After grabbing the license to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the 2014 film,most of us expected Prime 1 Studio to stick with the contemporary incarnations seen in Paramount's live-action update on the '80s cartoon. Given how Prime has worked with the company on the Transformers side of things, that line of thinking made some sense. Then this past weekend at Wonder Festival Winter, or Prime 1 Studio shattered expectations completely. Not only is the company continuing to put out more Turtles goods,but soon the fan-favorite iterations from the 1990 feature film will find their way from the sewers into collections around the world.
The four-statue set features the Ninja Turtles as they were in the landmark action movie of 1990. Unlike the computer-generated Turtles that populate the current films, these statues will be based on the actual costumes worn by actors playing Donatello, and Raphael,Michelangelo and Leonardo. I haven't been this excited approximately a TMNT collectible since top-notch Smile's James Jean statue series, but these current statues speak to me on a whole different level. And that level is my childhood.
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Source: comicsalliance.com