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Super7 Ultimates wave 13 is hitting people's doorsteps...and it's a bit of a clusterfuck.

The excessive thin, pliable rubber use continues, loose joints, things popping apart when they shouldn't, no paint, shiny plastic, etc. 2k3 fans stay suffering.

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>>11680095
Full vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrWtkasofek

Upsetting for the amount of money these cost. And the production time. And them raising prices further.

I don't feel sorry for anyone who hasn't learned their lesson on Super 7 at this late stage of the game.

The TMNT franchise really is the 90s incarnated into cartoonz and toyz. When the 2003 show ended is when the real 9/11 happened.

>>11680128
I was hoping they'd be decent, and I guess maybe they're that, but they definitely don't look good. I don't understand how there's not been any progress in these figures. And those soft goods on Shredder look rough. I don't get how they produce these and think they're ready for release.

>>11680095
>>11680101
honestly feels like their figures have gotten worse over the years, I know they were bad before but I never had joints popping out and the cloth goods on previous figures were much cleaner

>>11680138
They feel like they're amateur Kickstarter toys

The company is hanging by a thread. I would expect a continued decline in quantity and quality of releases until the day they hang it up.

>>11680144
I've gotten a few KS toys and I don't think any of them were as bad. Much as I wanted them to be good back then, it was probably Articulated Icons that were the worst ones I've gotten (aside from that LFG Richard which I regret...), and even those were at least ML tier. Super7 after all this time and at these prices are somehow worse than that.

>>11680079
am I the only one who fantasizes about taking modern image editing software back in time to corner the market on promotional art like this?

>>11680095
why did he even need a cloth belt...
>>11680101
that looks like it'd pop right back in
>>11680138
when your company is literally dying, it's not exactly the time to put out your best efforts.

>>11680306
>that looks like it'd pop right back in
It can. Problem is it won't stay and comes out again and again apparently.

>>11680308
aw feck.
the question in that situation is: do you put some gorilla putty on it, to make the peg essentially thicker? or do you shave the hole slightly bigger (leaving a lip) so the peg can get in and lodge itself better? I hate those kinds of decisions. even a Zoids kit did that to me recently.

>>11680095
>>11680101
I always find it weird how much people dissect the Super7 Turtles, but there's a huge brigade to defend Neca Turtles, despite that there's videos of their figures falling apart , even n Pixel Dan videos. Dan himself will even defend it and spout that it's probably only his copy. Neca even got caught lying on their twitter back when Ratking came out and they tried to dismiss the paint flaking off his crotch as an isolated incident, only for it to be pointed out that their official promo images show his crotch flaking. It just feels like gay brand wars.

>>11680451
Nobody was caught lying about anything. You're such a fucking retard. It was a factory issue that was fixed on subsequent releases of the pack. NECA actually goes out of their way to make improvements on things as they go forward. Super7 does not. Super7 struggles to modernize or adapt. And then when they do step forward, they fall on their faces making the same dumb mistakes even though they should have learned by now. 13 goddamn waves in.

>people are finding random reissues of older NECA toys in stores
Weird. Kinda like last year when WalMarts were filled with Universal and Gargoyles out of nowhere.

>>11680471
That isn't weird. They do that all the time.

>>11680101
wait, am i seeing this right, there's no elbow joint at the elbow, only partway up the humerus? so he can bend his hand all the way inward, but not straighten it out

>>11680306
the toy fair promo showed a plastic belt, they should have kept that

>>11680476

Good to know. Maybe I'll splurge on Krang this time if they re-release him.

>>11680477
oh no, the finger is covering that part, there is another joint.

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>>11680095
>>11680101
christ, the Shredder proto at seen at toyfair looked so much better. what happened?

>>11680333
Sometimes it's because the peg wasn't fully inserted which stretched the hole, so just the hole needs to be reset with hot water. Always start with the least destructive method.
Hot water>nail polish/varnish>putty>knife/dremel.

>>11680687
the modus operandi of all present businesses: fuck up as hard as you can, lose all your money.
>>11680693
oooh I will try that the next time that happens. That's not gonna work on my zoids kit since that's a HARD nylon ball and socket that's giving me fits (ball LEAPS out if you rotate it at all) but that's gonna work for a lot of things.

>>11680687
>well it is super7 so idk what you were expecting

>>11680766
of all their frequent mistakes, this isn't one of them. they're innovating in NEW mistakes.

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i'm drawing a bunch of frog monsters right now and realizing how many great kinds of frogs there are for Atilla and Rasputin to be, if Super7 gets their shit back together (or someone else does it)
you got those psychedelic tree frogs, you got spiky leaf fuckers, you got those buff as fuck bullfrogs..

>>11680861
actually, the more I think of it, is this what Napoleon was based on? I thought he was just an exaggerated warty toad, but.. that head shape..

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>>11680861
I always liked these designs

>>11680890
fly boy looks absolutely authentically like a playmates accessory guy.. Rasputin definitely works here, but Attila... he just loks like fat genghis with less clothing. especially after S7 gave Genghis a reeaal solid cas eof acne.. Not sure how well the muumuu would work on a figure either, but yknow what? it's color-coordinated. . I never noticed before they're each wearing yellow and pink..

>>11680892
Maybe have Atila be smoother with occasional warts/bumps, like a blend between Rasputin and Ghengis. The whole set looks kinda fantastic as a group though, what could have been...

