This is awesome. People are selling old Ninja Turtles on eBay. That's actually not much of a surprise, since eBay is where we offload our unwanted junk. However one man's unwanted junk can be another's joy. Especially if your joy is in collecting toys.
If your childhood resembled mine in any way then you loved this stuff. Then you grew up and your mum shoved it all in a big plastic bag and off it all went to the charity or thrift shop.
Look at these guys. Such simple lumps of articulated plastic. Toys have come a long way since the 80s but these still have a charm to them. They even had different skin colours, for a bit more variety.
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| I get bored easily... |
I managed to nab a lot of other figures that I never had as a child. For some reason my nearest toy stores never seemed to have Shredder, Krang, Bebop or Rocksteady. These ones always eluded me. My mum would never buy me those ones anyway, the ugly or weird ones were barred. What a lovely life lesson.
Here's Shredder, looking very emaciated. By the way, from the way he's standing I don't think anyone ever taught him good posture (or the importance of a good shirt). You're never going to destroy the Turtles standing like that.
Look it's Baxter Stockman, who has perfected irony because he's carrying a fly swatter.
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| Yet to dine on turtle soup. Or a square meal. |
Bebop and Rocksteady, that lovable pair. Rocksteady carried a trashcan lid for a shield, because of cutbacks in the Technodrome.
I remember visiting other kids' houses and seeing Splinter among their toy collection, and he was almost always naked. Classic Splinter came with this pink robe thing which like most accessories quickly got lost, never ever to be seen again.
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| Ye gods... |
I never did have classic Splinter, but I did have two that transformed. The one that could switch from human to rat form was a pretty clever piece of toy engineering. Later they released one that would transform into a small turtle van. That was when the toy line started to go bonkers.
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