Playmates Toys Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x G.I. Joe Crossover Figures?!?!

[Nosferatuman62172]

Bebop as Road Pig would've made more sense.

[Frozentenderloin]

Depending on the price point for the AWE, as well as size, I could see myself doing some custom work on it to make it a cheaper alternative to the Classified version. It doesn’t look super turtley compared to the helicopter.

[Scattergorical]

Although I'm not into the new turtles stuff, it was always fun to see that Playmates still making toys with the younger demographic in mind and now that that is winding down it's sad and surreal. Will it make a dent in the TMNT brand? The brand itself has been on an incredibly long run and most of that has been solidly successful, and while it's great to see kids getting more opportunities to be introduced to it, if this is the beginning of the end I gotta say it surpassed all my expectations by miles. It's been a great run and I hope they find a way back to it eventually.  

[ucsf]

At least they end their journey with a bang! I like the new releases and tbh the G.I. Joe themed toys are the nicest looking crossover toys from the last few years. 

[toynewman]

Shown below are new images for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x G.I. Joe Figures and Vehicles that will be available for pre-order May 24th at places like our sponsors:

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[Roadpigmaster]

20 hours ago, toynewman said:

Shown below are new images for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x G.I. Joe Figures and Vehicles that will be available for pre-order May 24th at places like our sponsors:

• BigBadToyStore
• Entertainment Earth
• Nerdzoic

I will be ready to preorder at the bigbadtoystore man... Also I thought Amazon had some exclusives!

[JayC]

The Platmates Toys GIJoe x TMNT crossover line as we mentioned the other day launches for pre-order tomorrow (5/24). Here is a breakdown of what will be a mass retail release and what will be exclusive based on what was said at NY Toy Fair back in February.

Single release 4.5-5.25” figure assortment features
• Leo as Snake Eyes
• Donnie as Dial-Tone
• Mikey as Shipwreck
• Raph as Roadblock
• Cobra Commander
• Krang as Destro (alternate weapon hands)
• Slash as Storm Shadow
• Bebop and Rocksteady as Ripper and Buzzer

Vehicle mashups drawing from iconic TMNT and G.I. JOE designs — the Turtle-Fly Copter and the A.W.E. Shell-Striker:
• Turtle-Fly copter - featuring spinning katana helicopter blades, firing missiles, a rappel line, and more.
• AWE Shell-Striker - featuring functioning missile launchers as well as space for your Ninja Turtle/Joe team on it, and includes exclusive version of the April/Scarlett figure.

As for Exclusives for this line, we have the following:
• Amazon exclusive version of the Turtle-Fly copter with an exclusive Raph as Wild Bill. I assume this will be available tomorrow but I can't say that with 100% certainty

• SDCC exclusive version of Snake-Eyes/Leo with Timber/Rahzar. Beign a con-exclusive THIS WILL NOT be available tomorrow.

Our sponsor Entertainment Earth lists these to go live at Midnight PT tonite which is 3am ET. I don't know if other retailers will list them at the same time, earlier or later. So just keep an eye out at your favorite retailers.

These should also be available at our sponsor BigBadToyStore.com and I assume Amazon will be listing them sometime tomorrow as well.

This stated at NYTF, this will be a 1 and done line as Playmates Toys will be loosing the TMNT line at the end of this year, at which point Mattel will be taking over.

[Lord_Scareglow]

Yeah I'm still going to pass on these, like I've said in the past, fun concept, only half-baked execution, they look silly, the mash-up's are not exactly making sense, at least for turtles, the villains a bit better, but like Nah...

like hear me out, Ralph - Snake Eyes, Leo - Duke, Mike - Chuckles, Donnie - Mainframe

the villains had it pretty right, Shredder-Commander, Krang-Destro, Slash-Stormshadow, but how was Bebop not Road Pig, Rocksteady-Gnawdahyde? 

Like I say at least have Baxter Stockman Mindbender, and Leatherhead Croc Master, 

[TheOtakuX]

Forget if the character combinations are a good match or not, how did they not do a Foot B.A.T.? It's like the most obvious thing to do!

[Frozentenderloin]

27 minutes ago, Lord_Scareglow said:

Yeah I'm still going to pass on these, like I've said in the past, fun concept, only half-baked execution, they look silly, the mash-up's are not exactly making sense, at least for turtles, the villains a bit better, but like Nah...

like hear me out, Ralph - Snake Eyes, Leo - Duke, Mike - Chuckles, Donnie - Mainframe

the villains had it pretty right, Shredder-Commander, Krang-Destro, Slash-Stormshadow, but how was Bebop not Road Pig, Rocksteady-Gnawdahyde? 

Like I say at least have Baxter Stockman Mindbender, and Leatherhead Croc Master, 

My guess is, they chose Leo for Snake Eyes because they both already were katana wielding characters, so they kept it that way. Why they chose the other mashups for the turtles the way they did  is beyond me. It is possible that they determined the Leo/Snake eyes mashup early on, and for that reason they didn’t have Leo as Duke. They may have realized that any other turtle being Duke would get backlash since it should leader=leader. Because of that, they may have just scrapped the idea of making the characters match up and just went with random Joes instead. 
 

I think your character mashups make a ton of sense though and it is a bummer they went the route they did.

[MagnaPrime]

I love the look, bit I hate the scale.

[Roadpigmaster]

I like that this line and will buy the exclusive Amazon helicopter and probably the AWE Striker... I can consider getting the SDCC Snake Eyes if it's not super difficult to get. I'm also interested in Bebop and Rocksteady with Dreadnoks look. the line looks super fun to collect but some of you are very picky about the character matches...

[toynewman]

Missed the Amazon Dragonfly!

[Roadpigmaster]

3 hours ago, toynewman said:

Missed the Amazon Dragonfly!

I'm on the same boat since it shows as unavailable man...

[Admiralty_Entertainment]

Raph as Snake Eyes would have made heaps more sense than Leo, especially when you tie it into his black costume in the Archie comics days. Raph as Roadblock doesn't make much sense to me, and that Amazon Dragonfly looks a heck of a lot more like Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore from Apocalypse Now than Wild Bill...

But yeah, if I see them at retail, it's going to be really hard not to grab Leo at least. That's a really nice design.