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Spitfire
08-22-2004, 11:37 PM
I got some of the new figures and my Tricriatron Warrior has silver paint on the top of his head! His horns are painted sliver and then theres some extra paint leaked onto his head! Theres some excess paint on my other figures as well! What is this crap playmates is pulling? I pay good damn money for these and I get a crappy paint job! They look hand paints almost! Anyone else had this problem?

Jed
08-23-2004, 12:30 AM
My battle bike figures are painted pretty badly. Leonardo has brown paint splashed over his white top, I tried to cover it with tipex but it just doesn't work :( Mikey has orange paint splashed onto his palm. They're the only ones I've been disappointed with so far.

On a side note, I even had to bring Battle Bike Raph back and get a new one, his head mould was all messed up and the top part of his head(from the bandana up) was sitting too high on his head, so it looked like he had a gap on his head. I hope the fact that these figures where kind of hidden to the side in the box(on the Irish ones anyway, I know the American ones are diffrent) didn't make Playmates decide they could make them as sloppy as they wished because they knew people wouldn't see 'till they got them home and opened them :cry:

Leonardo_the_sword_master
08-23-2004, 05:42 AM
YES........ my evil turtle bot has a bad paint job

trez
08-23-2004, 06:17 AM
My Guardian Ninja has black paint on part of his face and on his medallion.

TheCloneRanger
08-23-2004, 06:58 AM
Paint slops are pretty common with this line. When I say "slops," I mean extra paint that has fallen from where it is supposed to be, not just a sloppy paint job.

Most lines, I'm happy just to grab a new figure without really studying it. Not with TMNT...I've had to go through 4-5 figs in some instances to find a decent job. The faces seem to suffer the most, especially with extra white from the eyes getting on the head bands and such. I finally found my Utrom this past weekend, but his paint job was so poor, he instantly became custom material.


On a related note, sometime this week, I'll be posting a new custom figure. I've been doing customs off-and-on for about 8 years, and this is by far my favorite I've done, from any toy line. :)

Leatherhead1984
08-23-2004, 07:36 AM
on my fugitiod. the green on the eyes is slightly off center. it sort of looks like the green paint doesnt line up with actaul mold.

avervisal
08-23-2004, 07:39 AM
I haven't really had this problem yet luckily

Leonardo_the_sword_master
08-23-2004, 08:18 AM
YOU MEAN THAT THE FUGITOID AND THE NINJA GAURDAIN ARE OUT :teek:

Leatherhead1984
08-23-2004, 08:42 AM
YOU MEAN THAT THE FUGITOID AND THE NINJA GAURDAIN ARE OUT :teek: truthfully, I got lucky. I went in one morning t omy local target, and found the guardian ninja, and my mom found the fugitiod about 40 miles away when she went to visit a friend. i havent seen the utrom or anything.

Leonardo_the_sword_master
08-23-2004, 08:43 AM
YOU MEAN THAT THE FUGITOID AND THE NINJA GAURDAIN ARE OUT :teek: truthfully, I got lucky. I went in one morning t omy local target, and found the guardian ninja, and my mom found the fugitiod about 40 miles away when she went to visit a friend. i havent seen the utrom or anything. ooooooooooooooo lucky you dude......
my stores stil don't have any of the new toys jsut a milloin space hoppin.

TheCloneRanger
08-23-2004, 09:09 AM
YOU MEAN THAT THE FUGITOID AND THE NINJA GAURDAIN ARE OUT :teek:

List of latest releases:



I have seen all of these in person, and they are in my collection. They're definitely out.

7/22/2004:

Fugitoid
Guardian Ninja
Shredder Clone (Multi-Armed )
Triceraton
General Mozar
Silver Sentry


And there you go. These have been found all over the US, mainly at Wal*Mart!


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July 28, 2004:

TMNT Battle Bikes: Found At Toys "R" Us, Meijer.
Leo vs. T-Rex: Found At Target, by yours Truly. I still have no clue what the hell it is.