>>11680101
After all this time people still buy Super 7 figures. Let that sink in.

>>11680687
Hand painted prototype vs consumer release.

>>11681253
We just love the sculpts. If only they could work on the QC, but it's obvious they can't, or they would have by now. and with each failure, the price has to go up to keep the company afloat. The failure is factored into the costs.

>>11680892
>fly boy looks absolutely authentically like a playmates accessory guy
He actually was, he came with Napoleon only like a lot of the little sidekicks he was cast in solid color with no paint

>>11681615
oh, so he did. I feel like an idiot now, I literally did a sketch of that guy to try to show you guys I could do 4 horsemen tier figure design art. then I kinda ran out of steam and did other shit for months.

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Tourist here, I am hoping you can help me find out what the circled character on the left is? People say it is Jab but the Jab character is the one on the far right. I tried finding a relevant thread but there are non in the catalog, so I figured maybe since it's the 90's you might have come across it too?

>>11681984
Why are you asking that here?

>>11681984
Jetpack Jab from series 4.
https://streetsharks.fandom.com/wiki/Toys

>>11682003
He either thinks Street Sharks are an official TMNT spin off or he knows there is enough cross over interest between TMNT and Street Sharks that people will know. I know my interest in TMNT also led to me buying Street Sharks as well back in the 90s

>>11680128

i don't understand how 90% of a company's output can go on deep clearance and they're still getting contracts

>>11682227
It's enabled by low interest rates. S7 persisted for years but only got into danger when interest rates rose, putting a cap on the amount of free money available.

Not only would a TMNT/SS crossover be one of the few TMNT crossovers that actually make sense compared to random shit like Cobra Kai, Godzilla, and Stranger Things but the non-turtle characters wouldn't recieve the shit end of the stick like with the MOTU one (The MOTU characters are wearing cruddy turtle-themed armor and purple He-Man).
-Sharks are decked in ninja gear with "shark" versions of the turtles weapons IE Ripster getting Shark-atanas.
-Turtles are gene-slammed with shark DNA and turn into monstrous, Slash-esque versions of themselves.
-Piranoid turned into a mutagen-exposed version of himself bursting out of his suit.
-Shredder decked in a cross between Piranoid's armor and his suit.

>>11682227
It just took awhile to catch up to them, but it certainly has if you haven’t noticed. The last year they’ve barely been at conventions, showed off no new licenses and their output dropped substantially; I think they only put up 1 wave of Tmnt and 1 wave of thundercats for preorder, everything else has been reaction, because that’s all that actually sells for them.

>>11682305
And now they're having to do shit like Tigersharks. Anyone who buys into the first wave thinking that line is going to make it to the end is suckering themselves.

>>11682452
2 waves is enough to get the heroes + t-ray, I don't think thats impossible at all, though if they throw 2 villains into each wave they're cooked.

>>11682452
I had a ton of silverhawks and thundercats toys as a kid and watched both cartoons. I have never heard of Tigersharks before this moment. I had to look it up. That's some bottom of the barrel shit.

>>11680890
Why none of their signature weapons?

>>11682510
like it kind of is... and it felt like it should have picked up on itself being that lame, yknow? by that time.

I have a question, what the fuck show am I thinking of that had more samebito-styled shark people heroes? yknow shark-merpeople but the body color was continuous, not stopping at the waist. I'm almost sure that was a thing, and at least one of them was striped, and for ages I thought that's what Rankin-Bass's Tigersharks was.

>>11682571
its funny how out of touch super7 is thinkign anyone gives a fuck about boomer 80s garbage and can't make anything new, even their wokeslop crashes hard

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>>11682003
Cause they're doing a crossover!

>>11682605
i seriously wanna know if this guy was familiar with the source material when he decided on the scaling

>>11682605
You can see Jab has skinny little legs. It's likely just a promo image where he sized them to be roughly the same do that Jab didn't dominate the pic.
Until we see the actual comic, we won't know.

>>11682687
Meant for >>11682607

>>11682689
let's hope so.
everything else about it is super cool art yknow, I want this guy to be.. smart and successful.

>>11682594
So you're just a troll

>>11682719
I don't see how he could make that any clearer

>>11682719
Stop trying to derail threads, dumbass.

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I know I'm late to the party, but I just got this guy and he's rad as. Already ordered the Mikey and Splinter, what's the go with Leo and Raph? Or Shredder?

>>11682883
Take your own advice

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>>11683022
Leo was the first one they released and was on preorder a while ago for a rerelease. They had the two girl turtles on recent preorder and Bebop. Showed an unpainted prototype of Raph recently. They take a LONG time to release stuff.

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>>11683236
Raph prototype. Personally, it’s not worth the wait for me. Bebop pictures were posted on gundamit in July 2024 and it’s still not out.

>>11683234
see everyone? THIS is how you do plantigrade versions of unguligrade animals. The foot is not just the fucking toenail, it's an entire foot, complete with the rear toes. This feels biologically plausible. sensible. If you're into that evolution shit, you could say this is something a pig could evolve into.

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>>11683231
Accessories

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>>11683608
He looks fantastic. I wish I had the patience for these far out preorders, but I don't

>>11683559
>This feels biologically plausible
And then they gave their female turtles tits.

>>11683683
yeahhh something tells me he was just given that assignment and said "okay boss just don't tell the government my family are dissidents"

>>11683683
Well how else do you expect them to appeal to young boys?

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I guess if you want these, these are a thing.

