for the most part. I've been happy with all of mine this far.
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>>9988126 wait what? that's.. not quite right
>>9988123 oh hang on, you're right. toon shredder should have the shirt painted on. WELL. i guess that's one repaint I won't buy. too bad, it looks kind of neat.
are there interviews or something about why they chose this?
>>9988130 interesting weapon updates.. i'm so here for those glasses.
>>9988143 whoa.. grotesque. I love the boogie board.. and the necklace is its own piece now, that's a nice touch. that gun never made any fucking sense but what's not to like?
>>9988151 not exactly killing it compared to robebop but i'll still get him someday.. on discount.
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>>9988271 Ah yes, the coveted triple dip
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>>9988186 oh I get it, so it's like, reinterpreting the original figure's blue as "intended to be metal, so let's just paint it like metal"
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>>9988276 maybe to be nice they'll give us the toon shredder but he'll come with a lot of toon themed accessories.
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>>9988200 Will never top purple shirt shredder
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why no fifth bonus figure this wave, brian?
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>>9988282 That's a good figure though. Plus the colors really pop.
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>>9988286 Probably some exclusive like another Undercover Turtle that'll be easy to make.
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>>9988296 That Shredder should've been the exclusive then. It's not needed in the main line, it's better suited as exclusivity fodder.
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>>9988263 Have to wonder if they had another figure lined up and were forced to shelve it last minute by Nick for having something they deemed questionable. They did that with thundercats and simpsons already.
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>>9988336 >forced to shelve it last minute by Nick for having something they deemed questionable. Anonymous
>>9987352 no speaker but the motor was super loud
it worked like a pitching machine
the motor spins when you turn it on and it won't stop till you turn it off
when you press the button the pizza gets caught in the spinning motor and launches the pizza
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>>9988352 roffle that is a hilarious way to make this work.. i always assumed it was a spring-loaded flinging action. that's crazygonuts. and yeah that would be pretty loud.
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I will always support based brian after he took it to randulf this past year, humiliating him, driving him to drink and weekly therapy
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>>9988189 If neca can do movie super shredder in toy colors they can do toy shredder in toon colors so I don't know what they're thinking
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>>9988414 trust super7 trust brian
they will do the movie star line and all our dreams will come true
Anonymous
>>9988412 So literally none of that happened...which means you're posting a fake picture.
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>>9988441 oh it thinks it's opinion matters
brian will forever have my money for this line, doesn't matter if it's the shitty later characters of the og playmates run or the iconic ones, I will buy them all to buoy s7 it's just that simple.
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>>9988490 I don't think you buy anything.
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>>9988516 the turtle hoard has been posted many times here, outing me as a necanon too
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Pixel Dan interviewed one of the original sculpters from the vintage TMNT line to show off the original un-produced Polutto from the Toxic Crusaders line. The video also contains rare behind the scenes footage of Playmates designers back in the 90's at work making the figure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaYPQQRyEsU Anonymous
>>9988516 Brian called me a proven superfan
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>>9988587 You're supercringe, that's what you are.
Anonymous
>>9988583 Very interesting shit, commander
Those thumbnails though, god I hate that trend, and all done because a computer told them to. reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwjmUWh-ymo Anonymous
>>9988612 I accept your concession
Til next time
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>>9988143 He's got a sinister look about him now.
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>>9988710 >all done because a computer told them to Really? Tell me more. Not a shitpost, I don't keep up with youtube but I have noticed all their clickbait thumbs. You're saying those are computer generated, or made to appease a computer?
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>>9988852 the latter. at least that's what i'm told, I don't keep up on it but it's what they tell me.
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>>9988712 There was no concession, asshole.
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>>9988888 Brian personally calls me superfan
Randy’s houseboy personally calls me necallector
The turtle hoard is respected by all
Your jealous screeching of “You don’t even buy toys” doesn’t work on me
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>>9988904 You mean the automated emails people get when they order shit? You're insane.
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>>9988904 this might be the saddest post ever put on /toy/
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>>9988852 Dumb thumbnails increase engagement.
He did it once before as a semi-joke.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PixelDan/status/1555208903482286084 Anonymous
Anonymous
>>9988180 No, it's a canceled playmates repaint. Probably due to the toon version being made instead.
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>>9989363 I saw that in a group earlier today. There were some guys saying that it was an insanely rare version of the figure, and originated as a few product samples which were produced with the sliver armor and that only 2 were known to currently exist, and that those originated from Playmates employees who had them in their collections.
I also saw a few people praising the silver variant that Super7 was making, because they didn't want a toy color version, and instead wanted a more serious looking figure.
>>9988792 It's that hyper detail. They went to town on his sculpt.
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>>9989363 That might be the stupidest waste of a slot for this line yet.
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>>9989382 There were apparently quite a few who were unhappy that the original release had the blue armor from the toys, instead of the more realistic silver armor.
