What was your first TMNT fig? [Archive]

SpiderHulkThing

02-26-2007, 10:03 PM

What was your first TMNT fig? Whether it be from the old school figures or from the new lines.

Mine was the original Donatello. My dad brought it home after work and gave it to me when I was four, 1989. I carried around wherever we went and he ended up going back and buying me all the other ones from the first series of figs.

Sorry if this was already done, I couldn't find it.

kerfootw

02-26-2007, 10:11 PM

gobo

02-26-2007, 10:38 PM

Ace Duck and a Wacky-Action Mouser (bought simultaneously)

SpiderHulkThing

02-26-2007, 11:14 PM

My first fig was Krang's robot and Krang in it that I could pull out and have two separate figures. It's been a long time since I was a kid. I sometimes forget how stupid I was--I drew all over Krang's robot!
I like that toy but I don't like to dwell on it. Not with so much hate being driven towards the new series because of that old one.

yeah, i'll have to say, when the new series came out, i was hesitant. but now that i've watched them and got into them, I can see a lot of great things about the new series. I'm not talking about Fast Forward though, haven't watched any of them yet, so I can't judge those. but I heard they aren't as good as the stuff from last year and and 2003-05.

But I think the old school figs are better than any of the newer ones. I bought some of the oringal 2003 figs, but they just didn't do it for me.

Masked Ninja

02-26-2007, 11:54 PM

I was so little... I don't quite remember which was my first. I do remember having a Mikey figure, and found it great that you could spin him on his back like in the cartoon intro. :D I know I had a Splinter too... probably had Mikey first, though.

sdp

02-27-2007, 12:42 AM

My favorite turtle was raphael so my first figure was the first raphael figure, I later got the other 3, shredder a foot soldier and as years passed TONS more turtle variations and other mutants

Sewer Bull

02-27-2007, 01:54 AM

Foot Ninja.

Raph's Girl

02-27-2007, 02:07 AM

My first fig was Storage Shell Don and my 2nd fig was Secret Spy Don. I was about 9.

Roseangelo

02-27-2007, 02:16 AM

My first fig was the original Michaelangelo figure. I was 10.

Scavenger

02-27-2007, 04:49 AM

The first one I got was a soccer Raphael (Dunno the real name). My brother had storage shell don, raph (dunno which version), Michalengelo (with spinning hand, I think that Raph is from the same series), transforming leo, Shredder, underwater raph?, original Don. Later I got party wagon, Leonardo boat, motor bike, another water thing, big helicopter, Donatello that could jump, Ratking.

Much later I purchased the first Leo, Raph and Mike figure and the 2003 Leonardo. I dont buy turtles anymore because I collect Transformers and Gundams.

Lionheart3239

02-27-2007, 08:21 AM

The first figure that I got was an April O'neal figure 1998 edition. I still have her with all her weapons in a plastic bag. Wow that was 9 years ago.

JetsAndHeels

02-27-2007, 10:29 AM

I remember having all 4 of the original turtles when they first came out. The Leo was my favorite from then on.

Boagrius

02-27-2007, 04:44 PM

Rat King was my first.

Sonic777

02-27-2007, 05:02 PM

Krang's android body.The small one.

Robhp03

02-27-2007, 05:06 PM

I dont remember what figures I got first when I was a child. I know I had the originals and the mutation turtles.

But when I started collecting again in 2002 my first figures were MOMC
1988 Raphael - Soft Head / Fan Club Form
1988 Rocksteady - Soft Head

BigApple3AM

02-27-2007, 06:14 PM

I found some old home videos of me a while back and so I watched them and in one video I'm in the backyard playing with gengis frog and raphael and I keep throwing them around and our old dog was picking them up and my dad was yelling at the dog and telling me not to throw the figures anymore unless I wanted them chewed on so the last thing before the video cuts off is me throwing it again anyway :D I was like 2 years old, since it was 1989. I remember being in Toys R Us, it's a really hazy memory because I was so young (again, 2) but I grabbed a donatello off the peg, they were at the very beginning of the aisle and the retromutagen ooze was there since it was 89. What's funny is I can actually remember clear as day how I got into turtles, I was at a babysitters and the sitters kids had turtle figures and wouldn't let me play with them. They also wouldn't let me play the turtles video game for NES. Jerks.

Leo has since become my favorite, but Donny will always have a special place in my heart, I think he looks the best of the original figures even if he's not my favorite anymore.

bmxbandit

02-27-2007, 06:32 PM

my first figure was the original leonardo and then the foot tall version of leo as well. he was/is my fav.

