A few of us were talking in the TMNT Toys Action Scenes/Shots thread, and we're pretty sure that no thread like this exists already here at the Technodrome Forums. If we're wrong, I apologize, and mods, please feel free to delete this thread.

Inspired by this five-year-old G.I. Joe thread on the HISS Tank forum:

http://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-jo...nt-scales.html


...and inspired, also (and closer to home), by OrokuYoshiFilms and his photos combining the Nickelodeon space-themed figures posed against a backdrop that includes the vintage Playmates Star Trek TNG Transporter, this thread is intended to be a brainstorming resource for collectors, customizers and kitbashers.

Please share your ideas and photos for any toys or accessories, old or new, that compliment Ninja Turtles figures of any scale!

I'll share a few, to start things off.

McFarlane Toys has a lot of figures that serve as either cool, generic antagonists or, in many cases, startlingly similar stand-ins for existing Ninja Turtles supporting characters and villains.

For example, here's The Heap, who I've long regarded as a sort of edgy, realistic take on Muckman (I'm not the only person to use him in this role):



And McFarlane's Poacher is quite reminiscent of Doctor El:



Here are many, many other McFarlane matches for vintage Ninja Turtles figures:

https://twofistedtoytalk.wordpress.c...n-day-mutants/


Some of them are uncanny.


Moving beyond McFarlane, the Monkeyman Build-a-Figure makes for a neat Sgt. Bananas:



With some paint, this Monster High car could possibly be transformed into a passable Neutrino flying car:



I visited a Target during a business trip to Minneapolis last week and noticed that a spaceship called the "Stellosphere" (from some Disney, Jr. show or another) is reduced to $40. That might sound pricey, but I suspect it would be a very cool substitute for the nicely sculpted but comically undersized Fugitoid ship:



Finally, I have a dumb but potentially cool idea for a giant custom Technodrome:



Strategically cover the exercise ball with bits of electrical tape, and then paint some weathering detail on the whole thing and you'd be well on your way, I think.

For a base, I was thinking maybe a beat-up old incomplete General, from the vintage G.I. Joe series:




I think I'll leave it at that, 'cause beyond these suggestions I mostly just have weird gear I've slapped onto my Turtles, added to which I already have a self-indulgent thread loaded with my photos and goofy ideas.

Instead, I wanna see everyone else's combos, ideas and photos!

Forgot this one. I've been thinking of buying some figure or another from NECA's old Reservoir Dogs series for a quick n' easy Bishop.

LEGO minifig tools can also work very well in a Donnie's lab...

http://i.imgur.com/LRC6CTn.jpg

I've liked a few of the Earthworm Jim figures to go with the turtles.
I believe they were also done by playmates so their scale is the same.
Some of the villains make for good baddies.
I specifically like Henchrat (rat kings disciples maybe)
http://www.leftoverculturereview.com...laymates-1994/
And Psycrow which could be one of the space themed enemies
http://photobucket.com/images/psycrow

Wow, the Disney JR ship thing is funny because my parents thought it was Fugitoid's ship. They thought that Miles guy was Mikey (They don't know crap about TMNT. They didn't even know Mikey was a turtle).

Ok this is great. I've been compiling a list actually of the various things I've found. I'll post it soon. Then I'll add pics once I take them. Kinda how fellow 'dromer Bill chronicled the classic stuff.

I can't wait to see your contributions!

Could you link us to Bill's post? I don't collect vintage stuff, but I still harbor considerable affection for it. I'd love to study his thread.



Heh-heh, that's awesome.



See, this is exactly why I think a thread like this can be a great resource. I admire Lego from afar, but I've never really pursued that style or scale. Consequently, I never visit the mini figure section of the forum (I assume there's such a subsection to the forum). Therefore it would never have occurred to me to utilize these accessories!


Great suggestion. I've seen people make clever use of Bucky O'Hare figures as well, and of course Toxic Crusader.

For anyone, like me, who is intrigued at the suggestion but barely familiar with the Earthworm Jim series, here's a handy look at the figures:

http://www.leftoverculturereview.com...laymates-1995/


Or, if you skew towards a slightly more gritty or realistic aesthetic, Mezco produced their own figure of Jim that boasts a more dynamic, detailed sculpt:

http://www.amazon.com/Mezco-Toyz-Ear.../dp/B0073HNOEC


Finally, Pixel Dan, always thorough and informative, also has a video on the Mezco Earthworm Jim figure, including the obligatory Comparison Time with the Playmates Jim figure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY62h8CxPX0


Keep the suggestions coming, folks! :)

Not really a suggestion but how well do the new zootopia figures scale along with the nickelodeon turtles?

