Why didn't the OT incorporate more of the playmates mutants into the OT?

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Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Ah, yes, as "the mutant sumo-wrestling hamster" in Planet of the Turtleoids. It makes you wonder what the writers were thinking.

They were probably stoned.
I have no idea why they did't but they should have. Many of them were, but a lot of the cooler ones like Scale Tail, Wyrm, and Scratch weren't. But Honestly I think many if not all of the playmates toys characters would have worked. Halfcourt could have been a mutant basketball player that had gone to the zoo and touched a giraffe, Hotspot a fireman's Dalmation and Dr. El could be a cursed witch doctor or whatever.