NECA TMNT x Universal Monsters

I like the two headed Monster has stitching all over it’s body, if you’re a real stickler for cohesion in your Monster Turtle display you can put Frankenstein Raph, Hunchback Leo, and TwoHeaded Donnie and Mikey together as a set of stitched together monster clones and Werewolf Raph, Creature Leo, Mummy Mikey, and Invisible Donnie together as “Turtles with Monster Powers”

”but two headed monster isn’t Universal and I don’t consider Hunchback or Invisible Man part of the core Universal Monster team!”, look strawman I made up, we all have weird toy collecting hang ups, you do you, but this line is dope as hell and every figure is an absolute banger.

I’m gonna say I called it, it might not use Bela’s likeness but that is Dracula as Shredder not Shredder as Dracula. I love his wine bottle (sorry “juice jug”) is a sake bottle, I’ve wanted that action figure prop for decades but never bothered to track down an in scale gashpon so I’m glad to finally get one.

I’m also really happy Krang is Metaluna, was real worried since it was movie based it was gonna be Donnie “because he’s the nerd” or Mikey to throw everyone off. The fact he’s also Robot Monster and looks like a sofubi just makes it even better. Trevor kept saying Shredder was getting multiple repaints and I can’t imagine wanting those over the original black suit, but I’ll buy every single version of Metaluna Krang, freakin’ army build out a 1950’s scifi alien invasion!

as long as Paramount is willing to let disgusting little gross boy versions of the Turtles and related characters be sold in stores let James Groman cook and I hope the line gets even weirder going forward!

A pipe dream for me would be a TMNT/The Thing mash-up.  Hey, it's a Universal monster!  But since they seem to be done with the Thing license in general...

But really, I've been a fan of Groman's style for a long time, so the more they let him do his thing, the more excited I'll continue to be about this line.