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Robot Heroes Red Mirage Custom Toy
Before Hasbro licensed all the toys from Takara, many of the vehicular characters were originally toys from the toy line Diaclone, and Mirage was no exception. Both Mirage's original Diaclone…
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TMNT Walkabout custom toy
I know literally nothing about Walkabout, except that he's a mutant kangaroo from the 1991 wave of TMNT figures. I got one, and painted him up to better match the…
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Heroes of Cybertron Hotlink custom toy
More fun with obscure Transformers characters! From the very first episode, More Than Meets The Eye, pt. 1, comes Hotlink! He's from the same scene as Sunstorm, whom I've talked…
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Heroes of Cybertron Bitstream custom toy
Fun with obscure Transformers characters! From the very first episode, More Than Meets The Eye, pt. 1, comes Bitstream! He's from the same scene as Sunstorm, whom I've talked about…
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TMNT Fugitoid custom toy
Fugitoid - The fugitive android - Acutally pre-dates the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird wrote and drew a bunch of short Fugitoid stories that either never…
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TMNT Dirtbag Custom Toy
Dirtbag is a mutant mole, who is also a miner. I've always felt like that’s a little on-the-nose, even for the early-1990s Ninja Turtles toy line. But, such is the…
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The Real Ghostbusters 2 Custom Toys
Oh hey, it's like the repaints of Real Ghostbusters toys that I did from the first movie, but instead they're now in the grey coveralls that they wore in the…
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TMNT Scumbug custom toy
He's an exterminator that got turned into a mutant cockroach! Scumbug is... gross. The original toy was definitely the inspiration for his animated appearance: But in the Teenage Mutant Ninja…
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The Real Ghostbusters “Citizen Ghost” Custom Toys
Custom Spectral Ghostbusters as seen in the episode, “Citizen Ghost,” which explains why the Ghostbusters went from the uniform tan jumpsuits to the multicolored ones. Inspired by this. From this……
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TMNT Mondo Gecko custom toy
Image from TMNTToys.com Mondo Gecko is the "Rip-Roarin', Skateboardin' Reptile." And that's it. That's his personality. He's a late 80s/early 90s surfer dude that got mutated into a gecko, and…
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TMNT Tournament Fighters Rat King
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters is a pretty solid fighter, coming from that brief period in 1993 where the popularity of TMNT hadn't QUITE ended yet, but the popularity…
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TMNT Bebop & Rocksteady yellow custom toys
In the second episode of the original 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, we meet Rocksteady and Bebop, the Shredder's hench-mutants. About 18 and a half minutes into the episode,…
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TMNT Metal Head custom toy
Metalhead was created by Krang to destroy the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But the turtle who "does machines," Donatello, reprogrammed Metalhead, and now he's one of the turtles' allies! And…
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Spawn Redeemer custom toy
Todd McFarlane's Spawn was ostensibly a comic about the war between Heaven and Hell. I say "was," because I stopped reading after it seemed like Hell was defeated, and now…
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Heroes of Cybertron Navy Ramjet custom toy
I've talked about Transformers: Generation 2 before. The overall failure of that line meant that a lot of planned toys never got released, but photos of the conept art have…