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04-11-2020, 05:01 AM | #1 |
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NECA - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 90’s Cartoon- POTENTIAL FIGURES SLIDESHOW!!!!
(Title should say SLIDESHOW not hunt to be more accurate....doh) I bought every single season of the TMNT 90’s cartoon…just to see the possible action figures from NECA…. Not nearly as many “mutants” (animal/human/mutagen hybrids) as I thought, surprised me. Playmates made a lot of originals. But, LOADS of POTENTIAL NEW FIGURES! Like most of us, we probably watched the show a long time ago sporadically. Or, in bits as adults. I could only remember some of the main characters. I mostly remembered the Playmates toys. Mannnny playmates figures were not found in the cartoon! It makes even more sense why Super7 is remaking making them. On the flip side, I had no idea some of the cool potential figures that were tucked away in the 90’s show. Some that never got a figure. I watched the whole series from start to finish. Taking pictures of the screen with my phone. Screenshots were disabled. BUT I DID IT FOR YA’LL! Love for my toy peeps! I cropped everything up to make it nice too I couldn’t find a quick slideshow sweeping over the entire series from start to finish with ease. One that was solely focused on the figs at that! So I made it! Hope you guys enjoy! 100’s of eps jammed into probably a 5 min slide show focused on potential NECA action figures. Figures…drool…. I took pictures of pretty much EVERYTHING…ALL MUTANTS, for sure. If NECA already made them, I might have skipped over…My stupid brain was cutting things out. Not thinking it would be annoying for others when looking through. Noob mistake. I captured everything with no bias. Absolutely everything with potential to be a figure. Even if it was a background character seen once on the show. Or even if I didn’t like it. Beyond that, there were some unbelievably boring aliens, big monsters, robots, whatever, the turtles would fight. A lot of those had zero potential as a figures for every reason imaginable, so, I left them out. Many redundant aliens and robots on the show…oof. Nothing about them that had any identity. (Neutrinos…I promise they are the only characters of note I distinctly remember not photographing because I didn’t like them, noob mistake, I’d probably buy them too, I’m buying everything else lol)(News team might not be all there because human) TRUST ME, if they ever make a figure that is not on this list, they are 300 figures deep or using some prototype stuff from un-aired episodes or simply creating their own thing. I paused the screen at every possible action figure worthy thing. (IF I MISSED SOMETHING OF NOTE, TELL ME, I’LL ADD IT…but you won’t catch me :P) I didn’t capture many of the vehicles. Didn’t see NECA making many except of the photos I took and maybe a turtle van. Maybe some others. I was mainly focused on action figures. Same goes for all of the AMAAAAZING human characters throughout the whole show. So much personality in the faces and bodies. Cartoons seriously lack that today. I would love to see so many of the humans made into action figures. Aside from the obvious main characters. The designs are so so so great for action figures. But, beyond the news team and few other humans of note, they probably wouldn’t crank out any more than the mains. Too many other mutants and all that stuff to get too. Very slim chance for those extra random people so I didn’t bother. EVERYTHING IS UPLOADED TO GOOGLE PHOTOS…… I suggest looking at the full show list, maybe I was a little lazy with the other albums lol Sorry no episode numbers or characters names…too much work. ---------------------------------------------------------- FULL SHOW LIST: (343 photos) (Ep.1 - LAST EP) https://photos.app.goo.gl/vp4PY7sj12ymCJs79 ---------------------------------------------------------- CHARTS: (3 Comparison type charts) https://photos.app.goo.gl/tQgqYuAVSkZ2Hy28A MUTANTS/MAINS: (243 photos) https://photos.app.goo.gl/GtPXLN4kEfHaexdY6 VARIANTS: (60) https://photos.app.goo.gl/7c7Xx9iLkZYJWqGC6 ROBOTS & MINIONS: (35) https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RNJEDVbTLB8wf8Q6 RANDOMS: (50) https://photos.app.goo.gl/dzzH4iqxP1PkKBo5A SMALL VEHICLES: (7) https://photos.app.goo.gl/hQ9txStT8Vs9Q3Zy5 MONSTERS: (27) https://photos.app.goo.gl/RKvDzpwtwG5YNjMw5 WRAP UP!: It’s kinda crazy, the show didn’t seem to know itself. Mutations and mutants from mutagen are hardly found throughout a series with so many freakin’ episodes of a show based on that very thing. And, a toy line focused solely on that. So many useless TV type stories without any mutants at all. Like, boring generic alien arrives for a 1960’s like plot romp. The turtles fighting the mob, but not mutants dressed as mobsters to make it more colorful, just humans. It's so easy to twist a lot of those stories to fit the narrative of the overall show. At least, with so many episodes, there were enough times they hit the mark, intentionally or unintentionally, to where we have a good lot of figures to look forward to. For some reason, only way later in the show, it seemed like they said, “Oh wait, more mutants on the show like the playmates!”