Ninja Turtles on motorcycles is actually a step backwards. The Ninja Turtles franchise is based on an old drawing of a turtle decked out in ninja gear, which was considered clever and funny at the time because turtles are slow, and ninjas were just starting to enter pop culture. But a turtle riding in a fast vehicle is such an old and corny joke, I guarantee there are comics over 100 years old where the tortoise beats the hare in a race by flying a plane or something.
There's a Looney Toon/Merrie Melody with Bugs Bunny doing The Tortoise & The Hare where he tortoise in question actually has rockets in his shell. So yep.
I had a bunch of these friction driven toys when I was kid, my guess as to why you can't get it to roll is that the flywheel in the friction motor doesn't weigh enough, so it can't make enough torque to keep the motorcycle upright.
This Turtle doesn't even know who he is. He's wearing the wrong letter (which he lost) on the wrong weapon belt (which he lost the weapons to) and he's on the wrong bike (which apparently he broke). I dub this poor turtle: Donarapheonardolangelo.
BOOTLEGS ON MOTORCYCLES Not sure this could pass as legit: the Turtle's mouth isn't open so the audience can see the guy inside the suit I dunno. Neither of these toys have Ann Wisburn songs playing.
@@minatempes4151 well ironically enough, bootleg figures were made before there were any official ones where you could actually take the faces off and see the endoskeletons. Maybe NECA could release a 7” deluxe action figure where you can get details like that. Just hope it’s a one-off, because Funko’s been on a roll with their figures.
WOW, someone else has this?? I'm glad I'm not the only who collects such obscure shit. Your videos are validation for me with my wife. Thanks Phelous!!
He doesn't need to act abusive when he's the best in putting down her Shinobi stuff especially when she tries to be a Turtle and they don't. Seriously, he's probably the most anti-Venus out of the four with shit like "A little less meditating and a little more hitting the books and we wouldn't be having this problem, Venus!" and "We don't need you be a laptop, we need you to be a Shinobi."
now we need a bootleg of the bootleg of the bootleg with Leo and a bootleg of the bootleg of the bootleg of the bootleg with Mike and we will have the TMNT gang
It's sad to me that these are hard to get, thanks in large part to you I've taken to collecting any bootlegs of my favorite properties I can find (including a hilariously bad Mexican bootleg April O'Neil I picked up) but they're just so rare and expensive now it's not feasible to grab many on my budget. Guess I just need to travel abroad more and raid cheap stores.
I laughed way too hard and way too long at that end skit. Who knew how much joy I can get from watching a Canadian man playing with TMNT knockoff toys?
*ACTUALLY* Before China being the bootleg empire, most of bootleg toy were made in Taiwan. In the 90s, Taiwan was on Special 301 Report watch list. Forced most of Taiwan's bootleg manufacturers to move to China. So, can't say there isn't any relationship.
I'm still waiting for you to review "The Boy Who Could Fly". Its title alone is perfect for your show. Then again, I haven't seen it in over 25 years so maybe its actually a good film? Naaaaah
Looking for the Turtles in Time arcade OST and...this pop up. I'm sorry, Phelan. I got on. Edit: Whoa, this turtles have about the same amount of sponsors as Kaneda did. So when are they going to fight the Super Shredder in the Olympic stadium?
Turtle riders Donatello: Turtles ride with honor. Steffilove: no they don't * shoot The motorcycle blows* tortoise rider Raphael: thank I really hated that guy *pays Steffilove* Steffielove: * shoots tortoise rider and takes all of his money* thannnnkss.
OH MAN, Phelous goin for that controversy! John Cena just groveled out a public apology to China for calling Taiwan a country, but Phelous don't give a shiiiiiiiiiiit!
kamen rider immediately pops out on my mind when i first saw the title but i don't think there's ever a kamen rider based on turtles, so this might be a good example also i think the price on 2:51 is an IDR (Indonesian Rupiah) currency price, so in US$ it's almost 3,5 bucks i assume, but i might be wrong about this.
They've erased Kenny Roberts and Freddie Spencer off their 500cc MotoGP bikes and replaced them with Leo and Mikey. If the toy bike looked like those that would be awesome.
Sooooo either the toys are cashing in on the Raph riding on the motorcycle shit from the Next Mutation or vice versa depending how many of these bootlegs are there.
