Upcoming Raphael bust
 

Wow, this is a big surprise. It looks awesome too.

Check it out here.

I'm pissed and I was at the con, and I never saw it! I wanna see a bigger pic of it! I'm buying it no matter hehehe...

Cool, nice sculpting on the arms, everything else looks good too.

I wish I could get the 4 interlocking sculptures for cheap...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...elo/four02.jpg

Wow that's alota detail O_O Now they just need to do a Don one and I'm sold

I'm not holding my breath on this. They still haven't been able to get all four of the Mirage style statues out for all these years. Still, if it does get released, I hope they consider doing a bronze variant. It would look very good with the Leonardo Bust that was done years ago.

Sweet!! Man I hope this comes to pass....

Am I the only one who is unimpressed by it?

"The Playmates' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Team has a pretty good handle on the collector's market, just that with the property being such a popular kids line, they are pretty limited in what they can do."

Is this a joke? Release some mirage styled tmnt figures through diamond just like you're releasing these statues (all 2 of them) then we'll talk.

I love busts and statues just as much as the next guy, but at the price they cost I could buy 40 of the new tmnt figures (not that I'd really want to).

Do they think kids are dumb or something? Like if they made actually GOOD toys that kids may become confused or frustrated? C'mon seriously. Kids will like anything with Turtles on it, that's why these pieces of plastic sh*t keep selling. If they made toys that were great quality and detailed and everything, they'd probably sell just as well if not better.

Transformers has alternators and then the kids line, GI Joe has 12", 3 3/4" (now DTC), and Sigma Six. I can't even name all the Star Wars crap for both kids and collectors out there. Those lines are all doing fine.

Now if playmates wanted to release some collectors figures through diamond, are they afraid little kids will start investigating all the online stores and comic stores just to make sure their versions of tmnt are the only ones around? If they saw a comic accurate figure I'm sure they'd think how awesome that ninja turtle variant figure is, and how it beats those weight lifting turtles.

Playmates could give a crap about collectors or even kids, as long as they keep releasing the same junk over and over and make money off of it they're laughing all the way to the bank.

A lot of their kid oriented figures are s(h)itting on the shelf anyway. Air Ninja, Ninja Flipping, Turbo Bashers, Mutations.... and soon to join them will be the Monster Trappers.

Don't get me wrong, I like some of the new tmnt figures a LOT, and I'm not asking them to stop making kid oriented figures, just put out some collector figures to compliment them. Even do a Spider-man where they have all those spidey variants, but instead of them being the same figure with different gear attached they're Spidey's based off different artists work on the comic books.

How I know Playmates doesn't care about fans is that I asked SOTA if they'd ever tried for the TMNT licenese because it would be great for their now playing line, and the president of the company said he tried for the license but Playmates won't share it to any other company, even if it's on a small scale that won't effect the regular line's sales.

Playmates if you're reading this, all I'm asking is to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make movie 1 accurate figures.

Hey, that looks pretty cool... though I'm a little surprised that they made Raph first. Leo tends to be the first one, then the others follow afterwards.

I really like it :) It has a lot of detail I just hope they would have done the whole body version :ohwell:

Same here. I kinda wish they have done a full body cartoon accurate one that you can put with the other three that would come out later. Kinda like the mirage versions but with the new cartoons simplicity and appeal.

That would be pretty sweet.

Raph's been released, I'm hoping to get him one of these days. The last one is Donnie, he'll be out one of these days.

That's cause they know I want it. HAHAHHAhH just kiddin.... about time Raph gets FIRST on something.

A full statue of Raph would be *nice*...a statue of movie1 Raph would be NICER.

Statures of all four in their movie costumes would be so awsome.

I'd rather have action figures in a form of a cross breed of McFarlane and Marvel Legends. Cut out some articulation and add some detail.

I think we all want that.

Dude, lets start up a toy company in my basement. :lol:

Hell yes, Im with you man. :P

And Jester makes 3?