. Sadly, it was too late. You can see it in the FULL LIST ALBUM. It’s in chronological order. If you watch from beginning to end, you can see where Mondo Gecko finally comes in and then a whole slew of new tmnt style “mutant” characters show up consecutively. But it’s like the last couple episodes of a later season. There had already been soooo many episodes at that point. All these filler type episodes. The audience was either still not watching or didn’t care the show had finally figured out what episodes needed to be like on a regular basis. When that didn’t seem to work, they went ahead with plans to ditch Shredder, and make a major shift into more sci-fi stuff. Felt even less like the show at that point. Weird. That’s another reason the new Super7 Playmates TMNT figs are looking so good to me right now. Playmates knew the heart of the show and what people wanted more than the show did! HA! Overall the designs are more detailed and sculptural as well. It doesn’t diminish the NECA cartoon line at all. The insane amount of episodes delivers a lot of stuff that hits the action figure mark. It’s also more eclectic than the Playmates/Super7 line. Alien style “mutants”, many variations of robots, possibly a few more human characters, tmnt mutant style figures in cartoon detail, and many little things here and there that fill up the world. THE VENDING MACHINE ROBOTS???? WANT THEM ALL, LOVE’EM!!! It feels more like a world than Playmates narrow focused line on “mutants”. I really like that distinguishing aspect of the 90’s cartoon NECA line. Across the board, all of the cartoon mutant designs are quite different from the Playmates. All GREAT! Cartoon Tokka and Rahzar, in my opinion, are the best designs of any variation. I can’t wait! If you are excited for Bebop and Rocksteady variants, BUCKLE UP! lol. That had to be said. I definitely want a few of those. But there are A LOT. Didn’t even photograph some…trust me, it’s okay, they were nothingness. Those to guys and Shredder were in almost every single GD episode. That’s why they weren’t making new mutants. It’s the boys, the brain, and shred. Over and over and over lol. They are amazing, but, if they dipped out more often we could have had some more rad mutants. When I think of the number of episodes…with a structured narrative…there would be like 500 different TMNT style mutants. Last edited by JerpJerp; 04-23-2020 at 12:58 AM.. Reason: Title should be Slideshow..can you fix Joe? |
04-11-2020, 10:21 AM | #2 |
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NECA - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 90’s Cartoon- POTENTIAL FIGURES SLIDESHOW!!!!
(Title should say SLIDESHOW not hunt to be more accurate....doh) I bought every single season of the TMNT 90’s cartoon…just to see the possible action figures from NECA…. Not nearly as many “mutants” (animal/human/mutagen hybrids) as I thought, surprised me. Playmates made a lot of originals. But, LOADS of POTENTIAL NEW FIGURES! Like most of us, we probably watched the show a long time ago sporadically. Or, in bits as adults. I could only remember some of the main characters. I mostly remembered the Playmates toys. Mannnny playmates figures were not found in the cartoon! It makes even more sense why Super7 is remaking making them. On the flip side, I had no idea some of the cool potential figures that were tucked away in the 90’s show. Some that never got a figure. I watched the whole series from start to finish. Taking pictures of the screen with my phone. Screenshots were disabled. BUT I DID IT FOR YA’LL! Love for my toy peeps! I cropped everything up to make it nice too I couldn’t find a quick slideshow sweeping over the entire series from start to finish with ease. One that was solely focused on the figs at that! So I made it! Hope you guys enjoy! 100’s of eps jammed into probably a 5 min slide show focused on potential NECA action figures. Figures…drool…. I took pictures of pretty much EVERYTHING…ALL MUTANTS, for sure. If NECA already made them, I might have skipped over…My stupid brain was cutting things out. Not thinking it would be annoying for others when looking through. Noob mistake. I captured everything with no bias. Absolutely everything with potential to be a figure. Even if it was a background character seen once on the show. Or even if I didn’t like it. Beyond that, there were some unbelievably boring aliens, big monsters, robots, whatever, the turtles would fight. A lot of those had zero potential as a figures for every reason imaginable, so, I left them out. Many redundant aliens and robots on the show…oof. Nothing about them that had any identity. (Neutrinos…I promise they are the only characters of note I distinctly remember not photographing because I didn’t like them, noob mistake, I’d probably buy them too, I’m buying everything else lol)(News team might not be all there because human) TRUST ME, if they ever make a figure that is not on this list, they are 300 figures deep or using some prototype stuff from un-aired episodes or simply creating their own thing. I paused the screen at every possible action figure worthy thing. (IF I MISSED SOMETHING OF