Waiting again for new figures.........
 

Ok so they released Karai...... whats up with the wait for the others? It's almost as if PlayMates doesn't care anymore. I wish I had Bishop and Rat King.... oh well...... If you want some cool figures buy the new X-Men figures that were just released. The sculpts are pretty good and the articualtion is awesome.

i know most people hate the variants , but there is mess and the dino line. i agree that the " bad guys " are alot better to hunt down and get, but my kid dont see it that way and thats why i have a million and 1/2 turtles in my house!

Yea there have been plenty of new releases, with probably quite a bit more in regards to the dino line. The others ou mentioned probably wont be released for a while so you gotta be patient...

These are the latest release dates for secondary characters:

[ ] Quarry (Fall 2006)
[ ] Bishop (Fall 2006)
[ ] Purple Dragon (Fall 2006)
[ ] Baxter Stockman (Fall 2006)
[ ] Nobody (Fall 2006)
[ ] Serling (Fall 2006)
[ ] Future Splinter (Fall 2006)
[ ] Rat King (Fall 2006)
[ ] Mutated Donatello (2006)

I find it funny how a lot of people who live in America (not everyone mind, but a good few people do) moan about no new figures when they get far more than people in Canada and Europe. You're guaranteed to have every single figure released in your country (bar a couple of exclusives) and those you can't find in stores aren't exactly hard to get off eBay for the most part (for relatively cheap postage, whereas I pay about $20 for a figure off ebay including postage). Half of the TMNT figures haven't come out where I live, some as far back as Razor Fist and Giant Mouser, and it's the same with Canada.

I could understand you complaining if you hadn't seen a new figure in about 6 months but you've only just gotten about thirteen basic figures, one large vehicle and a good few small ones in the past month. I haven't seen a new TMNT figure over here since the start of July and even then they'd been out in America for ages.

(That rant isn't directed at anyone in particular, nearly all of the people here are pretty cool about waiting for their TMNT, but I have seen a few people complain and it just really gets me thinking)

i know what you mean man its so hard gettin turtles in the uk im still missing 17 of the secondary characters but funny thing is if i collected variants id probably have them all by now lol

I still can't find Karai anywhere. And does anyone know if Savanti's been released yet?

You bring up a great point...I guess in America we tend to take things for granted (understatment of the year...)...

Savanti has just been released so be on the look out. Now, I understand that America get more figures and faster, but PlayMates really is doing a bad job imo in releasing non-turtle characters.

Edit: I just wanted to add that I am happy with the figures that are in American stores compared to other countires, but PlayMates really needs to do better.

They seem obsessed with producing turtle variants. One of the really *nice* things about the old line had to do with the fact that they cranked out so many minor characters, and there were quite a few April variants. We've only had two Aprils so far this time around, if you count her mini-me.

Yeah, we do take things for granted in America. But considering how well TMNT is doing, I'm really surprised at how poorly executed their marketing strategies are. If I were Playmates, I'd release one or two figures at a time instead of all this drought and then heavy rain that we've seen for so long.

How sad that that is so true. The ONLY secondary character that hit the Canadian shelves for Xmas was the Giant Mouser. Of course I was thrilled, but it was being boxed with Silver Sentry, Fugitoid and all those figures we've had forever. I would kill to have a weekend in the states with a paycheque. You guys are slightly spoiled when it comes to new releases!

Haha, too right! When I went over a few months ago I brought back so much TMNT stuff that still isn't out here. I even found General Blanque back when he was still hard to find!