They’re Heroes in a Half Shell and They’re GREEN

Great col­lec­tion! I finally got my Nick TMNT toys yes­ter­day and they’re pretty awe­some. They’re a lot smaller than I thought they’d be, but they’re really cool. I just need to find a Foot Sol­dier and April now.

There is no rea­son to use Raph in any of the TMNT games because the Sai has no reach what­so­ever, lol.

I had a friend who was awe­some with Raph in TMNT Tour­na­ment Fight­ers. He still usu­ally lost to my Chrome Dome, but we had some damned close matches. (So yeah, if we ever hang, we totally need to play that game!)

This is why it’s famil­iar:
http://www.nick.com/shows/ninja-turtles/ ;)

Nick didn’t have a nice “com­plete” sky­line back­drop, so I kind of had to cob­ble together the one I made using dif­fer­ent image assets I was able to pull from their site, like the indi­vid­ual build­ings. Then I scaled it to “Tur­tle size”, made it fullscreen on my com­puter mon­i­tor, set a plat­form in front of it, and very care­fully posi­tioned the fig­ures and cam­era frame.

Those Tur­tle fig­ures are great. I had a brief stint when I was younger where I was “too old” for action fig­ures and the orig­i­nal Tur­tles car­toon and toys fell dur­ing that time. But I remem­ber pin­ing for them from a dis­tance. When I saw the Tur­tles recently at TRU, I had to get the set of them. Very cool style that’s a good amal­gam of their comic book and car­toon looks.

And hey, nice Pho­to­shopped backdrop!

I have never been one to become emo­tion­ally attached to objects. I don’t really have much of a sen­ti­men­tal side when it comes to things. If some­thing isn’t use­ful I don’t really have a prob­lem get­ting rid of it. That’s why, while I do have a size­able col­lec­tion of toys on dis­play in my house I wouldn’t really strug­gle with part­ing with any of them if I had to, which is why I’ve lost or sold just about every bit of TMNT mer­chan­dise I had as a child.

That being said, this post makes me feel like an idiot! Like a com­plete fool! Why don’t I still have all of those things to enjoy today?! I’m sure I’ll get over it in like an hour, but right now I am depressed. So thanks for that.

Also, the new toys are pretty awe­some. The sculpts look just great and I really like the scale. I’ve never been a fan of really large fig­ures. I don’t have mine yet, but I really need to pick up a set. I’ve spent the last week or so just look­ing at other people’s cus­tom paint jobs and think­ing about how I would love to cus­tomize some myself even though I have zero expe­ri­ence with that sort of thing.

And lastly, Raph’s a joke in (most of) the games. Donatello all the way! Espe­cially in the first NES game. I just beat it again the other day thanks to Donnie’s reach and power. TMNT #1 Raph could never best Don in a fight.

That top pic is sweet! You should feel extremely proud of that shot. I can not wait to set up a half-way decent shot-taking spot once I’ve moved. Right now I’m just toss­ing a sheet over things as a back­drop and try­ing to take the least blurry pho­tos I can.

I was always torn between Mikey and Donny as my favorite tur­tles. The fun-loving come­dian and the nerdy genius were the two aspects that I des­per­ately wanted to emu­late as a kid. I didn’t want to lead, and I was broody.

Speak­ing of those dif­fer­ences in char­ac­ter, do you fre­quent Cracked.com at all? If not, you NEED to check out this video: http://www.cracked.com/video_18260_which-ninja-turtle-are-you-lifes-most-important-question.html The After Hours videos are hilar­i­ous, pop-culture savvy up the wazoo, and sur­pris­ingly intel­li­gent and well researched. Once you watch one, you’ll want to watch them all.