Some New Playmates TMNT Figures For Jan. 2009

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Robhp03

Playmates is trash. Hopefully they lose the TMNT license and Mattel or Hasbro picks it up.

Hasbro would do something good. Mattel, i couldn't help think would be actually WORSE than playmates. I mean, Lead painted versions of the same characters at 15 bucks each, and a sexist biased against female, even major female, characters? And they wouldn't get into any stores.... I mean, they've been doing such a great job with the DC line that no one can remember what they did to Shonen Jump's toy lines.

Of course, I can understand why no one remembers them..... I couldn't find them until the One Piece line hit the dollar store...

Playmates may suck, but not as bad as Mattel's non DC lines.

[Nexxorcist]

wow... those look like sh*t.

[Vegita-San]

You know, just for Ha Ha's, I did a search on what lines Playmates actually has besides Turtles.. You're going to love this....

MY LIFE
NIGHT GAURDIAN
DISNEY FAIRIES
DISNEY PRINCESS
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
AMAZING DOLLS

If Turtles looks like sh!t, the other lines must be glued together with staples and tape and look like stepped on Sh!t......


Turtles HAS to be their biggest line out of 7, and look at the effort they put into it. They can't possibly be staying in business with just those other lines, so WHY are they TRYING to run a sword into their own stomach in a classic ninja suicide ?

[METALHEAD]

turtles is crap... -.- but.....playmates did good on cyber shredder and foot ninja....but seriously....wheres' the real tmnt btts toys?

but i am looking forward to the re-release tmnt figures of the original....but seriously playmates, seriously....yer slowly killing the line you dumbasses!

[Hero]

I think we discussed before that both Mattel and Hasbro have faults of thier own and why they would'nt do much of a better job than Playmates. However, maybe a new company would be better and fresher.

Mattel are taking over the WWE toyline in 2010 and judging from thier press release months ago they have good aspirations for the new figures. Perhaps if they go by thier word, I would have more faith in them doing a TMNT line. As it stands Mattel have still left He-Man fans with a bad taste in thier mouths over the bad marketing of the excellent 2002 toys.

I wonder whose job it is to kick Playmates up the rear. Surely they must hold stock holders meetings and the like to notice the problems.

===HERO

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by METALHEAD

but i am looking forward to the re-release tmnt figures of the original....but seriously playmates, seriously....yer slowly killing the line you dumbasses!

Business Apathy.... I'm coining that phrase. It's basically in situations like this where the heads of the business don't care, and don't even care about Making money. Unless the money drops out of the sky without any hard work, they could care less.

Playmates was desperately trying to convince itself their was a second movie coming out in the next 2 years... the ONLY reason why they're still desperately clinging to the molds.

It seems the BTTS toys were made only to fulfill a contractual obligation. Almost as if they didn't care about even making them. I predict after Christmas, no one will even want to sell the TMNT lines anymore. Not just WalMart.... I could see them being pulled from Target and K Mart as well.

[Vegita-San]

Sad but true, Dr.Tooth. And in this case, even the fans side with the retailers about this new line being crap. If the fans don't want to buy it, why should the stores stock it?

There's no real drive or motivation at Mirage, Playmates, 4Kids, etc....

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The line that somehow survives as everyone else is doing it's best to kill it ..

[Drtooth]

4Kids, yes. Everyone else I agree with. mainly since that's all 4Kids seems to make money off of nowadays. I don't see any Chaotic merchandise outside of the TCG, Dino King merchandise outside of localizing one game... and that seems about it. There's a Viva Pinata game coming out, but the show had been removed from the schedule (on both channels) for a month or so now. And even then, there wasn't all that much outside of a Kid's Meal promo.

Somehow I just feel Playmates is being p**sy because they didn't get another movie yet. They're the ones that kept spreading that rumor.

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

Playmates was desperately trying to convince itself their was a second movie coming out in the next 2 years... the ONLY reason why they're still desperately clinging to the molds.

That's not true at all Tooth, the only reason they are using the same molds is because of cost cutting and being cheap @ss bastards.

Originally Posted by Vegita-San

There's no real drive or motivation at Mirage, Playmates, 4Kids, etc....

Well, yes I guess this is true Murph cared but everyone else was such a douche bag retard that he just gave in and doesn't care anymore either.
YAY! & I'm pretty much there myself.

[IamtheKnight]

Why does Murph even work at Playmates now?

[Mutated Turtle]

what!!! murph works at playmates toys!

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by mutated turtle

what!!! murph works at playmates toys!

Oy, Murph doesn't work for Playmates.

But what Vaughn said is true: Murph was pretty much the last person at Mirage who gave a damn, but he got tired of talking to people who refused to listen and it was causing him too much stress, so he just gave up.

And when no one at a company gives a damn about the product trying to be sold, all you're gonna get is this half-assed stuff that we've seen. And that is why the TMNT are toast by the end of next year.

[Leonardo19]

I am glad everyone else seems to know exactly what all the companies involved in this are thinking and how it works exactly.

Sorry but everything seems to turn into a nothing is good enough for the fanboy post. Why not look at the positive side of things?

TMNT has been a part of most of my life and I am not gonna get upset because I can't control what other people do. I have enjoyed TMNT this long and will continue to in the future.

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by Leonardo19

I am glad everyone else seems to know exactly what all the companies involved in this are thinking and how it works exactly.

Sorry but everything seems to turn into a nothing is good enough for the fanboy post. Why not look at the positive side of things?

TMNT has been a part of most of my life and I am not gonna get upset because I can't control what other people do. I have enjoyed TMNT this long and will continue to in the future.

Um, many of us do know exactly what's going on because we talk to insiders at these companies.
I know that's hard to wrap your brain around but it's the truth.
and honestly it's really not that hard to figure out what's going on if you've been along for the ride since the turtles first came onto the scene in the 80's.
These people don't even respect their own property that's the most sickening thing about all of this.
But I'll look on the bright side, hmm let's see I'm happy I can save my money to spend on other things now even though I'd be very happy to give it to a company who made quality TMNT merch.

[turkishproverb]

So, once again I only get the badguys.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by VaughnMichael

That's not true at all Tooth, the only reason they are using the same molds is because of cost cutting and being cheap @ss bastards..

Yeah yeah... I know. I don't even know why I wrote that. Though there has to be a nugget of truth there... I mean, they're the ones that kept clinging to rumors they started about the next movie.

So yeah, Reusing molds cheaply (though, for the trillionth time, The FF molds would work leaps and bounds better, there's less plastic in them as well...) that's the main objective. And the fact that the movie line did well a month before the movie and a couple months after it. But mostly the cheapness.