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CanadianFett

02-25-2003, 04:36 PM

If Playmates said that they were willing to redo one old figure from the old line, obviously not including anyone who'll be on the new show, who would want?
I'd have to go with Slash. Look at him, he's completely kickass. You can't beat a crazy evil turtle with a nunchuk made out of barbed wire.
And would be pretty cool to see ho they'd reimagine him.

Mr. Snackpants

02-25-2003, 04:48 PM

Id like to see Ratking, but if the show has another season he'll be in it. So Id have to go with Slash too.

PWDESAI

02-25-2003, 04:54 PM

cool thread CF, i like this question.
I would have to go with... hothead, i mean he was a chinese-like dragon whose neck could extend. Just imagine him being done by the 4 hoursmen (makers of motu) or Todd toys. I bet even playmates could make a decent revamp of him, but looking at the new series' april, casey, and hun, I don't want them to EVER attempt a classic figure.

Dontebell

02-25-2003, 04:56 PM

i go with the super shredder

Mondo_Gecko

02-25-2003, 04:57 PM

Mondo Gecko

nimrod

02-25-2003, 05:48 PM

Another vote for Slash. He was my fave besides the turtles and shredder. Slash is one I would definitely love to see.

I wouldn't mind seeing new versions of the frogs also. They were pretty cool.

That Matt Guy

02-25-2003, 06:31 PM

Leatherhead

The Stryker

02-25-2003, 06:34 PM

Rocksteady......the original figure's head was just one big cylinder
:evilgrin: i stand alone once again

Duke

02-25-2003, 06:49 PM

My vote is with the majority, Slash. His original figure was awesome and i know they could totally improve to look even beter. I still remember getting his figure before he was ever in an episode of the old cartoon. I was like this is awesome an evil turtle then I saw how stupid the show made him be and it pissed me off.

Apple Cat

02-25-2003, 06:57 PM

Leatherhead

Voltron

02-25-2003, 07:08 PM

Thats a tough one. I always thought the concept of the "Mutating Turtles" was really cool. But I guess I'd really have to go with Slash.

Peanut

02-25-2003, 08:21 PM

Wingnut!

Greed

02-25-2003, 08:50 PM

Slash definitely Slash

DarthRaphael

02-25-2003, 11:08 PM

Maybe Leatherhead if they made him at least 1.5 times larger than the Turtles. He was so out-of-scale.

avervisal

02-25-2003, 11:20 PM

Slash was quite badass...

I've always had a liking for Wingnut as well

Leatherhead was cool as well

I didn't like the Rat King figure too much...the likeness was great and all but the whole swinging waist just wasn't cool. His legs were wobbly too, but that may have just been because of excessive play :)

Will

Shellfox

02-26-2003, 05:44 AM

Mona Lisa, what can I say I like the femal toys, they never get the respect they should

CookSux

02-26-2003, 06:21 AM

Ray Filet... His Archie Comics rendition has to be the best one I've seen.
WingNut, Slash and Leatherhead would be awesome as well. Dang what about Metalhead?

TMNT_4ever

02-26-2003, 08:46 AM

My first pick is Wingnut, he was one of my favorites (I'm a Batman fan, too)

A big Leatherhead would be cool, though. Didn't Peter Laird say somewhere that Leatherhead might appear in the cartoon next year? Or am I dreaming?

Eye of Sarnath

02-26-2003, 01:26 PM

I still don't get it, why do you people like Slash that much? I mean, I like him, but I'm not crushed that he's not in the new toon.

Mondo_Gecko

02-26-2003, 02:07 PM

Because he's an evil turtle. How can you not like an evil mutant turtle. Slash Rocks!!!!

Duke

02-26-2003, 02:16 PM

Because he's an evil turtle. How can you not like an evil mutant turtle. Slash Rocks!!!!
Agreed

CanadianFett

02-26-2003, 03:46 PM

Originally posted by Mondo_Gecko:
Because he's an evil turtle. How can you not like an evil mutant turtle. Slash Rocks!!!!

That's exactly what I was gonna say.

Metalhead would be quite cool as well, he's still one of my favs, cept he needs weapons, not those satellite thingys the old came with, but the backpack stays, I love that thing.

Sauron

02-26-2003, 04:07 PM

Metalhead

Donatello

02-26-2003, 04:14 PM

slash

we'll probably see ratking and leatherhead so that'll be cool

acouple cooler toys in the old line were walkabout and scale tail

of course if they sell too many mutants for the new show it'll ruin the purpose of the mutants. i really would like to see slash, but i'm afraid how he'd be in the show

Kid Icarus

02-26-2003, 04:21 PM

Mondo Gecko

Dude, that would rock. They could even give him a pull back skate board!

