[Comedian]

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Originally Posted by ludovicotek

What’s up with April’s head? That’s not what she looked like in the cartoon!

Kidding, Comedian

Thanks for that. Lol. What’s funny is I typed this stuff playing with my son and watching the old turtle cartoon with him. I was never not calm. I think we always picture someone angrily typing away in a dark basement. Lol.

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Originally Posted by ddarko

I see what you mean. However, unless it is the figure of an original character, wouldn’t you say that the value of the figure would be largely based on how accurate it is to the character, rather than a particular attempt at a past figure of the character? Otherwise, isn’t it like trying to approximate an approximation?

Now I can understand the possible value if someone wanted to complete their 80s Turtle collection. But still, I do think it would be better if those folks replaced their collection with better approximations of the characters themselves, rather than approximations of a figures from toy line.

I suspect that many find this puzzling for the above reasons.

I understand what you are saying, but understand turtles was not on demand in the 80s and early 90s. Most of us did not have VCRs yet so turtles was what ever time your local channel had it on every week. Most of us saw the toon once a week if that. Most of us were to young to have the comic. Our main exposure to TMNT was the toy line. The toys were looked at and played with every day. That is our main nostalgic picture of these characters. Depending on the TV you had the turtles even looked different colors so the neca figures had to be done in several colors. But everyone had the same figures. Everyone. This is just like masters of the universe. Yes Mattel and super7 did about 30 or so from the filmation cartoon but they did over 300 based on only the vintage toy line. Those are what we saw and helf]d every day.

The toy is nostalgic for toy collectors. The toon is nostalgic for passer-byes. Yes an April that looks like she jumped off the screen would be fun, I never held her in my hands. She never existed. I held this figure in my hands. And just like masters going from 5 inch to 7 inch. So did turtles. Big boys, want big toys.( heads out of the gutter, I know how it sounds. Lol) just like Star Wars. The black series is killing 3.75. Sadly.