I was surprised when I went to Amoktime.com to buy series 2 of Futurama, thanks for that tip BTW, that they had the Turtles in stock. Somehow they snuck in under my radar, haven't heard any reports of them arriving already. SO I quickly snatched them up, and hopefully early next week I'll have a sweet set of mutant turtles on my desk.

My set of four arrived from BBTS today, I was tortured by the boxset sitting unopened for a couple days, and wow...wow. Wow. They're just completely perfect. I think even putting aside the newness and geeking out over them, I can still say they're some of the best action figures I own. The sculpts, the paint, the construction, the accessories, the articulation...10's all around. I love the small considerations like, that Mikey can hold his nunchucks..um, unholstered? together?...in one hand, that he has slightly longer fingers so he can do that..or that Raph can hold his sais with the blade between his fingers, little touches like that really make these so fun. The articulation is terrific, great range of motion in the limbs, cool double neck joints, they've got soft shells that make posing the legs no problem, and they even have a waist joint so they can turn to their side, you can get so much personality out of them. This definitely isn't the case of a lot of NECA's figures where the articulation is there but there's still only one good pose...nope, these guys look great standing with weapons ready, standing relaxed, in fighting position, running...it's some of the most impressive sculpt-articulation teamwork I've ever seen.

And the aspects that we could judge from pictures-sculpts and paint, are like BS said, just as good as in the promo shots. They look like they stepped out of the comic, they perfectly achieved that effect. All the paint application is very clean...the only slight problem in my set was that Mikey's knee pad stuck a bit to his lower leg and left a little chip, but hopefully it can be fixed easily.

NECA's given me some of my dream figures-well articulated TMNT...and they met and exceeded my wishes. Can't wait to buy more.

I may have misinterpreted something, but I thought I remembered hearing about some trouble with doing Splinter for some reason...possibly some trouble with it being an Eastman design? But...the point I wanted to get to, I'd like to see a list of all the figures that we could possibly see. The characters that are all cleared legally. If we could just get Splinter, Shredder, and Casey I'd be a mighty happy Turtle fan though.

I'd really love to see other Turtle interpretations sometime, like Image styled turtles.

Wow, then I really wish NECA would step up their game a bit! Not a 'peep' about future series? No word on April's release? Coooooomme on NECA. And in an interview with the Four Horsemen a couple weeks back, they said they've done no further work on the TMNT line, NECA, make sure you get the 4H working on this project ASAP...they're integral.

This is exciting news to hear, we've talked about wanting to see other artist's interpretations of the Turtles, heck...I'd even be interested in seeing an Archie Comics series of turtles with the great articulation, sculpt, and paint that we've seen so far.