>>11683231
Cheers for the heads up anon. Gundamit still has the Leo reissue on preorder, so I went in on that.
Not particularly interested in the girl turtles, will hasta suss out that Bebop though.
And wait patiently apparently!

>>11683687
Hear me out...
Exposed functional cloaca.

>>11683824
i'm with you as a nudist that thinks we need to demystify genitals
but the thing about an upright turtle is that they kinda only do 'upskirts' y'know? It's not ever gonna be exposed in a standing position. A male turtle's doppelschlange could be, of course, on account of it kinda turns a 180 as it clears the plastron.

>>11683700

I saw them at Gamestop yesterday. Wave 2 was there too.

>>11683700
I didn't think there was any way I could be less interested in these. But here we are with green masks on grey turtles.

>>11684464
They must have overproduced this line by 3-5x the actual demand. They've been mega clearanced everywhere for years at this point.

>>11684477
They didn't. It's just leftovers from the giant Target reset. Also that's from Christimas, not sure why that retard is posting that.

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>>11684482
Most of them have been in the $20 range on BBTS too for a long time. Seems like Invisible Man Donnie is the only one that sold out. I like the figures, but they clearly miscalculated somewhere.

>>11684568
They clearly didn't. It's a mass retail item that was available -everywhere-.

>>11684593
Plenty of mass retail items don't pegwarm for years. Everyone knows that lots of stuff was overproduced during the pandemic because they saw a surge in sales when people were getting stimmy checks. They clearly overestimated the demand for these things.

>>11684632
They didn't overestimate anything. You can keep being wrong all you want, but there's no reason to show it off to everyone.

>>11684464
still too much honestly

>>11684637
Sounds like you have shit taste in everything, unfortunately.

>>11684443
the execs are about as clueless as clueless can be, but they are happy to take their golden parachutes and abandon things
>>11684464
these are so creative. I wish they were things I had the slightest interest in

>>11684649
no, it sounds like you need to stop taking everything so personally necanon, im sorry you are incapable of understanding not everyone must like every product just because the brand you shill brand made it

>>11684668
No it sounds like you need to stop thinking you know anything about toy production and why things show up here or there. You're just embarrassing yourself. It's sad.

>>11684669
who said anything about that? the voices in your head? I’m not your thread enemy

I hope you guys know that all of us think you're one guy replying to himself

>>11684672
You should really stop talking.

>>11684684
okay, will do, now make sure you get the last word like always, I know you have to

>>11684686
That's great man, stop being wrong about everything..

>>11684482
It's from today, from a Ross that didn't have them before.
Other anon is probably correct, that this is all Target crap based on some exclusive plastic crack that showed up.
But you keep shaking fists at imaginary archenemies all you need since this apparently is the only way you sleep at night.

>>11684756
Way to prove them right that you need to get the last word in, Necanon.

>>11684820
Way to be an obvious troll

What is it about this IP that turns people into catty bitches hurling schoolyard insults at each other?

>>11684903
we got shit our whole lives for liking things other than sports, LEAST of all things like ninja turtles.
Now suddenly it's "cool to be a nerd" but oh look, all the new nerd properties are complete garbage made by the kinds of fucks that used to harass us. Because of COURSE they fell upward into positions of power.

>>11684907
>the new nerd properties are complete garbage made by the kinds of fucks that used to harass us
I doubt anybody ever got bullied by Seth Rogen. People like him aren't the ones that harassed us, they are the ones that would pretend to be your friend and then sell you out to save their own skin.

>>11684922
no, seth rogen was one of us, but he got warped by them. I meant more the suits.
>pretend and sell you out
yeahhhh kinda. I can see that in him, maybe. Bu the used to be pretty chill and fun. I want the 'zack and miri make a porno' seth rogen back.

i think something happens when a guy hits a certain age and his testosterone drops, and he just becomes... y'know, like modern Kevin Smith. Unwilling and unable to stand up to the brainwashing gooferall anymore. My dad started accepting the gay and reeing about pedos in his old age, god... Dad, how old were you when you dated Mom again?

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>>11684922
I bet Viacom regrets Seth.

>>11684903
It's one guy.

>>11684903
Legitimate autism + anonymity

>>11685135
I mean Viacom hasn't made more than a 99:1 bad to good decision ratio in the entire 21st century, so this isn't a blip.
Their goal is to lose money, destroy the US economy, and rule high when china takes over. Because they're dumb enough to think they won't be the first ones killed.

>>11685503
wait
i should have said 'less than a 99:1 bad to good ratio'

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>>11680079
Be honest bros, is he even coming out anymore?

>>11685649
boy i hope not.
and you know what they say: hope not, grope not.

naw that's not fair, I'm sure some people were really looking forward to this and they oughtta still get it. Playmates should be allowed to keep making their garbage, but not to tell S7 what they're allowed to make.

>>11685649

Only if they do Bebop too.

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>>11685649
if it made it that far along production, probably.
bebop is likely toast though since they never showed him off

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These 2 are my favorite Playmates Bebop and Rocksteady

>>11685711
They suck really, really bad. They're not in scale with each other, Rocksteady's lower legs are put on backwards, and they're just ugly toys.

>>11685726
they're recreating the knee issues he had in the original toy, but minus the brace. This is an AU where he couldn't afford it because health insurance costs as much as rent

>>11685728
oh wait, you said Rocksteady's legs
Bebop's the one looking legwonky here.. the pantswrinkles seme to agree on Rocksteady above and below the knee. No, his issue is the head isn't all necklessly integrated into the torso like Bebop's is, and like the original toy.

