TMNT Ultimates Super7 Casey Jones Review and In Depth Comparison Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This video should have been up 6 months ago, but I never had a chance to finish making it. Now finally it's here! This is a really long video about 1 toy haha, but I just think of it as a discussion or a pod cast with video.

[toewstokane]

First video I've seen the face behind some of the best little jokes and one-liners I've heard on YouTube ✌🏻Love it man!

[michaeljfoley]

Keep going with these longer form reviews/discussions, I get so frustrated by the 7 or 10 minute reviews I see so often, its like they have the bones of something but no meat. Your reviews, they got the meat! That's what fills the belly!

[zephyrleapold]

Thanks for sharing this! I got rid of all my old playmates tmnt, their lack of articulation and crazy proportions used to annoy the crap outta me as a kid compared to my gi joes. Nuts to see now how wacky Casey was, his head, hands, and feet are as big as super7, but he's super short! This was a great trip down memory lane.

[JO-ivtl]

Overall his proportions were trying to be both a real human and the character build to only fail somewhere in between.
If nothing else a bit more work on the human figures to make better iterations in the future.

[joeesoko]

Goongala! I was in college when the 2003 series came out too. I decided to display them instead, girls back then were NOT impressed with my feng shui; God Bless my wife! I remember being so excited bonding with my son over the 2012 series and it's toys.

Awesome review! You werent negative at all, Super7 needs to stay consistent! I think they like to get a new license, start off strong... and then cut corners. Thanks again for all your hard work!

[JP]

I like the Super7 Casey. If you look at the Playmates original, he’s not massive like a bodybuilder, but is skinny and wirey with some muscle definition. He reminds me of when your older brother first starts lifting weights as a teenager and flexes in front of the mirror all the time, but is still mostly skinny. So I like that the Super7 Casey is on the skinnier side. I actually thought his promo pics he looked a little too thick, more like Hulk Hogan size or something, which didn’t capture the Casey Jones character.

I’ve found the best way to look at Super7 Casey is to display him where his waist is just below your eye level. It helps hide some of his strangeness of proportion. Also having his bag on him helps in this way as well.

I like his mask too, especially the wash they have painted on it. But I do see your point about his pointy nose not looking like a mask. Again, I feel that can be solved by displaying him directly facing you.

About the pants: The promo pics made his pants look very gray. I actually think the final product gave him at least hints of that lilac color the original Playmates had. (Actually, I own two original Playmates Caseys, and there was variation: one has noticeably purple-tinted pants, whereas the other one is very gray and not purple at all.) So I think Super7 might have been going for a happy medium with the very-slightly-purple shade of the pants. Overall, I’m very happy with the Super7 Casey’s colors. Even the newly-colored shirt works for me, as it brings out the blue in his hair, and, I don’t know, it just works for me. And I’m usually a stickler for details. For instance, I don’t like how there’s no purple-haired Bebop alternative in the Super7 line.

But overall, I really like the Super7 Casey figure, but if not displayed in the specific ways I mentioned, then I agree, it can look a little weird.

[Dudewhair]

Wayne Gretzky? on steroids?

Another Great Review!

[leodenverrex]

Welcome to awesome tmnt vids-101. Your instructor is Raz Rentals.

[MonsieurJimjams]

I do like the fact that Casey's original backstory (that they retconned in the Mirage comics, which is a shame) is that he didn't become a vigilante out of any altruistic purposes, but rather because he's purely a psycho who wants to emulate TV show characters. It's a nice parody on the origins.

I don't care for the Super7 line personally. They're just emulating the original Playmates line (as you say), which feels pretty redundant to me. Plus NECA are doing a lot of very interesting stuff I always wanted (comic line, movie line). But each to their own. They do look nice, just personally not for me.

[Justmenesto]

Agreed about the eyes being too different.

[Symphonia]

Nice video and pretty cool detailed detailed analysis on Casey Jones. It’s amazing how autumn and super seven really captures the old TMNT toys. And even if you lose the original weapons you still have the weapons rack. Since I’m sure we’ve been there as kids of having those weapons but then we lose them. Making the playtime not so fun not having the weapons. So you did hear about the new Mirage Casey Jones they’re having soon?

[Gomezli]

“They used same parts for Casey and shredder” then points out how they’re totally different 😂😂😂

[benjaminwiseman]

I was satisfied with Casey Jones, but I had to buy several of them to find one without noticeable paint errors. So far, the only figure in this line that bothers me is Baxter, and that's only because he can barely stand, and his wings are off by 90 degrees.

[jamievaughn]

Serious question as I've watched a lot of your videos, but do you actually enjoy anything you buy? I get making a figure review means maybe going over a figure in more detail and I agree the torso is super weird and worth mentioning, but this is an hour of just nitpicking this figure to death. If I went over anything I bought in this much detail I wouldn't buy anything again from anyone. Stuff like the head size, something I still don't see, or the legs which oddly my figure either doesn't have or maybe again something I am not seeing. Just hoping you can find your happy spot one day and enjoy the things you buy. I think an hour on one figure, of any line or company, and you WILL find lots of things you wish they'd done differently. You'll never own a perfect figure, but I think most of what we get these days is so good and worth some praise. Have a good one and I hope the next figures you get bring you some happiness.

[michaeljfoley]

I haven't even watched the review yet, but I already know it is gonna be good! A classic! A Raz Rentals Classic, in fact! Oh boy!!! 😉

[spadedonemcdysentery]

This entire line confuses the hell out of me. Like, I get that they’re updated version of the original toys but it just looks off to me to see a $40-$60 figure glistening in the lights in 2022 and the Party Wagon they have coming looks like an entirely original design. The April in this line is still one of the ugliest figs I’ve seen in years. The turtles all look WAY Better than everything else in the line and the packaging is amazing but your prob paying a pretty penny for that box. I’d love to hear your opinion on the new GITD turtles Super7 put up for preorder at $65 each or $260 for the set…..

All this first world bitching aside, these figs still look like a great time. Just super expensive and not as nice as I think they should be.

[JO-ivtl]

The new Casey's mask has too much of a skull influence. All the features appear like a human skull. Instead of a mask.

[momuvid]

Maybe if Super 7 doesn't use the same Thigh Piece from Shredder and the Foot Soldiers, Casey's Legs would not look Awkward...

[merso]

This figure is both so close to the original, yet so off at the same time