Playmates Toys Limited

And we're here to dive into your favorite toy lines one year at a time.

And we have been enjoying this romp through Playmates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

And we have arrived at part one of 1992.

And for the first time on the Toy Geeks podcast, but definitely no stranger to folks that check out the Geek Dad Life channel, is my dear friend Quip.

And she remembers them.

Little did I know.

she had all of her Playmates Star Trek The Next Generation action figures with accessories and pogs and cards and card bags all in these nice little Ziploc bags.

Oh, wow.

This week from the internet, amateur internet archaeologists dig up remnants of the long-rumored Jurassic Park cartoon.

Plus, I need Dragonzord power now! Playmates Toys gives fans an updated look at its Power Rangers Kickstarter, but at least one person isn't happy with what he's seeing.

And from big rubber guys to Marvel legends, jolly old Saint Nick better watch his back.

Lips the Reluctant.

But obviously not because that was a Hasbro Pulse exclusive.

That's not going to go to Ross.

Somebody was posting a picture of Power Rangers, the 8-inch Playmates toys, the new ones that aren't even out yet.

Yeah.

Lucky winner will be selected at random from the U.S. or Canada to win this two-pack.

So Playmates...

They're headed out the door strong, as McFarlane Toys is not the only one who is shedding a toy license at the end of 2026.

Long time toy industry stalwarts.

The folks over at Playmates Toys will be no longer producing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures for... literally the first time ever at the end of the year but they are headed out strong um the collaboration figures have always been a joy when it comes to ninja turtles and their recent crossover with gi joe is no exception to that um you can head on over to our instagram at aic underscore podcast and you can enter yourself to win uh this amazing two pack these figures are great um like i said they are they are indeed going out strong so uh look for that pin post make sure you follow all the instructions in the post and uh and enter to win yourself a uh a really really cool two pack so um yeah and it's just crazy you know topic wise uh that is no longer going to be making Ninja Turtles figures.

That's going to be headed over to Mattel, much like the DC licenses.

So hopefully as we head into 2027, we can get a look at what's happening with with the Ninja Turtles.

It's weird.

This has been Playmates.

I loved Playmates in the 90s, and I felt like they could do no wrong.

And it's always, oh, cool, they're doing that.

But it's like there's a couple of decisions that just make me go, why?

It still works like that for turtles, though.

Jesus.

But what's weird about it is Playmates gets so, like... obsessive with like we control it we created the turtle style no one else can copy it we don't want that and then they get the power ranger license they go we're just gonna use the 1993 bandai playbook and copy it verbatim and it's like more rules for ye but not for me which

And we're here to dive into your favorite toy lines one year at a time.

And we have been going through the legendary Playmates toy line, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, one year at a time, doing 88, 89, 90.

And now we've arrived to 1991.

And these years are going to start to get so jam-packed.

I'm just like, a lot of it was the tapes and the tapes you had, and maybe you saw some of the random episodes, but it by no means, even though I love the toy line and I had loved the movie, watched it a million times and movies.

uh and and had vhs tapes i had all the first five episodes on vhs but after that it's kind of like whatever you know burger king's kids club had them and there's kind of random episodes that was it you know and so yeah there are a lot of gaps where some people that are like have watched the series a bunch of oh that was episode uh 85 i was like yeah i don't know

One thing I do want to keep a sort of tab on here is as this line, as we continue to go through this original line, Playmates does not shy away from just putting everybody on that cross cell.

Like who have we made so far? Put them all on there.

I mean, Hasbro doesn't even do the Power Ranger toy line anymore.

They're renting it off to Playmates Toys.

And they're trying to upscale 4DI Power Rangers to 4K.

And I looked at it and went, dude, that's not good.

Agreed.

Skeleton Warriors were released in 1994, uh, from Playmates Toys.

Playmates w- was actual- I mean, I think today a lot of people don't really look at Playmates as a, a heavy hitter, but they were doing pretty big business in the '90s.

I think that's all due to look what they did with the Ninja Turtles.

Um, you know, and for some reason, like, the...

Oh, actually, the, the Playmates Ninja Turtles toys are actually pretty hot right now because they are, Playmates is losing their, um, production rights to Ninja Turtles to Mattel.

So, um-

Hmm.