>>11685730
Oh yeah, that reminds me, they didn't paint Rocksteady's neck right, it's shirt colored, not gray pachyderm flesh.

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Why is this thing so amazing

>>11685760
wow, so they ADDED paint they shouldna? Is it opposite day?

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Just ordered the Mikey.

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Anyone have that green Fugitoid? How is it?

>>11686382
What could there possibly be to say about that thing beyond what is in the picture?

>>11686416
what flavor he is
i'm guessing kiwi

>>11686496
I'm thinking apple Jolly Rancher.

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>>11686382
Do you like robots that glow? Then you're in luck. The Fugitoid is a great figure in general, but he's sparkly and glows now. As do all his accessories.

>>11686516
that's so fuckin cool
i hope S7 resumes and we finally get toy-style fugitoid. i LOVED that toy as a kid. Adored it. and a glow in the dark version or a silver repaint are both totally in the cards if that's what it takes to recoup costs.

>>11686531
My dude, Super7 is likely not going back to TMNT at all.

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>>11683022
Here's my Donny. Probably the best TMNT figure I've ever owned.

>>11686535
zero reason not to at this point unless they are genuinely bankrupt

>>11686539
Do we know if they even still have the license? It's been a while since they announced any TMNT stuff and I'm wondering if the license expired and they just haven't said anything.

>>11686549
wouldn't shock me but it'd be wise to reapply now that playmates can no longer say boo about it.

also it would be pretty silly to keep showing us new waves of 2k3 guys if they dont have the license.

>>11686562
>also it would be pretty silly to keep showing us new waves of 2k3 guys if they dont have the license.
Have they though? Wave 2 was revealed early last year and I don't think they've shown anything else since them.

>>11686574
indeed.. it doesn't look good
but let's be totally fair: this also happened on the old s7 line like.. 5 times. And each time they came back and had another half dozen waves to go, so it's not like it spelled the end.

>>11686516
That is literally the best glow in the dark toy I've ever seen.

>>11686580
You've seen better.

>>11686583
different guy uh
i would say that this is the highest ratio of "looks awesome while glowing" to "looks awesome while not glowing"
90% of GitD shit, in normal light it's that sickly translucent snot white color. this guy looks like a jellular pop while lit normally, even the bendy parts? so that is incredible to me. I didn't know you could even make bendy GitD. I mean you can see how it's dimmer than the other parts, but still. and what's more, the outline paint is strong enough to be visible while glowing? Yeah. this is what I need to be the standard for glowy stuff now. Lookin at you, S7.

I want to see this guy in person
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/279943

>>11686574
>Have they though?
They teased wave 3 with silhouettes of Hun, April, and Casey on motorbike. Can't remember if there was a 4th figure.

>>11686705
is it at least a significantly different Casey? Maybe a one-off outfit he had that I'm forgetting

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>>11686732
I got mixed up. It was Raph with motorcycle gear and his motorcycle. And they are supposed to be up for preorder in March, according to their NYCC presentation. That's if things haven't changed with all of the licensing shenanigans going on.
$65 though. It might be better to pull the plug now.

>>11686787
>That's if things haven't changed with all of the licensing shenanigans going on.
Also them firing everyone.

>>11686787
oh right. so yeah that is a legit other figure to make.
i wish these were a lil more playmates-style gnarly, and in scale with the previous ones, but meh. I get what they were doing, and I wish them luck on their pivot. it's gonna be a tough sell, since all the really cool 2k3-exclusive villains
>the crystal shard mutants
>the more and more elaborate body variants of Baxter and Ch'rell including that badass four-armed one from the future
>Garbageman
are all these necessarily massive figures that will be tough to fund

I think they need to start making the body parts hollow instead of solid, at least in the upper bodies. and maybe using a plenty durable material as a filler in the plastic, like at the core of a given piece. What if like, an air-filled styrene bubble is placed in the center as the plastic is poured in. then you wouldn't have to resort to two-halves assembly. Iunno. I just know S7s are heavy and chunky and I love that about them but it's very unnecessary. like a zoot suit.

>>11686789
The layoffs happened in May, long before they announced this wave. And Lyin' Brian got ousted in July, so the only real change since they were shown at NYCC is the licensing potentially being up in the air, but we don't know when S7 were due to renew it.

>>11686797
>ousted
wait he doesn't work there anymore?

>>11686797
What sucks is that if they did lose the license we might not even know for a while. It's news when a bigger company like Playmates loses a license, but with a smaller company we might not get any confirmation until some Q&A like a year later where a rep casually mentions that they no longer have the license

>>11686807
if someone else picks up where they left off, I hope it's not a situation like the Muppets or Simpsons lines, where the new guys move in and theirs aren't in the same scale as the prior ones, because they want you to start over and buy every character again. fuck you, when there's THAT MANY characters, we want continuity. You will still make your millions on variants of the characters that the previous guys didn't do

>>11686805
He still works there, but he got demoted from the CEO position.
https://toybook.com/super7-geoff-walker-ceo/

>>11686822
ohhh okay
honestly that's a fine move. Pen Ward did that to himself. demoted himself to writer. Sometimes that's the right call.

