TMNT has crossed over with many other properties over the years, including Batman, Power Rangers, Universal Monsters, Ghostbusters, Naruto, and many more, and oftentimes said crossovers are toys. It's been a minute since Playmates did a TMNT crossover line, but last year saw the debut of a TMNT x Godzilla line, since Playmates has the license to that as well. There are only three out now, but they should be easy to get ahold of, despite being Target-exclusive.

Rather than being on cardbacks like usual, these figures come in window boxes, and the packaging looks nice. The crumbling city background makes sense for Godzilla-themed figures, and there's a great illustration on the back of all four turtles merged with the monsters (or in Donatello's case, an android) of the Godzilla world. You'll have to snip a few plastic ties, but everything is easy to take out, and even if you're an in-box collector, you can see everything clearly through the window.

Playing the role of the king of monsters himself is Leonardo, whose design mainly takes cues from the 1987 cartoon but with a lot of Godzilla's attributes (the packaging says these are also inspired by the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla series, but I'm not seeing it). His head shape remains the same, and he has all of his ninja gear as well, but the face is quite different, bearing Goji's snout and fangs, alongside two spikes on his scalp. The eyes and mouth are painted, and while the colors all around are good, the face suffers from bleed and uneven edges. It's a semi-mass-market figure, so it's passable.

The box says these figures are in a "1:1200" scale, but Leo stands 5" tall, which would be bigger than an actual Godzilla in that scale. While Leonardo keeps his shell, there are scales breaking through the carapace, and he also gets Godzilla's tail, rough skin, and chunky body and legs. The skin texture looks and feels on the soft side, but still, good on Playmates for making the figure's design lean more towards the monster. The carapace is separate from Leozilla in the box to help him fit inside, but it clicks in easily and can be popped back off with some force and little fear of breakage. While these figures keep the variety of colors simple so they don't have to do so much painting, the plastrons have a wash on them for a more defined look. Imagine how great these figures would look if they had a wash all over!

The articulation isn't too different from Playmates' output nowadays, but with a few additions. The basic setup is a ball-jointed head, swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, and ankles, and swivel wrists and tail. Swivel/hinge ankles are something Playmates really needed to give their Turtle figures, and while I would've preferred a rocker-like swivel for better deep stances, it's no doubt an improvement. Even as giant monsters, the Turtles still have their weapons, with Leonardo retaining his katanas, albeit with a fiery blue aura around them, resembling Godzilla's atomic breath. The hands are made out of a softer plastic to make holding weapons easy, and Leo poses great with his.

Next up is Raphael, who has been turned into Rodan. He's been given the pterodactyl-like monster's horns and beak, with the upper part of the beak being a separate piece from the rest of the head so that the bottom part of the mouth could be painted. Like Leo, the mouth suffers a bit from bleeding and colors not lining up quite perfectly with the sculpt, as do the other painted areas, especially the slop above the left kneepad. Still, the colors are good, and rather than retaining his green skin, Raph is colored brown, just like the monster he's been merged with.

Raph stands a little taller than Leo at about 5 1/4", with a ridged look to the shins, bumps on the shoulders, and a few other ridges sculpted into his limbs. The key feature of Rodan's design is his bat-like wings, which connect to the arms, and the sculpt combined with soft plastic here is to keep them from limiting arm movement. It doesn't keep them from completely restricting articulation there, but you can still get some good poses out of his arms. Another limiting factor to his movement is that the knee joints are on the upper legs rather than the lower legs, meaning you get a shin swivel rather than a knee one, so you won't get as much out of the legs as the other Turtles. Overall, his articulation is weaker than the others, but the cool design makes up for it. Raph's weapons are his sai, but the prongs are replaced with red flames, which are just as cool as Leo's atomic breath katanas.

Lastly, Michelangelo plays the role of King Ghidorah, and I honestly think he's the coolest design out of the three. The gold skin color goes along well with the scaly texture, and like Raphael, his proportions are more in line with his standard design. There's some color variation to the skin, giving it a shinier look, and the paint for the mouth is much cleaner than the other two. All in all, he has the best paint overall, but it really depends on what you find on the pegs; you're just as likely to find a clean one as you are one with notable bleed or slop.

