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>>11742469Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady are in stock on LTCave, should be shipping soon from other places.
Mezco's ONE:12 Splinter, up for order all over.
Lingjihun Rocksteady and Bebop went up for preorder on some sites, Gundamit, 5ktoys, etc.
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Mondo's 1:6 Leonardo goes up for order today, will be up for two weeks.
Super7's Ultimates wave 14 is up for pre-order. SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS a piece for the figures. ONE HUNDRED FIFTY for the bike.$355 to order on the store for the...now limited...head pack bonus.
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Haulathon is going on, stores SHOULD be setting an endcap or stocking the product. Your mileage will vary.Last week's Friday Target website drop was the Stan Sakai turtles and Usagi.
>>11742468True, I see the vision.
>>11742468I see the vision, do they all have the ninja scarfs? That would look sick. Hope Donatello doesn't have gay ass glasses or goggles or some other gay shit. Raphael also better not have his modern baboon rag.
Heat Boys 1:9 scale Leonardo.
>>11742536Kinda has SHF crotch
>>11742536Where's the scarf and giant sword?
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>>11742537I like this a lot except for the side skirts and shoulder pad. But they’re extremely distracting and don’t look removable. Oh well.
>>11742468why did you make a new thread when the previous one was on 304 posts and page 5?
Anybody considering the Mondo turtles or the Lingjihun Bebop and Rocksteady? I really like them, but I don't know if I can justify spending the money.
>>11742473i just can't get used to rocksteady as a white rhino. he needs to be a black rhino and have that lil beak.>>11742482hun's more than that even. also BBTS is raising their shipping. a totally sensible reaction to people abandoning them in droves due to their overcharging on tariffs.>>11742537thaaat is not how turtle crotch works
>>11742842i went in on the linjihun bebop and rocksteady, I didn't get their turtles but they look like they'll fit in with the mezco ones and with the recent news I don't see them ever making their own
>>11742842I'm getting the Linjihungwashitei Bebop and Rocksteady. But that's cause I think they're hot and have a bunch of Bebop and Rocksteadies.
>>11742845>>11742858Well, that's all the encouragement I needed. Bebop and Rocksteady have been preordered. Thanks fellas!
BBTS has a shitload of Ultimates stuff on sale. Are they any good?
>>11743948They have really great sculpts and are generally great figures. Some waves have worse paint QC than others like wave 3, which had a lot of delays. April in that wave has a foot socket usually with paint that sticks on the joint on one foot. It's best to heat her ankle up and pop the foot off the peg, then peg it back in rather than twist them because of it. Really good shelf presence on these guys.
>>11743948Definitely worth getting, just not at retail price.There's a lot of QC niggles, occasionally badly-scaled weapons, and I have no idea what happened with astro-raph but it really makes me want to somehow fix it.. do you think it'd be possible to pry his torso open without ruining the whole figure, and use putty and shit? hmbut yeah just in general, hairdry your tight joints, polyurethane up your loose joints, and watch for any other little mistakes (like my metalhead michelangelo had his backpack assembled wrong)
I am tempted to buy some cheap leftover super7s once in a while to customize them into the characters we haven't gotten yet, but I should probably actually get good at that first.
>>11742468Does anyone know when the playmates toys tales of the tmnt tokka, rahzar, scale tail, and antrax figures come out? Those are like the last four TMNT figures i want to buy for the foreseeable future along with cobra commander/shredder fusion
>>11742468Is their any more validity to the rumors of the scratch reissue finally coming out before playmates toys loses the license for good?
>>11742468Can someone explain to me why it was such a trend for years that playmates toy would show off a bunch of new figures at events like toy fair and comic con and then unceremoniously cancel like half of the new figures they showed off at said shows? Theyve done this for over a decade at least, and its not only TMNT that was affected even other lines like netflix voltron had a similar fiasco with their figure line where most of the characters they showed off ended up not getting made. Why was playmates so fucking cheap and lazy? It makes me not have any sympathy for them as a company that they are losing the license now in fact if anything its pretty cathartic to see them suffer because for all the figures i wanted they cancelled and now playmates has to suffer losing turtles license as the consequences for their mishandling of the property.
>>11744203It's ironic that their last all-ages TMNT line is going to end with their "cancel figures after showing off prototypes" policy.
