The gold Ninja Knights are now available in the US
 

I stopped by Toys R Us today and found a rather strange sight, a stack of gold Ninja Knight four packs. Previously these had been available in Canada and for a short time, through Walmart.com. But I hadn't seen them in the US.

These aren't just leftovers. They changed the packaging to English only and removed the Spin Masters logos.

Sorry, no photos or price.

Well, thats good news. I missed these the 1st time around...still strange that they've come back...

how do they look with the US package..curious to see

I came to start a new thread on this topic, but it already exists...lol. I stopped at TRU today and found the "limited edition" TMNT gold Ninja Knights. I paid $24.99 for the 4 turtles, and they come with a large selection of midevil weapons. The gold armor snaps on and off to reveal a 2k3 ish style turtle. I hope this helps anyone looking for a limited edition variant set.

Why in the name of my father Oroku Saki can you people not post some friggin' pics? :x

Edit: Nevermind. Apparently I'm a "quicker thinker" than anyone else on here, went to Toys 'R' Us' website and found a pic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...-3857888dt.jpg

Guess I'll try to get to TRU this afternoon...

http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/images/scalper.jpg

[QUOTE=Darth_CJJ;565574]Why in the name of my father Oroku Saki can you people not post some friggin' pics? :x

Edit: Nevermind. Apparently I'm a "quicker thinker" than anyone else on here, went to Toys 'R' Us' website and found a pic:

I can't post pics because I did not buy a set.

And as for you quick thinking, you might want to spend that time looking a little closer because that pic isn't of the domestic set. If you look, it has the Spin Masters logo on it as well as being multilingual. As I said in my first post, They updated this packaging to remove the logo and make it English only.

uga him smartest scalper in town:lol:

I own the set from two years ago so I don't give a sh!t about this one. Variant or not. Also, some people don't care about it enough to spend the time to be a "QUICKER THINKER" due to having a personal life.

If your time is so much more valuable than anyone else's here, why waste it on looking for TMNT toys?

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-->> Ceej .. did you catch a price on this ??

Slash, i saw 'em yesterday too .. but they jsut weren't my faves so i left 'em.. still interesting set.. but i didn't catch the price..

you think maybe we'll get a few more of the 'BEST OF' TMNT you mentioned to me maybe in this form .. like d4mm PurpleDragon Johnny and Starley.. ??

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-->> ..n.m .. i'm a moron .. thanks ,Goochie B.F. !! You're my favourite now !! :dead:

I went to my local TRU today and was thouroughly disappointed to not find the set there...I hope they get it soon!

They've hit the Los Angeles area! TAKE THAT CANADA!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...e/171_1815.jpg

I would love to say yes but sense the current conditions of Playmates and the Powers That Be are making is a very hard possibility. We got to see pretty cool Jack Kirby-ish aliens for the spring line of '08. but what we didn't see was the Ninja Tribunal. If any thinks hard enough about it, they are TMNT Movie 2007 canon thanks to the Leo prequel.

With Overdrive trying to blend TMNT 2k3 and FF together, we might... we might see something in summer 2008 that gives us the Purple Dragon and the last of the Fast Forwards. Playmates getting desperate to have new figures hit the shelves and these characters are perfect additions to both previous TMNT shows and their merger, Overdrive.

Playmates did surprise us with a Savanti Romero and a Nobody. We might finally start getting to see what we want. Playmates kind of pitched it already with their idea of reinventing the old characters.

Perhaps in the near future Playmates might start making things like "Ruin" aka Mutagen Man, despite him not being in the show.

I could live with that. Kinda like how I lived with the Minnetonka monster or Scumbug rip off.

Heck, a frog mutant with three variant color schemes could easily appeal to everyone.

That or they could do what Transformers is doing... New design for a character. New look with the colors. Variant with the regular old Generation One colors.

A Bloodsucker figure could easily be Wyrm as well.

Since this isn't a "new" product, they are old figures with a new paint scheme, and even the gold paint scheme was already released in Canada, I don't think this is any indication of Playmates testing the waters for "Best Of" sets. If we are lucky though, we might see a North American release of the Commando Elite repaints of the Fighting Gear figures that were released overseas.

Looks pretty good -- I'll probably buy it if I see it!

I finally picked up one of the sets today. Other than the packaging changes I mentioned before (single language and removal of the Spin Masters logos) the two versions are basically identical. But here are two comparison photos. (BTW, I say basically identical because there seems to be a minor difference in the color of Michelangelo's quiver. But the difference is so minor that I believe it is nothing more than the usual color variation that can happen with different batches of plastic.)

http://www.tmnttoys.com/05figures/goldknights/5818.jpg

http://www.tmnttoys.com/05figures/goldknights/5812.jpg

I found these on the weekend-- I thought at first it was some strange left-over thing (and there was only ONE at my TRU)-- then I saw last night that the packaging listed them as 2007---

Mine...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/cynlee/Lookie.jpg

There's now a Fast Forward 4 pack box set of the 4 turtles out in Australia there's only one on ebay but I sure hope it comes out here.

Why would you not post a link?

I have to do everything myself around here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Teenage-Mutant-N...ayphotohosting

So you could complain and have to do everything yourself.