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Originally Posted by Black Arbor

Playmates saw the bootleg sets coming from China and thought "hey, we can do that with the same level of quality and at triple the price!"

I bought a set of those bootlegs several years ago. My hands felt scuzzy after handling them and they smelled weird. They were great pieces to practice paint washes and dry brushing on but they ultimately went into the trash.

As for these official re-releases, I have to say that I'm disappointed. The plastic color, the legs, Leo's bandana tails, and the accessories are all wrong. I could excuse some of those problems since the molds are 20 years old and some have either been lost or degraded. But there's no excuse for the colors to be that far off. These new Movie Star Turtles are using a color scheme similar to the 2012 animated figures instead of the 1992 Movie Star figures. There are plenty of online resources that Playmates could've matched the plastic colors to be pretty close to the original figures.