08-19-2019, 01:37 AM | #61 |
So tired of this place
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Shell Ri La
Posts: 26,809
|
Y'all should know better by now not to engage certain people.
__________________
I'm convinced that none of you have ever experienced joy
|
08-19-2019, 02:30 AM | #62 |
Mad Scientist
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Topeka, Kansas
Posts: 1,602
|
I lurk, homie! I don’t be knowin’ these people!
__________________
http://www.luckyusshow.com |
08-19-2019, 04:13 AM | #63 |
Stone Warrior
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Australia
Posts: 717
|
When did Leonardo ever wield a wakizashi? Paired ninjato... maybe katana in the cartoon, but never daisho.
Last edited by Otter; 08-19-2019 at 05:04 AM. |
08-19-2019, 06:45 AM | #64 | |
The Agenda of Existing
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Vikingland
Posts: 14,596
|
Quote:
Plus, Leo did use a long and short sword in the 2012 show Spoiler:
Where's the ninjato? |
|
08-19-2019, 07:21 AM | #65 | |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,097
|
Quote:
|
|
08-19-2019, 07:22 AM | #66 |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,097
|
|
08-19-2019, 08:11 AM | #67 |
Banned
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Canada
Posts: 859
|
Matching the model sheet, and matching the look from the mini series are two different things. The animators are all over the place in the first episode, not to mention the wild variations between the first and fifth. They matched the model sheets well enough, but I wouldn’t say they are screen accurate.
So far, it looks like April is the one that’s the furthest from her cartoon counterpart. Neca seems to think she should be ugly. |
08-19-2019, 08:23 AM | #68 | |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,097
|
Quote:
The NECA FW turtles from the 2 pack only matched the model sheets from the neck down. That’s it. FW turtle fans deserve better than a repaint of the arcade turtles as classic toon turtles. The villains in the first wave were on point for the most part from what I have seen at one of the Targets I have been to, but the turtles were not. |
|
08-19-2019, 08:49 AM | #69 | |
Banned
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Canada
Posts: 859
|
Quote:
They can’t be screen accurate if the model sheets/style guides were not accurately reproduced in the cartoon. Compare the first shot of the turtles in ep1, and the character sheet. The shape language is vastly different. I’ll need to figure out how to post images here. |
|
08-19-2019, 09:19 AM | #70 |
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,450
|
I need that shadow line on the nose of the turtles. I need it!
|
08-19-2019, 10:21 AM | #72 | |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,097
|
Quote:
I could be wrong since this century isn’t over yet, but it seems like the head sculpt for the CC Michelangelo is as good as it gets for FW syndicated TMNT cartoon fans. Finding a head sculpt without a lazy eye should not be to difficult for FW fans to find online. |
|
08-19-2019, 10:30 AM | #73 | |
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,450
|
Quote:
Damn, these figures came out of nowhere. Nostalgia must have me by the ear, because I'm surprisingly attracted to these figures. Part of me wants them all. I figured I was pretty much set with the Jim Henson movie figures, but these are so alluring. I've always loved the old school Playmates box-art. Maybe that is what is appealing to me about these. |
|
08-19-2019, 11:01 AM | #74 |
Mad Scientist
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 1,100
|
Can’t wait to see what a Casey Jones will look like in this line
__________________
|
08-19-2019, 11:25 AM | #75 |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,097
|
The Baxter Stockman is the best out of the whole Ultimate wave 1 set. A remodeled and repainted Retromutagen Ooze turtle [and Splinter] should have been included with Ultimate Splinter over the regular looking turtle with yellow eyes. The chase could have been a remodeled and repainted Retromutagen Ooze turtle that glowed in the dark (like the ‘89 original did). The Ultimate Foot Soldier is the strangest out of the set because the ape-like pose of the ‘88 original is gone along with the angry scruffed up part of the mask that the ‘88 wave 1 Soldier had.
|
08-19-2019, 11:31 AM | #76 | |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,097
|
Quote:
|
|
08-19-2019, 11:38 AM | #77 | |
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,450
|
Quote:
|
|
08-19-2019, 12:24 PM | #78 |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 4,097
|
The packaging for Ultimate Toxie from Toxic Crusaders hasn’t been revealed yet. It seems like Super7 will go for the front reprints of the original packaging of Toxie and the Ultimate Turtles line. The back of the card will be different, but that’s it. The question now is, will there be Pizza Points?
|
08-19-2019, 02:05 PM | #79 | |
Banned
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Canada
Posts: 859
|
Quote:
And no, I don’t think it’s the last you’ll see of FW styled Turtles. |
|
08-19-2019, 02:45 PM | #80 | |||
Stone Warrior
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Australia
Posts: 717
|
Firstly, I love your posts so I hope you don't interpret any of my replies as personally antagonistic.
Secondly, I am by no means a Japanese sword expert, and can only really go on three odd decades of reading American comics based on Japanese traditions. But... Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
This may be true (given the final diagram you posted), and to be honest I never really noticed the size difference in the show... unlike the obvious difference between traditionally depicted daisho. Were the show runners attempting to retcon the (as you indicated) ridiculous concept of wielding twin katana? Spoiler:
Okay... so this is the only picture which has two swords of different size, though the length of the tanto blade added to the shorter would make it longer than the daito, so the shoto is arguably only barely a shoto. But again, both swords are depicted as straight-bladed (in my eyes). Any suggestion of a curve is suggested by the fact that the tip is stylised in such a way that the tip is wider than the kissaki is wider than the habaki (had to look up those descriptions too). Depicted in the Mirage comic art (third picture you posted (the first two are an anomaly; by the second issue of the original comic Leo had straight-bladed swords)) and the 2003 series art (5th and 6th images), and arguably stylised versions in the 2012 series (7th, and 8th images) and the 9th (I don't know where that's from), though the words are depicted as different lengths in that image, you have to be looking for it to see it (and a wakizashi is obviously smaller than a katana). I stand by my original comment, but maybe we just interpret "daisho" and "wakizashi" differently. All that said, if Super 7 give Leonardo curved swords, I would be disappointed. Though I doubt I'd be disappointed if he had a slightly shorter second sword.
__________________
Wanted to buy (or trade for): Toynami Thundarr the Barbarian: Thundarr, Ariel and Ookla (all three, loose and complete or carded, but figures in NM/M condition). PM me. Last edited by Otter; 08-19-2019 at 03:30 PM. |
|||
|
|