She Bop, He Bop - a - We Bop!

TMNT Week continues with a rather Boar-ing post.

Bebop-a-Buggly, this guy is UGLY!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Week has already covered Rocksteady, so I figured it's high time I covered his Boar buddy Bebop!

My TMNT toon history is a bit fuzzy, but I think Bebop and Rocksteady started life as street thugs and were mutated with a boar and a rhino. Obviously Bebop was a punk rocker type, with his purple mohawk and his totally tubular eighties plastic shades!

Not to mention that face that not even a mother could love! SNORT!

Turn On Your Light, And Stay With Me A While...

...and Rocksteady!

Along with the Mutagen Man figure I posted about earlier I was able to acquire a couple more original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle figures, including Rocksteady!

It has been a long time since I've seen an original TMNT cartoon so I'm not sure of the exact storyline, but as I recall the Rhinoceros Rocksteady, along with the Boar Bebop were the first two mutated villains in the TMNT cartoon.

All heck broke loose after that with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles battling mutated villains from all level of flora and fauna, but Rocksteady is one of the first and holds a fond place in my heart. It's a shame he and Bebop haven't been given their respect in any of the number of TMNT films that have been made. Here's the meeting I would have loved to have been a part of, to punch the movie executive in the face: "Vanilla Ice, yes...Rocksteady, no. OUCH! He bwoke my node!"

I'm Looking Through You, You're Not The Same!

This ugly cuss is called Mutagen Man.

He's a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain character and was originally released in 1990.

The gimmick for this guy is that his innards are free floating inside his "glass" body. You can even fill him up with water (which I did) in order to enhance the effect. I considered filling him with slime, but the slime I have is not transparent enough and would make seeing his innards impossible. I also considered adding some food coloring to the water but decided, for now, to stick with regular old clear cool delicious H2O.

There's a lot of detail on his insides and his outsides too. He even has some little plastic bits floating inside (like a wrench and a little turtle!)

He's like a monstrous snow globe!

I got this TMNT character second-hand recently, so I don't know anything more about him. I do know he's missing an accessory or two (there's a space on his back for what looks like a scuba-tank apparatus) so if anyone has spare Mutagen Man accessories laying around, I'll take 'em!