Great idea for a thread. I never owned any Earthworm Jim action figures, but just looking at them does make me think they would fit in nicely alongside the vintage 90s TMNT line.

Too small. I've been on the lookout for a police car. I wanted the one from the movie but it's too small.

@Monte Williams Here's a link to Bill's threads http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sea...archid=1143970

Two great playsets from the Swamp Thing toy line by Kenner. The Swamp Trap I use as the Punk Frogs hideout. The Transducer I use as experimentation lab in my Shredder lair. Looks great with Kraang or Baxter. Gotta give credit to fellow 'Dromer Slash32 for the Transducer. The Bayou Blaster which is a vehicle I thought would be great with Leatherhead if you're partial to the classic Cajun version. I don't own that one though.

Swamp Trap
http://i64.tinypic.com/2qdsgag.jpghttp://i65.tinypic.com/sebww8.jpg


Transducer
http://i66.tinypic.com/qq71no.jpghttp://i68.tinypic.com/bdc41.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2hgv3bm.jpg

It's true, tmntfannumerouno, as OrokuYoshiFilms suggests, that the Zootopia figures are much, much smaller than the Turtles. However, I've been studying them every time I visit the toy aisles, and there is a small vehicle or two that might work with Turtles, added to which the rabbit dude could work; I know Usagi Yojimbo has always been portrayed as being roughly the same size as the Turtles, but if you approach the mutation concept with the idea that the resulting humanoid's size will vary depending on the animal with which he was combined, then maybe a rabbit would be very small. I mean, he shouldn't be much if any smaller than the Turtles, I suppose. But maybe it was a human child who merged with a rabbit?

As I'm sure you can tell, I've been trying like mad to justify purchasing that little rabbit figure. :)


Fun suggestions! If you like, I found some stock photos online that I can share if your sets aren't accessible for photos.


For some reason, the link isn't working for me...?



Same. I've never owned any Earthworm Jim, Bucky O'Hare or Toxic Crusader figures. I did have a couple Dick Tracy figures, but at that time I didn't have any vintage Turtles with which to combine them. Still, some of the villains are pretty wild in appearance, and could be interesting additions to a vintage TMNT collection.

Here is a fun look back at the Dick Tracy figures, again courtesy of Pixel Dan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_-Ayv_TEiY

@Monte Williams sure you can add the stock photos! It just takes me a while to pull sets out without knocking other stuff down and setting them up for photos. Trust me I like taking and sharing pics of my collection. Glad to have found folks here with the common interest. I just wanna make sure I get angles and stuff...

Speaking of Dick Tracy here's a link to a custom Don Turtelli made from two Dick Tracy figures. Not my custom btw


http://zmfts.t15.org/don_turtelli_kitbash.html

Woah, I think you killed it with that Swamp Thing playset to use with the Nick Frogs! I never liked the new Frog figures, but you actually made them look cool!

And the mad scientist playset works pretty well with Baxter too! Slap a Foot Clan sticker on it, and I'd believe it was intended to work the whole time!

Agreed! And your photos are much more fun and interesting than the stock photos I gathered. It's cool to get a sense of the scale and how the Turtle figures interact with this stuff!



Darn it, this link isn't working for me, either. I'm starting to suspect it must be something wrong on my end. :/

The Walking Dead figures go perfect alongside the 2014 Movie figures if you're looking for something a little more realistic in nature.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8582/...a7fc871b_c.jpg

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8579/...af7b3695_c.jpg

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8572/...8c8eae63_c.jpg

And of course the Muckman/Heap

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8607/...3e5f54d8_c.jpg

Also it's Playmates, but it's from the WILDCATS line.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8680/...23c98942_c.jpg

Entry 2. Tomb Raider figures (Playmates)
 

A while back I saw someone post an old Playmates 4Kids TMNT ad that featured Casey and some other figures with cool dioramas behind them. They were made for the Playmates Tomb Raider line. There's actually about 4 or 5 different sets but the two I own I feel best suit the Nick TMNT figures. I basically use them for street/city scenes. The rooftop diorama comes with a cool doberman that I use as a stray in an alleyway.

