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No way! 295
entries and not a single TMNT yet? I’m really sorry. I have a couple of
Playmates’ figures but none of them is complete, so I am waiting until I find
the missing accessories to show the figures here, in a proper entry.
Meanwhile,
I’ll show these other ninja turtles, which are also very nice toys, and have
many things we could comment right now.
We already
talked about Yolanda/Comansi in other entries. As said in those entries, Yolanda used to buy
licenses to reproduce children’s favourite characters in plastic PVC figures.
Since the TMNT was the most important toy collection by the beginning of the
90s, it was just a matter of time for Yolanda to get those licenses. The
figures in the pictures are all copyrighted by “Mirage Studios”, the comic book
company founded by Eastman and Laird (the creators of the characters).
Although
the copyright of the figures is from 1988, I guess these figures were first
sold in shops around 1991, maybe 1992.
As the
Saint Seiya figures were (I showed in entry #174), these are hand painted, so
the colours of the turtles might be mistaken. In this case is not the color,
but the cast… can you find the error?
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In the
picture with all four turtles, left to right, we see:
Raphael
(red), Leonardo (blue), Donatello (purple) and Michelangelo (orange), the
letter in their belts tells the initial of the name, so every character is
correctly painted.
However, it would have been more appropriate to cast each
turtle with its preferred weapon:
Raph: Sai;
Leonardo: Sword; Donatello: Bo and Michellangelo: Nunchakus , but Leonardo and
Michelangelo seem to have changed weapons.
This series
is not complete. Apart from the four turtles, there were more characters made: A
second version of the turtles in “Mutant Military” outfits, plus Bebop,
Rocksteady, Shredder and Splinter.
These “Mutant Military” figures were released in 1991, and with that we can
date Yolanda series from 1991 on.
Yolanda made turtles' figures in at least 2 different sizes. The ones I am showing here
are the bigger ones. In the picture below, I offer a size comparison between
the big and the small ones. The smaller size series also included many figures,
at least, 8. These will be shown in future entries.
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FACTS AND
FIGURES:
- Name: LEONARDO, RAPHAEL, DONATELLO and MICHELANGELO
- Toy Line: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT)
- Year: 1991
- Company: Yolanda (Spain)
- Size of the figure: Around 8 cm.
I have some Yolanda TMNT's in a metallic green unpainted plastic, small scale, I guess they were bubble-gum premiums?
ReplyDeleteHugh
Hi Hugh, thanks for commenting here!
ReplyDeleteYes exactly. these are chewing gum premiums, but they're one inch or one and a half inches high, not more. I own two of them, I think I sent you a picture a long time ago.
What I wrote in my entry about Real Ghostbusters chewing gum applies for those turtles, except they were all turtle-green. I never searched information about them, so I don't know how many of those were made or whatever. Sorry.
http://toysfromthepast.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/161-yolanda-real-ghostbusters-chewing.html
Might be based of off the 2002 tmnt/spongebob crossover
DeleteHi Logan,
DeleteThanks for the comment!
I'm pretty sure the figures Hugh mean are actually those Yolanda chewing gum premiums. I recently discovered that those same figures were also sold in plastic bags under the brand Novolinea (which is a "spin-off" of Comansi/Yolanda). I never had one of those bags in my hands, but I would say they're exactly the same figures.
You can see some of these bags in todocoleccion (they're not available anymore):
http://www.todocoleccion.net/orientaprecios/mi/#!fq=tortugas%20novolinea&sort=fecha_venta%20desc
And here more about Novolínea:
http://toysfromthepast.blogspot.com/2013/09/331-comansi-and-novolinea-lucky-luke.html
Nooo!!!! No hay error alguno!!!!! ;D Michelangelo, socarrón el, le ha robao la espada a Leonardo y le ha dejado sus nunchakus; de ahí el modelado de "expresión sorpresa" de Leo y asimismo el de triunfo de Mickey!!!
ReplyDeleteFuera coñas, tengo algunas de estas figurillas por casa; han servido, no hace mucho, para ponernos al peque y a mi en sintonía con los nombres - colores - armas - actitudes de las tortugas; días después, devoramos las pelis, pero aun no hemos visto la serie actual.
Por estos lares se las encuentran muy bien de precio; no tienen el aspecto a nuevo de otras figuras de Yolanda que se encuentran en kioskos (de hecho estas de las tortugas sólo las voy encontrando en tiendas de segunda mano) pero son perfectas para jugar, y a veces, en buen estado, para coleccionar, en algunas figuras es como si el color estuviese medio derretido... no se...
Saludos!!!!!
Uff, las pelis son durillas, ¿no? Ya en su día (creo que vi una o dos como mucho) y me parecieron regulares, ponle a tu hijo mejor los dibujos.
DeleteEn principio me parece perfecto que Yolanda siga vendiendo las tortugas, están otra vez de moda (siempre han estado) y los moldes son los mismos. Si conservan la licencia, seguro que es un producto que se vende bien. Tienen algo esas tortugas que caen bien a todo el mundo.
¡Gracias por el comentario!