{"id":28945,"date":"2009-07-08T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T18:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=28945"},"modified":"2019-08-17T23:34:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T03:34:22","slug":"soon-forget-playmates-mirage-tmnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/soon-forget-playmates-mirage-tmnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Playmates Mirage TMNT"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figures today are Playmates Toys' comic-style Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.<\/p>\n

The boys were first previewed last year in a sidebar to a Nintendo Power<\/i> article about the upcoming TMNT Smash-Up<\/i> videogame, and were then officially announced a week or so later. The plan was to have all four turtles, Splinter, plus Shredder and a Foot Soldier. Not even NECA has announced a comic-style Splinter yet!<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, a spokesman for Playmates has confirmed that they have decided not to go ahead with the line. The Heroes in a Half-Shell are in a bit of a decline right now - their cartoon just ended a few months ago, and while there's a finale movie airing this weekend, that's pretty much it for them for the foreseeable future. So with no outside tie-ins, Playmates probably expects the toyline to cool off, and are scaling back what they plan to do with it in the future.<\/p>\n

This is a sad way to spend their 25th Anniversary year.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>