Recommended music: El Colosso – Leatherhead
Welcome to the swamp Turtle fans! It’s #TurtleTuesday, and today, we’ve got another fun character from the 1987 animated series. It’s the NECA: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Leatherhead!
I was pretty pumped when NECA first showed off this zany character. Unlike in some TMNT comic adaptations, the cartoon version of Leatherhead is all-villain. This giant albino alligator (who turned green when mutated) made his animated debut in the season three episode “Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp,” later returning another half-dozen times. The Cajun gator is memorably voiced by Jim Cummings and successfully tricks the Ninja Turtles, the Punk Frogs, and even April O’Neil into walking into quicksand and other calamities.
NECA included Leatherhead in a 2-pack with Slash, who may be a more memorable character, but Leatherhead’s 7″ frame really stands out in this line. Leatherhead comes with extra hands including fists and a trigger hand, a strange ketchup bottle gun (I don’t remember the reference), a pair of crayfish/lobsters to hang from his belt, a chain and shackle for prisoners, a bear trap, a rope, and a net… He’s not messin’ around. “I guar-an-tee”
“Maybe you win this time, heh heh, but I’m gonna be back, you betcha!” – Leatherhead
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