Jephael

02-26-2003, 04:31 PM

Man, those are some great ideas! I'd like to see them revamp Irma and make her not look so frumpy. Same goes with Vernon.

That Matt Guy

02-26-2003, 04:53 PM

I think they should also remake Mexican Bandito Mike.

Mr. Snackpants

02-26-2003, 05:37 PM

lol :lol:

The_Realest

02-26-2003, 05:43 PM

I'd wanna' see a new Rat King. In the case that he appears in Season 2 as someone mentioned, then I'd like to see a Metalhead fig.

Reznorite420

02-26-2003, 06:31 PM

If they can find the molds for the original toys, they should re-release the whole line again :D

Mondo_Gecko

02-26-2003, 07:03 PM

Thats just what i was thinking Rez. I wouyld so love that and think they should do that. If they decided to to do that you'd see me at a toy store faster then Michealangelo eating a pizza.

That Matt Guy

02-26-2003, 07:37 PM

Re-releasing the entire line might be a bit of a strech in the old pocketbook. The old ones in the 80s were like $3.99 I think, they would probably cost $7.99 now.

Peanut

02-26-2003, 07:53 PM

No way dude. As a kid I remember the toys being at least $8.99. I'm canadian though. Figures here usually cost $5.99 or $6.99 now. There aren't very many expensive figures anymore.

Greed

02-26-2003, 08:12 PM

Re-releasing the entire line might be a bit of a strech in the old pocketbook. The old ones in the 80s were like $3.99 I think, they would probably cost $7.99 now.
Why would the re-releases be more than the new ones :-?

That Matt Guy

02-26-2003, 08:21 PM

Why would the re-releases be more than the new ones :-?

It's called inflation.

That Matt Guy

02-26-2003, 08:22 PM

No way dude. As a kid I remember the toys being at least $8.99. I'm canadian though. Figures here usually cost $5.99 or $6.99 now. There aren't very many expensive figures anymore.

Everything is more expensive in Canada.

nimrod

02-26-2003, 09:42 PM

Because he's an evil turtle. How can you not like an evil mutant turtle. Slash Rocks!!!!

Exactly. Slash was pretty badass. He was my fave toy when I was a kid. I understand why he's not in the new series and why he most likely will not be. But I would love for them to make a new figure of him. That would be tight.

The_Realest

02-27-2003, 01:26 AM

I remember the original toys being $3.99-$4.99. Anyways, you say that if they re-release the original line at $7.99 that it would be too costly? IMO, that'd be a lot better than getting 'em off of Ebay for $10-15 bucks a pop.

One Radical Dude

02-27-2003, 02:25 AM

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/toys/1992/toonirma.jpg

:teek:

I honestly do not remember seeing an Irma figure.

Did they do one for Zach, the Fifth Turtle?

Wuffle

02-27-2003, 03:06 AM

I'm pretty torn between the idea of revamping Fugitoid or Leatherhead. Perhaps Leatherhead b/c the first Fugi figure was pretty neat anyway, and I'd love to see a Mirage take on Leatherhead's figure. Whee, 10-foot tall mutated alligator :))

Though, seeing a new Slash would be pretty awesome too. If they ever redo him, here's hoping he comes with a palm tree accessory :D

nimrod

02-27-2003, 07:39 AM

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/toys/1992/toonirma.jpg

:teek:

I honestly do not remember seeing an Irma figure.

Did they do one for Zach, the Fifth Turtle?

I don't think there was ever figures of either of those.

And yes I would hope Slash would come with some kind of little palm tree. :)

MzTheInsomniac

02-27-2003, 02:03 PM

definatley the Movie star turtles, i would loves to get those again :D

Bry

02-27-2003, 09:38 PM

I'd go with Fugitoid. I'd love to see a Slash figure too, but its more likely that we'll see Fuge in the new show.

Snailman

03-04-2003, 11:00 AM

I'd want to see Leatherhead again, but done to scale. No way he'd be coming on a blister card, the new Leatherhead should be in a box he's so big! BWHAHAHAHAH! :evilgrin: Definetly at least 10 inches long, maybe even 12 inches, but that might be tooo big, so 10 inches seems jsut right.

Maybe Leatherhead if they made him at least 1.5 times larger than the Turtles. He was so out-of-scale.

