if toon Shredder dressed as the toy
 

it might look something like this

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6...ba7120b20d.jpg
Shreddertoytoon by TurtlesinTime, on Flickr

ive always wanted to see an episode of the original toon where all the characters look just like the original action figures

They would have given him a purple nurple in Turtles Forever.

I never understood why the toy was caucasian opposed to asian when Shredder is definitely asian.Anyone else ever pondered that one?

Asian with the voice of a black man!

Alot of times Shredder actually looked black rather than asian.

You're not supposed to undo the cape!!! You're supposed to leave it wrapped around like a wrobe!!! ;)

Priceless!

I suppose Fred Wolf didn't want a shirtless villain. Even as a kid I was wondering why Shredder's armor is blue and why he had no shirt on. Not to mention he was stuck in that awkward pose which was a pain.

I was also wondering the same thing for the Turtles since their toy colors were all mixed and they all had black belts with slots that can hold more than just their signature weapons. Character designs from the shows always tend to obviously look a lot different than the toys.

I'm not overly familiar with the Shredder figure. I never had it. He was impossible to find in my neck of the woods. A friend of mine wanted him worse than I did and he never could find one either.

i don't know that the figure really has any distinctive racial/ethnic figures... first thing that comes to my mind when i think of the shredder action figure is that terrible stance they have him set in... so that he is same height/shorter than everyone :) not for nothing, but i'd have liked to have shredder just a little bigger than april...the foot soldiers and oh... i dont know THE TURTLES!

You must live in a sparsely populated area, or you didn't get into it until 1990/91 when the original Shredder was gone from most toy shops. It remains a mystery to why Playmates decided to color all the silver areas blue. Silver seems a lot more serious, edgy, and threatening. No wonder people prefer the Toon Shredder over the original as that is worth more money.

And with Shredder shorter, he wouldn't have lasted as long (and his cape would be gone by Season 2 given how quickly people undid it).

That is amazing.

Maybe the origanal toys went off sketches that got changed before the show aired. But it was to late/costly for them to make the changes to the toys.

For whatever it's worth, there apparently was once a Shredder figure painted like in the cartoon: http://www.actiontoys.com/Merchant2/...ry_Code=TMNT93

Yeah, Toon Shredder...

Well for what it's worth he almost looked like his toy in the first Archie issues. Just not shirtless.

It was a small town but we had a K-Mart, Wal Mart and KB Toys. I got into the TMNT in '88 or '89. It may be that it wasn't so much that it was rare in my area but I was just unfortunate enough for it to be sold out whenever I had money for a figure.

I think he should look like this
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a291/squerr/shred.jpg

These sketches are starting to remind me of Khan from Star Trek II, lol.

I would have been very uncomfortable. :sweatdro: