Back again for #TurtleTuesday, we’ve got this NECA Baxter Stockman!
This NECA Baxter figure is based on his mutated bug form from the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. While the figure alone already looks cooler than the vintage release to me, he came with a few episode-specific accessories including a Gerbil Michelangelo, a sentient computer, a Shredder fly, a trans-mutation gun, and three sets of hand to hold this random stuff.
Also on this #TurtleTuesday, we’ve got this NECA Raphael in disguise!
This version of Raph is based on the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. He’s giving you a heads-up that he carries a sai in case you step out of line.
“A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me you didn’t pay money for this.”- Raphael
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
Also on this #TurtleTuesday, we’ve got a NECA Casey Jones!
This particular Casey Jones figure is based on his masked appearance in the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. I was pretty pumped to get this figure as I always felt the character was an integral part of the movie, and this version of the character had never been made in action figure form.
ALL of his scenes still have so many lines of dialogue stuck in my brain nearly 35 years later: “Class is Pain 101. Your instructor is Casey Jones.”- Casey Jones
On this #TurtleTuesday, we’ve got the return of a character specifically from TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze, it’s the NECA Keno with Scooter!
This figure made its debut at SDCC 2023, packed in a large pizza box with random stuff like a keychain, a T-shirt, a magnet, and an employee of the month card. Thankfully, the figure was recently made available without all the extras, just a boy and his scooter.
During the film’s opening scene, a multitude of New Yorkers are enjoying a slice of pizza, and Keno is revealed to be a new character for the audience to follow who works at ‘Roy’s Pizza’ and makes deliveries on his scooter. Well, at least he did before his shift ended early due to a run-in with the foot clan and four guys in weird green ninja costumes. 😉
NECA really did an excellent job here in recreating the look of a youthful Ernie Reyes Jr., the scooter in the film, and even the pizza bag and inner cardboard pizza box. If you want to change up Keno’s look, there is an alternate head where his smile is slightly different (while still being the happiest pizza delivery boy in the city), and two extra pairs of hands for doing ninja moves, not just delivering pies.
Recommended music: Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps – Be Bop A Lula
It’s another #TurtleTuesday, and today we’ve got this NECA Bebop!
Bebop comes with some cool accessories, but most importantly, he looks like he jumped right out of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, and he is ready to take on the “toitles”. 🤪
Recommended music: Lima Research Society – Android Boy
On this #TurtleTuesday, we’ve got another fun character from the 1987 animated series. It’s the NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Krang with Android Body!
Now, this is the version of Krang you may be more familiar with. Yes, it was made in toy form for the Playmates line in 1992, years after appearing in several TMNT video games, which was after the appearance of Krang’s Android Body in the Archie comics. Do you know where it showed up first? The fifth episode of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series “Shredder & Splintered” back in 1987.
NECA released this “Ultimate” version of Krang as the previous bubble walker just would not be adequate. In addition to the new android body is a new Krang with better articulation for controlling the joysticks inside, three sets of hands, two antennae (in case you lose one). six weapon attachments including spiked flails, blaster cannons, an axe, a spinning spike wheel, soap on a rope, a bath towel, a shower cap, two blueprints, and Shredder in baby form from the season 3 episode “Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp.”
I chose to picture him with a flail from season 3 episode 47 “The Big Break In” as this was the first time since the body’s season one debut where you got to see any attachments. This hulking 9″ figure really stands out on the shelf with the smaller turtles, and NECA included well more accessories than any Turtle fan could have imagined. I’m certainly satisfied with this release, however, NECA has teased an even larger version of the character at shows aimed for future release.
Good evening Turtle fans! For this #TurtleTuesday, we’ve got another fun character from the 1987 animated series. It’s the NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Krang!
This version of Lord Krang was available in a couple different 2-packs and features the little Utrom in his primary mode of transportation from the animated series, the Bubble Walker. NECA developed a smart design for Krang’s tentacle arms to attach to the walker separately so the “brain” part can be easily added inside. This cartoon version is slightly different from how the vintage Krang action figure worked with holes in the canopy, but both brains can easily be swapped into the larger Krang android body.
The original figure came out around the same time as the season 3 episode “Four Musketurtles,” which showed other Utrom in the same type of transportation. You know the episode. It’s when Leonardo gets bumped on the head and uses an accent believing he is D’Artagnan from The Three Musketeers. 😄 Other colored Bubble Walkers were seen in the season 7 episode “Invasion of the Krangazoids”.
It’s time for #TurtleTuesday, and today we’ve got this NECA Baxter Stockman!
This figure is based on Baxter’s human likeness from the 1987 Ninja Turtles animated series. It comes with many accessories including this alternate head from an episode where Baxter wanted to cosplay as Shredder (or something like that).🤪
One more #TurtleTuesday post from the archives, This is the NECA Toys Attila the Frog!
In a move similar to the way Splinter named turtles after Renaissance artists, Shredder named the Punk Frogs after conquerors and dictators. This frog was named after Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire.
It’s #TurtleTuesday, and this NECA April O’Neil figure shows April as she appeared during the opening intro for the first seven seasons of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. I’m not sure why she’s driving the turtle van, but I am sure she’s the only licensed driver in the group.
It’s #TurtleTuesday, and this an April O’Neil figure from NECA!
This is not your typical newswoman/friend of turtles as this figure depicts April as she appeared in “The Catwoman from Channel Six.” Yes, after her genes are inadvertently spliced with a cat in a transporter, and she is transformed into a mutant catwoman.
The figure comes with a cat, and is very cat-like with a cat head, claws, and cat tail. Unfortunately, it would be tricky to make this one into a non-feline April, but there are two other cartoon April releases that fit the bill just fine.
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