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Best and Worst of the 2025 New York Toy Fair!

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Join Jay and Quip with special guest Ace from Ramen Toy as they talk about the big reveals from the 2025 New York Toy Fair! Playmates unveiled their Power Rangers collector line, NECA showed off new Sesame Street figures as well as a what if Jim Henson designed Bebop and Rocksteady in the 90’s TMNT films. We’ll talk about all of that and more on Geek. Dad. Live!

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Why Playmates Why? TMNT Origins Dead on Arrival?

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Join Jay and special guest hosts from Mondo Toys as they talk about the latest in toy news! Pixel Dan was able to get high res images of those remastered TMNT toys that shows overly pock marked skin on all of the turtles. Does this ruin the potential for origins style TMNT figures? Mondo is selling their Deluxe Teela figure and we have our first look at Necro-conda in package. The all adies wave of GI Ultimates from Super7 was canceled. We’ll talk about all of this and more tonight on Toy Geeks!

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MOTU Origins Style TMNT Figures? It’s About TIME!

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Join Jay and Ryan Doell as they talk about the latest in toy news! Playmates may inally be giving us Origins Style TMNT figures (even though they are a Walmart exclusive). Mattel Creations is bringing out another exclusive MOTU Origins figure, Sy-Klone. Mattel is also bringing back Street Sharks. Hasbro has new Ghostbusters toys to reveal at power con, and we have new Brian Brink charts, we’ll talk about all of that and more tonight on Toy Geeks!

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New TMNT Mutant Mayhem Toys by Playmates are AMAZING!

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Join Jay as he reviews a bunch of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem figures by Playmates. Featuring new figures and designs of characters we love as well as new vehicles and action figures. The TMNT Mutant Mayhem line up from Playmates seems to thread the needle for us older Ninja Turtle fans and the potential new generation of TMNT fans. Watch this 4K review to hear my thoughts on new the figures and vehicles hitting stores now!

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Playmates’ TMNT Storage Shell 4-Inch Turtles 4-pack on Amazon

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Storage Shell 4-inch Turtles 4-Pack from Playmates Toys is available on Amazon for $39.99. Click here to order them through our affiliates link and if you haven’t already, you can watch Jay’s livestream from Tuesday night with special guests Mad Matter and Mega Jay Retro over on the Geek. Dad. Life. YouTube channel where […]

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Playmates’ Turrible Turtles, Why do they keep re-issuing?

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Join John and Jay as they break down the latest in toy news like Playmate’s move to repackage 15 year old figures AGAIN to horrifying results. Boss Fight Studios revealed their first main characters from Fraggle Rock. New MOTU Figures are hitting toy shelves as well as McFarlane Super Powers Wave 3!

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The Problem with Playmates’ New Star Trek Toys

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Join Jay as he reviews the new retro inspired Star Trek action figures from Playmates. While Trek fans are excited to have new Star Trek toys on shelves, the cheap prices and availability of the figures that inspired these new releases leave toy collectors with a tough choice to make.

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TMNT Sewer Sports 4-Pack, Why Did I Buy This?

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Join Jay as he goes back to a Playmates Retro TMNT Boxset featuring the Sewer Sports All Stars! He did not like the last one featuring the movie star turtles, at the time he thought he was done with these retro repacks. Why did he change his mind? Watch this video to find out!

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Best Toy Company of the 90s? You Will Decide!!

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Join John and Jay for the 100th Episode of Toy Geeks! For this special occasion they will be hosting a special Toy Showdown between Jay and Ryan Doell from YHS Toy Anxiety as they try and convince a live audience to pick Playmates or Toy Biz for best Toy Company of the 90’s. A live Poll will be running in the chat, so YOU the viewer will decide.

But! It wont just be Toy Biz and Playmates, Kenner/Hasbro and Mcfarlane Toys will be options to vote for as well!

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Playmates Star Trek Returns! Will Collectors Care?

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Join John and Jay for a special stream talking about Playmates unveiling their relaunch of 5 inch Star Trek figures covering the entire Star Trek Universe. They’ll also touch on the updates from Formo Toys on their Lords of Power Line. all of that and more on todays Toy Geeks!

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