[Joelston]

So freakin excited for these!! I don't have the words to express how transcendently beautiful these 1990 Turtles are to me, as I'm sure they are to a lot of people. I remember it vividly, my brother and I won tickets to the movie through a kids breakfast show that was on at the time here in Australia. We watched it religiously, mostly because they had the Turtles in their line-up of cartoons of course. It was the very first thing we'd ever won, and the palpable shock of pure joy and happiness that shot through our bodies knowing that we had somehow managed to score tickets to the first live-action iteration of our beloved Turtles on the big-screen, and in the best cinema in town no less, was and is truly one of my fondest childhood memories.

I remember my younger brother and I could barely sit still as the previews rolled and we fidgeted and fumbled in our seats, literally sitting right on the edge as we braced ourselves in anticipation, chatting frantically about how awesome and realistic the Jim Henson-engineered practical puppetry looked, who our favourite Turtle was and why, how unbelievably comfortable the plush cinema seats we were lucky enough to be sitting in were, which bad-guys the teenage ninjas would face, and anything and everything else that was running a million-miles-a-second through our hyper-active over-excited sugar-fuelled brains!

NECAs figures bring all of that beautiful nostalgia flooding straight back, and just make me so damn happy. To me these are a symbol, an almost mystic talisman of all that was exciting and magical about that special time. Well done NECA, I'm all in.