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Mirage-style 1988 TMNT Repaints
"Why are they all in red?" Well... The original, black-and-white TMNT comics by Mirage Studios are my favorite version of the Turtles, but I think the hand-painted color volumes released…
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April O’Neil (and Mousers) Repaint
While most people know April O'Neil as the yellow jumpsuit-clad news reporter from the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, she actually started out as a jumpsuit-clad lab assistant for…
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Leatherhead custom repaint
There's nothing really wrong with the original Leatherhead toy, I just thought that for a gator from the Florida swamp, he didn't seem murky enough. So I tried to keep…
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Rocksteady Custom Toy
While I kinda love the original Bebop action figure, the 1988 Rocksteady toy has, for a long time, disappointed me. His legs make him feel like he's too skinny for…
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Legion of Doom Tag Team Custom Toys
Snacking on Danger and Dining on Death since 1983. The Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal, who took their name from the Mad Max films, were also known as the Legion…
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Robot Heroes Action Master Thundercracker Custom Toy
Thundercracker's model sheet. This is what he looked like in the 1984 cartoon. Thundercracker was one of the first Transformers toys released in 1984. He was a blue-and-silver redeco of…
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Heroes of Cybertron: Generations Acid Storm
After Sunstorm proved to be a successfully popular "new" character, Transformers-owning toy company Hasbro kept going with naming the background Decepticon Jets, following up the creamsicle-colored one with the lime…
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6″ Custom Roadblock
He's not a 100% match for the 1986 Roadblock (links to YoJoe.com), but he's fairly close, with the knife moved to the back. Roadblock is made from a Marvel Legends HYDRA ENFORCER figure,…
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Real Ghostbusters Repaints
In 1986, toy company Kenner released a line of toys based on the cartoon series, "The Real Ghostbusters." This cartoon continued the adventures of Peter Venkman, Ray Stanz, Egon Spengler,…
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Robot Heroes Sunstorm
I’ve already discussed Sunstorm at length before, so I don’t really feel the need to do that again. But the 2-inch PVC Robot Heroes toy line was fun, so I…
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Transformers Robot Heroes Powered Convoy custom
Before there was Transformers, Japanese toy company Takara created a line of toys called DIACLONE, with the toy molds that Hasbro would eventually license and turn into Transformers in the…
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Tigatron Custom
All images from TFWiki.net except the one of my actual custom Beast Wars was great. As the first true re-imagining of Transformers, it holds a very special place in many…
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Slash, the Evil Turtle from Dimension X custom
PIZZA STINKS!? I love this crazy bastard. At least, in theory. During the height of Turtlemania, specifically in the year 1990 – shortly after the first film was released in…
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Tokka & Rahzar Custom Toys
Tokka's the snapping turtle, Rahzar's the wolf, and they were created for the 2nd TMNT movie, The Secret of the Ooze, released in 1991, because Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird…
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Heroes of Cybertron Rainmakers
In the season 1 episode of The Transformers (1984), "Divide and Conquer," (link goes to that episode on TubiTV.com) three unnamed Starscream recolors appear, in incredibly garish, bright colors. They…