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TMNT as The Ghostbusters
When Playmates toys announced this line of Ooze-flinging TMNT toys... image stolen from ToyNewsi.com All I could see was the Turtles as knockoff The Real Ghostbusters. So, y'know. I did…
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TMNT Groundchuck Custom Toy
Groundchuck just came out of nowhere in 1991, when Playmates was releasing figures of mutants made out of random animals to flesh out the TMNT toy line’s 4th year. To…
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Transformers Robot Heroes GunRobo Custom Toy
I've gone into some of the origin of Megatron's original toy before, but the brief version is that the toy that would become Megatron was originally the twelfth figure in…
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Art of Fighting/King of Fighters Ryo Sakazaki custom toy
Once upon a time, SOTA Toys made some truly excellent Marvel Legends-style Street Fighter action figures, and after a few years, they made new figures of Ryu and Ken, based…
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1970s Cyclops Marvel Legends custom toy
When Hasbro announced the Retro Marvel Legends X-Men line and included this figure of late-1980s Cyclops, all I could see was potential for custom figures. The most obvious was Cyke’s…
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Robot Heroes Bug Bite Custom Toy
So here's a weird one. The Transformers top rivals for converting robots in the 1980s were Tonka's Go-Bots. In the early 1990s, Tonka was failing as a business, and Hasbro…
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1987 Cartoon-style TMNT custom toys
Last year, I posted about my Mirage-style TMNT repaints. And I had this photo ready to go, but I've had so many other things to post, I just hadn't gotten…
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Transformers Robot Heroes Meister Custom Toy
So, Autobot Jazz is cool, right? He got repainted into Stepper, over in Japan. And then I got an extra Robot Heroes toy of him, and made a Stepper of…
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Toy Biz 5-inch 1980s Wolverine Custom Toy
Fun fact: This is somehow the first post I've ever made about Wolverine. At the end of 2021, Wolverine is a character that doesn't really need an introduction; He's been…
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Toy Biz 5-inch Jean Grey custom toy
Of all the characters Toy Biz made five-inch X-Men action figures of during their legendary run in the 1990s, they somehow never made this 1991 Jean Grey design. Well, that's…
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TMNT Napoleon Bonafrog Custom Toy
Image of original toy stolen from tmnttoys.com In the 1989 episode Invasion of the Punk Frogs. Creating his own team of four radical amphibians, Shredder named them after his personal…
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Robot Heroes Stepper Custom Toy
I've talked about Stepper in the past, specifically in regards to his ReAction figure by Super7. But this little cutie is part of Hasbro's Robot Heroes sub-line of Transformers from…
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TMNT Wingnut Custom Toy
Wingnut is a bit of an odditiy in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles world, in that he's an anthropomorphic bat, but he actually isn't a mutant! He's an alien from…
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Robot Heroes Generation 2 Grimlock Custom Toy
Me, Grimlock, feeling blue... I know I've written about the weird repaints in Transformers Generation 2 before, but now for one about the Dinobot leader, Grimlock! Grimmy here was from…
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Fright Features 2021 Real Ghostbusters
To tie in with the upcoming Ghostbusters Afterlife film, Hasbro has produced a series of Ghostbusters figures that are something of an update to the classic 1980s The Real Ghostbusters…