[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Kernel

You really love your turtles don't you trivial? Awesome set, I'm jelly!

TMNT has been one of my favorite properties of both my childhood and adult life. The graphic novels, video games, movies, and toys have always been a part of my household for as long as I can remember. I remember seeing pictures of both the Shredder and the Foot Clan all them years ago in an issue of Tomart's Action Figure magazine, and have been drooling about them ever since.

The sad thing, is that when they were cancelled, I ended up selling my NECA Turtles in frustration and in need of some quick cash. I may go bootleg and pick up a set of the China NECA Turtles, or I might just end up using the Comic Nick Turtles that Playmates put out a while back, as I feel the scale isn't all that bad. Which brings me to Dr. Kain...

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

See, I don't understand how Playmates has anything to do with the way NECA sells these. Playmates isn't stopping Bluefin from releasing the Figuarts turtles, so why would NECA have an issue? Especially for versions Playmates has no interest in even doing I could understand Playmates having a hissy fit if they themselves were doing high end collectible figures and focused on the comics, but they're not, and they aren't.

I think in the case of Bluefin, that they are able to do the cartoon Turtles simply because they are considered an import item, and not a direct competitor to Playmates here stateside. There might also be some complications with NECA doing this stateside as well, as Playmates did do comic versions of the Turtles roughly a year or two ago, making this set a competitive against their own.

Of course, Playmates could ease fan fever a bit by simply releasing the excellent looking Shredder figure that they showed off for their 6 inch classics line 2 years ago, but that's a different beast altogether, and is one that still leaves me scratching my head on, given how popular the line was up until this last wave of Turtles from TMNT2.