Raph's Girl

02-27-2007, 07:13 PM

Michalengelo (with spinning hand, I think that Raph is from the same series)

That's the Toon series. I have Toon Raph....my mom baught a bunch of figs off ebay for me about 5 years ago for Christmas and that was one of em (along with Venus De Milo cuz she thought it was Ninjara... :roll: )

BigApple3AM

02-27-2007, 08:16 PM

Actually spinning hand mike is wacky action series, tongue stretching action is toon mike.

Time Mistress

02-27-2007, 09:33 PM

The first April fig. Heard a few years later she was semi-rare. I also picked up original Mike around the same time.

TMNT Power

02-27-2007, 09:42 PM

My first figure was Raphael in 1988. My beloved grandman nanna (god rest her soul) always used to take me TMNT hunting when I stayed with her, and she would spoil me.

TheRedOne

02-28-2007, 06:07 AM

I actually have no idea. I remember some of what I used to have, but I can't remember my first.

METALHEAD

02-28-2007, 06:29 AM

orginal ---i think mikey...or raph...i recall raph....yes.

2003 versoin year 2004-2005 leo. yep. love these topics. funfunfun!:D

Kunoichi_Haruko

02-28-2007, 06:34 AM

Well I didn't collect when I was younger, and I never really took an interest in the 2k3 figs, but I've started collecting the new movie figs. Raphael was my first.

02-28-2007, 06:11 PM

I still remember the day perfectly for some reason...my mom coming into my room and handing me Breakfightin Raph...i loved it...and crazy thing, it still works!!

BigApple3AM

02-28-2007, 07:02 PM

I still remember the day perfectly for some reason...my mom coming into my room and handing me Breakfightin Raph...i loved it...and crazy thing, it still works!!

Little did she know what she was about to start.... I think all our parents probably feel that way haha.

poobone

03-04-2007, 03:44 PM

an old school leonardo, from the first wave. Plain ol' leo. God those days were great.

Starscream

03-06-2007, 02:21 AM

My first figure was the original Donatello as well. I remember my friend down the street was bugging me about these cool turtle toys so I pestered my parents to get me one. I finally made them cave in when they wanted to keep me quiet while they looked at houses. I remember pegs and pegs of nothing but Shredder and Splinter at Children's Palace (THE toy store when I was a kid). I had both my parents and myself looking through them all and lo and behold there was one turtle in all of the bunch, Donatello.

Before I actually saw the figures I thought they were going to be just like G.I. Joes, same scale, articulation, and whatnot. I wasn't disappointed but was a bit surprised by the line.

03-06-2007, 09:39 AM

Little did she know what she was about to start.... I think all our parents probably feel that way haha.

Lol..dude, you are completely right...:P

Raph

03-06-2007, 09:56 AM

1988 Don was my first one, I had alot of toys at that time, also from He-man and Ghostbuster and I remember saying to my mom "A please, can I have just one, to display" (Don was the only turtle in store at that moment, later I ended up getting Bebop for Christmas, and after that well ..... :D

Buslady

03-06-2007, 10:55 AM

Anybody wanna take a guess who my first figure was?:D

I remember buying him...then...:cry: I remember giving all of them away to some kids....i hope they enjoyed them.

Kendamu

03-06-2007, 02:32 PM

Original oldschool 1987 Michelangelo with soft head.

Damien Kash

03-06-2007, 05:21 PM

The original old school Leonardo figure.
Still one of my all-time fave figures to this day.

I remember really wanting the 3 other turtles after I got Leo.
Think I got them less then a week later.....

VaughnMichael

03-06-2007, 05:39 PM

Whitewolf89

03-06-2007, 10:36 PM

MY first TMNT fig? Oddly enough, it was OS Leo, 'cause I love swords (still do), and he was the sword-wielding TMNT. And back then HE was my fave Turtle, not Raph. HE was just too much of a smart-aleck for my tastes back then.

(:o Ack! Don't kill me, Buslady!:o *dodges brickbats thrown by her irate sys*)

That Matt Guy

03-07-2007, 06:44 AM

Usagi Yojimbo, and then Rocksteady I think. Took awhile to find any of the TMNT themselves.

***First of Two Latin Kings***

03-07-2007, 07:53 AM

Raph, The Space-Cadet.

Hero

03-07-2007, 01:44 PM

My first TMNT haul came around the build up to Christmas 1990. TMNT or should I say TMHT was released in the UK and the series (despite the watering down) was a huge hit. TMHT figures sold out bone dry over the summer and the shelves were bare in stores everywhere.

