New Protos
 

These came today.
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Short and Sweet!

Very cool prototypes! Do you have more of these? If so, I would love to see some pictures of them. :)

I have tons of them. I'll take some shots when I get home.

Very nice! How does one acquire these prototypes?

I trade small orphan children to the Playmates production facility in Korea. They get free labor, I get prototypes.

No actually...although these days that almost sounds plausible. I get them off ebay. New line protos usually run in the neighborhood of 30-40 dollars. Vintage protos are...much more expensive.

Holy fried beans on a stick... that's cool. I always love seeing prototypes.

awww your gonna make Tokka cry now he really wanted those Shredders.

They caught my eye cause theyre so....pink.

hah mine also but passed them up because I don't collect protypes unles it's unreleased stuff, and I knew you'd want em' more anyway ;)

I think you just like me staying poor :-P

Coolness! This is what I've been waiting to see! The shredder looks glow in the dark :)

Ask and Ye shall receive:

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Very cool! :) The daimyo has some nice fluffy hair :D

I like Daimyo's all-black costume... S.W.A.T. Daimyo/Secret Agent Daimyo, anyone?

If I were ever to obtain prototypes, they'd likely be of army builders. Couldn't tell you why.

Stephan, are any of these prototypes in "playable condition", in other words, would you be able to play with them without them getting effed up?

And you didn't tell us you had something even more rare than the Casey and Pizzaface...


Right there behind the Daimyo... it's the one-of-a-kind Benvenuto prototype! :D

Anything that isnt cast from urethane or wax is totally playable. Theyre exactly like normal toys but cast in scrap plastics and unpainted :-)

So that would make your special head versions of Pizzaface and Casey unplayable, but the rest of these playable?

Pizzaface (Urethane)
Casey (Wax)
Tyranno Shredder (Wax)
HotSpot (Wax)
Scratch (Urethane)
Walkabout (Urethane)
Wingnut (Urethane)

The rest, yes, I suppose you could play with them...but I have the retail versions of all those figures anyway.

At first I thought the top title implied that Playmates had produced prototypes of upcoming figures :)

I love the Shredder clone best. I totally missed out on this figure during its retail run.

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More great grabs--the pink Shredder clone is particularly awesome.

Does anybody know why they mold these in all sorts of fruity colors? I've seen protos for other toy lines, like McFarlane, where they're all shades of the rainbow too. Maybe a color corresponds to a particular revision or something?

So they can easily be identified as not retail.

I'm sure there must be more to it than that . . .

Well sure. There is also the fact that it is easier and cheaper to use whatever plastic you have lying around than to produce out of a specific color.