1988 Turtle Trooper

[Bill]

Hello Guys, When the original toyline began this more than humble accesorie came out







Turtle Trooper Blueprint (photo courtesy of nofuture4u aka emojohnkovacs)





Turtle Trooper Jokebook #8 (photo courtesy of MAXtDie)




Toybox art was good enough to pass the test and it had the advantage to scream: VINTAGE as you could realize with a quick glance to the toybox that we were in the first year of this amazing Tmnt collection, unlike the rest of the 1988 Vehicles like the Turtle Blimp which I have already talked here: http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=41619 or the Knucklehead http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=41595 or even the Cheapskate http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=41659 the Turtle Trooper is the only one that truly reveals that this was indeed the first year of the toyline.



The accesorie itself was very good, with no need of any assembly at all, It came just like almost ready to play with. I think Playmates was smart enough to believe that anyone that bought the Turtle Blimp would eventually buy the Turtle Trooper so they can throw this last one from the very Blimp itself.

The Turtle Trooper never appeared in the original Tv series, in fact, I cannot recall if any Turtle ever used a parachute in all the cartoon but I don´t think that was an obstacle for this baby to sell out in weeks. Don´t you think?


I still haven´t found a good review of the Turtle Trooper in youtube (after 25 years I think it deserved it)


Here are the Tv commercials for the Turtle Trooper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNuofZS4St8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5c8WFMO4J8

and finally here is featured in the 1988 playmates toy catalog (Photo Courtesy of Tuboloso)
and in the 1989 Playmates toy catalog







Hope you liked and thanks for reading.

What do you think about this vehicle? Do you got it?

Any memories you wanna share from where you bought and saw it the very first time ?

Did you throw it from great heights?

Thanks for reading.