>>11744188Zero
>>11744204I know, it pisses me off to no end and i dont know why they have kept doing this shit for so fucking long and for so many years. Why do they not want to make the figures they promised and showed off in the first place? Do they hate money?
>>11744203>>11744204>>11744210According to them its because WalMart (they say "vendors", but lets face it, its just WalMart) didn't want them. Which is pretty likely, given how much WalMart sucks.
got it done. https://www.deviantart.com/lonewarrior20/gallery/100494752/the-snake-hole
>>11744290Doubt, hasbro and other companies have no issue pushing figures to walmart and other stores, it just seems like a copout answer for playmates to get excused from making more new molds so they can release more shitty rehashed turtle variants instead.
>>11744305Ha, you clearly haven't read up on WalMart. Remember TMNT Fast Forward? The toys bombed so bad WalMart refused to stock anymore TMNT toys for the 07 CG movie at first.They always pull this shit. Overstock on the first wave, never swap them out when they don't sell, blame the toy company, then not order any more and let the line die. Just ask Transformers and its Core Class.
>>11744315>Ha, you clearly haven't read up on WalMart. Remember TMNT Fast Forward? The toys bombed so bad WalMart refused to stock anymore TMNT toys for the 07 CG movie at first.Wait really? I never knew about that. Damn thats fucking scummy. And im not saying walmart shouldnt be blamed too, fuck walmart. But playmates absolutely should be more proactive in pushing these figures more instead of making them the toy equivalent of vaporware. I have a theory that they make these prototypes to generate hype and they never even intended to make half these figures they showed off in the first place anyways, and blaming it on vendors is just the fall guy for playmates toys to be cheap faggots so they can keep on pushing more crappy turtle variants which saves them a few nickels in tooling costs. But yeah, fuck playmates toys but fuck wal-mart too.
>>11744317Maybe they need to push other places besides WalMart. Playmates acta like they're the only store around.
>>11744320Oh i totally agree with that too. For years i wanted playmates toys to make an online store similar to mattel creations or hasbro pulse but for TMNT figures and their other licenses. Lel too late for that now i suppose.
WalMart is fucking evil. The reason Playmates never released a Dragonzord for MMPR Reignition is because its size meant it didn't fit into any of WalMart's pricing models.
Also since we are on this topic does anyone have any other proof backing up this rumor i saw online? I really wouldnt be surprised if playmates did lose the license because they kept bitching about other companies like super7 and neca making turtle toys so much so that paramount had enough of their shit and pulled the plug.
>>11744323Seriously? Fuck walmart. That store fucking sucks. The wagies there are almost always lazy shits who will never get anything out of the back when you ask for it. And i heard the upper management is also fucking awful too. Like purposefully preventing toys not getting made for retarded reasons as it "hurr isnt match muh price model" they can go fuck themselves with a rusty rake.
>>11744325Might wanna try working retail once. Just may make you have a change of heart.
>>11744324I think it’s more likely they decided the license is worth more based on all the companies making turtle toys. And it suddenly was more than playmates could afford.
>>11744119who the fuck designed that face? why are the hands thumbless with weird ridged palms?don't get me wrong, less ugly than everything else in modern tmnt, but
>>11744304dude, I love it. so glad DA lets you put multiple images on a single submission now.
>>11744330And knowing the Ellisons, they'll run it into the ground by forcing everyone away or trying to keep it only to Mattel. And now with oil prices going up, shipping costs going up, toy prices will go up and up and up, and TMNT will be dead.
>>11744495anoneverything will be dead. Most things already are, we're just still using them because they don't smell that bad yet.
>>11744325Dude, go check the back might work for produce but the inventory system Walmart uses is incorrect most of the time. You can't expect a guy stocking shelves to share the same interest in toys that you do. But yeah, the people at Walmart are lazy and they refuse to go find your toy out of pure spite.or it could be that they have no idea what you are even asking for and are just doing their jobs.
>>11744509I'm sure it's a chicken and egg thingbad treatment from management means the employees have literally no reason to be helpful beyond altruism, and after the 9th or 10th time some fat woman screams at you and you realize you can't do ANYTHING because you need this fucking 7.50 an hour job, your altruism runs out.but then the employees being worthless makes the managers treat them worse, and realize they have nothing to gain from having good workers since the store keeps working regardless.
>>11744304Decided to do some action scenes.
>>11744534"Hey, fellas. It looks like the zoo's had some escapees."
>>11744536"Hey, you can't do that!"
>>11744537Let's get em Dreadnoks!"
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>>11744537Todd really gave no fucks when it came to these figures. Jesus.
>>11744538The Accused 1988
>>11744534that's awesome. B+R are a bit out of scale, but it's diorama time, who cares.>>11744537ha! that'll learn 'im.
>>11744324A forever license could be possible.They had a lot of input in the brand back in the 80's. When they got involved the comic wasn't printed regularly and there was only a few issues. In that context TMNT was more of a rough idea than the brand it is today. April O'Neil for example was two different characters that Playmates rolled into one from the second issue of the comic. In that issue, April is a lab technician for Baxter Stockman, and there's a second female character that issue who's a reporter. They also made Stockman white, because they wanted to change him into a character like Doc Brown from Back to the Future. He was then combined with a fly character who was designed for the toy line. Eastman and Laird signed off on these changes, and Playmates became like defacto co-creators and producing the '87 cartoon tie-in. They were also inventing loads of new characters with Mirage Studio.
>>11744560yeah it's actually fascinating how much of that early shit was playmates, and also how much WAS eastman and laird, and also other Mirage artists. they're like "goofy saturday morning shit for kids, that sells toys? Uhhhh okay, here." like they didn't fucking flinch, they just did it, and it was glorious.
Well, I just splurged on Ultimates! Metalhead. Hope its good.
>>11744623It's not. Enjoy those extra loose hips! Sucker.
>>11744625Gee, thanks Anon.
>>11744623I like it a lot! But beware, they didn't do the obvious smart thing and drill a hole in the calves for the wire to simply poke into, so said wire.. is glued on, and will break as you bend the kneesjust get out your pin vise and drill small holes into the calves, and it will work like it should have in the first place. >>11744629I wish he was wrong, but yeah it also does have very loose hips. or rather, not the hip sockets (well they weren't exactly TIGHT), but the inner pelvic piece, which for whatever reason is VERY loosely secured inside the body, to make for a kinda waist rotation that.. should not exist on a turtle or turtlebot. Yet the turtles all have it.Just pour some polyurethane up there, it'll be .. fine.
>>11744635You mean these curved things?
>>11744666yep, those are the ones.as you can see, that one has already broken, but there's a perfect little raised disc in that spot, where a hole should go. so you can just drill it yourself real easy. all action figure collectors should have a pin vise.
>>11744688That does seem like a really poor design choice, yikes.
>>11744691it is weird to me that they weren't able to see these issues coming, but they used to be a really small company, so eh. I forgive the first 3-4 waves. it's the later ones where I start to wonder what the ass happened. Still, I bought em, I like em, I just got em on discount.
>>11744717Heh, I'm only getting it cuz its on sale for 27 bucks.
>>11744726That sounds good, yeah. I paid between 22 and maybe 38 for all of mine. It helps that I have zero interest in the sillier 'turtles in costumes' ones, preferring cool ones like samurai leo
Haulthon drop today is Tiger Claw and the Foot Bot 2-pack.
>>11744994some of these things really don't go together.
>>11744994One of the new Pee-Wee heads is definitely an improvement, but they all still seem to be kinda flawed. Someone said he looks more like Paul Reiser than Reubens. I wonder if the sculptor got his jews crossed. Like how everyone mixes up bill pullman and bill paxton.
>>11745359I think you're just completely retarded.
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>>11745382A retard
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My Pee Wee from the original drop had a good amount of face paint in his hair. Easily rectified with a sharpie, thankfully.
>>11745395A retard
>>11745422
The Heat Boys Leo is up for pre-order. Bombusbee and BBTS etc. It has pre-order bonus parts, so if you want those, best get your order in.
>>11744304Very nice, good job. How long did it take you to put all of it together?
>>11745937A couple of weeks, had to wait for stuff in the mail and dry time for glue and paint.
>>11746110I was waiting for him to do it one more time and I'd post Bart saying "Takes one to know one"
>>11746217That isn't funny though.