Mikey is the tallest of the line, but not by much, as his horns only bring him up to about 5 3/4". He does take up the most space, however, thanks to the twin tails and massive wings. These come separate in the box, but everything pops together easily. The wings are cast in clear yellow plastic, but they fade to green near the back, giving off some nice color variation (curious on how they were able to do that). Unlike the monster he's based off of, Mikey has arms and only one head, with the dragon shoulder pads reflecting Ghidorah's extra heads. However, the shoulder pads can be removed and placed over the hands in case you want more accuracy to the monster. Mikey's weapons are his nunchucks, which are cast in clearer yellow plastic, and the chains are replaced with energy/flames.

The TMNT x Godzilla figures are the first crossover figures Playmates has done in a while that retain the 5" scale while giving the Turtles crazy mashup designs, and it's nice to see them try to bring back the creativity they had with the OG Turtle line. While not without their issues when it comes to paint and articulation, they're a lot of fun to play with and will fit great with the "Super Kaiju" figures by Super7 you can also find at Target. Jet Jaguar Donatello has been all but confirmed, and hopefully we can get some more info on him, but I saw Playmates is also going to make Power Rangers x Godzilla figures, which should be quite interesting.

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No matter when you were born, chances are you've grown up with at least one incarnation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. For me, it was the 2012 series, the first one to use CGI, and the first with Nickelodeon's involvement. I saw a little bit of it when it was still running, but it wasn't until like two or three years ago that I completed a proper watch through of the series, and if you haven't seen it, you should. It's a love letter to the franchise as a whole, mixing action, humor, and surprisingly dark elements together well, and with a big-name cast to boot. When NECA, who's been doing figures from the first TMNT cartoon for years, announced they'd be tackling the 2012 series as well, I was hyped. The figures have been out for some time now, and my first of them is the leader himself: Leonardo.

The packaging is adorned with a drawing by Ciro Nieli, one of the showrunners, and it's darn good. The left spine is part of a larger mural, like NECA's Last Ronin figures, and the right spine numbers the figure. Despite being the leader, Leo is #4. Aside from the artwork, the packaging feels very lacking. The back has generic text rather than a character-specific bio, and there are no photos of the figure at all, not even an accessory list. The graphics are good, I just felt they could've done more with the box.

All four Turtles were sculpted by May Thamtarana, and given these designs were in 3D to begin with, it must've not been hard to convert them to figures, because these are very accurate to the show. Leonardo's default portrait is an intense, blank-eyed look, more than ready for combat. The colors are bold and the paint is clean, with some dark specks on the skin just like the models in-show, but he needed some lighter specks as well to really nail the look. His alternate head has a more peaceful look with closed eyes, as if he's in the middle of meditating. When he was first revealed at NYCC '24, he had a neutral expression as well, but it (alongside a few other accessories) got cut for budget reasons. As much as I like the meditating head, I would've preferred the neutral head be kept instead.

Standing about 5 5/8" tall, Leo has thin, somewhat blocky limbs, though with a bit of muscle to the biceps, and the feet are larger and rounder than previous versions of the Turtles, a bit more like real-life turtles. Also unlike his past incarnations, he has forearm and calf wraps, and the figure gives them plenty of wash and some texture, and the rest of his gear has a somewhat rough texture as well. His shell, harness, and elbow/knee pads have some scuffs and nicks on them, no doubt results of Leo's various battles, and the carapace has a good texture alongside some painted shine. Some paint from the pads rubbed off onto the right knee and left elbow, but the paint is good otherwise. Until now, the Revoltechs were the most show-accurate figures, but NECA really put them to shame.

Speaking of which, the Revoltechs were well-articulated, even having finger articulation. While NECA's Turtles don't have that, they still have plenty of joints, and ones that blend in better with the sculpts, too. Leo has a barbell head and chest, swivel/hinge shoulders, wrists, and ankles, ball-jointed hips, double-hinged elbows and knees, and swivel biceps, thighs, and mask tassels. NECA made the jump to pinless elbows and knees prior to putting these out, and it makes a whole world of difference, giving these figures a more seamless, aesthetically pleasing look. The plastron is made out of a softer plastic so that it doesn't hinder the chest or hips much, and everything else works fine, but I would take some care with the thin arms. The heads and hands need some work to get on and off, but you shouldn't have too much issue swapping parts.

