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Write a Review link for that item. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Classic Cartoon (Neca)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has crossed over with a lot of other properties over the years, but one of the earliest ones is Garfield, who's as just as big of a name in newspaper comics as Turtles are to indie comics. Aside from that Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue special, issue #7 of the lesser-known TMNT Magazine featured a comic where the fat cat attempted to infiltrate the Turtles to eat all their pizza, to little success. Many years later, "Garfello" is finally receiving merchandise, with Nickelodeon now owning both properties making it easier to happen, and NECA has given his lesser-known disguise his first action figure. Garfello comes in the usual five-panel packaging, with the front and back having illustrations by Jason Yang. The graphics depict Garfield doing what he loves most besides sleeping, and that's chowing down on some food. I feel the art here is a little off, but it's recognizably Garfield and Odie (yes, he's included with the figure), and it has a nice, bold look. The rest of the sides have a checkered look, like a tablecloth, and the figure photos are on the reverse side of the flap only, with the window giving you a clear look at everything inside. Garfield's design has evolved over the early years, and it was by the early 90s when the Garfello comic came out that his current appearance was starting to take form. Tomasz Rozejowski did a great job capturing how the cat looked at this point in time, where the eyes aren't quite as big as they are now, and part of his disguise has him wearing a black mask over them. The faux turtle has three heads to choose from - neutral, grinning, and worried - and all of them come from the comic in addition to having bold colors and clean paint. A unique feature here is that the eyes can be swapped between heads, creating more expression options. He has a tool for popping out the eyes on each portrait, but you shouldn't need it, as they come out with ease. The extra heads don't have mask tassels, presumably to cut down on plastic, so they all have to share one. Standing just 3" tall, Garfello is one of the smaller ultimates NECA's done (though Baby Sinclair is still their smallest), but it lets him fit in scale-wise with the rest of their figures. Fooling the Ninja Turtles into thinking he was one of them was easier than anyone could've thought, as he wears a shell held onto him by a "G" initial belt, and has elbow and knee pads just like them. It's a simple design, but it's spot-on to how he looked in the source material, and the articulation is integrated well with the sculpt. The paint is mostly clean all around, save for a few small marks here and there. Garfield isn't known for being active, but he can still move quite a bit here. He has a barbell head, swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, and ankles, ball-jointed hips, and swivel tail and mask tassels. The joints move quite well, though you'll want to take care due to the small limbs, and he can take on some good poses. The mask tassels and tail were stuck at first, and they needed some pulling and heat to get moving, so keep that in mind when you first open him up. The heads fit tightly on the ball, so you'll need some heat when you're swapping them (and some tweezers just in case the joint comes out of the torso instead), but the different hands - gripping, closed, splayed, and clawing - swap with no issues thanks to the short pegs. Aside from the swappable parts, he also comes with a pizza cutter with a spinning blade, and a huge stack of pizzas, enough to feed four turtles or one cat. Since Garfello is such a small figure, NECA needed to pack in something else to help with the value (especially now that the prices of Ultimates are up to $38 each), so they include his canine cohort Odie. He stands a little smaller at about 2 7/8" tall, and is just as accurate as him. Unlike Garfield, this is a standard Odie, though with an alternate head to recreate his failed disguise from the comic, being a turtle shell with his tongue sticking out. He's yellow all over, though suffers from a few blips like Garfield, and he's quite articulated with a barbell head, ball shoulders and hips, and swivel/hinge wrists and ankles, and the heads swap with no need for heat. Given we got a regular Odie here, maybe NECA can give us a regular Garfield in the future? Garfello was an unexpected release from NECA, but he's also a fun one as well, with plenty of accessories and the fact that he's a two-pack with Odie, and the quality is top-notch. Between this and Boss Fight Studio doing a proper Garfield line (including their own Garfello/Odie set), seeing the fat cat get some well-made action figures is a dream come true. - 3/31/26   by Toasted Brains |
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