I peddle around various bargain stores looking for random goodness for pittance.

I picked up the Star Trek: TNG Transporter a few years back for $5. Long before the Nick toon's Fugitoid arc, I figured it would make a good stand in for Krang's Matter Transporter from the old Cat Woman from Channel Six episode:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...ps6c97d197.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...ps6c20d3f2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...ps5df3baf2.jpg


For $3, I found this vintage Sesame Street Hooper's Store playset, which looks fantastic despite having been marketed to pre-schoolers. I really should try to get all four Turtles to strike a Mirage pose on top of it sometime:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...psqvqmjtti.jpg

And although it surely wasn't the intended purpose of a +$100 DVD set box, the Time Life Real Ghostbusters firehouse case makes a fun, if off-scale, stand in for a city backdrop. Sounds like I might be better off with a Lego GB firehouse and the Mega Bloks TMNT line though. :-)
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...pswbn5yiw5.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...pslwha45d8.jpg

Michelangelo borrows the grappling hook concept from The Batman...
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...psstzk4gce.jpg

And puts it to good use!
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...pscv842ucm.jpg

And might the TMNT be the next property to join the Marvel Movie Universe?
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...ps2gqnmezy.jpg

Huzzah, I'm so glad to see your stuff in this thread! Your combinations are too damn fun.

If she still has it, I should steal Sansker back from my daughter; he goes great with Turtles!


I think I know the ones you're talking about. One comes with an alley and another with some kind of totem pole-type backdrop, I think?



That Star Trek set really does the trick!

These two are half-joking suggestions, and yet they're arguably the best figures I'll ever contribute to this thread. The drawback is that they are not in scale with any existing Turtle figures, with the possible exception of the taller figures based on the 2007 Imagi film, and those would present such a distracting aesthetic clash with the figures below that it still wouldn't be a viable match.

First, NECA's new Amanda Ripley, who is apparently Ripley's daughter and who stars in a video game called Alien: Isolation (I've never played it) and who is wearing a yellow space suit, which of course makes me think of April O'Neil in space.



The Amanda-as-April notion reminded me of the last time I playfully suggested a NECA figure as a stand-in for April:



I was not enthusiastic about the casting of Megan Fox as April in the Michael Bay-produced movie, but her performance was fine, I suppose.

...fine enough to inspire me to use a figure of Megan Fox in a Ninja Turtles context, at least. :)

The Drome's own huzzah alerted me to this a year or two back:



That's Sam, from Spawn's Sam and Twitch, serving as Burne.

This is from the DC Unlimited Resistance 2 toys. I have no idea who he is, and I had to google search just to find out its origin, since it was being sold loose at a clearance store.

Anyway, I wished they had more that just the one human figure, so my Movie-inspired, because I honestly don't tie anything into its source most times, EPF currently has only one agent.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1488/...b812f74c_c.jpg

Great sense of depth in your display and photo, man. Good combination of figures, too!

I've never heard of Wild Kratts, but this Tortuga Playset, while too small to serve its intended purpose for Turtles figures (although it'd make a cool lair for some Mini-Mutants, I suspect) might be a cool replacement for the fun but undersized Turtle Sub.

My 2 cents
 

Great topic! Here are some items that I think fit in very well with the TMNT:

- WWE accessories (especially weights, trash cans, chairs, dumpster, etc.)
- Tech Deck skateboards and BMX bikes. These are the perfect scale for TMNT toys. You could even use the ramps and stuff as they have an urban look to them.
- He-Man Castle Grayskull weapons rack and ladder.
- Dick Tracy, as cops and gang members
- Toxic Crusaders, for extra mutants
- Captain Planet figures (especially the bad guys) and Duke's Exploding Reactor playset
- Palisades Muppets Rizzo pizza accessoiry
- Spawn Alley playset

And do not forget the miworld pizza set and accessory packs

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...fc7f15f9a5.jpg
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTEyNlg4OD...5UvB0U/$_1.JPG

If you need a great home/hideout for your Casey Jones pick this playset. Pairs well with the Slamboni. Looks great.
http://i64.tinypic.com/zxwpp4.jpg

It's designed like the top of the Empire State building....'nuff said. I use it just as part of my growing skyline and it makes a great crime boss hideout, like for a kingpin. (See what I did there?) Anyway Usually have Hun and Purple Dragons in there.
http://i66.tinypic.com/33bnxvc.jpg

wow, the Biker Mice play set is smaller then I remember it being :lol: But I've only seen and played with it a couple of times as a kid.

