@smitty-81 Yes, unfortunately. I wouldn't hold my breath.

@chrisa yeah there are plenty of options for normal turtle figures out there.

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@smitty-81 It was Eastman first. They had a disagreement over Next Mutation (which is kind of TMNT's New Adventures, though it is still not fondly remembered), though there were cracks in their relationship as far back as the early 90's. They just have different personalities. Eastman sold his half to Laird, and he ran it for a while (which gave us the 2003 TMNT, which is basically their 200X.) Then he got burned out and sold the franchise to Viacom/Nickelodeon. Eastman has come back and is involved in the comics now, Laird tends to keep to himself.

Playmates has the master toy license and are apparently a pain to deal with. There are several companies that make TMNT toys (Super7, NECA, Mondo) but apparently Playmates likes to flex their muscles every now and then. I know NECA and Super7 have had to jump through a number of their hoops.

This is quite a soap opera  I will have to check out that Toys That Made Us episode.

I looked last week and found nothing then read somewhere that the official release date was the 7th so I checked again today and found Mouse Jaw. Strangely just him, didn't even see a peg space for the standard wave. They also didn't come up on a search on Target's website. I've ordered the standard waves from BBTS but I have to turn to Target for the deluxes. (stupid store exclusives!)

I could kinda see me getting normal Turtles based on Origins; I most likely see me getting any April ONeil (MOTU or not; unless its actually a Teela again*)  purely because the amount of female characters in the Origins line is a pathetic embarrassment; but overall this merger mixup is not that appealing to me.

* I like Teela; but at some point the re-releases are overdone; and for me that was already before the previous release. (... I will make an exception for the Filmation version though 🤪 ).

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Posted by: @keldorsnose

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Toy stores are dead. Governments will soon restrict plastics and toys will be dead too. Enjoy your lame nfts.

In the U.S. sure.  But they are thriving in other countries.  They are everywhere in Mexico.  

 

The new drug being smuggled into the US won't be drugs it will be figures.

@keldorsnose US customs agents confiscated 25 kilos of Duplico figures last night near Brownsville, TX.

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I could kinda see me getting normal Turtles based on Origins; I most likely see me getting any April ONeil (MOTU or not; unless its actually a Teela again*)  purely because the amount of female characters in the Origins line is a pathetic embarrassment; but overall this merger mixup is not that appealing to me.

Overall it's not appealing to me either and even less so for the Stranger Things crossover. It feels desperate tbh. Will sales be great or will the ToG line be flushed down the toilet by Summer? We'll see.

@kraken ToG is only planned for one year, with 16 regular figures and 8 deluxe figures.

@smitty-81 Did Mattel actually say they were finished after those? Or are you thinking that way because that's all that was announced?

@asterstar 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Z3Af1VgKERjLKsqLBaUxsr77jsqggpVpcTpwBZC7dqkamu97LAAyMW3DYwtZ5YKRl&id=100064506260195&mibextid=Nif5oz

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I looked last week and found nothing then read somewhere that the official release date was the 7th so I checked again today and found Mouse Jaw. Strangely just him, didn't even see a peg space for the standard wave. They also didn't come up on a search on Target's website. I've ordered the standard waves from BBTS but I have to turn to Target for the deluxes. (stupid store exclusives!)

It would be so confusing for casual shoppers if that is the only figure they are carrying.

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@asterstar 

 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Z3Af1VgKERjLKsqLBaUxsr77jsqggpVpcTpwBZC7dqkamu97LAAyMW3DYwtZ5YKRl&id=100064506260195&mibextid=Nif5oz

Nothing in that says its only planned for one year with 16 regular figures and 8 deluxe figures though.

@asterstar sorry that must be the wrong Q&A... I know I read that somewhere.

@asterstar I really dislike BaFs that are split up between different waves. At the least Mouse Jaw's packaging should show silhouettes of the other figures that will come with Metal-Boto's parts with "coming soon" as the name, just so people know they'll have to wait.

@smitty-81That would of been a good idea.

@kraken can you imagine if they didn’t finish the vintage line as promised and we had the stranger things one instead?……

Mouse Jaw review. 

Finally!! Had the whole wave but only 1 of each

I found one full set of the Wave 1 figures and 4 Mouse-Jaw at a Target in MA today.

All I needed was Mouse-Jaw since I got the standard figures from BBTS. Now the wait for Wave 2! 😫 😆