Back in the late 1980's when these guys first picked-up momentum (and kick-started the modern graphic-novel moment (in the English language that is; the Europeans were - of course - way ahead of the Anglo Saxons on that one . . . bigoted Brexit idiots!), I'd just got out of the army and was living in Aldershot where one of those combined head-shop/t-shirt/punk-badge/comic kiosks had both the US
TMNT editions and the self-censored
TMHT version . . . our kids weren't to be influenced by Ninjas apparently, they had to have 'Heroes' . . . go figure!
Carded
Leonardo and
Michelangelo, the figures are about56/60mm, but as they represent cartoon anthropomorphic turtle Ninja warrior monks who live in a sewer and allow themselves to be trained by a giant rat, I'm not sure that their being a few millimeters taller or shorter than your favorite figure-size is much to worry about!
I picked them up in a non-chain clearance/pound shop in Aldershot the other week, three of five, the missing figures being
Raphael and a 'Foot Soldier'. And this gets Finland in the tag-list again!
Donatello in his blister and a line-up of the three, I've been back to see if I could get the others, but it's clear I got the last three of an end-of-line thing! Still - three-quid for the trio? I bet
Forbidden Planet had them at +/- a fiver-each whenever they were 'high street' retail stock!
The cards that came with them made no sense; nor did the all-languages/no language graphical instruction sheet! There seems to be an element of having to give your figure away if you lose at a round of 'Top Trumps': madness! There's a video on-line that might make it clearer. . . no, I haven't and I won't be, I'm a collector, not a thrower-away of good figures on the turn of a card!
These are nice sculpts, well painted, in a tactile material, if you see some, get them, put them on the shelf next to your
JIM Napoleonic's,
Timpo swoppet
'Great Helms',
Marx beach babes and
Cherilea Mexican bandit, they all represent the same thing - Childhood.
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