Comic Reviews by Walt

For over a year, I’ve been interested in the NECA figures based around the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. I was about to "pull the trigger" on buying one last year when I was laid off outta nowhere, and so that was firmly put on hold.

Now, re-employed for some time, I turned my sights back toward the figures, loving their detail and accuracy to the film in a way that other "based on the 1990 film" figures never seemed to truly match.

I decided to start with the TMNT Baby Turtle Accessory Set. Though they were really only in the film for a brief scene–probably not even a full minute–I liked the look of these figures, as well as the price. They’re a bit more expensive than 4 standard TMNT action figures, though they’re basically the same size. As "premium" figures go, that’s not a bad price…and all the more compared to the "full size" teenage turtles.

The set comes with the four turtles, as well as a Domino’s pizza box, a bag of chips, several baby-turtle-sized slices of pizza…and apparently to make up for some deficiency in size/etc or to otherwise add some sort of appeal to the pack, a "bonus" hand for the full-size teenage Michelangelo from his show-off-duel with a Foot ninja in the film, spinning his weapon balanced on the tip of a finger.

I love the detail of the pizza box–it’s a flimsy tagboard sorta thing, but looks like a real pizza box miniaturized down to the grease stains! The pizza slices are a rigid plastic, so a bit off-balanced if put in the box. But they’re decent for having the turtles hold.

The bag of chips is another nice touch, another "snack" and piece to add scale to these turtles.

"The little ones were crawling into a strange, glowing ooze from a broken cannister nearby. I gathered them up in an old coffee can, and when I awoke the next morning, I received a shock–for they had doubled in size. I, too, was growing…particularly in intellect. And I was amazed at how intelligent they seemed, but nothing could have prepared me for what happened next: one of them spoke.

"Pizza! Pizza!"

"More words followed, and I began their training, teaching them all that I had learned from my master […] And soon, I gave them all names. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello…and Raphael.

So next up for me is the full-size turtles and possibly the Shredder. At minimum, I definitely want to get Raphael and Leonardo, and Shredder. Of course, I’d love to get the entire set, but these things being expensive and going "out of production" (aka "out of print") and such could put a huge spanner in the works on that idea. For their steep, premium pricing, though…it’ll be a longer journey, as I may be willing to sink the money over time, but not in a large, lump sum, for multiple items in the line.

Along with these baby turtles, and the full size turtles, and a Raphael-in-trenchcoat, I believe there’s a Foot ninja, and coming sometime "soon" (or so I’d swear I’ve read) is Shredder.

Then there’s a reproduction of Casey’s facemask, as well as a replica of the ooze cannister.

Filed under: 2019 Non-Review posts, 2019 posts, NON-REVIEW CONTENT, The Toy Chronicles | Tagged: 1/4 scale, 1990, 1:4 scale, Neca, Ninja Turtles, quarter scale, TMNT, toys |