Like father like mutant

So let me set up the scenario, I'm only 22, so when GI Joe fans started ranting and raving about how nostalgic the 25th line was, I got it, I didn't feel it the same way though. As a kid I didn't start getting Joes until 1989-1990 or so and those characters are neither iconic or being remade so I just didn't feel the nostalgia. Also at that age I was gaga over teenage mutant ninja turtles, that was my thing. I loved GI Joe was and Ghostbusters but Turtles was really where it was at for me.

Just over a month ago I was kicking around ebay looking for the old Turtle figures I had, complete and in decent shape...no way I'm going to pay those prices. No more than two days later though I found the Ninja Turtle 25th line out. Not only are they nostalgic, they're straight reissues of the fuckers that I had when I was 4. Now I know my age doesn't add up if the Ninja Turtles are 25 years old and I'm 22. The comic started 25 years ago, the figures and cartoon showed up later, when my mind was being molded and was weak to commercialism, still is, It branded the name in to my little soft brain. I quickly picked up all four of the turtles and walked around Target with them. After about twenty minutes I placed them back on the pegs and walked away. I wanted them badly and I want them now, but what I really really wanted was Bebop and Rocksteady, one of my earliest exposures to punk rockers. They were awesome and were funny as hell. Growing up I was I found the other turtle medium, the original comics, you could image how my heart sank when I found neither Bebop or Rocksteady were in it.

Today, I went shopping, looking for the last of the Joes I nedd and I found on the pegs at Target the second wave of TMNT figures. I found Rocksteady, but no Bebop, my favorite of the two. Insteady of putting Rocksteady back, I dropped the damn $9 on him. The Turtles, while more iconic have always had much more exposure, they've always had products, Bebop and Rocksteay, not as much. While the GI Joe 25th line played on old fans nostalgia, Playmates are geniuses, they conned me in to paying three times as much for a figure my parents bought me as a kid. In defense of thise overpriced toy the plastic is much harder and less brittle than the original, his head is also not made of rubber.