Some New Playmates TMNT Figures For Jan. 2009
 

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wow!! those cyber turtles are cool!:D

Totally painting Cyber Shredder and Foot to look like they do on the show.

But why so flippin' late? Damn you Playmates.

Yeah Planning to do the same if they ever make it to store shelves.
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I'm gonna point my finger once again at Gary, omgz 2009 is our shellibration let's wait to release everything then and let the market go dry with nothing new out for months, no dvds, no new shirts, no toys! Man it's gonna be great when everything floods in all at once in 2009.:dead:

Yeah, it's a real mistake to literally wait until 2009 for everything to even start (and I'm not convinced there's even going to be a flood of stuff then). And it sounds like they're waiting until May, the technical actual anniversary date, to even start doing anything worthwhile. Everything should be getting into swing right now, but instead they're just letting everything die and no one's gonna care about Ninja Turtles by the time they finally want people to. But they can't write enough press releases already patting themselves on their backs.

I just want The Forever War and Mirage at Comic-Con and I'll be happy.

They wait this long and can't even get the colors right? The hell Playmates?! I mean, their not even remotly right. The colors make them look like more damn extreme sport variants. That said, I do like the remolds done. I'd like to see better pics before I judge the Shedder and Foot. Why does that build-a-figure-you-already-own-in-better-colors take up half the page? I may get Leo for a custom, but I don't think I'm getting any others. If their not going to make the effort to make them look right, I'm not going to make the effort to buy them.


No wonder Wal-Mart's dropping <_<



EDIT: Btw, it doesn't help that TMNT shares it's anniversary with Transformers (also their 25th), who have already done more than TMNT's companies have shown or even hinted at.

Yep, my thoughts exactly.

♥ ♥ luve shreddewr and foot..
 

-->> ..wish those damm TMNTs were translucent .. :evil:

Well looks like Im gonna be getting me the Cyber Shredder for sure.

Cyber Mikey looks majorly demented and kinda evil. :o
Leo looks like he belongs in the Star Wars Universe in an X-Wing Fighter.
Don and Raph looks like they're just coming out of the X Games or something.

So all in all...I'll probably just end up getting Cyber Shredder. Im just pissed that Splinter is a fraking build-a-figure. :/

The Cyber Turtles are complete trash... but Cyber Shredder actually looking approximately like the one on the show? That really impresses me. They set the bar that low.

But, seriously... what the shell is cyber about those turtles? They don't look a damn thing even close to the series. They look like they're about to play football for the Palo Alto Metallics or something....

they went stupid on the cyber turtles and splinter... but i would probably get the cyber foot and the cyber shredder. or maybe ill get all of them just for the splinter. :dead:

I'm left wondering if the Mini-Mutants Shredder and Foot will still be translucent versions of movie Shredder and Foot Tech Ninja, or will be closer to these versions....

They arn't exact by any means, but I'm excited! I'll pick them all up. I love going to the store and having new figures on the shelves. The build a splinter is actually a cool idea, in my opinion.

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words...so...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...berTurtles.jpg

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Yeah, it's a real mistake to literally wait until 2009 for everything to even start (and I'm not convinced there's even going to be a flood of stuff then). And it sounds like they're waiting until May, the technical actual anniversary date, to even start doing anything worthwhile. Everything should be getting into swing right now, but instead they're just letting everything die and no one's gonna care about Ninja Turtles by the time they finally want people to. But they can't write enough press releases already patting themselves on their backs.

I just want The Forever War and Mirage at Comic-Con and I'll be happy. >>>

You know,

After getting this new show, I think I'm all Turtle-d Out of Turtle Merchandise anyway. My last Turtle Figure was Hamato Yoshi...I wanted to get all the Mystic Foot, but didn't even see them on the shelves...so I just stopped trying to 'collect them all'..

I'll support any new movies and future TV shows...not to mention video games if they are good. But as of now, I'm done buying the more basic turtle merchandise such as toys unless it's something REALLY cool that NECA puts out.

Once you realize that the person running things is an idiot (Re:Gary), why bother supporting that? From all I gathered, he's one of the laziest executives going when it comes to creating new ideas and actually promoting the brand..A Slightly more dedicated Swamp Gas salesman :). Does anyone actually KNOW how he became Mirage CEO anyway? Was he a relative of someone in Peter Lairds family, and Peter just went 'OK, no one else is applying for the job, you've got it!' Anyone can travel the country/world and go to meetings. It takes REAL HARD WORK and Brains to get creative...and until Gary does that, Mirage is better off with someone else.

Re: Fire Guy and Rock Monster Story from Murphy :).

Wow...Those are the S!!!!!tiest pieces of crap that have ever been pooped out of Playmates yet. Sorry for the language, but did Playmates even TRY to get creative with these things?

Peter Laird, if THIS doesn't convince you that Playmates is a BAD thing for the Turtles, nothing will. Forget about Past History and loyalty,......Think about the future of the brand.

Addendum: Totally repainting every one of those Turtles as well.

Is it just me, or does Playmates have a fetish for getting Shredder's colours wrong?

