They're not characters who are addressed very often, despite their regular presence on the show, so it's nice to finally get accurate representations of all of them. ![]() Zak the Neutrino got a Playmates action figure in 1990 which substantially redesigned his look, and it got a reissue in different colors as part of the Toon Turtles assortment along with a more accurate Dask and Kala in 1992, but the colors were still all over the place. The Neutrinos were introduced in the fourth episode of the five-part cartoon pilot, called "Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X," and they appeared in a host of other episodes, including the not-the-same-episode "Teenagers From Dimension X" and "The Grybyx" and "The Dimension X Story" and "Attack of the Neutrinos." There was also a cartoon sub-plot where one of their flying Star Cruiser vehicles was stolen and was clearly being primed for a reintroduction as the Foot Cruiser, but that story moment never materialized. So I'm not sure if it's Neutrinos or Neutrinoes. I always learned that when it comes to words ending in "o," you pluralize living things by adding "-es" (tomatoes, grottos) but you only add "-s" to non-living things (radios, Cheerios). The cloak has a wire embedded in the hood to help you position it as you desire, and it comes with a cloth belt so you can tie it shut. He's also got extra fists (six in all: closed hands, splayed-finger hands, and weapon-clutching hands), a katar (it's similar to the "Turtle fist dagger" that came with the Playmates action figures, the one that could stow in the back of Raphael's belt), a kunai (a dagger), a conical straw hat, and a tiny figure of Spot the tokage, a baby dinosaur like creature from the Stan Sakai comic book.įinally, he comes with a cloak, which he used to disguise himself whilst traveling through New York and visiting Channel Six News. (Babs Bunny: "Do you like my ears up, or down?") I recommend grasping the up-pointing ears by the base, since mine came separated where the ears meet the base, and I had to glue them back together. He comes with a stoic face and a slightly perturbed face with buck teeth visible, and his ears (either poking up, or folded back) are interchangeable so you can create a total of four different possible heads. The weapon holsters for other toys like Traag and Granitor have always seemed too fragile to me, so this was a good alternate design approach. ![]() The elastic belt can tuck into the gap between his shirt and pants and is nearly invisible, which I think was a great solution. At first, I had thought NECA had made a mistake, until I realized that the stretchy belt that comes in the soft goods baggie is meant to hold the sheathes in place. His swords stow away in twin sheathes, which don't plug into the toy's hip at all. Remarkably, I didn't have any problems with joints that were frozen or sealed shut with paint, which I think is a first for a NECA figure for me. He's articulated in all the places you might expect-the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips, knees, and ankles. The new NECA sculpt has captured his animated look exquisitely, right down to the single eyebrow (actually a scar) over his left eye. (There was an attempt in 1994 to give Space Usagi his own show, and there's test footage out there with Jim Cummings doing the voice of Usagi, but the show never got off the ground as a full-fledged series.)Īnyway, while the original Playmates version of Usagi was wearing chain mail and armor plating, the cartoon version of him was in a kimono and loose-fitting bontan pants. Usagi (voiced by Townsend Coleman) was only in two cartoon episodes, entitled "Usagi Yojimbo" and "Usagi Come Home," and that was, it seems, the limit of the licensing agreement with Stan Sakai. So, the fact that NECA has been making animation-specific action figures, which honestly feels sometimes like they're catering to me specifically, is such a delight. The old Playmates action figures tended to ugly up the characters with creatures crawing all over them, and gave them awful face sculpts, and I went through a phase when I customized as many of them as I could, cutting off the creepy-crawly creatures and repainting them to try to match the animation. To me, it has always been the true and correct appearance of these characters. Let me preface this in saying I am a huge fanboy of the original TMNT cartoon series. They told me flat-out they don't forward packages, only letters, so I'm honestly surprised I even got it. Even though I called them to update my address, they still shipped it to my old address for some reason, and the USPS proceeded to slap "RETURN TO SENDER" labels all over the box, and delivered it to me anyway.
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