Teenage mutant HERO turtles
 

Hey guys, recently found this guy

The odd thing is, instead of NINJA the card says HERO. this is definitely a vintage piece, but i can't seem to find any info on these cards, can anyone shed some light?

https://i.imgur.com/YRMZA8Hh.jpg

also notice the bottom part of the card has a yellow sticker running across
https://i.imgur.com/vrmq33oh.jpg

cheers!
Bruno

"Ninja" wasn't allowed in the UK back in the day, therefor they were "Hero" instead. :) Nice find!

thank you!

Hmm interesting! I actually found these in Portugal, i assume these are rarer than the usual since i couldn't not find a price reference on ebay, any clue on the value of these ?

Worth about the same as a US release.

Not all that rare. Most European countries that didn't translate the cardbacks got the Hero cards

nice find and with the price tag of 2000$00 I'm noticing it wasn't cheap at the time, that would be 10€ nowadays

2000$ (portuguese currency before euro) would be nearly 10€ today

For me, the "hero" branded toys aren't ic interest. I don't buy bootlegs or imports, despite their rarity, as I only want authentic US backed releases. Maybe that's just me though.

It's not just you. They're not really worth much because collectors who buy MOC figures largely do so because each character has their own card art, whereas these don't.

Why is there a Bandai logo on the right corner?

They where the distributor, there's other companies as well that distributed TMNT figures outside of US

Agree with you here. I've got some Ninja and some Hero MOC and much prefer the Ninja ones due to the individual character art, as opposed to the more generic Hero ones. Bit annoying, as it was the Hero ones I had as a kid and grew up with.

isnt this part of the reason they took away Michelangelo's nunchucks and replaced with a grappling hook to air the cartoon in European countries? they deemed nunchucks too violent?

wow prudence back in the day.

Nunchaku was illegal in several countries in Europe, still are.

So...is anyone else bothered by the huge round buck teeth in the little icon at the bottom back of the package??? It just looks wrong...

Ohh I didn't know they were illegal thought they just seemed violent
How were they allowed to show him with them on back package?

What is unauthentic about this? It's still a Playmates toy, and to the European market it was all they had. It's all they knew. Maybe they feel the same about toys that say "Ninja" on them. It's a matter of perspective, and not to be snubbed.

Think he's just saying his only interest is in official America-only runs.

I have a Casey Jones from Japan. He's a TMNT, not TMHT.

Not that I know of. Nunchucks were regularely included for all Mikey Playmates figures, starting with the first 80ies Mikey.
Edit: In the first Turtles movie many scenes did not make it into the EU/UK release, especially ones with nunchucks.
Haha :D The statement about non-us releases not being authentic got me too, shook it off quickly though as I got to understand what "they" mean. If card art is individual for each figure in the non-HERO releases alone, I can actually relate why some people prefer to use the word authentic which is definately a better option than "genuine" ^^



And yes, HERO entitled cards were released in the EU market (UK included) while figures and vehicles under that title featured different languages depending on their region. There were also multi-language cards, eg english, german and french. Or the character portrait areas covered with a white sticker from the distributor with the portrait text translated (total no-go by the way!).

Bandai is/was one of the biggest toy companies in the european region way before Playmates was known. When I got to know Playmates through Turtles figures the first time you had Bandai branded toys almost everyhwere for a long while already.

What? The little triangle on the bottom right? That's a Lion's head... :trolleye:

Really?

Leatherhead. She's talking about Leatherhead.

She said "little icon", Leatherhead's portait is not a little icon...

Read more closely. She was refering to Leatherhead's "Buck teeth" on his portrait. Meaning its an alligator with human teeth instead of reptilian teeth.

Ok but then the Leatherhead portrait picture is no different than the US card. Maybe this was the confusing part as everyone tried to find something that's not on the US card as well...

I Am reading, I still have some basic reading understanding, she said "on the little Icon" the only "little Icon" on that damn card is the little white triangle, Leatherhead's face in a "portrait" not a "little icon". If she was refering to Leatherhead then why didn't she said something like "So...is anyone else bothered by the huge round buck teeth on Leatherhead at the bottom back of the package??? It just looks wrong..." but no, she specifically said "little Icon"... :trolleye:

How could you possibly care this much?

Because you acted like I'm just a stupid newb who doesn't know who the heck Leatherhead is... :tgrumble:

... wat. Powder never insinuated that you didn't know who Leatherhead was.

No idea how he got that impression...

How about this: We'll wait for Utrommaniac to reply and clear up the situation, probably the air as well ;)

It was the "really" part, it came across as condescending.

well, decided to put up one of these guys (Leonardo) on ebay, please move to the market section if this is not correct:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1526909832...84.m1558.l2649

https://i.imgur.com/cxwHnrmh.jpg

^^ this is a 1989 release, 20-back like the figure on the left. Not in the best shape, I dare say that it will not bring too much. But never say never... Of course, collecting is a matter of perspective and preferences. I know collectors they pay high prices to get a complete collection of 10-back Hero Turtles and some later releases. Some of them grew up with Hero Turtles, others from the USA completed their Ninja Turtles collection long ago and need new targets. And: the coolest figure of them all, was released on a Hero Turtles card. But of course again, this is my subjective perspective. Best regards from Norway!

http://i1036.photobucket.com/albums/...pso7sqwcqa.jpg

thank you for your feedback :) i'm mainly a motu\transformers collector (vintage only) and i know what you mean, i grew up with Masters Del Universo (spanish versions of motu) and that's the ones i aim to get, especially if found in Portugal where i live, i go bonkers for them.

who would that be?

Wow, that is ODD! I mean, the mass produced shredder was skinny and had a weird stance, that version makes the character justice i guess.

thank you for sharing!

The fact that I still don't have a carded Purple Armor Super Shredder still haunts me.

You do know they are 2 different figures right? :teek:

claro. I had the original skinny version, that beefed up one i'd never seen before.

It's always cool to get news from the past :)