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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

While I haven't opened her yet and won't for a little while at least, April is essentially not all that different from many of the 5poa figures we see in stores currently. From the looks of things, she has articulation in her neck, arms, and hips, with some additional articulation in her wrists (which is hidden by her yellow jacket.) She might have waist articulation as well, it looks that way studying the packaging. Unfortunately, she has no calf, thigh or ankle rotation, so her legs are pretty much stuck in that position in terms of poseability, and being that she has high heels, you probably won't be able to do much with her other than stand her straight up.

Here's the issue that I was mentioning on her eyes in my last post. It looks as if they opted to go with decals for her eyes for either cost or aesthetic reasons, but for whatever reason that they did, it results with April having a kinda goofy, wandering eyes. Thankfully, I was able to find one that was semi decent at a glance, but under the eye of a camera, the flaws come out glaring. Some of the April figures that I saw in the display were pretty poorly done, with her eyes bleeding into the bridge of her nose, while others had a wandering eye so lazy that would make a chameleon jealous.

Her and Disguised Raph looked to be the short cased ones, so while she might be tougher to find, it's definitely worth being able to inspect the figures in hand as opposed to purchasing online at a site like Amazon or Ebay.


On the Shredder, the whole Exo-Suit thing has grown on me a bit, and it makes a bit of sense I suppose. When they casted the actor to play Shredder, it kinda raised some eyebrows for me, but after thinking about it, I highly doubt we will see William Fichter taking on the turtles using martial arts prowess. I'm picturing him instead being a lumbering (or augmented) powerhouse much like the Super Shredder was in TMNT2: SOTO.

The figure is awesome, and while far from perfect, I do like the subtle and more sensible changes in articulation. The one complaint I do have is the helmet, it's pretty terrible and just screams Lord Zedd from MMPR. Haim Saban might just have a lawsuit there. I'm not a fan of the gaping skull holes on the eyes with the flesh tones, so I might end up going over those flesh tones with a dark red or black to more closely resemble the design sketches that have leaked out in various places on the net.

D'aaaahhh!!!! those eyes!!!! she looks like a really bad anime cosplayer!!!!