NECA Cartoon Figs?
 

What do you all think the chances are of NECA OT figs happening?

Sooner or Later if the line keeps doing well, I think it's a bit moronic that they couldn't at least make bebop and rocksteady with the anniversary coming up.
But I guess we can chalk that one up to playmates, but I really can't talk about what they're doing but it's total crap.

does it have something to do with another re-release of the original figures?

. for yes
.. for no

I don't think, realistically, that it'll happen. Not that it "couldn't" or "shouldn't", just that the line won't run nearly long enough.

As it stands, Neca is putting out a wave, guaging sales, *then* planning the next wave. Turtles will always sell, so we're getting a wave 2. Foot soldiers and Elite should sell well because of army-building, and the popularity of Shredder will almost guarantee a third wave.

But once you put April, Splinter, and possibly Casey on the shelves... that just might be it for the line. Three unique molds, no parts-sharing, no army building (expect maybe April for Mousers). Neca's either going to have to think of something brilliant to guarantee a 4th wave, or blow it all out at 3, give us the basic good and bad guys, and call it a day.

I said it before... i'm all for NECA cartoon based figures... but in all honesty, looking at their Labyrinth toys, I would MUCH MUCh prefer them to do Movie Turtles from the first 2, Jim Henson Creature Shop made, movies. Think of how awesome that would be.

Because there's nothing toy companies like to do more than re-use molds and sell us the same figure over and over, ad nauseum, I'd be surprised if NECA didn't do a cartoon repaint of their TMNT figures at some point.

I would be totally down for that as well.

If I remember correctly, I recall Laird on his blog indicating that he would not be totally against NECA making Rocksteady and Bebop figures, but he'd rather they do some of the more prominent Mirage figures first.

Exactly, I'm glad he finally answerd me about that. :)
And your answer is: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/3...508d2f8b_m.jpg

just as I had suspected. Thanks :D

edit:
+100 points for working the animaniacs in there.

Let's hope that never happens. NECA should be all about the original comics of tmnt.

Well played Vaughn, well played.

How's it feel to be wrong? :-P

I don't know. I thought your sig was proving me right. :embarass:

Well if NECA only sticks to comics, perhaps we might see some archie stuff come down the line later on. The turtles looked very similar between Archie and OT, and I've said it before but I want an Armaggon figure.

With the time between releases and with as little as being released at one time, I would rather that they stick to the comics right now. If NECA were releasing larger waves (like 8 to 12 figures or something) I wouldn't mind if a few cartoon figures came out as well.

How come Neca hasn't done/didn't do the turtles with their color specific bandanas? seems like a no brainer. Especially if their license lets them do it which we know. Giving them different skin tone would be nice too. Also make Neca shredder gray/purple and you have OT Shredder basically.

They'd sell even better than the first turtles.


I've been hesitant to buy the turtles because of that reason, yeah red bandanas are their "true" form but I grew up and every series I've ever watched has always been the non-mirage turtles.

you could just paint them like everyone else who wants colored bandanas does.

Umm...multicolored bandanas on the comic figures...yeah that looks like the toon...not.

I was hoping NECA would put something out that actually looked like the OT characters.

oooo I thought you just wanted a variant. Well, then to answer you question more thoroughly, they don't do that because they would have to make new sculpts (which they didnt even want to do for the black and white turtles). Making new sculpts is both expensive and time consuming, and would steer them away from their current endevour (the comic series). So I guess the answer to your question is almost completely related to the cost of making new figures (in money, time, and resources). They would have to be done with their current comic line before you will see OT figures...and that will only be after the brand has proved itself monitarily worthy.

You guys will be lucky if the NECA line continues past the inevitable Casey and Splinter figure, because I don't see NECA making endless TMNT characters.

Aside from April/Shredder/Foot/Elite....they'll probably make Splinter, Casey, a Triceraton and some other character like Leatherhead and call it quits there.

I think some of you need to realize NECA doesn't let its toylines last forever and they've ended plenty of their other series for various reasons. The NECA toys will probably never go past Mirage's core cast and even then we're lucky if we ever see "Leatherhead" or a "Triceraton" at all.

Being too optimistic will lead to your disappointemnt.

I could but I don't want to do that. You could also make customs of every TMNT character they won't make if you wanted too.

It would have been an easy as hell variant, and yet they didn't do it.

umm...they'd still look like updated versions of the OT toys, and thats all I want.

skip Movie Turtles, I want movie SHREDDER. We've never even had a Movie Shredder.