Yeah, I know right? No way a mutant aligator is smaller then a mutant turtle. That, & I think his size was listed ast 12' long on the figures bio-card, yet the toy is like 5 inches long. :roll:

They should have just made him huge & sold him in a box instead of on a blister card (as I mentioned above).

Hey, Shellfox: Is that Icky from Dinosaucers as your avatar? I remember that show, even taped like 5 or 6 episodes off of USA's Dino-Power-Hour a few years back. Very cool stuff. :D

No way dude. As a kid I remember the toys being at least $8.99. I'm canadian though. Figures here usually cost $5.99 or $6.99 now. There aren't very many expensive figures anymore.

Well, from figures I have with their TRU & KB toys price tags still on the cards, TRU charged $3.99 for TMNT figures & KB toys charged $5.99 a figure. If your in canada & you bought them at a more expensive store, then I could see 'em being 8.99 or so.

Why would the re-releases be more than the new ones :-?

It's called inflation.

Well, how much did KB toys charge for the figures when they re-released a bunch of stuff back in 2000-2001? I seem to recall the figures being about $3.99-or-$5.99 each, but am not 100% sure. I think they might've been $5.99 originally, then were red-slashed to $3.99. Does anyone remember this? :-?

I remember the original toys being $3.99-$4.99. Anyways, you say that if they re-release the original line at $7.99 that it would be too costly? IMO, that'd be a lot better than getting 'em off of Ebay for $10-15 bucks a pop.

Thats very true. Most of the figures go for like $15-to-$20 MOC, so $7.99 would be a deal in a way. But, the original figures didn't exactly include crazy-amounts of bonus features that should make 'em so much money. Hell, most figures now a days cost $7.99 on average, that used to never happen, or rarely happen, back when we were kids. I think it all started with Jurassic Park figures. I remember all action figures being about $3.99-$4.99 a pop, then JP toys come out & human figures cost $5.99 & carded Dinos cost $9.99 :o

Ever since then they've been going up & up. As it is now, the cheapest figures on the market are TMNT figures at $5.99 a pop. Sure there are other toy lines that cost less, but none of them are fully articulated action figures like the turtles are. Just wish MotU figures would loose those dam sensor chips in their feet- maybe the cost of the chips is what is making them $7.99 a pop?

-Snailman

cqb101

03-04-2003, 01:53 PM

I'd like to see Ace Duck he was soooooo cool...............

Donatello02

03-04-2003, 02:08 PM

Mutagen Man. Can't get too many Mutagen Mans I always say. And for the 20 year anni, they should rerelease the original turtles in like a four pack or something.

Tetsu Deinonychus

03-14-2003, 10:38 PM

The Mutations figures complete with a comic-accurrate version of Splinter(as in ordinary rat, not Hamato Yoshi).
Also actual figures of Hamato Yoshi, Oroku Nagi, and Tang Shen would be cool, as well as an unmaskable Shredder/Oroku Saki. In case anyone wants to act out the TMNT origin story. :D

azure turtle

03-15-2003, 08:09 PM

I'd like to see Ace Duck he was soooooo cool...............
I second that! :D

Tetsu Deinonychus

03-16-2003, 11:27 PM

Someone Mentioned an Irma figure.
If you look here...
http://www.ninjaturtles.com/toys/1992.htm
You'll find there were indeed figures of Irma, Vernon, and even Burne Thompson. :thyper: :thyper: :tsick: :shredder: :D :evilgrin:

Jephael

03-17-2003, 06:55 AM

I still have Toon Irma, but I gave my Toon vernon to my cousin Joe. Never got Toon Burne t hough cause I kinda hated that character for bashing the TMNT so much, and on their own show no less.

SlayerX

03-17-2003, 10:43 PM

The_Realest

03-17-2003, 10:59 PM

Awesome-looking Leatherhead custom. You should post that pic in the official "Customs" thread.

Mondo_Gecko

03-17-2003, 11:03 PM

Is that what it's called a custom? Cool I learn stuff everyday. Anyway i love that Leatherhead that is so cool.

lethrhd

03-18-2003, 12:11 PM

yea me like :D I'd buy me a' some a dem, I gaurawntee!

Mr. Stay Puft

01-12-2004, 12:19 AM

SLASH!!! I will champion Slash's return on the new series until I die or the series is cancelled!!

GK Punk

01-12-2004, 05:35 AM

Yo, Old threads aren't suppoused to be brought back here. Sorry.
Feel free to start a new one though :wink: