Playmates updated today with pictures of the their new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures based on the Mirage comics. We saw a preview of this with the black and white Raphael SDCC exclusive using this same mold. The articulation looks limited and the sculpts seem a little off. Really, they are nowhere near the NECA TMNT figures. But I’ll be damned if I can’t resist buying a set of TMNT brothers when they are released at the same time. Well, except the ’14 movie version. No. But give me black and white versions of this set and I’ll probably buy those too.
In 1984, Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman created and published a 40-page black and white comic, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were born. The comic was dark and edgy, and the look of the Turtles reflected that style.
In the color version of the comics, all of the Turtles were the same shade of green and all of their bandanas were red. Only their signature weapons helped to visually differentiate each brother.
These action figures pay homage to that earlier TMNT character style.
