A History of Re-Releases and changes {for S or anyone else)

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by The S

I just got my carded Warrior Metalhead Michaelangelo and uncarded-but-still-came-with-card Robotic Foot Soldier today, and noticed some bizarre things about the card backs.

With Warrior Metalhead Michaelangelo (W.M.M. for short), It shows a completely different coloured W.M.M on the back, kind of a silver-ish with lime green arms. Furthermore, standard Metalhead is listed as "Metalhead Michaelangelo" (without the warrior part). Also, there are a number of figures presented that I know for a fact were never released - Demolition Specialist Donatello, Convert Specialist Raphael (who looks exactly like Raph, the Green Teen Beret from the photo), Communications Specialist Leonardo, Submergence Specialist Michelangelo, Warrior Rahzar with Fur, and Warrior Rocksteady. Furthermore, there is a repainted Robotic Bebop that is named Warrior Bebop. Was Warrior Bebop not the Warriors of the Forgotten Sewer figure? And finally, Sergeant Bananas is listed as a villain.

With Robotic Foot Soldier's card, the front looks exactly like W.M.M.'s in design (the last, if I recall correctly, basic card design, with Don swinging from a rope on top-left, Leo climbing the wall below him, Mike below Leo swinging his nunchaku on the ground, and Raph on the sewer ladder on the top-right). However, the flip side, except for the bottom third, looks exactly like the old 10-backs.

I'm pretty sure this is all common knowledge to most of you, but this is all news to me.

Good lord that's allot off post there buddy but lets see what I can tell you.
Yes starting with the first generic rereleases in 1992 they have been using the Pizza back card.
The robotic foot soldier card back you have is from 1994 and has a huge list of characters some that have never seen a rereleases ever in playmates history.
1995 was the last year for these and that is where these warrior metallized figures come from Warrior Rocksteady was indeed released as I own one.
Warrior bebop the robotic version was never released and was simply just a red and gold repaint of robotic bebop.
They had planed to release many figures in 1994 with collector cards that had never been rereleased before as well as new figures but never did, the same goes for these 1995 figures that came with the collector coins.

Ah ic reading your last part what you have there is the second release of the robotic foot soldier that came out in 1999 the very last releases of the line, the way many people tell these apart from others is that on the from of the blister card there is a green warning label, the 1995 rereleases all had purplish color warning labels.
Here are some images hope this helps:
1992 (1st generic rerelease packaging)

1993 (2nd version still using the old punch hanging method, old pizza back from the 1992 rereleases but this is when the new front starts and this is right before figure started coming with collector cards.)

1993 (3rd version still using the old punch hanging method, note the generic collector cards and them not being mentioned on the back of the box.)

1993 (4th version is strictly to the Shogun figures first releases, note that it uses the genric 1992 card back again just like the above tokka figure does and does not yet have the Shogun figures listed on the back, the only shogun figures that came this way are the 4 turtles, splinter, & april, also note all first release shogun figures have generic collector cards, also all shogun figures use purple clip and collect bios on the back unlike the rest of the normal series that use yellow.)

1994 (5th version the blister card has now switched to the modern hanger type, not the back of the box has added more figures to the list and now acknowledges the collector card, also note that these come with the first collector cards still there are 2 versions.)

1994 (6th version is pretty much like like the third but you will notice they changed the collector cards to a much nicer design.)

1994 (7th version, now this is only for the Warriors of the forgotten sewer and the only changes are the front of the box has art specific to this series & on the back of the box is the addition of Gatekeeper Rocksteady and it shows the Statue and comic instead of a collector card.)

1994 (8th version, this one adds 2 characters to the back of the box Robotic Foot Soldier and Shogun Triceraton, also note that the image of shogun splinter has changed, No figures have been taken off at this point.)

1994 (9th version, I believe this one is only for shogun shoate which is odd because right after his card he is taken off the back for version 9 which is shogun triceraton and robotic foot soldier, you can understand the confusion with shoates card because he still has the normal triceraton, usagi and space usagi on the back of his box but after his card they're gone for the rest of the releases.)

1994 (10th version, now this one no characters have been added but 3 characters Triceraton, Usagi, & Space Usagi have been taken off the back, Note: I think this card back only was used for Robotic foot soldier and Shogun Triceraton.)


1994 (11th version, adds krang's android body to the back of the krang's android blister card, no other changes, sorry no photo of the back for this one, and the card is only set up this way for this figure.)