Back to the Sewer toys? When?
 

Probably nobody knows the answer, but I'm surprised Playmates hasn't released the Back to the Sewer figures yet. I mean, they released the Fast Forward figures a few months before the show came out. So what gives?

I want a Cyber Shredder action figure, lol.:D

We already do, apparently. The Sub-Sewer outfits have been seen in a screenshot for Back to the Sewer.

Hmmm.... interesting. Thanks for the info.

I wonder if they are going to make a Cyber Shredder. If so, he/she should be very tall, but probably won't be.

I'm hoping they do make Cyber Shredder and a few other villains like Cyber Foot, Stockman and Hun. The only BttS villain I know for sure is in production, is Metal Klawz, and I'm not even sure when he's coming out.

Yeah, I would also like to see a new Hun, Stockman, and members of the Foot. They would be in scale with the 2007 movie figures too, at least I would think so.

Is Metal Klawz the mutant mole?

Indeed it is. It was seen for a brief second in the opening titles of the Back to the Sewer preview.

NEVER!!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!


Seriously, though. They dropped the ball not making Lost Season toys (the "Mystic Turtles" don't count, since they were made for the video game, TMNT3), and they're apparently screwing up again now just giving us the same moronic movie variants. Now they've worked them into the show.

There WERE sketches of Cyber Turtle figures going around, with designs close to their BTTS look (more like FF, though), as well as a design for a Ch'rell (SP?) figure. But those look like they're tossed aside for Music variants and Fire Fighters....

I remember coming up with a list of 40+ toys Playmates could have made that were based on Lost Season, including the variants, Mutations and vehicles that Playmates likes so much. Why didn't we get any of those toys at all?

Because they're the reason the season was "Lost." They wanted to sell the FF toys instead, since the stupid plastic dinosaurs were sitting on the shelves...

I mean, at LEAST give us the Taxi! At least give us that!

And look how many Fast Forward figures they made. Well over half of the ones we say in photos from trade shows never got made, including the Inuwashi Gunjin that was pictured on card backs.

Apparently the FF didn't do well (though they could of fooled the hell out of me, they sold pretty well in my area), and something tells me they didn't think the retailers would want the TMNT movie line and the TMNT cartoon line co-existing with each other... unlike Spider-man, The Justice League (as far as Batman and Superman were concerned)... and basically everything else...

They sold rather well in my area as well - the basic figures, that is. The deluxe Triple Strikes and vehicles sat on shelves forever.

I want a Cyber Shredder and New-Age Foot figure....>.< and a new April figure too.

Do you think since Demon Shredder was shown in the Back to the Sewer preview, we'll ever get a Demon Shredder figure? You can never have too many Shredders....

They sol well everywhere, me thinks there was more to it than that and that a big wig stopped the line.

Like Feudal Shredder?

Metal Klawz is part of the Sub Sewer line.

Yes, however, as nobody has seen him in stores or on eBay yet, we do not have proof that he has been released.

All I know is Playmates better not ruin the Cyber Shredder figure.

Everytime I look at Cyber Shredder's design, I like it more and more. Playmates better give us a kick ass toy of him.

I guess I can see with what they're doing with the Back to the Sewers toyline now. Since all the regular cast is drawn in the movie style, Casey's look, April in yellow tights, the Turtles with the pupils.. making BTTS toys of them wouldn't look different enough from the regular movie toyline. But still... Playmates still shoulda made toys of the new Foot, the landlord, the Cyber Shredder and any other of the newer characters. Maybe add those 3 to the next line of variants.

Hopefully we'll also get Demon Shredder finally....

Feels like Transformers: Animated again.

The toys should have been out by now but instead we are given the ever lovable movie variants, much in the same way the TF Animated toys should have been out at Christmas but instead fans get movie 'variants'. It may be a situation where we might have to wait another 6 months before we seen even a colourless prototype.

It's daft though. A cartoon doubles up as a toy advert and there's no toys right now to sell (even though the Extreme Sports TMNT seen in the BTTS intro are available as Mini Mutants). We are pretty much wanting toys that are not confirmed to exist right now and if 2K3 is anything to go by we should be used to it by now.

Should we be used to it? Yes. Should we have to get used to it? Definitely not.

Agreed. We should'nt have to put up with poor performance at all.

I asked Peter tonight about Back the the Sewer toys tonight:
"Do you know if by any chance we will be seeing toys based on the Back To The Sewer series? Or are we only going to keep seeing figures based on the movie look?"
I'll buy them I hope to at least get a decent cyber Shredder figure.

Hopefully they'll be glow-in-the-dark figures

Ya know, if it wasn't so far off the new scale, I'd say a remolded Supermutant Shredder when be a good Cyber Shredder. At least it's a nice base for customs (if you can get one).

I wonder if we're going to get a new April, Casey and Hun for this new season.

I won't get my hopes up though.

Why do I have this cold chill down my spine that they mean, Movie line turtles with cyber gear glued on?

Oh because that's all there's been for over the past year and they just sit on the shelves and don't sell at all.:ohwell:

That's probably what they will be, old figures with cyber gear glued on.:ohwell:

However, we probably will get Cyber Foot Ninja and Cyber Shredder, and they will probably both be totally new figures.

That's just a guess.

I hope they make the 'landlord ninja master' or whatever his name is. That would be cool, but I doubt it will happen.

Yeah, Playmates sucks. We've established that.

They were ok at the beginning of the 2k3 line, even if the crappy varients started popping up toward the end of it, but now they have hit rock bottom.

I know what you mean.

Certainly new figures based on the new toon designs would be more logical.

I also wonder if a proper BTTS line would be out that Serling will just be the FF toy repackaged or just a newer scale version would be made.

===HERO

I want new sculpts. That's all I want. Sculpts that look like their cartoon counterparts... or at least the style guides. That's why I really liked the FF versions of the Turtles. They were the right look, and close to the right scale... and the best Splinter figure we got so far. I was hoping for a BTTS line sort of like that...

And without an 8 bucks a pop price tag. That's what stopped me from really collecting the movie guys.

To me the new Back To the Sewer Toys should look like the style of the show which is pretty close to that of the new Spider-Man animated series, which the toys for that look exactly like it.
When I see those new Spider-Man toys I think that's exactly how the Back To The Sewer toys should look.

I'd love to get this April and Casey since the TMNT versions they're in battle gear.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/...3b4701970e.jpg

It's kind of annoying that the Turtles can get so many pointless variants but characters that could have been made multiple times based on different looks they had in the film were ignored. I'd have killed for them to have made a bulkier Foot Ninja like the dude on the right.

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...no/IV00580.jpg

I'd buy 5 easy.

With toylines looking near accurate to the way they look on TV these days, playmates would be mentally ill not to produce BTTS toys.

A simple confirmation from Murph as to whether these figures are actually happening would suffice.

I would be even greatful just to see a colourless prototype of a cyber foot soldier or something.

===HERO

i would hope playmates will have proto types of the btts figures around feb-toyfair season.:roll: