Question about Donnie's skin tone...
 

In the 80's show his skin was green, but yet in the toyline he looks brown. What's up with that?

I don't know why the decision was made, but with the toys the turtles have different shades of green and brown. While the older 87 TMNT cartoon they were the same colour of green.

Other incarnation uses a similar colour scheme. the turtles are different colour in the 2003 TMNT toon and its toy line.

It was probably done to just give them traits that are unique to themselves.

I honestly think they did it to make it easier for kids to convince their parents they need all four... a lot of parents would have said "one is enough its the same toy!" Not getting it.

^This- It made it easier to justify shelling out the money.

Just to have a distinction to differentiate between the others and give them unique personalities.

I honestly liked the different skin tones that the original and 2003 figures had. I kind of wish the 2012 figures would have had the same color scheme.

Oh yes, I remember one day my mother said: Enough! She could not suffer the Turtles at all. As I got older, I collected even more, because as a child I was restricted.

My favourite colour was Dons, then Leos. Raphs at least.

Token black.

I really love Don's 1988 toy skin color

Different skin colors don't give you a unique personality.

I thought it was odd since it seemed like they made Don into " the black Turtle."

Indeed such is the thought process that breeds racism...

Not saying you're racist, pannoni, but the thought that a skin tone denotes a set personality breeds ridiculously inaccurate racial stereotypes.

http://www.tmnttoys.com/92figures/wackywest/5299.jpg

:P

Well played kappa. :P

i agree that it may have just been a great marketing ploy... they different skin color gave them a slightly different look making it easier to sell each kid their favorite- and as mentioned above , convince parents to buy all of them.

Also the differerent skin tones never seemed to be as iconic as the coloured mask. Probably because they were all the same colour in the 87 cartoon and that was what most people were familiar with.

I like the different skin tones. But sometimes it seems that Raphs and Mikes colours are miss matched in the 2k3 series sometimes (I think I could be wrong) and in the 2012 series' toy line with Raph being the darkest green, where he used to be the lightest green vice versa with Mike... I don't like when they do that.