I know there's a TMNT general but I don't get this. Why the fuck doesn't Playmates give their toys modern articulation? Is there a patent on elbows that swivel? Ankle swivel? It's like they don't know what a modern toy should actually do. Picrel's arms are forever locked in awkward positions just like the vintage toys, while the feet won't ever let you get a decent pose. They're also priced at $18 and have an exclusive, so don't tell me it's for kids.
>>11796867>Why the fuck doesn't Playmates give their toys modern articulation?Because they'll successfully sell it to nostalgia-junkies who want new versions of the figures in the same way they were 25 years ago.
Does it matter? Now that they don't have the TMNT license anymore they're going to finally fold in a year or two.
>>11796867We'll buy it anyway. They're one of the cheapest toylines in the market too, next to Jakks' lines
>>11796867>Picrel's arms are forever locked in awkward positions just like the vintage toysHuh? It clearly has double-jointed elbows.
>>11796867Normally I'd think it's reasonable because Playmates is trying their hardest to strike a balance between being affordable($10-12), being a decent 5'' size, and having decent, not great paint. $18 for this is indeed egregious though, and I can only imagine itd because of the licensing. Still I think most Playmates stuff is decent for the price, if not collector's level, but that's not their goal.
>>11796867I was really hoping the anon(s) claim this was AI slop were true, because the thought that Playmates is so incompetent as to roll out something that looks like 2005 engineering in the year 2026 is just depressing. >>11796900no, no we won't.
>>11796903yes but it can't go left and right you complete fucking brownoid>>11796890Here's hoping they belly up soon.
>>11796867It's for kids
>>11796911kids will. kids still play with toys in addition to phones
>>11796909Even the godzilla figures were 15 a pop. Is the hasbro tax really bumping these upto 18?
They're for children, and the less articulated they are the cheaper they go for.
>>11796867I actually enjoyed playmates figures having that older articulation pattern still. I hate modern articulation cuts most of the time and i feel like in some lines like TVC the characters are almost overly articulated to the point it hinders the figure from both playability and inhibits them aesthetically as TVC figures look horrible sometimes because of the way the articulation is designed for those figuresI am still glad playmates toys is losing the TMNT license because of all the figures ive wanted over the years that playmates needlessly cancelled for now good reason, fuck em to bankruptcy.
>>11797188>TVC wut
>>11797298nta, but the Star Wars Vintage Collection
>>11797186Ah yes those kids that grew up on a defunct 40 years IP that is only being held up by fat old men.
>>11796924>>11796942>>11797186Do kids even care about Ninja Turtles these days? Feels like the brand in general peaked around 1991, then faded out in 93-94 when Power Rangers hit the scene, then had a shot in the arm in 2003, then faded out again, then another shot in the arm in 2012, then everything they tired after that didn't seem to hold kids attention for long before getting abandoned.I'll be impressed if anyone can reply without resorting to childish insults.
>>11798308Alot of the 20 somethings ive talked too at various places still love 2012 turtles and unfortunately rise of the tmnt is very popular with that age group too. I mostly see women as fans of rise however so its probably a fujoshi thing with them.T. Elder zoomer born in 96
>>11798491Rise is still the best TMNT ever, at least for having the best animation
>>11798578Having good animation while the characters, designs, and story suck doesnt make a show good, its still shit at the end of the day. Just look at crap like arcane, god tier animation but the plot and its characters were fucking ass. Also ive seen people say thundercats roar has good animation but when the character designs and art style of the show fucking suck the animation is worthless, such is also the case with rise of the tmnt.
I'm well over 50 and loved the 2012 Turtles show. It was decently done, when they weren't being disgustingly lazy ripping off Big Trouble in Little China or Napoleon Dynamite. The figures of that series NEED to be done better justice than what they got, articulation-wise.
>>11805071I liked Rise better, and most of their toys got better treatment in comparison. But that was an undeserved flop anyway
>>11798582Rise's designs are better too, especially since Mutant Mayhem wasnt an improvement
>>11810363>Rise's designs are better too, especially since Mutant Mayhem wasnt an improvementWrong and double wrong, i cant understand the obsessive fandom rise managed to cultivate but rise was objectively cringe
>>11811746If they're ninja's, then they need to be as slender as possible. Big bulky guys who are still agile doesnt always feel right if they end up being slow and heavy. At least for Raph, they doubled down with that, but it fits for once because he's the tough guy anyway.As for MM, tradition is still fine but now their heads are bigger for some reason. And their April is so dumpy
>>11796913okay meester bigshot racist, are you telling me those shoulders don't swivel?>>11797188I have a big gripe with mid-thigh swivels, especially when it's SO easy to just integrate the swivel into the hip
>>11814600literally the point of ninja turtles.'haha everybody is ninja these days, what if we made.. a ninja turtle?'it's supposed to seem incongruous on the surface. they're not meant to look like agile, slender lizardmen. They're supposed to look like young Goku and Kurilin when they were still training with the shells. Stocky little guys who can still kick your ass.
