TMNT Sea Monster & Centaur Monster

[NoPressApril]

Originally Posted by Slash

I don't get why people are all about NECA making the better TMNT figures. Oh big deal, they made one really great sculpt for the Mirage turtles. We haven't yet seen what else is coming out by them and to be honest, TMNT is a much smaller fandom/franchise than He-Man, and in which is really limited for Neca to make.


Playmates is what MADE TMNT possible. Without that toy deal, we never would have had the other medias in which is what made TMNT possible. Every toy company cancels a couple of really good toy ideas per year. Playmates canned Jagwar, Purple Dragon, and more movie monsters. But to be honest, WERE the movie monsters selling? Hardly. It was the basic four green team, Casey, and the Shredder. More or less, that shows you that the collectors and then the retro TMNT fans are the ones holding the market together.

It's not Playmates that is making the crap. Even if it was Playmates that was making the crap, it's Mirage that is letting that crap be made. Look at the comic book store shelves and find what is passing as "TMNT Volume Four."

We're loyal to a messed up franchise. Laird is rewriting TMNT history and removing Eastman. Tones are going away. Ideas are going away. The ninjas are going away. It's all Laird's dreams now. And Laird doesn't even care much about the fans to give us what we really want.

Yeah, the best we have been getting for Mirage stuff is a couple of Raphael issues. The mini-series was nice and all but we've had a couple of Raph tales back-to-back. It's getting old. I miss seeing four turtles in an action packed comic book. Now all I get is a soap opera.

You can try to help kill Playmates' TMNT franchise so it is now Neca and only Neca. But doing that will kill TMNT evermore. Playmates helps fund the cartoon show, even if it is not to our liking. NECA wouldn't do that. Neca also wouldn't be readily available at department stores, and that will also call the franchise. Eventually Mirage would have no one offering to pay big bucks and there will be no more Mirage comics.

The movie line is getting boring because the movie was boring. It wasn't Star Wars. The toys that Star Wars can get made make the line and series living - TMNT the Movie lacks that. And what we should have gotten to be as Fast Forward, Series II, had to be cut.

What we need to fight is Laird...

I agree with alot of what you said. I'm not too impressed with the Neca figures but i'm not into the comics. I am however happy for people like Rose and Putrescent who seem to love the comics and have been wanting these for years. Now if Neca by some chance does a repaint set with different colored bandanas then i'm gonna get em. If Neca were to do a repaint set that matched the old toon with 4 different colored turtles with different colored bandanas AND pads well... i'd prolly send them a Christmas card every year but no way that's gonna happen. When Ecto showed his new poster that he got for Christmas I almost wet myself at that beautiful afro sportin April but I don't see Neca making her. Now Playmates will always be my favorite toy company. They were THE toy company when i was a child. Turtles, Toxic Crusaders, Addams Family, Disney Afternoon figures, Dick Tracy, Star Trek, the list goes on and on and I will always appreciate them for my extensive action figure collection as a child and now as an adult. Oh and the movie stunk IMO. They will never top the original movie or even come close.