Nov 12, 2023

It came from the toy chest: This frog is a Punk.

 


I'm talking about Genghis frog, member of the punk frogs. They are a group of mutant frogs who were trained by Shredder to fight the turtles but they realize Shredder was a massive asshole and now their friends with the turtles. This is one of those figures I didn't have as a kid but my friend did have it and Napoleon too. It also was one of his first attempts at customizing by repainting two more genghisest to make Attila and Rasputin. They were made by an eight year old they weren't good looking Customs but they served their purpose. But I'm not here to talk about childhood flashbacks I'm here to talk about this frog specifically.


Articulation:
Genghis gained a new torso cut that other TMNT figures hadn't gotten so far spirit this helps his articulation a little bit other than that he has the normal range of articulation as a standard figure. The best part is that he doesn't have loose joints.
4.5

Paint and sculpt:
Paint wise they did catch those 1980s colors really well his clothing reminds me so much of clothing I wore as a little kid in the 80s: the color pallette, how bright they are; this guy screams 1980s so hard! The green on his skin is not neon green but it's rather saying he also has a watch to him or dry brushing that accentuates the details and man his skin got folds creases and tons of froggy warts that pop! The best part is that even his shirt has tons of texture and the pattern is tampographed not sculpted. This means that future frogs like Attila or Rasputin could be easily made out of Genghis frog. This is an addendum and not related to the review itself. I almost want to buy an extra Genghis frog and repaint him like Tommy Vercetti from Grand Theft Auto Vice City, played by the late Ray Liotta.

5.0
Accessories:
For accessories here's where I'm a little disappointed. He only has two extra pairs of hands which is not that much. He has an alternate head with his tongue sticking out which is rather cool. He had some stylish sunglasses that are removable. He has his body board that can double almost at the surfboard due to its size. He has his vintage tongue gun. 

The belt while removable from the figure, does not have removable grenades, so basically Genghis has to throw the whole belt if he wants to use the grenades. The thing is that he was advertised as having removable grenades. Just having 2 of them be removable wouldve made a huge difference.
Super7 will use the Final Figure may vary excuse.

I feel a bit underwhelmed in this area. 
4.5
Overall:
Genghis gets a 4.67 as his final score. He was surprisingly as close to perfect as we could get but the grenade issue hurt him a little bit. There's also part of me that wish we could have gotten a cartoon inspired ax which would give us the idea that maybe we could get toys of the unreleased frogs.

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