Playmates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Review and Images

It's Wednesday and you know what that means: ToyFarce review!

This week, we're having a look at the ninja turtles from the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem animated movie, from Playmates. The turtles are back, baby! (Not that they ever left...). New movie means new merch, and the figures from Playmates certainly are tons of fun. I only picked the 4 brothers (for now...), but I feel like more will join them after I've seen the movie (and as soon as I can find them in Europe...).



The new movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, comes out on August 2nd, and is directed by Jeff Rowe and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who also co-wrote it). The new computer animated movie has fun designs, and a stacked list of voice actors (Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, John Cena, Paul Rudd... wait, what?). The toy line was announced a bit prior to the movie, with a ton of action figures, vehicles and playsets already available.














The 4 ninja brothers, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo (in no particular order), each come with their respective weapons, a mini turtle and the classic plastic weapons racks that the figures from the late 80s came with. Right in the nostalgia! Donatello also comes with headphones. The figures are between 4.25 and 4.75 inches tall, with Raphael as the tallest and Michelangelo as the smallest. Decent amount of articulation and accessories, and for $9.99 each, it's really hard to say no!











The action figures were designed by Ramirez Studios, founded by toy sculptor extraordinaire Phil Ramirez, who started working at Varner Studios right during the original TMNT craze in the late 80s/early 90s, so getting to do the figures for the new movie kinda feels like coming 'full circle'. Absolutely well deserved too, since Phil has worked on pretty much most of the toys of our childhoods (for 80s/90s kids at least: Playmates, Toybiz, McFarlane Toys,...). Phil has been sharing pictures of the prototypes of the figures on his instagram, for those interested!











More news at 11:00... Cowabunga! (I do not even know if they say 'cowabunga' in the new one, but i'm excited!)