Leo fares well when it comes to accessories, being a NECA figure and all. Aside from the extra head, he has four pairs of hands: gripping, relaxed, closed, and splayed. They work well in various poses, and getting accessories in the grips isn't too hard, but I would've loved vertically-hinged grips to work with the weapons. He has his katanas, obviously, with one longer than the other (the longer one fits in the right scabbard), but there's also the "Microfission Omni-Disintegrator" from their infiltration on TCRI in the Season One finale. Episode-specific extras are always fun to include with TV show figures (though I had to look it up to remember when it was used), but aside from that there are more turtle-oriented extras, with a slice of pizza, a smoke bomb (which resembles an egg), and a Turtlecom. Alongside the neutral head, other extras omitted pre-release included a bow, a dart arrow, and a grappling hook gun. It's a shame NECA cut those, but hopefully they're planning an accessory pack or something.

It's been years since the 2012 series last got figures aimed towards the collector's market, and with said figures having since gotten rarer and more expensive, it's a good thing NECA stepped in to give us another option. Aside from the somewhat barebones packaging and lack of certain accessories, Leo is a great figure, and eventually I'll have to get the rest of the bros, most likely through Target's website. For now, though, I just want to focus on saving money… and writing up reviews for my other new NECA Turtles I've been putting off.

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Lex Luger grew up with a natural obsession for physical perfection and personal dominance. From a young age, he treated his body like a weapon and his ambition like a compass. His early adulthood was defined by a relentless drive to prove himself against anyone who questioned his strength or discipline.

His first major proving ground came when he crossed paths with the powerful factions that ruled the wrestling world. Luger quickly became known as a man who could stand toe‑to‑toe with giants — literally and figuratively. Luger’s life changed dramatically when he was recruited into the Four Horsemen, a group that operated like a political dynasty. Being brought into their inner circle was like being invited into a royal court — but one where betrayal was a daily possibility.

After the incident at Starrcade 1987, where J.J. Dillon’s interference cost him the United States Championship, Luger no longer trusted the Four Horsemen. The breaking point came during the Bunkhouse Stampede when Dillon demanded the remaining Horsemen eliminate themselves so he could win. Luger refused, eliminated Dillon, and walked away from the group. From that point forward, the Horsemen treated him as an enemy. Every match and appearance became a confrontation with his former stablemates.

Luger teamed with Barry Windham, someone he had worked with in Florida. They formed a strong team and quickly won the NWA World Tag Team Championship from Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard. Windham’s sudden turn on Luger during a title defense — handing the belts back to the Horsemen — became one of the defining betrayals of Luger's career. It placed Windham directly in the Horsemen’s ranks and made him one of Luger's primary opponents.

Left without a partner, Luger was paired with Sting for the Crockett Cup. Despite being an unplanned team, they won the entire tournament. This established a working relationship between the two that would continue for years. Sting and Luger often found themselves on the same side against the Horsemen, even when their personalities and priorities differed.

Luger’s first serious run at the NWA World Heavyweight Championship came in 1988. He was positioned as the top challenger to Ric Flair, and the Horsemen responded by attacking him at every opportunity. At The Great American Bash 1988, Luger had Flair in trouble, but the match was stopped due to a cut on Luger’s forehead. The stoppage was presented as a state athletic commission ruling, but in kayfabe terms it was another example of Flair escaping with the title through technicalities. Their rematch at Starrcade 1988 ended with Flair using the ropes for leverage to pin Luger. This closed the chapter on their first major feud, but the rivalry remained unresolved.

Luger shifted focus back to the United States Championship, defeating Barry Windham to regain the title. When Sting was injured in early 1990, Luger was elevated to challenge Flair again. He faced Flair at WrestleWar 1990 but lost by count‑out after leaving the ring to help Sting, who had been attacked by the Horsemen. The feud ended with another inconclusive finish at Capital Combat, where interference prevented a clean result. Luger had three reigns with the US belt from 1989 until 1992, holding it for a total of 809 days, with his 3rd reign of 523 days being the longest reign in the title's history.

In 1991, as US Champion, Luger became the number‑one contender for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship again after defeating The Great Muta. He was scheduled to face Flair at The Great American Bash, but Flair left the company before the match.With the championship vacant, Luger was matched against Barry Windham — the same man who had betrayed him years earlier. At The Great American Bash 1991, Luger defeated Windham in a steel cage match to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Upon becoming heavyweigh champion Luger Vacated the US title.

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