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>>9989363 oh, fascinating.
canceled stuff from the original line is exactly what super7 should be getting up to, although in this situation... having one version with the brow painted sensibly, and one version looking like a playmates version of 2003/mirage shredder with eyes in shadow.. doesn't really make sense, vs having the two decos one with silly painted-on brows and one without. so you can really have the "This is a new version of the old toy" going.
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>>9989377 >It's that hyper detail. They went to town on his sculpt. seriously that's almost too much haha. 90s as hell, bumpy frogs.. I forgot how much of that the original toy had, but it also gradiatd to smoother areas.
but no I think the bigger reason he looks sinister is A) the heavy bags under the eyes and B) the way the pupils are so faded and pointed slightly upward from the original figure. I hope those details are modified a bit before we see the actual toy, because that would add a lot I think.
also I fucking forgot that the whole "the four frogs have four different normal weapons, just like the turtles" thing was so completely absent in the toys. not a single regular melee weapon to be found.
Similarly, Napoleon came with a little bug guy, an elaborate flyswatter (i guess that's not his friend!) with like a bicycle brake on it, a shield made of dripping ooze material somehow, and a snake whip thing. man I definitely lost all of those but the shield VERY early on.
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>>9988864 >>9988931 Hey, thanks anons. So Youtube gives them like, a formula mandate for thumbnails because a computer said so? Gross.
>>9989294 Hate Renet's costume but my coomerbrain is tempted because she's the first toy allowed to have cleavage in like... five-ten years?
>>9989391 Is there any official word on why Robo Rocksteady costs ten bucks more than Robo Bebop? Is it because of "much gianter" or is it because of "rising costs of ___"?
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>>9988184 >>9988143 I'm kinda into how duff-man the belt looks.
>>9988286 >>9988321 >>9988336 Alternatively, they have a character originally planned for this wave / character planned for next wave that needed extra time/money/whatever to develop so they needed a quick (/cheap) filler fourth for this wave.
Although they also did all four turtles as GITD exclusives, as well as a foot as GITD exclusive... it's possible they're just fucking around with the formula.
Anonymous
>>9987371 >>9987411 >>9987419 >'oh god you are causing actual destruction donatello no' The Batman VS TMNT movie has Donnie straight up kill a foot dude with a manhole launcher.
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>>9989500 the old toys had so many grenade belts, they were really fond of that. when you try to put things into a sensible scale, suddenly they do look like you're carrying around 12oz cans..
also yeah if I were some kind of completionist, I'd be a little glad for a shorter wave after the glowinthedarks came out. man, speaking of those people, the tmnttoys guy really hasn't been showing many reviews anymore.. this whole renaissance he's kinda been sleeping on it.
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>>9989504 >Rubber bullets. Honest. Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
>>9989482 >Is there any official word on why Robo Rocksteady Generally the bigger figures in the other Ultimates lines cost more. It says in the product description he's 8 inches tall and weighs 2 lbs. Most likely just because of inflation and the fact that they're in two different waves. Guerrilla Gorilla in wave 7 is $75, and he's in the same wave as Robo Bebop. Usually they charge more for the bigger figures in Ultimates waves. They haven't done it as much for TMNT. They also cut down the wave from 5 figures to 4 figures. Wave 7 had 5, with one as a repaint. While Wave 8 has 4 figures with one as a repaint. I'm leaning towards it being the result of rising costs.
>>9989500 Maybe some of the budget went to those Glow in the Dark turtles? Brian did mention costs going up for the material to make the actual glow plastics. We don't usually get 4 exclusive figures at once. In the past it was just one glow in the dark figure, then another would come later, but this time they did 4 at once.
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>>9989547 they should just use glow paint. i guess you don't get quite the same vividness of the effect, but I still feel like for a lot of characters it would work better anyway.
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Some of Brian Flynn's comments that I saw on Instagram, confirming that he showed off Wave 8, because Wave 5 is about to hit.
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I actually haven’t collected any of the super7 TMNT figures so to not having the money for them, but I really they get to ultimate figures if Wrym, Dirtbag, Groundchuck, and Napoleon.
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>>9989564 it's kinda scary thinking about how many more there are to put out. playmates really was prolific back then.
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>>9989564 Don't wanna blow your load too early on all the major in demand characters, they gotta pace themselves with some obscure characters and repaints. MOTU Classics ran into that problem where they had mad all the major characters that people needed and then had to start scraping the bottom of the barrel and inventing new characters. They're planning this line to go on for awhile.
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>>9989592 i forgot I had that punch chopper. what a neat toy, with the absurd goofiness that made TMNT cool. And it appears to have that handle gimmick again.
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>>9989363 >eyebrows STILL on the helmet It has to be on purpose by that point.
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>>9989391 They made space Raph cool with that alt head. I never liked the figure as a kid but this one is worth buying.
Anonymous
>>9989557 wave 5 and s on the water now
it was confirmed to s7 newsletter subscribers, they are on the water. Now they are on the water now confirmed by Brian and the necababy
Anonymous
>>9989898 No it wasn't. There's no such thing. You can fucking read on the website that you've never been to what the status of the toys are.
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