In case my post last week didn't make it obvious - I'm ridiculously excited for Mondo's upcoming 1/6 scale Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line! I've never bought anything from Mondo before but I've been a Turtles fan nearly as long as I can remember. I was TMNT crazy as a kid but it was discovering the original Eastman and Laird comics in my teens that hooked me for life and I'm so glad it's that version of the Turtles that's serving as the primary inspiration for Mondo's line. I literally can't stop thinking about these awesome figures and the massive potential this line has!
If you're a TMNT fan like me there's so many reasons to be excited for this line;
1) They look like they stepped right off the comic book page. Seriously they look absolutely perfect. And as an added bonus they're based on Eastman and Laird's later work together. NECA's brilliant but short lived 6" line was based on their first appearance but it was around issue 4 before they really refined the look of the characters, so even if you have the NECA figures there'll be more than just a scale difference as both looks are unique.
2) The selection of accessories is fantastic. Whilst most companies would likely have been content to give the Turtles their signature weapons and call it a day but Mondo went back to the source material and added plenty of extras from Triceraton blasters to Mikey's Orphan Alien. And like Turtles themselves the extras look like they just stepped right from the comics. Just check out the pre-mutated Splinter that comes with Leo - posed perfectly like his comic book counterpart!
3) Mondo's planning for success. TMNT fans are used to their collector's lines not taking off. Both NECA's comic based line and Playmates' own Classics line never made it past the Turtles and 2 other characters. Neither of them even released Shredder despite plans for him to be in both lines before they were cancelled. At SDCC Mondo revealed they hope to include Shredder, a Foot Soldier and fan favourite Casey Jones in the second wave if the first wave sold well. Judging by how things went last week I'd say we've a good chance of Mondo going ahead with their plans! But before that though, Mondo will be releasing a 2-Pack of Mousers sometime after Raphael (maybe as a wave 1.5 to tide us over between the main waves?)
4) They're drawing influence from all sources. Whilst the main influence for the Turtles is the comics Mondo are also taking inspiration from the cartoons (the alternate heads with the colour masks) and Playmates original toylike (the varied skin tones) to create the ultimate versions of these characters. Which is good, at these prices you don't want a lot of variants!
5) The sky's the limit. Whilst the first figures are comic influence Mondo aren't limited to just Mirage comic characters and they're confirmed that characters like Bebop and Rocksteady are available to them even if they aren't planned at the moment, so this really could be the ultimate Ninja Turtles line!
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