Friday, November 17, 2017

2017 Holiday Geekbook: NECA's Quarter Scale Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure
Nothing triggers a retro, flashback reflex faster than the theme song from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. Activating these flashbacks has meant big business for toy manufacturers this past year, with products allowing you to revisit every past love from Q-bert to The Golden Girls. NECA loves what we love, and so it should come as no surprise that they would produce more than a handful of action figures that would give a geek whiplash when cruising any toy display. While all of these toys are fantastically rendered and considered a must-have for any collector, the quarter scale Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures stand alone as works of art.

How do you encapsulate the fun and dorkiness of odd rubber suits that, at the time, made four ninja turtle brothers a little TOO real? You get master sculptors on the job and ensure the paints coming out of China are top notch, delivering a finished product that fans of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies would bow down to. WORSHIP YOUR GREEN GODS!!

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure


NECA managed to make the movie turtles less mascot and more amazing, which is a small miracle on its own merits. Texture covers every inch of their bodies and painstaking paint details make the sculpt pop. You might think a company spending this much to perfect a pop culture icon would just reuse one body and swap out weapons, belts and masks. Not NECA! Pour over the Raphael sculpt and you'll find scars and slices taken out of his shell, no doubt due to recklessly charging into battle. His face is stern and threatening. In counterpoint, Leonardo seems more composed...ready for anything and yet, calm and steady. DID I MENTION THEY ARE TURTLES??!! For a sculptor to convey these things in a toy of a giant turtle which was essentially a big rubber puppet suit, is astounding.

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

 While NECA's quarter scale turtles have all the prerequisite articulation you could want, the nature of his size and sculpt details, along with pads and such make these figures a bit difficult to pose as dramatically as, say, a 6 inch figure, but joints are nice and tight and I didn't have one fall over in the course of this photo shoot. Most of your apprehension in posing these figures is the opening price point and your urge to NOT break those suckers, but the figures seem sturdy enough and have a good range of motion. Just go slowly!

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie FigureNECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quarter Scale Movie Figure

We managed to get our hands on 2 of the 4 turtles offered in NECA's series to give you a very good idea of what you'd be looking at if you pop for a set. NECA have released all 4 brothers...so far. Raphael in his overcoat and hat is due to hit stores this January, so more turtles could definitely be on the way!
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