Toy property mashups are a pretty fun trend in modern toy lines. The longest-running and most notable examples are definitely Transformers with their early Crossovers lines with Star Wars and Marvel (2008-2010) and then their Collaborative line with Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, TMNT, Top Gun, etc (2019-present). But back in 2019, Mattel started doing mashups with their highly versatile Masters of the Universe Origins line and WWE. These we fun and I loved the three ladies produced: Chyna, Steph McMahon, and Becky Lynch. But it wasn't until the Turtles of Grayskull line where two truly iconic lines were combined that I got obsessed. While the two figures I've purchased haven't quite been the combination of two characters the way I expected, they are still fun reinterpretations of the characters in the other universe. In this case, Teela as an armored turtle warrior. She's very weird but very cool and I hope there are more in the works. Let's check out the Turtles of Grayskull Teela below!
Teela comes with several pieces of turtle armor and a large sword.
Her body is also constructed using the standard Teela and Evil-Lyn buck which has removable/swappable parts as shown in the diagram below.
Time for a Comparison Pic!
Here is Teela with her original MOTUO version from 2020 and her 200x version from 2023.
Cheers!
So ridiculous that AGAIN Mattel is using art for Turtles Merman in box art (as well as stop-motion commercials online) when the figure was available much earlier in 2024 for 1.2seconds at Walmart, then straight to eBay for $85-$150.
ReplyDeleteYeah it's pretty wild that Mer-man and Mossman were so scarce. I never saw either of them in the wild. And I know that people who placed the recent BAM preorders all got cancellation emails, too.
DeleteHah I never knew this was a thing! I love the turtle shell armor look.
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