[ShabbyBlue]

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Originally Posted by dukefett

Flynn was on the Fwoosh podcast recently and he pretty much said that we'll get some of those wacky turtle variants, they had like waves 7 and 8 planned out I think he said.

If the selection of figures in their Reaction line is a hint of what we may similarly get in the 7" line, then they'll probably do these costume variants first: Undercover Donatello, Space Cadet Raphael, Samurai Leo, and Sewer Surfer Mike.

I'll be fine getting "Undercover Donatello" since that will be similar to Raphael in trenchcoat from the 1990 movie, but when they start doing the ridiculous stuff like the turtles dressed up as Star Trek characters or Universal monsters, then that's when I'll have to seriously reconsider being a completist with the line and maybe just pick and choose the characters from each wave I want. The "cosplaying" turtle variants is what burned me out on the Playmates toy line in the 90s and made me stop getting it and I'd roll my eyes when I went into the toy aisles every time I saw some new stupid costume theme they were wearing. It showed a real lack of creativity on Playmates part when they ran out of characters from the cartoon to do and had to desperately keep the line going with the costume variants based on other licenses they had access to like Star Trek.

In Super 7's case, I can easily see them doing the Universal monster variants since they have access to that license for the Reaction line, but I'm not so sure about any other movie-based properties. In my opinion, something like the Universal monsters variants should be its own separate wave or a special 4-figure box set for Halloween next year rather than spacing them out one figure at a time in consecutive waves.