>>11746218it's a Simpsons bit. only the insult was 'garbageman'
I wish we knew if NECA is losing TMNT. And/or if they have more Archie stuff planned.
>>11746250I wish we knew if the lights will still be on by the time the license changes over.
>>11746274there's no reason to think the new master license holder would do what the old one didn't, when the old one is known to be absolute fucking assholes even to their own detriment.
>>11746280The worry is less about Mattel and more about Ellison and him fucking things up beyond measure.
>>11746299yeah it's bad enough the damn luddite wrote that scifi novel that still chills me...
>>11742472BBTS took down the preorder page for these 2. They did a similar thing with the initial 4 turtle drop (but still fulfilled the orders). Wonder what that's about.
>>11747272to me that says they have an unsure supply, and they don't want to say "sold out" because then people would give up permanently, and go to another site. If it's not there at all, someone who wants their (temporarily) low shipping might hold out and wait to see if it goes up
>>11746274>>11746291>>11746302Doomsayer schizo faggot, i hate ellison too but fuck off
>>11747290I knew that joke would be too subtle for people to getsee I was playing the dummy, pretending I think Anon is referring to Harlon Ellison, the guy who wrote "I Have No Mouth and Must Scream."In reality he's talking about someone I don't know or care about, or think anyone here should be discussing, so I'm subtly mocking the subject and derailing what promises to be a dull conversation.
>>11747302NTA, but I got it. I was going to make a joke reply to you about City on the Edge of Forever, but I couldn't get it to work so I left it. Your post did make me check to see if Harlan was related to the other Ellisons, and thankfully he isn't.
>>11747311now I just wonder if he's related to Harland Williams Sure that isn't how names work, but isn't Harland exactly the kinda guy you'd find something out that weird about?
>>11747302>someone I don't know or care aboutYou should educate yourself then, because it's about to be a huge problem. A very, very huge problem.
>>11747302You're why bad things are allowed to happen
>>11747422>>11747463If discussing TMNT comics is off topic, then seething about the CEO of Paramount is even more off topic. Take it to /tv/ or /biz/ or most likely /pol/ since that is probably the real reason you are seething about it.
>>11747522It's not off topic, Ellison is the cause of the license consolidation and price increases. Seethe more, it's going to get talked about. And if you defend them fucking it all up? You're part of the problem.
>>11747422>>11747463You waste your time caring about problems before they happen. Nobody can do anything about anything, so wait until it happens and then care (tempered with the knowledge that all information you're receiving has been filtered more than a GI's letter home).
>>11747526>anyone who isn't as angry as me is defending themanon you need to be more mad at the gay and less mad at whatever this is
>>11747653>just walk all over me daddy, mmm
>>11747653>Nobody can do anything about anythingIf he actually cared, he totally could do something, but he'd rather cry on the internet and lash out at strangers that have nothing to do with the TMNT license.Here is an example of someone that cared enough to do something.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson>>11747689Be the change you wish to see in the world. I recommend the Elegoo Mars 5 with Liqcreate Composite-X resin.
>>11747716and the insurance scam was solved forever!oh no wait it got worse
>>11747716>have nothing to do with the TMNT license.He has everything to do with the TMNT license
>>11747730Did you expect one man to do the entire revolution for you singlehandedly? That was never going to happen.>>11747748Learn to read and how to parse a basic sentence. I said *strangers* plural. I wasn't referring to "him."
>>11747938a partial tick removal is worse than none, since it will only dig itself in deeper.The right answer was never to go in the tall grass to begin with. Everything after that is compromised.
>>11747938You are such a fool
>>11744537top kek. good stuff anon.
>>11744623That's one of the few TMNT I own. also I picked up the super7 robot bebop.I'm really tempted by the Joy Toy versions now, something about robot tmnt just gets me.
Speaking of JoyToy, I'm interested in picking up a few of their TMNT figures. I haven't quite decided which ones yet however so I'm curious if there are any that some of you might think are standouts, good or bad, that might be helpful to know beforehand.
>>11748229Shredder sucks, April is fine, Foot Soldiers suck, Krang is amazing, Leatherhead is disappointing, Metalhead is amazing, the turtles are meh, Tokka is good, Rahzar is eh, the Triceratons are awesome, Casey sucks, Bebop and Roxksteady are great, Splinter is fine, Dirtbag and Groundchuck are A++
>>11748164the robots are great. i wish we got super7 robot tokka and rahzar.