OMG! why are they still using those movie figures?! The turtles look awful! I might just get Cyber Shredder and Cyber Foot and repaint them because they are the only ones that look cool enough to buy. God! what is up with you playmates. when are you gona wake up and smell the coffee?

Yeah, I like the Cyber Shredder and Foot (especially the Foot Soldier). Heck, even Cyber Splinter is kinda growing on me....but the guys....look....like...GARBAGE!

Do they seriously think kids will cry to their mommies to buy THOSE!!!

Considering a kid I saw at a Toys R' Us wanted a proper BttS Raph instead of Alien Hunter Raph (but wanted AH Raph more than Iron Man), I'd say chances are low, Jest.

I have seen far worse Turtle figures, but damn these are pretty awful :dead:

I will get a couple Cyber Foot and a Shredder, though.

Now let's see how laughable the Mini-Mutant Cyber Turtles are....

(Watch them look better than the full-sized ones... >.<)

I wouldnt call it a fetish. id call it a sick joke.

I'm not a toy collector, so I won't be getting these either way, but I just thought I'd ask: Is it possible these aren't the final colors? If the chest plates and helmets on the Turtles were just colored in, you'd have something reasonably accurate. The patterns are all there.

They also appear to have weird grooves on their feet. (Is that normal? I've never seen a movie figure up close.) Could that be a sign that there will be further painting/attachements to the legs?

:sick::dead:cant wait till these come out in 2009 with every other thing that has to do with tmnt :)

They almost got the helmets sort of right... but they really SHOULD have been attatched completely to the heads. I mean, there's that mask part that looks like you can pull the top of the head off... just affix the helmets there, and paint the eyes on that...

Everything else screams "We slapped metallic plastic on everything! OOOH Cyber-ness!"

They could have acutally reused the FF toys for something more accurate... but accurate isn't what they want. They want whatever they can pretend to care to sell to kids.

And if they reuse the hell out of the movie sculpts, they could at LEAST lower the price to 6 bucks a figure, instead of raising them back up around 10.

But the fact they pulled the CyberShredder and Foot Soldier (which was, what? in one episode for 5 seconds?) out of their asses and made them look like new figures amazes me... they've set the bar THAT LOW....

Even if they still feel they need to go with Playmates, they should fire the guy in charge. Is there some new job requirement that forces everyone to be completely apathetic towards their work? Cuz I'm sick of seeing it. And not just here... it seems everyone is dangerously unqualified or dangerously apathetic.....

No, they more than likely will skimp on the paint even more than this when they come out.
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I'm glad people are starting to get what I've been saying for years now.

Sweet, my dream of Special Olympics Turtles has finally come true!

:roll:

I'm not the only one to see that, am I? The movie turtle toys have always looked a little special with their eyes so far apart, but the helmets put them over the top.

Well damn if I buy those cyber turtles there's some more customizing jobs that I have to do. I'm making the Turtle's in their foot gear from Btts using Ff toys then I'm going to buy cyber Shredder and Cyber foot and I will have to customize those so.... Why does Playmates have to be so damn lazy?!!

Everyone who wants to customize these to look right, I say this... just buy the regular movie figure and use other equipment. I mean I'm sure you can find better armor than Playmates has

Cyber Michelangelo looks horrible they should put some more thought into making the turtle toys.

Y'know, it's bad enough that they keep releasing inaccurate versions of the figures... but when these are going to be released so damn late, you'd think they'd at least pay a wee bit more attention to detail.

Stupid f#*ing Playmates....

Is it wrong that I think the Music Turtles look better than these?

No, because they do. At least those are marginally creative, these are just disgusting and totally inaccurate.

when these come out i am painting them to look like the way they do on the show

*bangs head* Why.. are.. they.. still.. on.. the.. sh*t.. movie.. molds?! Geezus, I think I've gone blind.

I have not bought a figure since the Jungle Leo and I only bought that because I thought it was well done.

This? What is this? This looks like a four-year-old took some paint and plastered it randomly all over. Hell, the four-year-old could be probably more creative than this. It's a disaster.

And I was so looking forward to getting a new Leo figure. :cry:

Wauw, those cyber turtles look lame! I'm so not spending my money on these figures.

Well, you never know. Mini Mutant Cyber Turtles may end up looking better.

===HERO

Well I DID say that Raph and Don looked like they came straight out of the X-Games but Special Olympics is close enough. :lol:

Still think Leo's just come off the set of Star Wars tho. Like he just came out of an X-Wing fighter and forgot to take off his helmet.

Because they apparently don't want to spend all that much making them because they don't sell because they look like crap, because they don't want to spend all that much making them because they don't sell because they look like crap, because they don't want to spend all that much making them because they don't sell.....

It would be impossible for them to look worse.

I mean, even reusing the movie sculpts, something we all should have guessed (and something I guessed) stuck metal bits on their chests and called it "Armor." This is just absolutely lazy. Though, once again, I'm impressed Cyber Shredder isn't just that translucent blue crap slapped onto it.