Most Valuable Turtles
 

I'm curious as to which Turtles figures are the most valuable. I know Scratch is the most valuable overall, but I'm talking about the four turtles themselves.

If I had to guess, it seems like the Movie Star Turtles are. Not surprising, because the limbs were detachable from the shell. I bet finding them in one piece is really difficult.

The giant Turtles figures seem to always be pricy too.

Luckily the original four turtles were issued enough times that there seems to be a decent supply of them.

I'd say the Undercover Turtles. They were tail enders and you rarely see them carded. When you do, they fetch a pretty penny.

After that probably the Movie Star figures. They're not that rare, but they're probably the most poplar set in general. A complete loose one will run you about $40-50 and a carded one between $75-115. There's some rare versions on different cards and weapon variations, but that's the general price.

The Don Camo Hydro Skimmer figure/vehicle combo and the Leo Camo Blitz Cycle figure/vehicle combo.

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Here are some of the more valuable Turtles:
1992 Movie Star Turtles - Leo / Don / Raph / Mike
1993 Sewer heroes (kinda rare) - Super Don / Super Mike
1994 Shogun (kinda rare) - Leo / Don / Raph / Mike
1995 Warriors - Winged Warrior Don / Winged Warrior Leo
1995 Undercover Turtles - Leo / Don / Raph / Mike
1995 Super Mutants - Leo / Don / Raph / Mike
1996 Mutant Masters - Wind Warrior Leo / Water Warrior Donatello / Fire Warrior Raphael /
Thunder Warrior Michaelangelo
1996 Cyber Samurai - Leo / Don / Raph / Mike
1997 Dino Turtles - Ankyl Leo / Pterano Don / Stego Raph / Tricera Mike
1997 Stretch Figures - Leo / Don / Raph / Mike
1997 Muta Force - Leo / Don / Raph / Mike

The Sideshow Turtles, The 2012 Toy Fair exclusives, and the Cold Cast figures (especially Donatello) tend to really blow away those that you have listed, catering to a more upscale market, all costing around $750-$1500 for each set of four.

on my radar:

Purple Armour European Shredders
Scratch
Undercover turtles with cloth

and the ultimate:

Old 1988 shredder, foot soldiers, bebop and rocksteady with fan club forms...these are errors and should have only been included with the 4 turtles only

yeah but the question was about figures, not statues...

The late Undercover Turtles with cloth seem very rare, I have heard first of them in this forums. Ebay has only Michelangelo presently. The German Super Shredder is also very rare, MOC and loose with all accessoires.

Do you ever talk about anything other than purple armoed shredder? There are far more rare items out there.

Undercover Leo

You can read, I talked about the Undercover Turtles, for example. And Purple Shredder is one rare item, too. I haven't seen it in some BIG collections here. The talks I had with a few members here have shown that, if you like it or not. But the black MAILAWAY Shredder is rare, too. Maybe you like that one more...

for the record, Rarest =/= Most Valuable.

Scratch for instance, is about a billion times more common than Purple armor super shredder, and yet costs between 8 and 20 times more.

Shogun Triceraton is up there, from what I've seen.

Ok. Can you give an example? Which figure is rare and not valuable?

Supply and Demand LOL. Scratch is more sought after thus driving the price way up beyond those with much smaller production runs! I guess you could say it's rare from an availability standpoint, but not from an existence standpoint.

No Stripe April comes immediately to mind.

Purple Armor Super Shredder varies wildly and is often snatched up on foreign sites for 10 to 20 dollars.

Lots of random variants. Hat-On Ace Duck, Color Change Ray Fillet, etc.

I know this isn't one of the four Turtles but I think that the Warrior Robot Rocksteady is probably the rarest Ninja Turtle figure. I have only seen one on ebay in the past few months. I've seen many Scratches, Shogun Shoates, Shogun Triceratons, Hot Spot, and a few purple armored Super Shredders, so it seems that it is much more rare than any of the other rare figures. Does anyone agree or disagree?

I think there is an example in his statement, the part about super shredder and scratch.

It's up there, but as far as being able to say "This is undoubtedly the rarest figure e-var!" I don't think that is possible to figure out without knowing the hard production numbers from playmates. Which we don't have.

Most likely, the lowest production numbers came out of the Next Mutation line. Since they were being produced in the twilight of the first "Turtlemania" period.

It's possible Warrior Rocksteady was a very low production run as well since the paint application was so flawed.

The few I saw on Ebay the last months which were named and not buried under a lot of other figures reached up to 60 Euros.
One ends next Monday. I'm curious.

You also have to remember that the term "valuable" is very subjective. What one collector considers "a lot of money" may be totally different than another.

Yes, I noticed a bit too late. But kindly he gave another one.

I never thought _no stripe April_ was very hard to find or expensive; I got one MOC from the flea market for $5.00, and I've seen them on ebay for under $30.00 a couple times.

Tallked about Shredder, not April.

Oh.........

Are you sure you're not thinking of "Blue Stripe" April? She seems to be all over eBay right now for around $25-$30. When I look at "No Stripe" I see postings both active and "sold-Completed" for between $130 and $200. I saw one MOC in a store for $99 yesterday, but was hesitant to pick it up even though I'm looking for her. It's a lot of money for one figure. :ohwell:

I haven't checked for that figure for about a year, because I thought it wasn't very rare, but I see now that it is a bit more valuable than I thought.

What about KRANGS ANDROID BODY 11" ?

I can't believe how much people are asking for that thing! You know, as a kid I would have gladly traded him in for a standard size action figure of the Android body but he wasn't made available until after I got older and stopped collecting. I remember my 11" version was one of the few items I actually saved the box for and sold him in a garage sale in 1994 for like $5. If only I wouldda known!

I ask for it because I never had the chance to get it as a child. This was the most demanded figure at that time in Germany, nobody owned it, but everybody wanted it ! These days, it is available on Ebay sometimes, but often missing parts...

undercover leo for sure,

the genghis frog w/green belt varients are pretty sparse to come by

pretty much any of the 1988 fan club flyers besides the turtles seem to be imposible to find.

I'd say 88 April with Red Stripes and the Orange Suit April with No Press.

Please don´t hate us!!!

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This is great, I love to see that, no reason to hate you !

yea lemme get that undercover leo off your hands :)

I've heard of the orange April with no press, but I've never heard of red stripe April. Does anyone have a picture of it?

You mean this one?

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His paint is pretty awful... Still coll to have, though!

This is a (for me) unknown version of Robotic Rocksteady... have never seen that before...

I have never seen one with green weapons before; would you be willing to sell him?