>>11748229The human figures are kinda just okay, I think it’s mostly the smaller size, they dont feel solid like the mutants. The only figure I was actually disappointed with though was Leatherhead because he has hard plastic accessories glued onto his pants where every other figure has soft plastic/removable ones. He’s not awful or anything but his hip articulation is extremely limited as a result, unless you don’t mind breaking them off.
Exclusive going up tomorrow
>>11750574man i'd be pretty mad about those exclusive accessories if i was buying the 2012 stuff
>>11750614You'd be pretty childish for getting mad
>>11750574Why the fuck are the bandanas not red, NECA? Goddamn this company is shit.
>>11750630You're a fucking spaz, holy shit.
>>11750630Thoae aren't mirage turtles
>>11750624pretty funny coming from the guy who constantly loses his shit over any criticism
>>11750647Your delusions are making you think everyone is one person again
>>11748528I decided to preorder the robo bebop/rocksteady pair. trying not to fomo into the rest of the line but I'l see what they're like first.I used to care about scaling but I have so much stuff of different sizes now it doesn't bother me as much.
>>11750640Why does that matter? It's clearly meant to be an homage to the black and white mirage comics.
>>11750712Except it's not. Maybe you should actually have watched 2012.
>>11742483never even watched this era of tmnt but she cute
>>11750808first four or five seasons are super worth it. I forget if it's four or five.
>>11750817The fifth season (Ninja Tribunal) was the one wasn't completed until after Fast Forward and went straight to DVD. It's the Tengu Shredder season. I've heard some people were disappointed in it, but I still thought it was decent. Not as good as the first 4, but definitely better than FF and Back to the Sewer.
>>11744119They're cancelled, because you want them and they're good
>>11750574This is going up on the neca store now
>>11750574Making the accessories part of this set that 95% of people won’t want is extremely scummy. Is there any chance they’re going to offer the accessory set on its own later? I refuse to buy this.
>>11751055It's not scummy at all. Maybe bitch to your beloved Ellison about fucking the license up if you have an issue.
>>11751069>it's Ellison's fault NECA screw early adopters and rely on getting their customers to constantly double dip on figures they've already bought by including extra parts in reissuesExcept shit like this was being done by NECA long before that scumbag was CEO. Stop blaming your boogeyman for NECA's scummy business practices.Frazetta Girls recently reissued a couple of figures with new extra accessories, but also said they plan on releasing an accessory pack so early adopters don't need to buy the figures a second time.NECA would never do that because they are greedy just like Ellison.I hope he jacks up the license by 10,000% just for you. Greedy scumbags getting fucked over by an even greedier scumbag worked out well for Playmates, and NECA deserves the same.
>>11751081Oh cool man, so you just embarrassed yourself by shitting your pants with a bunch of stupidity you decided to post.This has nothing to do with greed and everything to do with you being a know nothing bitch.
>>11751083Including an accessory set for colored Turtles in a 4 pack of black and white Turtles is extremely scummy, and only a scumbag would defend it.
>>11751088No, only a raging retard would attack it. It's a bonus set they can get out on what might be limited time thanks to your shitty voting habits.
>>11751096>what might be limited time thanks to your shitty voting habitsI didn't vote that way, but holy shit, NECA losing TMNT might be the only good thing that comes out of this term. They say every cloud has a silver lining, and tariffs on toys and $5 a gallon for gas might end up being totally worth it if NECA lose the TMNT license. They might lose enough Paramount and Warner licenses that there is no reason to keep the doors open and Weinshanker pulls the plug on the whole company.That would be the best possible outcome.
>>11751132Oh so you're just a retarded troll, good to know, since absolutely everything you said is total bullshit. You just like being a bitch. They aren't going anywhere, but the TMNT market is good as dead without them, and even worse off because of your favorite cheeto.
>>11750836ah okay, 4 then.yeah I remember being really disappointed by ninja tribunal season when it finally came out. woof. it's what we wanted but only on paper.
Is it true the Joytoy line is ending? Would've been great if we got more individual villains like Baxter and Rat King and some more allies.