>>11686810
Yeah that's happened to several lines I've collected and it's fucking annoying. It's the one reason I have for not wanting anyone else to start making Bucky O'Hare figures because you know they're just going to start over and make them incompatible with the Boss Fight ones.

Incidentally when >>11686807 brought up the Q&A thing Bucky was the first thing that came to mind. Just months and months of no news and then just a quiet mention that they had lost the license.

>>11686807
Yeah, the only reason we found out about Playmates losing the license is because they legally had to inform their shareholders that the main source of revenue for the company was gone. Smaller companies like Super7 and NECA that only have private investors or rich guys like Weinshanker running them are under no such obligation.
Though in the past, Flynn did disclose when the Disney license was no more, but he isn't running the show now.

>>11686830
Hehehe. Weinshanker.
I wonder how rich you have to be to fund a toy company. All of my getting rich fantasies involve me BUYING toys, but making them would be my absolute dream.
I just look at the industry and assume it's not gonna happen. Best case scenario I'm selling something massively overpriced compared to its peers due to not having a nationwide customerbase to spread the costs out over. like Beasts of the Mesozoic kinda shit. That shit is RIGHT up my alley, but too spensive.

>>11686839
>I wonder how rich you have to be to fund a toy company.
It would depend on the company, but starting your own company would be cheaper. Even if all you have is an idea you can do it for a couple of hundred thousand. The Armies of Ashmore guys funded their first toyline on Kickstarter for under $150k, so add on whatever 4H charges to sculpt the prototypes, can accept artists, and some other overheads and I doubt they went over $300k.
>All of my getting rich fantasies involve me BUYING toys
My millionaire toy fantasy would be to start an action figure museum.
Technically it still involves me buying toys, but I'd want to share them with the world. Only from behind bullet proof glass cabinets so that people can't steal parts from The Technodrome to complete theirs. I've read what some "hands on" toy museums have gone through due to feral kids and adults with sticky fingers.
And this was in a so-called high trust society.
https://unseen-japan.com/retro-toy-museum-closing-niigata/

>>11686854
>can accept artists
*concept artists

Fucking stupid phone posting autocorrect.

>>11686854
yeah and how much did the armies of ashmore toys cost?
>museum
oooooooh that is pretty rad. and it's sad but yeah, you would have to keep it hands-off. Remember when you could generally rely on most people not to be retards, and you could just pre-eject anyone you felt probably was based on their appearance and mannerism?
>Japan
wait no way. was it because of tourists?
>>11686857
phones is ass
i'd want to be the concept artist, though, so that saves some money.

>>11686858
>yeah and how much did the armies of ashmore toys cost?
I think they were $65 each for a 9" brute dinosaur man. All had the same torso, but different heads, armor and weapons.
There was also Animal Warriors of the Kingdom who got their first toyline started for under $100k, but that was a few years ago now.
It will all depend on how many molds you need. One main buck with a bunch of different heads is how most of these companies start out.
>wait no way. was it because of tourists
You'd think it was filthy gaijins, but from the article some of the incidents were kids running feral while their parents were enthralled playing the Pachinko machines in the museum.

>>11686868
That's not terrible, if they have decent articulation.
>use of recycled parts
yeahhh see, there's always a corner you have to cut. The industry sucks. Fucking plastic.
Someone needs to invent a new hyper-cheap version of silicone that can replace plastic in most things. Silicon is the cheapest thing on earth.
>kids running wild
holy shit what happened to japan
>parents are addicts
ah.

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Been opening stuff. Still got a lot to do, like the TMNT Ben Coopers.

The Ultimates are good. Not full price good. I kind of regret ordering them for full price. IF you can get these for $20? That's the right price. My figures don't have any majorly upsetting looseness, thankfully, but they still suffer from weird Super7 choices. Like, Casey's grip hands can't really grip his weapons very well. The ugly sash on Shredder...no paint on any of the figures, so they look veeeery, very plastic-ey.

They do all have very, very, very thin pegs on the hands, so if you get these, be careful with those. The rubber use is egregious though. I question how these will hold up over time. It's not quality feeling stuff, again, not for the price.

These just aren't $55+ figures though, articulation be damned. And IF they manage to do wave 14? Those are in no way going to be worth the uptick in the pricetag.

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The Re-Evolution turtles are lovely. Not perfect either, but these really stand out visually among all the Turtle variants. They all feel good to pose and mess with, though I did have to heat the hell out of Odyn's wrist pegs to get them moving. They all have plenty of accessories so you can go with any look you want.

The only annoying thing is the factory shortened the straps on Moja's jacket, so that cannot physically be buttoned up. Hoping that gets fixed on a re-run of the figure. Still happy with the figures and how they look. Need to play with their looks more. I'm happy to add Ben Bishop's signature to the collection too.

>>11687469
>20
20 dollars in like, 2008 money, for sure. I feel like you gotta up that to 30 now. I got most of my S7s for 30-35 and I feel like that was fair.
I'm baffled that they changed Shredder's plastic sash to a visibly stitched bendy cloth one, or at least included either as an OPTION, but at least overall these look pretty good.. good likeness to the show for sure.
>>11687473
they do make a decent-looking group, albeit with nonsense plastrons. feels like something the turtles would have met up with in Fast Forward, some coincidentally similar beings who are just from the planet Scrofula. I do not think the PANTS make a lot of sense...

