Joy Toy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Wave 8 Review and Images

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

This week, we're having a look at the 8th wave of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1/18 scale figures from Joy Toy, which includes Leatherhead and Metalhead. It's the 'heads wave, if you will. Both figures are amazing, but Metalhead definitely is the winner, with one of the coolest version of that character ever, with tons of great accessories.



Leatherhead comes with a 3 pairs of hands, a shotgun, a rocket launcher with rocket, a fishing rod, a lobster and the usual base and stand. It's a great crocodile figure, a bit on the taller side, like most of the villains have been in that Joy Toy line. He moves pretty well, has a bendy tail and you can open his jaw. His shotgun can be attached on his back. I've seen collectors complaining about the lobsters attached to his legs that get in the way and could break easily, but I didn't have any issue with it. It's a really fun Leatherhead figure.
















Metalhead is where Joy Toy decided to shine bright, delivering one of the best Metalhead figure ever made. He comes with a ton of accessories/parts, has lots of moving parts and hatches that can open or hide the peg holes, with brilliant engineering. He comes with 2 pairs of hands, a flying drone which can be attached to Metalhead's shell so he can hover over him, a drill arm attachment that opens into a laser firing weapon with laser effect, a vacuum cleaner arm attachment, a jerrycan (for when he's thirsty!), a chest attachment with a laser effect, and 6 firing missiles, complete with bendy smoke effects to attach them to 6 parts of his shell that open, to make it look like he's firing in all directions, which is THE COOLEST (plus, the usual base and stand). Donatello would be so proud! The figure itself looks great, it quite heavy and has decent articulations, including his mouth, but those accessories take it to a whole new level. I'd say both those figures might be early contender for Top 10 list, easy.




















There was still a Roadkill Rodney robot set and the Party Wagon scheduled to come out soon after those, and I was waiting to have all in hand before posting a review, but since the Party Wagon hasn't come out yet, I went with those for now. There were rumors that Joy Toy might be done with the license after all those 2025 items were out (after 24 figures and one vehicle in a year, which is pretty amazing to begin with), but they recently announced the robot versions of Bebop and Rocksteady (Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady), so I guess that the rumors of the death of the Joy Toy TMNT line were greatly exaggerated. More to come! YAY!




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More news at 11:00... "No use skidaddlin', frogs! You don't be a skippin' from ol' Leatherhead!"