Super Shredder counts! ;)

But yes, a normal movie Shredder would rock -- with sparkly red paint for the outfit. Or, better yet, sparkly purple paint and that helmet with extra spikes! :D

Then the line *as I've told even Peter himself* won't last very long.
If you want things to keep bringing in money and lasting a long time you're going to have to give in at some point and come to the realization that both the old toon and Archie series and heck even the old video games and toys are what people remember more about the TMNT than the Mirage comics.
Am I saying they shouldn't just make Mirage based figures? No, but it would be foolish not to step outside into the other universes and make characters people have been begging to have in plastic form for years like Armaggon.
But this wouldn't be the first time a foolish business decision was made involving TMNT action figures.
It's fun being clever some times.:lol:
Why thank you, I've learned a few tricks from Murph lol
You're funny they have a set contract with this company for awhile, read below:

You make the purple a variant. Then we're both happy.

Mirage in general is just a series of foolish business decisions.

My lamp pwns anything NECA could ever come up with:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...d-comp-top.jpg

:D

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PencilYoda scares me.
:sick::sick:
Alot.

Nooo! PencilYoda is awesome!!!

In actuality, he's a candy dish. But when I used it for that purpose I ate too much candy, so I filled it with pencils.

lol I sure hope you're kidding about that old bubble bath container turned into a lamp:P

I'm not kidding! It is AWESOME and nothing can ever be better than it!!

Any suggestion otherwise will make me cry!!

mmmmmk, seems like you've got some happy pills recently.:P

Well ok maybe it might be unwise not to step into creating action figures from that universe and I guess it might be pretty awesome if NECA did that. I really would love to see Rocksteady, Bebop, Krang, Rat King (red sky) and classic Shredder in extreme detail. My only worry is that if they start coming out with random characters like Playmates did in the 90's.

You seriously think NECA would do that? Their lines never last long enough to do the kind of stuff.

I would like to see OT toys if longevity permits, but if not I'll be just dandy with the Mirage toys.

Hey, a movie Shredder is pretty much a given. a 6 figure movie assortment... the 4, Splinter, and Shredhead. And maybe if successful enough, Tokka and Rahzer. Much as I would like to see Casey and April (the Judith one), I could wait for them.

I don't see why they can't cross release OT turtles with mirage Turtles once they start running out of Mirage characters. Just to keep the line pumping.

Nothing in this line is a given, and that's the point a few of us are making, and the larger number seems to be ignoring. Based on interviews from Comicon, NECA's taking this line one wave at a time. The first time a wave fails to meet whatever sales standards they have, the entire line ends for good on a dime.

So no, nothing's a given, not even April and the Mousers, which we've *seen* prototypes of. If sales are high enough on the Foot wave, we'll likely see her in Wave 3, but that's only a likely...

... Not a given.

I meant that Shredder is a Given in the highly theoretical line up of Movie figures. I.e. I't a given I wanna see Shredder allong with the 4.

And I know that we shouldn't get our hopes up to high, since other than the 4, there really aren't that many characters from Mirage that the common person would buy. I think if anyone wants more obscure characters from Mirage, they should be Convention exclusives or something with a limited release.

Oh... well.
Then, that's different.

I really feel like I'm poo-pooing on everything, but with a company like Neca, anything more than "ultra-conservative" is getting your hopes up.

Sure, *anything* is possible, but very little is probable. Neca's good for pumping out exclusives thus far, since everything's been repaints/repackaging of the turtles... with the exception of the Mouser 3-pack, which I see as a double-edged sword.

On the one hand, it's technically new product. It also means there's a mold for the Mousers, which could be proof that April has also gotten to that stage. Once a mold is made, it's certain to get a release... all the expensive costs have already been incurred. On the other hand, I heard a rumor from a friend at San Diego that we shouldn't get our hopes up for open-jaw mousers... the mold made for San Diego *might* be the one used for the April pack... or the opening mouth may have been a cost-prohibitve in case they never get around to producing that April.

Like I said... nothing is guaranteed. For all our sakes, I really hope sales remain as high for the Foot Wave as the first. I realy want more of this stuff!

I don't thinku have to worry them bring out Shredder, Foot Soldiers, and Elite Guards is a very smart business move.
And even smarter is the using of the same body parts to cut down on cost, even if I personally don't like it.

I would say that the TMNT, Splinter, April, Shredder, Bebop, Rocksteady, and Krang are smart sales bets for OT, but I would be very, VERY surprised (but pleased aand speaking with my wallet) to see it go further than that.