Comments on The Dork Dimension: Retro Toy Review: Pizza Tossin' Leo (Playmates TMN...

I actually had pizza tossin' Raph when I was l...

2010-06-27T06:53:44.040-04:00

I actually had pizza tossin' Raph when I was little and I liked it a lot. If you look at the pictures, you'll see it's the less crazy-looking as the 4. I agree, the craziness of leo here is too much. Also, I must say I broke a part of the attach to the pizza launcher, the plastic peggle was pretty thin.

Also, great blog !

Well, they had gotten us a Zak the Neutrino some y...

2009-07-21T13:20:17.090-04:00

Well, they had gotten us a Zak the Neutrino some years earlier before the toon line, probably about 91. I remember just literally waiting and waiting for them to release the other 2, but they never did...until I stopped buying the darn things. The Zak from the toon line was just a repaint of the original.

I bought a loose and beat-up version of this figur...

2009-07-21T01:32:49.882-04:00

I bought a loose and beat-up version of this figure just a few months ago for my daughter. Don, too. A buck each at a second-hand store.

I too found them to be too wacky back in the day, and indeed I never bought any of the weird variants like Star Trek Turtles and Troll Turtles and the like. But I figured a five-year-old would dig 'em.

I loved the movie-style figures from this period, which were the most amazingly sculpted and painted Turtle toys of all time for quite some years.

The Toon ones were weird; like the DVD packaging on the seasons of the vintage toon, they wildly exaggerated how cartoony they looked. But at least it finally gave us a Neutrino. Too late for me, though; I'd moved on to partying.

I had stopped buying turtles some time before this...

2009-07-20T03:55:05.025-04:00

I had stopped buying turtles some time before this series, but remember looking at them in the store. They just didn't do it for me. I believe this was around the same time as the Toon styled turtles and characters were getting realeased...not the 89 turtles, but there was a series some years later that was 100% based on the animated show. I didn't like any of these figures...I think they even had Irma.

But my younger cousin had gotten a hold of one of these pizza tossing figures as well as a shogun turtle (giant armored robo turtles with firing fists and such). I recall playing around with them a few times, and was very surprised at how well the pizza tosser worked. The shogun turtles were very cheaply made....as were many of the turtle figs by that time appeared to have been.

I'd say your ratings are pretty accurate all the way around, if not a little generous. This was really a toy to me, and didn't have the appeal of collect-ability for me then, nor does it now.