Vintage Playmates Backcards

LuckyLadybug · 11-24-2016, 08:22 PM

Is there a place to see scans of the vintage Playmates backcards, like Baxter's? I always loved reading the fact-file cards as a kid, although these days I certainly take them with several grains of salt!

*TurtleWA* · 11-24-2016, 09:40 PM

I have some card back photos in my collection thread. Not extreme close up so could be difficult to read small print. Also no Baxter.

I usually just do a google image search when wanting to scope stuff out. Usually comes through. Also on my phone which I use for internet I can zoom in.

Tmntman has a website and has the card back photos as well.
http://www.tmnttoys.com/89figures/basics/5057.htm

slashpieturtlemix · 11-25-2016, 12:01 AM

I love the cards myself. I got a pile of the vintage ones. Def worth keeping =)

LuckyLadybug · 11-25-2016, 09:37 PM

Ah, so Baxter's is basically an abridged version of this U.K. card I saw. (Or the U.K. one is an expanded version of the U.S. one....)

The ones for the Channel 6 crew are so bizarre. LOL. Burne's is hilarious, Vernon's is pretty spot-on except for the pencil knife nonsense (as if he'd ever have the courage to carry something like that ... or at least to use it properly; he'd probably stab himself), and Irma's is just terrible. Insulting to her and totally out-of-character. She never tried to scoop April's stories. (Not that she was a reporter at all.) And she certainly wasn't the idiot the card tried to say she is.

*Powder* · 11-25-2016, 10:46 PM

Technically the toys exist in their own universe, so you could say the cards only represent that particular iteration.

11-24-2016, 08:22 PM	#1
LuckyLadybug Thug Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Earth Posts: 77	Vintage Playmates Backcards Is there a place to see scans of the vintage Playmates backcards, like Baxter's? I always loved reading the fact-file cards as a kid, although these days I certainly take them with several grains of salt! __________________ https://sites.google.com/site/exittheflytmnt1987/ My TMNT 1987 verse.

11-24-2016, 09:40 PM	#2
TurtleWA Foot Elite Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: WA Posts: 2,507	I have some card back photos in my collection thread. Not extreme close up so could be difficult to read small print. Also no Baxter. I usually just do a google image search when wanting to scope stuff out. Usually comes through. Also on my phone which I use for internet I can zoom in. Tmntman has a website and has the card back photos as well. http://www.tmnttoys.com/89figures/basics/5057.htm __________________ Find me on Instagram @turtle_wa YouTube @TurtleWA

11-25-2016, 09:37 PM	#4
LuckyLadybug Thug Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Earth Posts: 77	Ah, so Baxter's is basically an abridged version of this U.K. card I saw. (Or the U.K. one is an expanded version of the U.S. one....) The ones for the Channel 6 crew are so bizarre. LOL. Burne's is hilarious, Vernon's is pretty spot-on except for the pencil knife nonsense (as if he'd ever have the courage to carry something like that ... or at least to use it properly; he'd probably stab himself), and Irma's is just terrible. Insulting to her and totally out-of-character. She never tried to scoop April's stories. (Not that she was a reporter at all.) And she certainly wasn't the idiot the card tried to say she is. __________________ https://sites.google.com/site/exittheflytmnt1987/ My TMNT 1987 verse.

11-25-2016, 12:01 AM	#3
slashpieturtlemix Mad Scientist Join Date: May 2013 Location: Metairie, LA Posts: 1,259	I love the cards myself. I got a pile of the vintage ones. Def worth keeping =)

11-25-2016, 10:46 PM	#5
Powder 40 Years of TMNT Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Shell-Ri-La Posts: 26,955	Technically the toys exist in their own universe, so you could say the cards only represent that particular iteration.