Playmates Toys Future Looks Bright! Now w/ Release Date!

[ToTheNines]

Check out Mike's face in these two shots:





Uncanny.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Jester

Nope. We totally missed this.

Spoiler:

Is there a screening process anymore?

Eh, even I'm confused with all the threads discussing the same story.

And to be fair, I couldn't remember if I had seen a clear pic of that playset. As Robin would say, I am totally "whelmed" at all the new information.

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Check out Mike's face in these two shots:

Spoiler:

Uncanny.

Yeah, I really think they captured the first season vibe of the Old Toon. The only big thing is that the belts buckles are black instead of grey, but I do like the black look even if it isn't 100% accurate.

[Nintendophile]

Oops, didn't realize that this pic was already posted here. It was buried back a few pages. Didn't mean to post a duplicate. My bad. lol.

Spoiler:

Originally Posted by VaughnMichael

Not hi-res but not faded.

[tone-master21]

So I asked Paula about which Nick TMNT figures we were getting the Hollywood Reporter Turtles or the MTV Geek Turtles.

Here is what she said:

You will most likely see the figure from the Hollywood Reporter but with more designs made before they reach the market in August/September 2012.

Hollywood Reporter



MTV Geek

[Timmetry]

Playmates let's us down again...

[sdp]

I have a theory that we might indeed get both versions, the good looking ones will be higher priced and aimed at collectors and the others will have regular figure price. Promo shots always look better than the real thing but I doubt they'd be that stupid to make such a radical change between the promo and the real thing.

As far as the classics line I think if Vaughn hadn't hyped them up so much I wouldn't have been so disappointed. I still love them but from the way vaughn overhyped them iw as expecting much more, I was also expecting a true OT accurate turtles which these are not, if I wasn't expecting that I'd have loved this hybrid. To me the Toon Turtles are still probably the most OT accurate toys out there at the moment..

[CyberCubed]

I really want to see old toon Shredder, Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady actually looking like they did in the show.

[Timmetry]

I'm sure the main difference is a simple wash to bring out the details, but I am not a skilled painter so I was really hoping for figures ready to go. It'd be nice if there was a separate collectors line and I would gladly pay more than the average for some nice paint jobs, but I'm not getting my hopes up. I'll still buy a set of the new turtles, because I really dig the design, just wish they'd be s good as the promo pictures.

[Samhain]

Originally Posted by sdp

I have a theory that we might indeed get both versions, the good looking ones will be higher priced and aimed at collectors and the others will have regular figure price. Promo shots always look better than the real thing but I doubt they'd be that stupid to make such a radical change between the promo and the real thing.

As much as I would love to believe in you ''theory'', Playmates is surely not going to do that. I can bet on that.

[Jester]

I'm sadly inclined to agree. One wonders how short a leash Viacom has Playmates on.

"If these toys don't do well, we'll find another toy maker."

[stormbringer]

I hope they don't mess up the final product to badly. It'd be a shame if they blew it, when the franchise was finally getting back on its feet again.

[Jester]

The thing with Playmates, at least last time around, is that they started strong, then the figures got more and more ridiculous. I mean, Feudal Shredder with "crumple in defeat" action. Seriously? And they used that 3 times. One of the poor crumple figures was Traximus...TRAXIMUS!

[stormbringer]

Originally Posted by Jester

The thing with Playmates, at least last time around, is that they started strong, then the figures got more and more ridiculous. I mean, Feudal Shredder with "crumple in defeat" action. Seriously? And they used that 3 times. One of the poor crumple figures was Traximus...TRAXIMUS!

Yeah,it was like that with the original line too. As time went on the gimmicks got weirder and weirder.

[Jester]

Yeah, but the gimmicks kinda fit the old line more, since the series was more gimmicky. But then again, my parents never bought the variant Turtles when I was a kid because having 10 different Mikeys made no sense to them (imagine if they hadn't done the colored masks then. I'm sure 4 red masked turtles, despite the differing weapons would have been a hard sell. ) Then again, maybe I'm looking at the old line with rose colored glasses.

[stormbringer]

I guess how gimmicky the new line will be, depends on what the tone of the Nick cartoon will be. I'm hoping for something closer to the 2k3 series.

[Samhain]

Originally Posted by stormbringer

I guess how gimmicky the new line will be, depends on what the tone of the Nick cartoon will be. I'm hoping for something closer to the 2k3 series.

I'm thinking it will be a mesh of the OT and 2K3. Which is fine by me.

[TurtleManiac]

the "classic" tmnt figures look pretty good, but why does only Michaelangelo have a different shade of green skin tone? in the original toon they all had the same green skin tone, and the turtles never wore straps on their belts in the original toon, so these may not be 100% based on the ot

[Samhain]

This is about what I expected from Playmates. But dammit, someone needs to let them know to fix Classic Mike's chucks. If they are gonna do chains, do them right. They are too long. Save money and use less chain!

[Jester]

Heck...the chain on one of those chucks could be easily divided amongst the pair.

[Samhain]

Originally Posted by Jester

Heck...the chain on one of those chucks could be easily divided amongst the pair.

And then take the extra and use it for the Nick Mike figure.