Playmates Toys Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 40th Anniversary Original Sketch Turtles Review and Images

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

This week, we're having a look at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Original Sketch Turtles by Playmates Toys. Continuing on the TMNT 40th anniversary offerings, those figures were finally available on Amazon, after being only available at Walmart for a while, so I gladly grabbed a set!

I always wanted a plastic representation of the original sketch turtles, and missed out on the Mondo ones and the several other statue/vinyl toys offerings (Bottleneck Gallery,..), but this year, I managed to get several of them, between the Playmates Toys and the NECA ones (review coming soon!). Those Playmates Toys figures have minimal articulations and accessories, but just look very fun, like a children toy version of those original sketches from Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. As long as they can hit the poses they have on the pictures, that's all that mattered!



The packaging is fun, in black and white with the sketch on the back. Each figure comes with their weapons, stands that connect to each other and a print of the sketch. Leonardo has his katanas and 2 sheaths, Raphael has his sais and a katana with sheath (like he did on that sketch), Donatello with his bo staff and Michelangelo with his nunchucks that can be attached to his wrists and a crate so that he can stand slightly higher than the rest to hit the pose from the sketch. A very cool set!












































I'm a bit annoyed that both Playmates Toys and NECA have already announced the black and white versions of those sets, because although it was obvious that they would reissue them in black and white down the line, I had hoped that they'd come out in a year or two, as convention exclusives for example. Both brands announced the black and white versions of those sets before most of us even had those colored ones in hand, that's a bit of a crappy move...







More news at 11:00... Happy 40th anniversary, dudes! (They didn't say Cowabunga back then...)