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Write a Review link for that item. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Classic Cartoon (Neca)There's been a lot of NECA figures hitting shelves lately, partially thanks to the annual Haulathon event at Target. TMNT has a big presence during it like usual, but this year it's more focused on the Mirage line, with nowhere near as many toon figures as before. Still, the new toon stuff is what fans have been wanting for a while, including the much-requested Creepy Eddie. He was a one-shot character in the show, solely appearing in "Nightmare in the Lair," but he's still a memorable Freddy Kruger-esque villain. Eddie may not be as disturbing in appearance as his inspiration, but he still has a fitting design for a nightmare creature. His inhuman skin color, pointy nose and ears, and mismatched eyes make him a ghoulish-looking fellow, and Richard Force recreated him very well. It's not perfect, though, as his left eye looks a bit too small, and the stray hairs on his head are missing, but for the most part it's a solid sculpt. He has both open and closed-mouth portraits, and the hat on both is attached via barbell peg, allowing you to shift around its position on his scalp. Not every day you see a figure with hat articulation! Standing about 6 3/4" tall up to the hat, Eddie's inspiration is made much more clear by his striped sweater, based off Freddy's own, but the suspenders are all his own. The straps are a separate piece that can be removed with ease, and I'll explain why later. The proportions are true to screen, and the articulation blends in mostly well, though he's another figure with double-jointed swivel/hinge elbows, and those are designed really oddly. Not sure why they couldn't just do hinged elbows with bicep joints, or just single swivel/hinge elbows, but I'm not gonna harp on it too much. The paint is very clean save for some minor bleed, and hey, cel shading, haven't seen a figure with that for a minute. Only the red and gray parts are shaded, however, so it creates an inconsistent look. Eddie doesn't have quite the range of articulation most figures have gotten recently, but he still poses well. He has a barbell head (and hat), ball-jointed neck, swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows (double-jointed), wrists, and ankles, ball-jointed hips, double-hinged knees, and a swivel waist and thighs. The design of the shoulders prevents them from going all the way out to the sides, but everything else works great. The heads are very tough to swap, however, so you'll need heat for them. Other swappable parts include four pairs of hands - closed, relaxed, gripping, and pointing - and a ghostly tail to swap out his lower body for (also why the suspender straps are removable). Popping off the lower body requires some force, but no heat. He also has his time bomb dynamite and Donatello's "Dream-O-Vision" helmet, with a peg in the back so it can plug into a Turtle's head in place of the mask knot. Eddie isn't the only spirit here, as packed in with him is Shibano-Sama, the late founder of the Foot Clan from "Blast from the Past." Shibano's appearance is much different from Eddie's, since he's a ghost, and his face appears old enough that it's almost a skull. He too is sculpted by Richard Force, and the portrait, while not 100% screen-accurate, is very close to the source material, and he looks quite ghastly. The lines on the face have a semi-transparent look, matching the rest of the figure, and they're clean, but the pupils aren't colored correctly. They're supposed to be yellow, not white, but I imagine it was hard for them to tell with the semi-transparent cels for him in the show. Shibano is a little shorter than Eddie, standing just below the 6 1/2" mark, but the body sculpt is great. What's unique about him is that his body is made of a transparent, but still colored, plastic to give off the same ghostly effect the show did. The joints are still solid plastic for obvious reasons, and that means the kneecaps contrast with the rest of him. The articulation is about the same as Eddie, though he adds forearm swivels inside the sleeves, and there are no issues moving any part of him, but the hands (same four pairs as Eddie) are much tougher to pop out of the forearms. The ghostly tail is another piece of shared tooling with Eddie, and it sort of represents how he came out of his urn, but in the show his lower legs were what transitioned into the tail, but it'd be hard to pull that off, so alternate lower half it is. Shibano also has a katana to wield, but you can't sheath it into his belt, yet another oversight. There's one last accessory here, and it's a big one, being a flight stand. We got a flight stand before in this line with Wingnut and Screwloose (as well as Turtles in Time Baxter), but this is the same one available by itself rather than the uniquely tooled one they got. There's an adjustable clamp, a hinge at the base of the arm, and an adjustable height mechanism that ratchets in place. They improved how the clamp plugs in a bit, as it now can be completely horizontal, and it's a much-needed improvement over the standalone release (or at least the one I have). There's also an alternate base for it with suction cups, so that you can attach it to a glass surface and let your figures hover around your home or wherever else you are. Fun, but I may not use it like that. While a lot of fans were asking for Creepy Eddie, I wasn't expecting Shibano to happen alongside him. Nevertheless, both come together for a fun release with unique accessories, and while the $65 price is a bit higher than most two-packs (the last one to cost this much was Antrax and Scumbug), the included dynamic stand helps justify the cost that will likely become the norm no thanks to these dumb tariffs. Even with price increases, I know NECA will continue doing good enough of a job to justify the cost. - 5/14/25   by RMaster007 |
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