NOTE, TELL ME, I’LL ADD IT…but you won’t catch me :P) I didn’t capture many of the vehicles. Didn’t see NECA making many except of the photos I took and maybe a turtle van. Maybe some others. I was mainly focused on action figures. Same goes for all of the AMAAAAZING human characters throughout the whole show. So much personality in the faces and bodies. Cartoons seriously lack that today. I would love to see so many of the humans made into action figures. Aside from the obvious main characters. The designs are so so so great for action figures. But, beyond the news team and few other humans of note, they probably wouldn’t crank out any more than the mains. Too many other mutants and all that stuff to get too. Very slim chance for those extra random people so I didn’t bother. EVERYTHING IS UPLOADED TO GOOGLE PHOTOS…… I suggest looking at the full show list, maybe I was a little lazy with the other albums lol Sorry no episode numbers or characters names…too much work. ---------------------------------------------------------- FULL SHOW LIST: (343 photos) (Ep.1 - LAST EP) https://photos.app.goo.gl/vp4PY7sj12ymCJs79 ---------------------------------------------------------- MUTANTS/MAINS: (243 photos) https://photos.app.goo.gl/GtPXLN4kEfHaexdY6 VARIANTS: (60) https://photos.app.goo.gl/7c7Xx9iLkZYJWqGC6 ROBOTS & MINIONS: (35) https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RNJEDVbTLB8wf8Q6 RANDOMS: (50) https://photos.app.goo.gl/dzzH4iqxP1PkKBo5A SMALL VEHICLES: (7) https://photos.app.goo.gl/hQ9txStT8Vs9Q3Zy5 MONSTERS: (27) https://photos.app.goo.gl/RKvDzpwtwG5YNjMw5 WRAP UP!: It’s kinda crazy, the show didn’t seem to know itself. Mutations and mutants from mutagen are hardly found throughout a series with so many freakin’ episodes of a show based on that very thing. And, a toy line focused solely on that. So many useless TV type stories without any mutants at all. Like, boring generic alien arrives for a 1960’s like plot romp. The turtles fighting the mob, but not mutants dressed as mobsters to make it more colorful, just humans. It's so easy to twist a lot of those stories to fit the narrative of the overall show. At least, with so many episodes, there were enough times they hit the mark, intentionally or unintentionally, to where we have a good lot of figures to look forward to. For some reason, only way later in the show, it seemed like they said, “Oh wait, more mutants on the show like the playmates!”. Sadly, it was too late. You can see it in the FULL LIST ALBUM. It’s in chronological order. If you watch from beginning to end, you can see where Mondo Gecko finally comes in and then a whole slew of new tmnt style “mutant” characters show up consecutively. But it’s like the last couple episodes of a later season. There had already been soooo many episodes at that point. All these filler type episodes. The audience was either still not watching or didn’t care the show had finally figured out what episodes needed to be like on a regular basis. When that didn’t seem to work, they went ahead with plans to ditch Shredder, and make a major shift into more sci-fi stuff. Felt even less like the show at that point. Weird. That’s another reason the new Super7 Playmates TMNT figs are looking so good to me right now. Playmates knew the heart of the show and what people wanted more than the show did! HA! Overall the designs are more detailed and sculptural as well. It doesn’t diminish the NECA cartoon line at all. The insane amount of episodes delivers a lot of stuff that hits the action figure mark. It’s also more eclectic than the Playmates/Super7 line. Alien style “mutants”, many variations of robots, possibly a few more human characters, tmnt mutant style figures in cartoon detail, and many little things here and there that fill up the world. THE VENDING MACHINE ROBOTS???? WANT THEM ALL, LOVE’EM!!! It feels more like a world than Playmates narrow focused line on “mutants”. I really like that distinguishing aspect of the 90’s cartoon NECA line. Across the board, all of the cartoon mutant designs are quite different from the Playmates. All GREAT! Cartoon Tokka and Rahzar, in my opinion, are the best designs of any variation. I can’t wait! If you are excited for Bebop and Rocksteady variants, BUCKLE UP! lol. That had to be said. I definitely want a few of those. But there are A LOT. Didn’t even photograph some…trust me, it’s okay, they were nothingness. Those to guys and Shredder were in almost every single GD episode. That’s why they weren’t making new mutants. It’s the boys, the brain, and shred. Over and over and over lol. They are amazing, but, if they dipped out more often we could have had some more rad mutants. When I think of the number of episodes…with a structured narrative…there would be like 500 different TMNT style mutants. I’m more excited than ever to collect all of the NECA’s and SUPER7’s. No other choice for me. I also hope this list generates even more excitement for BOTH TOY LINES! LOVE YOU GUYS! Thank you so much for all of the fun HEY JOE! I couldn’t find a creature movie, but, it’s the closest to creature stuff I got for ya. I hope this has some actual surprises for you! Thanks for all the hard work on the site, turtle power!