Christmas was vastly approaching and everyone just had to have the TMHT toys. Toys R Us was the main shopping chain getting in deliveries of the figures but only 3 figures were rashioned per customer.

So for the next few Saturday mornings my mum made sure we were up bright and early so we could get to Toys R Us long before opening time. The reason being was that every Saturday morning up until Christmas there had been queues of people waiting for ages for Toys R Us to open its doors (much like the queue of people waiting to get a Wii or a PS3) and be the first to acquire some TMNT figures.

There would be a desk as you enter the store with 2 boxes worth of toys straight from Bandai. A member of staff and two others would be at the desk to make sure the figures were rashioned out between the hungry customers.

The first couple of attempts, my mum and I were not even shortchanged. All the rashioned figures were bought and given homes. One week I unexpectedly got lucky when one of the boxes on the floor was not being attended to. I managed to grab myself a Rocksteady, a Foot Soldier and Splinter.

This was a hard mission considering my kid sister was ahold of my right hand tugging away like a dog on a leash. She wanted to look at icky girls stuff and was being impatient. After that, the saturday morning hunts had stopped but I managed to get a set of the Turtles on Christmas morning.

I still have my original haul today. I really owe a lot of thanks to my mum who gave up her Saturday morning sleep-ins so I could have some figures of the characters I loved.

===HERO

Nostalgia82

03-07-2007, 08:28 PM

My first toy was METALHEAD!!! That was a great figure. I remember my mom convincing my dad to take me to Toysrus one evening to get a TMNT. I don't think they had ny of the origional turtles so I picked the closest one possible, the robotic one :D Soon after I got a bunch more :D

Blade Raider

03-07-2007, 08:43 PM

I have no clue what my first TMNT figure was, but I'm pretty sure it was a Donatello. It was either Undercover Don, Wacky Action Donatello, or the original Don, not sure which.

Raph86

03-09-2007, 01:49 PM

Krang in his little walker, and the Original Raphael bought at the same time.

Snailman

03-10-2007, 04:28 PM

This I remember well. I got the original Raphel & the original Splinter from my Aunt, Uncle & Cousin for Christmas in 88 or sometime shortly after they came out. I had no clue what they were, as I'd not heard of TMNT yet.

I remember my Mom asking my aunt "Oh, what're those?" & my aunt was like "They're Ninja Turtles, some new thing that just came out, Danny (my cousin) loves them.".

And that's how it allll started for me lol. What's funny is out of all the turtles, Raphel is the one who's personality I relate to most, so him being my first turtle was just kind of a funny co-wink-e-dink. :lol:

-Snailman

cowabunga14

03-11-2007, 04:43 PM

Vintage figure-wise, it was either Splinter ('88 release), Fugitoid or the Movie Star Foot Soldier.

twigs232

03-12-2007, 01:30 PM

My first four were the old school ones which were the four TMNTs!

TheGreenMagic

03-12-2007, 04:16 PM

Oh, how I remember it well. It was the original Michelangelo from the first series. Ended up finding him in a Toys R Us. Good times...

Ji-Day

03-13-2007, 07:06 PM

I can't remember...
I think it was... the first Leo...

Chef Boyarquoa

03-14-2007, 06:56 PM

not my first, but one of my earliest memories was getting Anthrax, Casey Jones, and Dirtbag all on the same day!

twopinacoladas

03-15-2007, 12:15 AM

Leo and Raph, my mom picked them up when she went on a trip to the US, my aunt got me Don and Mikey when on a trip later as well. It takes a while for most figs (TMNT anyway) to be released in Canada after the US. Oh and my friend had Leonardo thats the first time I ever heard of the TMNT he told me about it and I saw the first episode probably less then a week after that and was hooked.

He had his leo and we had him driving the Ghostbusters ecto 1 and I remember wearing drying towels made into masks lol oh the good old days when I was only 5 lol.;)

Stephen

03-15-2007, 11:46 AM

I never had that many of the figures from the original series. If I remember correctly, the first one I had was a Leo figure with an opening shell, which weapons could be stored inside.

HalfcourtGame

04-08-2007, 06:53 PM

Christmas 1989 I was 5 so of course I woke up at like 3 am to get my stocking and the original Raphael was sticking out of the top. I was so psyched woke the parents up even. When I started collecting again the first thing I bought was a MOC Raph and I display it with my first ever figure right next to it in all his scratched, beltless, weaponless glory.

