Restarting Collection
 

Unfortunately when I lost intrest in TMNT for awhile my mom donated every single TMNT and G.I. Joe figure I had. I have decided to start recollecting TMNT figures. and it begins: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Great place to start, and a great price. That's the fan club form figure probably with soft head, I think that's the first released Leonardo but I'd wait to hear that from TMNTman because I forget how it goes.

I paid $20 and I don't think mine was in as good condition, though I bought mine like 6 years ago. You're not going to open it are you? :o

Thats is the first edition Leonardo. Only the first released had the fan club forms. They have soft heads and pale flat yellow chests.
$10.50+ shipping is a great price to get it for. Most 1988 Turtle figures you see are rereleases that are not the originals with soft heads.
And I would say thats a great place to start.
Funny thing I started with a soft head / Fan club form Raph and the soft head Rocksteady.

I think thats a great place to start. I myself have to yet get any of the fanclub versions but I'm just waiting to get them at a good price (plus I've been working on my Pop-up displays lately)...so good job and welcome back to the fun (sometimes aggravating if dealing on eBay) world of collectiong!!

That's actually how my TMNT obsession restarted. I decided a few years ago to purchase the original ten and only them MOC... And then I started picking up loose ones and other MOC figures when I saw them... And now, three/four years later, I have hundreds of figures, a ton of playsets and vehicles, thousands of loose accessories, movies, miscel, etc...

But hey, I didn't completely fail. I did get the original ten MOC AND loose in that time... Good luck

Of course I'm not gonna open it ;) It ships monday, I can't wait to get it.

Very nice...now you just have to get the other 3...and a ton of other figures!! :D

thats the fun part, except the $$$$

:) Yep...you gotta pace yourself, picking and choosing what you really want (of course you want everything but igve it time!)...but yea, I don't even wanna think about the total amount ive spent on tmnt...but its so worth it for me...

How can you tell if its a soft head for sure?As the funny thing here on my end is I have purchased like almost every figure and veichle/play sets ect of the new series for my son but after I got him the old cartoon DVD season one he asked if I could get him some old Turtles and that is the 1st one I came across.its also sealed and cost me like $3 Canadian off some fleamarket guy.its dated 1988.He keeps asking to open it along with the other 3 old school figures he has but I keep telling him ill find him a open one.

There are lots of loose sets on ebay if you look around. Or post in the trades section here that you are looking for some

Well...keep it sealed if you plan on starting a MOC collection as well...if you just want a few figures, then go ahead and open her up...but if you do want it sealed, you can find tons of the loose figures for very reasonable prices on ebay so take a look...

Don't open those, the reissues from kb toys circa the late 90's were made with much sturdier plastic. Chances are if you open up an old soft head figure the elbow joint will break off. Overall the reissues or later release original figures were made to be played with.

and it grows... Shredder 1988 MOC

I was just thinking all that recently myself....hehe...

I just started re-collecting & it's really hard to say..."well, I guess I could live without Irma" or whatever....but I'm just not sure if I can!! ;-D

Did Playmates ever release all 4 Turtles & accessories in the one box set, like they did not too long ago with these latest figures?

Yes actually, this box set to be exact.

Came out in '92.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...al4PakMISB.jpg

I got it for like 5 bucks at a toy show.

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thanks, I've always been good at winning on ebay, not too bad at selling either :D So far these past two weeks I've spent $80 on TMNT... time to slow down :-?

I didn't notice the post that you got '88 Shredder MOC, another good find.

Ohhh and If you want to get every single "FIGURE" from the old toy line you'll pay upwards to $6,543. :D