Early Shredder Toy...topless?
 

I remember scanning for Turtle figures in 1989 or 1990, when the first Turtle figures came out for the cartoon. I was confused why Shredder had a pinky-purple cape on top, but apart from that he was topless. Why was that?

He had a grey top on in the cartoon. :-?

Yeah, that was pretty weird although as a little kid at the time, I didn't really care. I think his look was inspired by the "Return to New York" saga. Shredder was topless in those comics....though he took off all his armour too....

yea that was the onky shredder I had back then and I always thought he looked Puny. I never really liked it. Plus his head was rubber!

That Shredder came out way before "Return to New York".. I think they were on around issue #12 or 13 when the cartoon and toys started coming out...

I used to think it was weird too, he looks like such a wimp too. And he's got a big head.

Oops! Silly me. You're absolutly right. Musta slipped my mind. :embarass:

It's cool, dude! I think a Shredder based on Return to New York should be MUCH cooler though...

Yeah, even as a little kid I knew there was something wrong with that. After the second TMNT movie came out I just started using the Super Shredder toy for playing Turtles.

I had a topless Shredder toy back in the day. Then my mom gave him away. Then I bought another off of eBay last month.

Damn, he is fuglier than I remember him being. The lack of a shirt isn't what bugs me, it's his legs. I can't make him stand for the life of me. I had to prop him up in kind of a corner. He looks like he's blowing kisses or something.

I have that Shredder hes awesome. Just very short. Hes supposed to be taller then the turtles and in that hunched over postion hes actually shorter then the turtles

Someone explained this a long time ago I think, not sure who though. They said something like to fit shredder in the packaging they had to make him smaller, and they didn't want him to be the same size as the turtles so the sculptors made him hunching over like that. Why he's topless I don't know. Maybe he likes the turtles to check out his man-boobs?

Ah, you've reminded me now! I do remember that Shredder's back was arched inside the packaging!

I never got that shredder toy though, because when i was given the chance to buy a TMNT figure, it was the Turtle's i bought first.

It wasn't until 1993 i got a shredder toy, the one where shredder can transform to Oroku Saki without the helmet and in the blue Traditional Japanese clothing. I liked it, however it was quite awkard he wasn't very flexible, and the colour of his helmut is scraped by squashing it away inside his back.

Does anyone have a close up pic of Oroko Saki's head from the original Mutatin Shredder figure without the helmet on?

LOL! I enjoyed reading everyone's fond memories of "topless Shredder." :lol:

I always got frustrated that the dude couldn't stand on his own feet, and I never liked the pose he was in. I used to give up and just let him lie on the floor, and I'd pretend that the turtles had already defeated him.

any pics?

whut do u want pics of? the topless shredder? its the original shedder from the 1st wave from 98..

mcl

Topless Shredder toy, circa 1988
I wish I still had my original, I'd take a better picture of it. I think we may have lost the cape, so you could have gotten a better idea of what kind of deformities they gave him - apparently for packaging purposes as I've read here. :lol:

:lol: !!! That is freakin' hilarious.