Tag: playmates toys
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Playmates not releasing next wave until fall
First off, I apologize for no Throwback Thursday: My Collection today. I have been away for two weeks and therefore unable to snap any pictures of my collection. Speaking of my collection, and possibly your’s, I tweeted Playmates Toys about the next wave of TMNT figures and they responded back with this. So it looks…
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Stockman-Fly Playmates Toys Figure Review
For my birthday this year I received a Stockman-Fly TMNT figure. I was hoping for both Stockman-Fly and Karai Serpent but Yoshi’s serpentine daughter seems to be MIA for whatever reason. When I first caught glimpse of the Stockman-Fly figure through an email I was very excited. Not only did it bring back some memories…
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Stockman-Fly Has Arrived
Yesterday I checked my local Walmart hoping to find a Serpent Karai figure. What I found was a Mikey Turflytle and a Stockman-Fly. I was very disappointed with the lack of paint on Stockman-Fly when I saw pictures online of the figure that was hitting shelves. The prototype looked so promising and had great paint…
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Toy Fair 2015 Wrap Up
The 2015 New York Toy Fair has come and gone. There were a lot of exciting announcements and featured items from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property. Let’s recap some of the awesome toys that we saw or heard about. We will start off with the Playmates Toys basic figure line. Some of these figures…
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New Playmates Toys From Toy Fair
Below is a video of the Playmates Toys booth at this year’s New York Toy Fair. We get a closer glimpse at some figures that we knew were coming, due to the back of the figures’ card stock, along with some brand new figures such as Fugitoid, Kraang Prime, Dimension X Turtles, Mondo Gecko, what…
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“Fresh From The Sewer” Original 1988 Playmates Toys Ad
I have been reading the TMNT Archie Adventure series and have been seeing some pretty cool ads in these books. I thought I would share some of them on occasion. This one features some artwork from Peter Laird and Ryan Brown of the four turtles. It is an original ad for the very first Playmates…
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A Look At Four New TMNT Figures From Playmates
Last night, I visited my local Target and saw the basic TMNT figures by Playmates are now coming in the new blister cards similar to the TMNT movie figures that I talked about not long ago. That was not the only new thing that I noticed. While looking on the backs of the cards, I…
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Mystic Turtles Hit Stores…But I Wish They Hadn’t!
First things first. The episode “Vision Quest” was an outstanding episode and the TMNT outfits were just flat out awesome! So when it was announced that Playmates would be releasing the four Mystic brothers, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on them. The prototypes of these figures were not exactly what I was expecting…
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Mutation figures have hit the shelves
While browsing through the toy aisle today at my local Walmart, hoping to find a Bebop and Rocksteady figure for my MOC collection, I saw nothing but empty pegs. Then I looked on the bottom shelf and saw the new TMNT mutation figures. It is pretty cool to see Playmates releasing these figures as I…
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Playmates Comic Book Raphael TMNT Figure Review
Along with Robotic Foot Soldier and Tiger Claw, the four Comic Book Turtles are also on the shelves. I recently picked up the Comic style Raphael and was not disappointed. When I heard that Playmates was releasing Comic Book Turtles, I was ecstatic. I know NECA released Comic Book figures, and I do love them,…