>>11687469
oh hey, you wouldn't happen to have other S7s to compare shredder to (ideally, uh, shredder), would you? I'm pretty sure this 2k3 line is just flat-out at a smaller scale than the previous ones, but I can't be sure til I see them side by side

Have the TMNT x Godzilla figures shown up anywhere in Canada? Importing these things is a little pricey for the quality but I'm worried they're just never going to come out here since Toys R Us is dying again.

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>>11688551
They may come to EBgames. That is where I got the 6 pack of the retro turtles.

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Apparently we're getting these?

>>11688614
nta when did they make them with smooth skin?

>>11688655
>Comic Bonk Cover

>>11688660
A few months after the dill pickle skins dropped and got laughed at.

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>>11688660
The 6 pack with Splinter and Shredder are smooth

>>11688655
what are these correct decisions for villains
how the fuck did that happen in this day and age

>>11688703
What, you see Mikey and don't instantly think ACTUAL PLANET DESTROYING THREE HEADED SPACE HYDRA?

>>11688710
for the record I would have gone with Radon Don (for pun value and because Radon's kind of a wimp), Anguirus Mike because he's a party animal, and Baragon raph because he's got that horn. then Jet Jaguar Metalhead, Chrome Dome Ghidorah, and... yeah everything else here is on point, which is why I'm surprised.

>>11688655

Hmm, now how many waves of figures will there be?

>>11687473
These look really cool. Which turtle is which?

>>11688726
IIRC this is a quartet of Miles Morales

>>11688737
kek
It's like that is it? I do like their designs though. Just pre-ordered the quartet.

>>11688726
From left to right: Yi, Odyn, Uno, and Moja

>>11688755
Cheers anon! Do they have OG turtle counterparts? Or are they a completely different beast altogether?

>>11688773
Kinda. They pick and choose stuff from the OG guys to make new ones. Yi is like Donatello, and Uno is a mix of Leo (leader, dedicated to training) mixed with Raph (full of himself and doesn't take criticism well). Odyn is kind like Mikey, but a big physical fighter like Raph.

They're also all trained in all four of the old turtles' weapons (so they don't each have a "usual" one) and they all also have secondary mutation superpowers.

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>>11688737
I'm surprised they had the restraint to not make one of them trans or crippled.

>>11688777
Interesting. Cheers for the info anon.
Do they exist in the same universe/existence/world as the OG turtles? They're just a new batch after the OG turtles died? Or nah?

>>11688782
New batch created by April and her daughter to fill the void after the old ones died.

>>11688783
That seems pretty unethical

>>11688784
Yes, the Fugitoid calls them out on it pretty often.

>>11688783
Cheers again anon. Not necessarily the healthiest coping mechanism from April there.

>>11688744
I gotta say, I cannot hate their designs overall. but I've seen these same characters in the terrible comics looking a lot less good than this.
>>11688777
>making the leader also full of himself and not take criticism well
ah IDW..
>>11688780
I would be shocked if one of them wasn't faking their sex.

>>11688787
Pretty common in ninja turtle lore though, when you think about it.

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>>11680079
I haven’t been keeping up to date with TMNT news, but with Playmates losing the license, would the new license holder be able to continue the vintage rereleases or is there no hope of that?

The absolute ideal situation is that they also release some new figures in the vintage style like >>11680890 but I’ll settle for just having the old figures rereleased.

>>11688891
do you prefer that size? I would rather we keep getting scaled up S7 styled ones. With all the missing paint filled in, etc.

>>11688891
>would the new license holder be able to continue the vintage rereleases or is there no hope of that?
Depends on who owns the license to those designs. When Mattel did their MOTU and WWE crossover, anything they created just for that line belonged to WWE, and they were not allowed to reuse those parts elsewhere. So parts that did exist prior either came from MOTU Classics or Origins. Now there's one more thing, those Playmates reissues are actually new sculpts in many cases, but based off of vintage figures. In some instances it's like they just bootlegged their own figures. In other instances there's differences from the original figures. So any company taking on the license would have to make new molds regardless.

>>11688922
Hmm that’s an interesting point. When other companies make figures based on the old toy designs (like Super 7’s), do they have to license the toy likenesses separately from Playmates, or does that come with the TMNT license?

>>11688899
I do prefer the size, but more than that I like their durability and sculpting. They feel like toys that are made to be played with.

>>11688998
fair.
>did they have to license the toy likenesses
evidently they didn't, or they THOUGHT they didn't, and ran into trouble
It seems more likely that they didn't need to, but that instead, playmates threw their big thick dicks around saying 'we own the master license, so we can just stop producing toys if you don't do as we say and stop letting anyone use our old designs even if you own them'
...which is a pretty fucking retarded bluff, if true, since Playmates would sure as fuck die off before Viacom did if they tried that.

I've had Super 7s wave 13 just sitting in my living room unopened for a week. I don't even know if it's worth trying to find shelf space for any of them at this point.

>>11690679
They've seen everything. They know what you do.

>>11690679
i can't even imagine what that's like..
Surely they would demand their own small shelf, since they don't really fit with anything else.

Mattel got the license

>>11691486
Prove it

>>11691493
They got the guy at super7 who did 2003 turtles to work on mattel toy line

Announcement at nytf

>>11691497
So you're lying. Fuck off.

Mattel bout to Fuck neca up the ass

>>11691519
Nope. Mattel works with neca. Idiot.