Head Spinnin' Bebop

04-08-2007, 10:38 PM

I dunno. By the one that stands out in my mind is Groundchuck. Got him in Disney World while I was meeting April and the TMNT there. I can't believe how long ago that was, yet I seriously remember it like it was yesterday. Still have the pictures of little ol' me meeting them too :D

Rockzero

04-08-2007, 10:41 PM

Honestly I was so young at the time I can hardly remember, but I believe that I was given all four original turtles at the same time as a gift for my birthday or something.

Sliced

04-08-2007, 10:53 PM

My first tmnt figure was slash. I remember that day like if it was yesterday. Found it in a store named ''wise'' who does not exist anymore, When we entered, right there at the entrance, there was one big basket, full of tmnt figures. They just received the toys and they were doing a promotion for the toys. Me and my friend got of course all excited. We spent half an hour there with other kids, just searching and looking for the figs we wanted. The show was all new where I lived, it was in 1991, I was 6.

When I saw slash, I wasn't too sure who he was.. But he was one great figure. A kid even tried to steal it from me. But my beloved mother took care of it and she bought the figure for me.

Aww slash, he does have one special place in my heart...

Zog the Equalizer

04-08-2007, 11:06 PM

My first toy was mutatin' don. My mom brought it home to me after coming back late from work. Its still my favorite to this day even thoug it cant mutate anymore because its baby turtle feet fell off.http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/Serpose/IMG_3017.jpg

Shark_Blade

04-08-2007, 11:56 PM

Mine is Leo, the original basic figure. I love it so much, but it was stolen when I was 5 years old:(:(:(And it was the first toy ever that I ask my dad to buy(I watch it on commercial).
Thank God for Ebay, I will buy it after they sent me my movie figures.;)

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/6364/1c0d1ve5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Coola Yagami

04-09-2007, 12:32 AM

First fig I ever bought was the original Raphael figure. They had several TMNT there, and I could only get one, so I went for Rapheal, promising I'd be back for the others later.

For the new line (I only have my brother's Rocksteady fig from the original line now) the first figure I ever got was Donatello.

Shark_Blade

04-09-2007, 09:55 AM

it was the first releases of all 4 turtles splinter and bebop and rocksteady with the squishy heads I remember loving them as a kid cause they would float in the water because of their empty heads lol

LOL I remembered that I used to do that. Because they are turtles, I spent times playing them in a water bowl and during bath time:D

Spike Spiegel

04-09-2007, 11:02 AM

My first was 2k3 Basic Leo. It's ok, you can say it, I'm a TMNT NOOB...:D :D

http://www.kbtoys.com/g/toys/big/119520b.jpg

Tinuvielsdreams

04-09-2007, 12:38 PM

I can't quite remember because I was probably like 3 or 4 when I started bugging mom and dad for TMNT stuff...I think just one of the old toon turtles probably Mikey... I did find a big old toon plastic Leo at my parents house though...I think he must have been pretty early on in my collection

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/Tinuvielsdreams/Leo.jpg

Sniper33

04-09-2007, 01:49 PM

alright here is from what I remember:

Leonardo
Usagi
Ace Duck
Mondo Gekko
Dirt Tunneler?

OHHHH!!!! I just remembered I used to have the four stuffed turtle plushies....I remember loving those baddies when I was little as well.

Leonardo's_Girl

04-09-2007, 03:03 PM

A new Leonardo action figure based off the new TMNT movie. I bought it at Suncoast, and I really want to purchase more of the action figures and collect anything TMNT-related.

GK Punk

04-09-2007, 03:03 PM

The original Mikey toy. And untill I got more TMNT Toys, he was a protector of Castle Grayskull along with the Masters of the Universe :lol:

Ava Collier

04-09-2007, 03:05 PM

I was raised by my grandmother, and she wanted me to be a girl. :roll:
A friend I was playing with one day gave me a very naked Donatello. Later the same day, he gave me Slash so Don would have someone to fight...and so they wouldn't get lonely. He wanted to give me Splinter too, but his mom stopped him, and told him my grandmother could buy toys for me. I don't even remember this poor kid's name, but to this day I remember his kindness, and I remember him telling his mom that my grandmother wouldn't get me boy's toys. I'd be cuddling Donny, and Slash to this day if everything I owned wasn't stolen approximately three years ago.

The only figures I have now are these completely adorable baby turtles I found on ebay. If I had disks for my digital camera, I'd show you. >.<