The Spider-Man Crime Central is wicked, love it.

Ok, folks, I know things can get out of hand post wide with picture heavy posts, but please keep the double (and in some cases TRIPLE) posting to a minimum...and only if you reach the single post image limit.

Oh ok my bad. Gotta read up on that rule. My posts in this thread particularly will be numerous and pic loaded. I'll be more efficient next time.

lol, why must you bring those of us with a 56k connection to a painful end with all those big pics?

:tlol:

I use the MiWorld stuff regularly. Also have a few of the WWE items and Tech Deck boards (which are too big for the movie figures but work well with the Nick Turtles). Also most of the dollhouse stuff like the 1/18 dollhouse works well.

Next up it's the Tim Mee Battle Mountain. Perfect for mountain or outer space scenery.
http://i68.tinypic.com/bg7ed1.jpg

The next two are more like a hodge podge of stuff there's two Tech Deck ramps and a street basketball half court from the NBA Heroes line, Fastlane RC makes great scale vehicles like garbage and service trucks, street lamp from a movie Spiderman toy line, and finally some MiWorld accessories sprinkled about
http://i66.tinypic.com/2uoiddy.jpg

Lastly *sigh* where do I start? Ok of course I have the Z-Line sets, the bike shop is actually a Flick Trix carrying case. Snatched the top off the current turtle lair, Spawn Alley playset, Spiderman alleyway playset and atop the bike shop is the Tomb Raider set I mentioned earlier. Defiants Flex Terrain in front of the Spawn Alley. Hardees had some x-men figure kid's meals when I was a kid in the 90s and I used the bases to stand figures on because I have carpet in this room. Also looks good to simulate broken ground fx like a cheap version of the Tamashii Nations stuff lol.
http://i64.tinypic.com/jt5ny0.jpg

Attachment 10126I've got the exact same Spawn Alley set-up with billboard atop.

Hahaha cool! The billboard just fits right up there doesn't it? Lol. That's cool you went the realistic route, figure wise...and your customs are awesome! I just love that Cyborg Donatello... OMG. I wish you'd give all the brothers the Borg treatment! Must make it so much easier to add/find civilian figures. My difficulty has been my OCD making sure all my figures match and have the right amount of toon aesthetic. I find lots of good figures but they're always out of scale.

Yeah I have both Nick and Movie Turtles. I tried to keep a more toon aesthetic with the Nick stuff, but I find myself really digging the Movie realism, and that limits world building, but it also keeps it a bit more manageable in numbers. Cyborg Donnie and One-Armed Mikey found a new home with Monte Williams.

Unworthy tinker, that Monster High April has popped up in my geeky research a few times, and it kills me every time. I want one so badly!

Schildpad, your suggestions are all great, but that Palisades Muppets pizza will haunt me forever. That sculpt is amazing!


Just got my first one last week!


OrokuYoshiFilms, thanks for the pics of that Biker Mice from Mars set! (Candy Kappa, thanks for identifying it!) Seriously, OrokuYoshiFilms, your setups are too cool. I wanna come over and play, ha ha ha.


I just parted with my Spawn Alley. I bought it for different figures altogether, and it stupidly hadn't occurred to me to combine it with my Turtles. :trolleye:


And I couldn't be happier! :)

I was thinking one could use the vintage Chuck Norris Tabe figure as a stand-in for Tattoo (who was after my time):



And while I had those old Chuck Norris toys on the brain, this occurred to me:

Find her . . . . . . Silence HER!!!

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1647/...45a919b8_c.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1549/...98f5f722_c.jpg

Dizmone, that TV diorama is amazing! Did you build it?

That's from theBatman Arkham Joker statue.

Thanks for the info.

Wow. It looks so cool!

I don't have any Loyal Subjects figures, but they're pretty small, yeah? I'm assuming the TV backdrop wouldn't work with Playmates-scale Turtles?

(I almost hope it doesn't, 'cause I really shouldn't be paying $60 or more on eBay for this backdrop).

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-61U_kVnPWv...Bc%2Brenet.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQiBvBRMMH...2Bsplinter.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1bD3c0sa86...custom%2Be.jpg