>>11683700
McFarlane's IDW figures have been a huge disappointment and have been a downgrade from the BST AXN / Loyal Subjects ones in every conceivable way. For all the complaints people had about Loyal Subjects, of course McFarlane found a way to make them look great by comparison. We missed out on the BST AXN foot ninja army builder for this tiny low-articulation crap with muddy paint apps.

>>11685135
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1769699428002702.mp4" target="_blank">https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1769699428002702.mp4

Pretty much all the worst things to happen to TMNT were before they got bought out by Skydance. There's reason to hope that maybe April will be a redhead again. Just like with Star Trek, we have to wait for the sludge to clear out of the pipeline before we get a real look at what the new management is going to do with it.

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>>11691607
Why do Americans keep remaking the same stuff? Jim Lee said so himself anime does it better and continually tells new stories

>>11691486
I hope so, they'll go long in the tooth with a line in characters and designs, Hasbro would almost work with their rinse and repeat strategy since the TMNT get reincarnated so often

>>11691622
Truth nuke

>>11691607
Ya know, for what it’s worth, April is a redheaded white girl again in the new Godzilla crossover comic. And as Mothra.

>>11691622
Some intellectual properties are generational heirlooms. There's public domain stuff like the Holy Bible and Wizard of Oz, but in more recent history superheroes and the Middle Earth universe have been going since the 1930s without ever really dying off. There are plenty of wrong ways to handle heirloom IPs (endless ugly remakes and reboots like what Disney does) but there's no single right way either. TMNT's longevity largely comes from the fact that there is a core idea of what the IP is supposed to be that was laid down in the 80s that lies somewhere between the comics, the cartoon and the first movie, and then each generation of kids has gotten their own version that puts its own spin on things while trying to stay somewhere within that core. The same can be said for G.I. Joe and to some extent He-Man.

In the case of Star Trek, it had a long ongoing narrative universe that kept going from the 1960s through the early 2000s when finally the franchise got it's first official alternate timeline (Enterprise, who's timeline technically started in First Contact), and then another alternate timeline with the 2009 Trek series. It turns out that alternate timelines were probably a net negative for Star Trek and the IP has been in sharp decline ever since the movie Into Darkness, and is basically dead right now after numerous alternate timelines and time skips to the point that nobody even agrees to what Star Trek is anymore. Star Wars had a similar timeframe of being a generational heirloom, but ran into the same problem of putting morons in charge and diluting the value of the IP by breaking up the universe and throwing out the established lore that the fans actually liked. Also applies to what Amazon did to Lord of the Rings-- throw out the lore and make garbage that nobody likes in order to "get with the times" instead of being the trend setter..

>>11691530
Damn, so the Street Sharks crossover is basically confirmed. Cool!

>>11691486
well that's a lateral move.
why does anyone need the master license?
>>11691607
sky what now?
>>11691622
americans let women have a say

>>11691643
ehhh First Contact was a causality loop, it had always been that way (the way that it was after they undid the borg changes, that is). it's kirk in the 30s or whatever with that lady.
>nobody even agrees to what star trek is anymore
a 20th century franchise with a few notable 21st century animated shows, and one brief one-season reunion of TNG. that's pretty universal unless you're some child online trying to retake the term 'snowflake' for yourself.

>>11691986
Paramount was in financial trouble for years after a string of flops and the launch of Paramount Plus which had a lot of expensive TV shows that turned off fans, and they ended up getting bought up by Skydance who was a production partner on Top Gun Maverick, basically the only big hit Paramount had in years outside of the Sonic franchise. They were at the time a smaller company with a ton of investment capital who were basically able to bail out Paramount, but they also replaced a lot of their leadership to try and make the company profitable again-- and that also meant throwing out a lot of the DEI bullshit that led to stuff like Star Trek Discovery and black April.

>>11691991
and this was when? has to be recently
man I only just found out paramount was actually LARGER than viacom, and it owned them rather than vice versa, and now i'm finding out some tiny nobody company bailed them out and owns them now
that's... what the fuck is the word for optimistic but not me, it. i haven't felt that toward something in so long i've forgotten the terms. Promising. That is promising.

>>11691991
>throwing out a lot of the DEI bullshit that led to stuff like Star Trek Discovery and black April.
so Starfleet Academy was already made before this? Because otherwise, no they didn't.

>>11691871
Street Sharks has nothing to do with anything you psycho

>>11692026
Anon, I think you may have forgotten
they bite. they fight. but most importantly, they stand for everything right.

>>11691497
That isn't proof for anything. In fact, it's so unrelated you sound like a bigger dumbass than if you'd kept quiet.

>>11692026
Mattel? Owns Street Sharks.
Mattel? Wants to buy Ninja Turtles toy rights.
Ninja Turtles and Street Sharks? Doing a crossover IDW comic.
You? Wrong, once again.
Now go ahead and write your little two sentence post that ends with an insult, because you HAVE to get the last word in.

>>11692053
You seem to be having a meltdown, I think you need another vacation.

>>11692055
Weren't you like, banned? A shit ton of your post from the NECA thread where deleted. Are you ban EVADING? Which is against the rules?

>>11692060
You got banned and the first thing you do is start shitting up threads again? You need a longer vacation.

>>11692067
Haven't been banned. You sure it's not you?

>>11692044

-sax solo-

>>11692068
It's so weird how you lie like that.

>>11692053
Going to be weird having a TMNT crossover that isn't stupid this time.
Not to mention, unlike the MOTU and Power Rangers ones, the non-turtle characters actually looking cool IE the sharks in ninja gear with weapons.