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04-11-2020, 10:44 AM | #3 |
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Neca needs to do more online partnerships or go direct to consumer subs like Mattel did. Target bull crap does not work for me. And now with covid adult collectors lines at retail will be gone.....in my opinion. They need to go the super7 route fast are something like that. Retail is done. The quicker we and the toy companies accept this the quicker we can move on to phase 2. And I believe phase 2 will blow our minds.
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04-11-2020, 03:34 PM | #4 |
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Thanks for the hard work and diligence, Jerp!
I think I'm in the same boat as you…I remember the toys a lot more than the show. That's the main reason why I'm struggling with skipping the Super 7 line. THAT is the Baxter Stockman I remember. But, to be honest, I was never a huge TMNT fan and the NECA line made me more of one than I ever was on my own. So, NECA comes first and I can't see collecting an entirely different line from a different company on a property that probably wouldn't be in my top ten. I think if I ever get real jumpy for the Playmates versions, I'll just buy the vintage Playmates versions. |
04-11-2020, 05:32 PM | #5 |
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Wow, Jerp! You put a lot of effort into this. It’s definitely appreciated. Just went through all the images and see what you mean about some of those designs. It’s funny. I absolutely love the cartoon figures NECA has put out thus far, but some of the show designs are sub-par to the Playmates toy designs. Slash being a prime example.
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04-12-2020, 03:15 AM | #6 |
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Thanks for the hard work and diligence, Jerp!
I think I'm in the same boat as you…I remember the toys a lot more than the show. That's the main reason why I'm struggling with skipping the Super 7 line.... I think if I ever get real jumpy for the Playmates versions, I'll just buy the vintage Playmates versions. I went back and forth so many times with Super7 too. It's either too much dough or sacrificing buying other figures I want for figures I "already" have. NECA is the choice for sure. Super7 is the deep cut. If you don't have the originals I would start there too. It has the real nostalgia. If you have those, and you start to really love them, you'll want the Super7's. The playmates were a lot bigger in my mind as a kid. It's like a 3 1/2 inch scale. Super7 are fully fleshed 6-7 inches. The figures are more faithful to the original character concept designs at the time as well. Peter Laird drew the mutagen man concept for playmates. The playmates toy does a great job taking a lot from the design. The Super7 looks even more like it. It's all very detailed and complicated. Way too much for animation of the day. Even today it would be a lot. So it got watered down. Like most of the cartoon designs. I LOVE the cartoon look. It just has less of the original creators inside of it. Those designers were kicking ass back then. Quote:
Wow, Jerp! You put a lot of effort into this. It’s definitely appreciated. Just went through all the images and see what you mean about some of those designs. It’s funny. I absolutely love the cartoon figures NECA has put out thus far, but some of the show designs are sub-par to the Playmates toy designs. Slash being a prime example.
I really appreciate that hard work now in a world where they don’t spend as much time on details. Details cost too much. Character designs get watered down from the outset because they know it will get cut. Remaking the Playmates is like honoring a time when these character designers went all out and were able to show how amazingly talented they were without so much of the industry editing it all down. |
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