Check out Bob Ross as a potato and the Renaissance masters as the ultimate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures.
Welcome back to Toy Aisle and welcome to a brand new year. We’ve already christened 2023 with a mountain of new sets from Lego, but there’s still lots more to budget for as we push on through January. This week, some of history’s greatest artists and painters are represented as Mezco Toyz brings us a new TMNT box set featuring highly-detailed figures of Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael, while Super Impulse immortalizes Bob Ross the way he always wanted: as a potato. Check it out!
If you mashed up all the iterations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles we’ve gotten over the years—the cartoons, the action figures, the video game characters, the live-action movie versions, and even Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s original comic book drawings—you’d probably end up with 6.6-inch figures that look exactly like what you’ll get in this new TMNT box set from Mezco Toyz. Each turtle includes a very impressive 28 points of articulation, plus three swappable heads with varying expressions, alternate hands, and countless accessories including weapons and costumes. It will set you back a mean, green $400 if you pre-order, plus a wait for delivery until at least October.
Arriving just a bit too late on Lego’s website to make our preview of the company’s best 2023 set reveals, this 1,134-piece firefighting plane still deserves a mention. Loosely based on a Canadair CL-415 amphibious firefighting plane, this alternative sports the same iconic red and white livery, plus a bunch of functional features Lego’s Technic sets are known for, including retractable landing gear, adjustable flaps, a cargo bay with opening doors to hold water (clear blue Lego bricks), and a lever on the underside that makes the propeller spin.