>>11692105
What, you didn't like the Stranger Things crossover? Or Godzilla?

>>11692112
The ST one was boring and the Godzilla one has a shitload of wasted options (Mikey/Ghidorah instead of Shredder/Ghidora, Don/Jet Jaguar instead of Don/Rodan, Rocksteady/Destroyah instead of Rocksteady/Megalon).

>>11692105
There's not really a "this time" though. That won't be happening.

>>11692171
Here we go again. IDW already said they're working on it.

>>11692189
This isn't a comic's board numbnuts, nobody cares about what IDW is doing. The comics don't matter.

>>11692199
I mean that isn't the reason
the comics board is also the cartoon board, and we talk about the cartoons and movies here plenty. Usually in the negative, talking about the recent ones, but still.

nobody talks about IDW because it's not just crap, it's dry, grainy crap. Like you can't even chew it long enough to have fun explaining what the bad flavors are, it's just bleh

>>11692199
>MMPR x TMNT comic happens
>toys come out
>Batman x TMNT comic happens
>toys come out
>Godzilla x TMNT comic happens
>toys come out
>Street Sharks x TMNT comic is going to happen
Sorry you're so retarded you can't see the obvious fucking pattern.

Damn, lots of new posts in the TMNTthread. I wonder if there's some big news.

Nope. It's necanon and street shark anon swordfighting with their penises again. Every time.

>>11692217
I'm sorry you choose to be wrong all the time.

>>11692231
>You say: Street sharks and Ninja Turtles will never do a crossover
>I provide a screen shot from an artist working on both IDW runs that a crossover is happening
>You, a retard, decide to move the goal post and say 'It'll never happen in a TOYLINE'
>Me, provides evidence that every time the TMNT do a comic crossover, there's usually toys involved
>You, a mouth breating retard, scream 'NUH UH U WRONG'
Why don't you go back to the NECA thread and scream how NECA won't do a Miss Piggy figure or something?
>>11692222
It's not even about being right in the 'they're doing a crossover' thing anymore. I'm just sick of this faggot's bullshit.

>>11692241
and how has the arguing worked out for you so far in achieving that goal

>>11692245
Got him gone for three days at least twice, and these threads where nice and calm.

>>11692241
Comics aren't toys. Your autistic screeching is really pointless. You really need a vacation.

>>11692246
Snrk. Okay, you really are delusional after all. You just say things happened when they didn't. So weird!

>>11692222
I'd honestly just stop coming to this thread but they do it in every other thread on the board too so theres no avoiding it.

>>11692249
This retard really typed out 'snrk', huh?

>>11692250
Leave the board then. You aren't needed here.

>>11692249
aren't you a known ban evader?

>>11692253
You're projecting again.

>>11692254
thanks for confirming it. i accept your concession.

>>11692255
There you go saying things that didn't happen again. Very, very weird.

Imagine being so autistic, you can't piece together a crossover comic usually leads to crossover centric toys. Very very weird!

>>11692264
You're still freaking out over made up things in your head. Tsk.

So anyways, what do you think the crossover will be? The Sharks as Ninjas or the Turtles spliced with Sharks?

>>11692252
Save your bullshit for your thread enemy.

>>11692271
Why are you making up something that isn't going to happen? You really have nothing better to do? You don't...actually buy toys do you?

I've shown my collection multiple times, Necanon. My Muppets one, my entire Godzilla Room. But when I do, you scream 'EW GROSS'.
You, however, don't buy toys.

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Infact, I'll post my Ripster, Toxy and the TMNT bros again.

>>11692278
Cool, that's off topic. Also how embarrassing, someone bought the zit turtles? Woof.

>>11692277
>autistic screeching intensifies

>>11692280
>Turtles are offtopic....
>In a TMNT thread
???????

>>11692283
Street Sharks and Toxy is off topic, yeeeah.

>>11692282
Yeah they pretty much do that when I show even a bit of my collection. You should have seen the melty they had when I posted my Godzilla/Kaiju room.

>>11692287
You seem to live in your head where shit happens and you can't tell the difference between that and reality.

>>11692271
Sharks in headbands, Turtles with fins. Shark Shredder figure.

>>11692289
I have literal screen shots of you sperging out. You demanded I post my collection of Kaiju stuff, I did, you went 'EW GROSS' like the sperg you are.

>>11692292
Your autism is causing you to say some really questionable things right now.

>>11692293
Just remember, you ain't slick.

>>11692295
Are you having a stroke? You really need to calm down.

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You? Ain't slick.

>>11692301
You troll multiple threads? Not a smart admission on your part.

Cool projection, NICE deflection. Post YOUR collection. :)

>>11692246
Thongs that never happened: the post

>>11692246
so the ratio of disrupted threads to troll-free threads is....

>>11692331
He's retarded, anon. You can't expect actual thoughts from someone like that. C'mon.

>>11692331
Hey if I get banned taking them out for at least three days, you better enjoy these threads. See, he's sperging so hard he can't spell straight.

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>>11692349

>>11692349
well I can't exactly call foul on someone willing to take himself down at the same time.
I just wish the threads weren't full of bickering, and I feel like it's much easier for one-sided nonsense to be ignored and shoved aside than two-sided. it's like the opposite of real life, where every act of aggression needs immediate and equal retaliation.

>>11692476
Why are you even talking to the troll?

>>11692471
Uh oh, that image is off topic.

Turtles