>>11751873licenses are limited time, it probably expires soon and they don't know if they can even renew it with all the shit going on doesn't necessarily mean they won't put a few more figures out though
>>11751873We don't know what's going on with the license and who is keeping it, who isn't, or what it means overall. Sadly we just have to wait and see. Some places may pull out just to save themselves the trouble later.
>>11751873Word on the street is that Joytoy's license expired and they didn't renew. No idea if they opted not to renew, or if it's because the alleged 2000% licensing fee increase fucked them.>>11752033>doesn't necessarily mean they won't put a few more figures out thoughIn a Q&A they had on their official Discord late last year, they said they had nothing in the pipeline after the Turtle Van under the current licensing agreement. If the rumour that they didn't renew is true, then that's it.
>>11752111Damn.May as well get April and Casey along with the Turtle Van if I can find it at a decent price.
>>11752111they put up robot bebop and rocksteady after the van though
>>11752146Might've had them ready. No knowing, we got a whole year to go to see if they have any more drops.
>>11752146That's true, and I thought that when those two were revealed a couple of months ago, but I figure they were scheduled to be released just before the van. Since the van and both figures got released in the last couple of weeks, and the van is still getting released in batches until orders are filled, technically they didn't come out after the van, so I guess they haven't lied?
Joytoy made a van? lemme see. They're 1/18th scale, so their van has a chance to be pretty bi-nope, it looks like a hatchback. Then again, the joytoy turtles are meant to be taller than most iterations, right? They're proportioned like it.
>>11752373It’s small but they definitely leaned into the Volkswagen van look so I think it works; it’s a tiny car.
>>11752437yeah, I never minded it in the original TMNT. Those guys are PARTICULARLY short, possibly the shortest tmnt outside of the (very loose) sub-canon of the toys (where at least one of them is listed as sub 5 feet despite all the figures being the same height (and Baxter is like three foot something, kinda like in the cartoon)). Granted, that was ostensibly a news van, but the toy version definitely skewed more 'microbus' right down to the windows, so I was okay with it. How often do allies need to join them in their van? that's THEIR van, for bros only. Sometimes April, sometimes Dad but he's Japanese so he keeps trying to drive on the left.it's funny how the super7 van added curves that make it even MORE like the microbus, but to me, kinda ruin the look. I can't tolerate those kinda silly guns unless the front is nice and square. That rounded look would fit the toon-style cannons fine.
>>11750574Help me to understand, why did they make sketch figures for a 3D animated series? Shouldn't they be wireframes? Or even just grey?
>>11752452The show did freeze frames that were drawn in comic style or black and white. Typically as a way to end the episode or do a cool moment.
>>11752461I just assumed that was the case, having not watched the show past a certain point and not remembering it wellbut let's be real, they have also done this for versions of the turtles who neeeever had that kind of art. so it's really just a toy meme at this point>>11752452that armor really isn't bad.. helm seems too small though
>>11750574Weapons bag, new heads, grappling hook guns, pizza, pizza box, skateboard, ooze container, bow and suction cup arrows they used when Raph trained patience...I dont recognize that one thing. Perfume bottle? Flask? Dreidel?
So lets talk about TMTN remastered line. First they released Turtles with ugly bumpy skin and wrong heads and Leo and Don. Then they teased Shredder, Rocksteady and some Last Ronin-ish Raph variant. Finally they released Shredder and Splinter but only in 6 pack with fixed Turtles and also Splinter is randomly more toon than vintage toy. And now it's all over because they're losing the licence.Is it me or did Playmates fucked up what could have been their Masters Universe Origins?
>>11752741>Is it me or did Playmates fucked up what could have been their Masters Universe Origins?Yes. It's what everyone was thinking the minute the line came out. The bases were all bad and undersized in scale too.
>>11752440It looks like the van doesn't really have any sitting in the back except for the sidechair and the stool that given how it's sandwitched between two computers, only makes sense of Don is on it but he's the one needed to drive it.
Might be seeing another Stan Sakai site exclusive. Unless this goes to another con, can't say.
>>11752768Why does Don have to drive?
>>11752980only don can drive stick
>>11752980He made the van and understands how it's features work.
