8/13/08

Mini-Mutants Wave 3 Now Out!

The Past few days I've been spotting some new Mini-Mutants popping up on Ebay, so I thought I'd swing by a local Wal-Mart that's usually good at stocking newly released figures and sure enough they had them!
This is a very exciting wave for me as a big Baxter Stockman fan and also as a Fast Forward fan with the release of Mini Jammerhead.
There are 4 figures sets in this series each one is very fun and very nicely done.

The sets include Donatello & Baxter Stockman, Raphael & 4 Arm Clone Shredder, Mikey & Foot Elite, Leonardo & Jammerhead (sadly the one I wanted most wasn't there).
They had 3 of the 4 sets but I only bought the Don & Raph set's for now so I'll be showing those to you.
The Paint jobs on this third wave of figures is much better compared to the first 2 waves.
First up is Extreme Sport Raph & 4 Arm Shredder clone both very nice figures.
Raphael comes with newly sculpted legs, a removable helmet, removable skates, 2 sais, & a hockey stick.
This figure has typical articulation for the Mini-Mutant turtles: Hands, Arms, Legs, & Head.
The thing that's interesting to note about Raphael's sports gear is that it's painted in a shimmery paint.
The 4 Armed Shredder Clone is really nice and makes it worth buying this set.
This figure is an all new sculpt and a much improved version of the larger figure that came out a few years back.
The 4 Armed Shredder Clone comes with a double sided hockey stick looking weapon, and removable rolling spiked shoes.
This figure has some decent articulation for a Mini-mutant: Head, Waist, All 4 Hands, 2 Sets of Arms That Move Together.
The only thing that doesn't move that should and bothers me is the Legs.
Now in the Next set is Extreme Sport Don & Baxter Stockman both very nice figures.
Donatello has newly sculpted legs, body, and shoulders.
He comes with a removable helmet, 1 bo, and a bike (with movable wheels, handle bar, & kick stand).
This figure has typical articulation for the Mini-Mutant turtles: Hands, Arms, Legs, & Head.
The thing that's interesting to note about Donatello's bike is that it's painted in a shimmery paint.
Baxter Stockman is just to cool and makes it worth buying this set.
This figure is an all new sculpt and I think perhaps one of the coolest Baxter figures to date.
Baxter comes with 2 entirely different robotic pickaxe type weapons.
This figure has some decent articulation for a Mini-mutant: Head, Arms, Hands, Waist, & 3 wheels that not only spin but can be turned around anyway you please.
The only thing that bothers me is his backpack with the pickaxe that sits right over his head, very odd placement.

Over all so far this is a really great lineup of figures even with the silly turtle variants as they come with things that are really fun for kids and have a playability factor that's not something dumb like fall apart action.
I give this entire lineup of figures 10 Shells out of a possible 10 shells, because these have great paint jobs, great characters, and they're just really fun.

3 comments:

Hero_UK said...

Out of personal taste I prefer the previous Paleo Patrol figures myself.

These do look like a lot of fun and I'd get these especially for the villain characters. Cosby Kid Donatello still does'nt do anything for me.

4-Armed Shredder looks the business!

===HERO

~ tOkKa said...

-->> ..i'll go ahead and add this to my post on Mikey's for you, Vee ..

>v<

The S said...

Care to photograph these next to their full-sized counterparts for scale reference?