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August 13, 2004
Scuba Leo
Scuba Don
Scuba Mike
Scuba Raph
Utrom

Found by yours truly in Kentucky at Target. Happy Hunting!

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Hope that helps. I copied and pasted that out of a forum thread I started over at OffTheCard. It's very up to date.

Leonardo_the_sword_master
08-23-2004, 09:12 AM
YOU MEAN THAT THE FUGITOID AND THE NINJA GAURDAIN ARE OUT :teek:

List of latest releases:



I have seen all of these in person, and they are in my collection. They're definitely out.

7/22/2004:

Fugitoid
Guardian Ninja
Shredder Clone (Multi-Armed )
Triceraton
General Mozar
Silver Sentry


And there you go. These have been found all over the US, mainly at Wal*Mart!


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July 28, 2004:

TMNT Battle Bikes: Found At Toys "R" Us, Meijer.
Leo vs. T-Rex: Found At Target, by yours Truly. I still have no clue what the hell it is.


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August 13, 2004
Scuba Leo
Scuba Don
Scuba Mike
Scuba Raph
Utrom

Found by yours truly in Kentucky at Target. Happy Hunting!

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Hope that helps. I copied and pasted that out of a forum thread I started over at OffTheCard. It's very up to date.

oooooooooooooo *drools* thanks.

Spitfire
08-23-2004, 11:44 AM
I have all the new ones then!
I just need Claw Shredder and that bad guy Turtle Titan fights and I have them all that are on the back of the card

Albrecht
08-23-2004, 09:13 PM
my shredder and mike have half assed paint jobs.

TMNTGal
08-23-2004, 09:22 PM
I haven't had this problem so far. I still haven't found the new figures but I hope they're not as bad as everyone says.

JaffleMan
08-23-2004, 10:27 PM
I have found from my experiences that the figures with the black stamps on their feet seem to have really poor quality control whilst the white stamped figures seem OK.

My worst example of a black stamped figure is my Space Hopping Mike who is in the packet still and appears to have what looks like dried up snot splattered across his torso. He also has bits of silver paint splashed here and there.

cqb101
08-24-2004, 10:42 AM
I was just looking at the paint ap on my Turtlebot and it's horrible....easily the worst out of any of my figs.

Spitfire
08-24-2004, 04:58 PM
I was thinking maybe if we all emailed Playmates about the problem they might fix it but what has emailing them ever gotten us?

Leonardo_the_sword_master
08-24-2004, 05:42 PM
I was thinking maybe if we all emailed Playmates about the problem they might fix it but what has emailing them ever gotten us?
NOTTIN BUT CRAP!!!! fro me i didn't eve nget a reply

Mobius One
08-25-2004, 10:25 AM
Ive never had a problem with this...all you have to do is examine it before you buy it. I guess I've just been lucky.

Leonardo_the_sword_master
08-25-2004, 11:18 AM
my todler turtles paint job is awesome other than those toys there has ben paint mess ups.

Spitfire
08-25-2004, 02:52 PM
Ive never had a problem with this...all you have to do is examine it before you buy it. I guess I've just been lucky.
80% of the time when I buy a turtles figure at the store its the last one on the shelf

cqb101
08-25-2004, 06:32 PM
Ive never had a problem with this...all you have to do is examine it before you buy it. I guess I've just been lucky.
80% of the time when I buy a turtles figure at the store its the last one on the shelf

Same here. Unless it's one of them blasted varaints that flood the shelves.

Drtooth
08-26-2004, 11:24 AM
Well, I can't speak for many other people, but I haven't found many problems with my figures (mainly cuz I don't have many of them) except for Splinter.... the paint job was pretty lousy on him... but he was the last one... and they were on sale that week, So I swallowed my pride. The problem with Splinter is they tried to make highlights, but opted for paint splatters....