>>11752980Nobody else is sober
>>11753009this is why the movie turtles never had a van. their Donatello.. well...
I really wanna see this fight happen.
Any new news on Pixeldan's book?
>>11753812It's in production.Though related to that, he did a video about his friend who has a pretty incredible TMNT collection, and is stopping collecting/selling some stuff off since Mattel is taking the license: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpPWIY_BhO4
>>11753815let's be realit's so he has an excuseyou can tell guys like the TMNTtoys guy stopped putting up reviews because it was getting old going "hey I bought something intended for babies, it's only painted on the front.. don't buy it"and he probably couldn't afford / have room for the newer neca, super7, etc stuff.
>>11742536Is it worth getting the Deluxe version for an extra $28?
>>11754630hard call since i'm not really into itthe pauldron is cool, the skateboard is definitely cool.. do you really need a buster sword and coolie hat for your leo?
>>11754630i'd never use the helmet or sword but the extra head and hands alone make it hard to skip
>>11754741the dragon slayer is nicei'm surprised the scarf isn't cloth/wired for such an articulated and premium figure
>>11754630I'm leaning towards yes. If you can afford a $100+ Turtle, I wouldn't cheap out in the home stretch unless I hated everything that came with the deluxe. >>11754670The pauldron is still included with the basic version.
Is Mutant Mayhem/Tales on the level of Next Mutation or Rise?
>>11754946ohhh okay.. that's an interesting grappling hook designI dunno these seem ridiculous to me but I can see why people would like them. if I think of them as more like, Thundercats OCs..>>11754982each is its own flavor of shit.Next Mutation was like when you have to clean up runny dogshit and you're surprised it has barely any odor, and you realize it's because it all outgassed right away before you got thereRise is like when you didn't chew properly and/or you ate a lot of indigestible stuff, so you shit out a bunch of shreds of pepper skins and corn and whatnot.. it's kind of cool in its own way, inasmuch as it's more visually interesting than a random log, and at least nothing was harmed in the process.Mutant Mayhem is like, a mixture of when you've taken antibiotics and your shit comes out as like, furry foam for weeks, and like green baby shit where maybe the lactase has reached its limit.
>>11754982Rise sucks balls. Mutant Mayhem isn't as horrible as it. It's just uninteresting as hell. Once you watch the movie you lose interest entirely.
Playmates is putting out Battle Damage repaints
>>11756595Raph already has the battle damage of still not being colored right..
"Orko.""Oh, hi Adam. Sorry my magic trapped us in this universe. Burp! I'd thought I'd try their food. It's called pizza.""You're going to get a stomachache."
>>11756595Hmm, wonder if we might still get remastered Rocksteady.
>>11757294We won't
>>11757302Hey, they said we wouldn't get these battle damaged versions, but we are.
>>11757305Yeah, I don't think these were ever shown at Toyfair. It's reasonable to wonder if we will get a couple of more surprises. It all depends on if they finished the tooling. I'd say there is a slim chance for him.
>>11757436Literally zero chance. No store is going to dedicate a sku peg or shelf space for one figure from a dead line like that.
>>11757483They could rerelease the non acne scarred versions from the multipack individually. Never underestimate a company's willingness to milk a mold. See >>11750574
>>11757436It’s pretty obvious when they said they showed everything at Toy Fair that was either a lie to cover their ass or a dumb intern who was in no position to know.
>>11757483World of TMNT is a catch all, they can release anything on that one.
>>11757670Wrong again dipshit
>>11757675Why not? They’re already using World of TMNT to release Rise and 2012 toys, they could easily put the battle damaged turtles and remastered Rocksteady in the line as “87 Series” or something.
>>11756595unless these come with unpainted brown weapons I'm not buying them again
>>11757936oh and you could call that battle damage too, like the steel rusted
i've had a hell of a time finding body bucks in the super7/neca movie scales, yet 1/6 remains pretty easy.. I wonder.. how easy would it be to try to make a custom super7 Chrome Dome, and just say he's huge like the cartoon version?
>>11759103then again, his bio card says he's "600 programmed pounds"even if he's hyper space age lightweight materials, I can't imagine him being over like 8 feet.but then again the bio cards also gave Baxter his cartoon size of 3 feet, so all bets are kinda off.
