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Old 03-26-2024, 09:30 PM   #7321
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Anyone know if the First to Fall Last Ronin Raphael was a NECA store exclusive or will it show up in other places like BBTS and Target?
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Old 03-29-2024, 11:32 AM   #7322
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Nothing at my target this week but I did get a hold of a giant mm Donnie.
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Old 03-29-2024, 04:37 PM   #7323
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We need an Ultimate Shredder already! I’m gonna try and hold off on buying any new releases, especially variants of the same characters, until we get a new and improved Toon Shredder. The 2017 Shredder for SDCC is terrible, arguably one of the worst figures in the line, but probably because it came so early in the line and they didn’t know how long it would last or if they get all the licenses etc. I get it so that explains all the reused parts and shortcuts.

Well, it’s been 7 years, it’s time, we need the first ever officially licensed 100% cartoon accurate Shredder figure, c’mon NECA!
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Old 03-30-2024, 06:35 PM   #7324
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Hate that I couldn't find the set while they were offering 20 off 100.
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Old 03-31-2024, 12:35 AM   #7325
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The Punk Disguise turtles and Pizza Club turtles are on AliExpress. Search ‘Leonardo NECA’ and many offers will come up.
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Old 03-31-2024, 09:36 AM   #7326
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Looks like Rocksteady and Bebop are getting reissued once again with more cartoon-accurate box art. Good! Glad these guys are still going to be in rotation ... with the Turtles now getting their reissue and the giant Krang for this fall, I bet that an Ultimate Shredder may be planned this year too.
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Old 03-31-2024, 10:12 AM   #7327
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Hate that I couldn't find the set while they were offering 20 off 100.
Yeah, I struck out across the board. Super annoying, but what can you do.
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Old 03-31-2024, 01:30 PM   #7328
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So the new Turtles are a different color than they've previously used for the Turtles. This decision baffles me (and helped to dissuade me from picking these up) as you can't really use the alternate expressions with the figures you already have.
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Old 04-01-2024, 12:52 PM   #7329
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So the new Turtles are a different color than they've previously used for the Turtles. This decision baffles me (and helped to dissuade me from picking these up) as you can't really use the alternate expressions with the figures you already have.
They do it on purpose man. They don't want any true modularity because it helps force the consumer into buying "the next release". Of course eventually someone will release a statement to cultivate simps and peasant-thinkers into their defense - "they couldn't do it because there was a manufacturer change who couldn't match the paint exactly so shut up!".

But it's all by design to vaccumn up sales in small, manipulative ways. Any "true value" for the consumer wouldn't be constantly loaded with these small inconsistencies.
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Old 04-01-2024, 02:35 PM   #7330
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That, or whomever is reporting this as the original source got theirs from Temu.
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Old 04-02-2024, 06:13 PM   #7331
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Pre-orders for Donatello's Lab Diorama end in a few hours.
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Old 04-02-2024, 09:36 PM   #7332
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That, or whomever is reporting this as the original source got theirs from Temu.
Website featuring the coolest stuff on Earth that is all fake or falling apart. It's like when you ordered something from the ads page of a comic book back in the day and when it showed up it was a piece of cardboard or something...
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Old 04-02-2024, 10:17 PM   #7333
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I went ahead and got the Don lab. Tried to resist but NECA always gets me with their “don’t miss out, last chance!” sales pitch. It will likely stay boxed up for a while, haven’t even opened my first NECA lair dio yet. Just seems like it would be a huge hassle with all those parts and figuring out where to put the huge dios. I still need to get a scalped van and maybe the cartoon street dio if I come across one. At this point I think I’ll go for the Pizza Club Turtles if I find them in store, but so far haven’t seen any.
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Old 04-03-2024, 05:21 AM   #7334
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I also ordered the lab.
I'm more than happy with my Turtles in disguise. I got a later batch so they're not so shiny.
Just waiting on the kitchen now. Hopefull it's smaller and not so expensive.
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Old 04-03-2024, 09:23 AM   #7335
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I went ahead and got the Don lab. Tried to resist but NECA always gets me with their “don’t miss out, last chance!” sales pitch. It will likely stay boxed up for a while, haven’t even opened my first NECA lair dio yet. Just seems like it would be a huge hassle with all those parts and figuring out where to put the huge dios. I still need to get a scalped van and maybe the cartoon street dio if I come across one. At this point I think I’ll go for the Pizza Club Turtles if I find them in store, but so far haven’t seen any.
From what I've seen, it seems like the Underground Arsenal van is a better representation of the Fred Wolf van. Honestly, I wish I would've bought that one....
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Old 04-03-2024, 10:27 AM   #7336
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Stayed strong, no lab. Gives me more funds to put towards the party wagon if they ever give us a 2nd chance at it, which they apparently said would happen.
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Old 04-03-2024, 04:28 PM   #7337
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I was okay with the hit from the lab... until Mondo put up their 1:6 Teela.
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Old 04-03-2024, 08:44 PM   #7338
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So if this > 4 ft tall M3GAN figure is real (I'm still not fully convinced it is)...can any of the crowd that insist plastic and general manufacturing is so expensive explain to me how everything that is going into that item is somehow only $200 more than the comparably measly amount of material and effort going into the lair sets? Anyone? Bueller?
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Old 04-03-2024, 11:46 PM   #7339
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From what I've seen, it seems like the Underground Arsenal van is a better representation of the Fred Wolf van. Honestly, I wish I would've bought that one....
I’m sure they both have their pros and cons, I held off on the NECA van initially because they made the bump on the roof too big, and also I wasn’t collecting much of their cartoon stuff at the time, but I know they’ve corrected the roof bump since then. Gotta see pics of both of them to compare.

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So if this > 4 ft tall M3GAN figure is real (I'm still not fully convinced it is)...can any of the crowd that insist plastic and general manufacturing is so expensive explain to me how everything that is going into that item is somehow only $200 more than the comparably measly amount of material and effort going into the lair sets? Anyone? Bueller?
It is on their site so it must be real. I have the NECA 5 ft Leo and it’s actually made of foam rubber latex, not sure if that’s the same material used on the Megan doll, but the Leo was originally retail price $500 when it came out in 2017.
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Old 04-04-2024, 06:14 AM   #7340
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I don't know much about the large turtle figures but they look pretty simplistic to me - non-articulated and such. This one claims to have some amount of articulation, plus a heap of soft goods clothing, plus all that fake hair, etc.

A little math...back in 2017 a 1:12 figure which by today's standards would be $35 was $20. A 175% increase in 7 years. So is it crazy to wonder why an approximately 1:1 figure is still $500 7 years later and not $875? Particularly when you're going to sell exponentially fewer 1:1 figures than 1:12 figures...and the 2024 1:1 figure sounds like it is 10 times more complex than the 2017 1:1?
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