Original First Wave Release Date Change

[mikey0]

Should Playmates have waited until after the first official season from 1988 to release the first wave of toys? Changes in the schedule and direction of the original Playmates toy line would have given the toy line a better flow, in my opinion. The toy line would be divided, like it was, between the first batch of figures, vehicles, role play toys. and plush dolls in 1988 and the other releases from 1989 to 1997.

I think the Kenner The Real Ghostbusters action figure line and role playing toys climbing the toy charts in 1988 changed toy trends completely from how they were in 1987 when Masters of the Universe was last considered one of the most iconic toy lines of the 80s up to that point.

Would you prefer the whole original Playmates toy line have been like how it was after 1988 or the way it actually turned out?

The new versions of the wave one and Krang figures would not look as out of place as they actually did in 1989 alongside the Kenner Police Academy, Hasbro C.O.P.S. and Crooks, Matchbox Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Mattel Food Fighters, Mattel He-Man and cartoony toy lines of that sort.

It felt like the first wave of TMNT figures (with the exception of Splinter, Bebop, and Rocksteady) were the only decent action figures in stores for a while in 1990. The early 90s boys toy aisles were dead-lands until late in 1992.