Current Events > I didn't realize Mike Matei was a toy collector.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6midYJtGtE

Dude has a ton of TMNT toys. I had a lot of them as a kid, but nowhere near as many as he seems to have. No, I don't expect you to watch a 13-minute video. But if you click anywhere on the runtime at all, you'll get the gist of just how many he has.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f22ff5dd.jpg

I think Sgt. Bananas was one of the moments where TMNT started to lose a bit of its cool factor for me as a kid. I don't know if he was ever in the cartoon show, but I remember seeing him on the shelf and thinking that he was a really lame character.

Anyway, when they tried to get the talking Turtle to work, it made me kinda sad. Like, that toy is dead. In the early 90s, you could have pulled that strip of read tape and it would have made Raphael say Turtle Power. Today, it doesn't function like it should. And the toys that utilized ooze? There should be a uniform generic "goop" that you can purchase for any and all toys that use goo. That was like the 90s equivalent of an online game no longer being available to play. The store doesn't sell ooze anymore. You're toy is functionless now.

I still find the image of him dressed as Romero's Joker and his gf dressed as Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn hilarious.

i have every original TMNT action figure, except some of the gimmick ones i legitimately don't like.

ive posted em on CE many times before.

i also have like, idk 60? sealed tmnt, he-man, ghostbusters and a few others. mostly tmnt and he-man. maybe 100? 4-5 boxes.

also some sealed original bakugan.