So......... for a long while like a few years ago i noticed that there had been something not right these days and that is the lack of recent TMNT toys in Canada and i really don't like this and it really kinda sucks now that this is what is happening here in where i live.
In Canada I remember back when the TMNT 2012 series was on air they had all the recent toys just like in the US and they would always eventually bring the newer ones too. It was all pretty fine and good so then the 2012 series came to an end sadly and so was the toy line. Then we later on got Rise of the TMNT and it too had its own toy line which you know.......... sold very poorly and later on even had more toys planned for it that ended up being scrapped due to the low sales, heck i think i remember back when season 2 was there i saw none of those rise of the TMNT toys at all they were like gone.
So then it was 2023 i found out they were gonna Reissue the Original 1987 TMNT figures in a proper way and not in a big pricey box bundle but i didn't see them yet they only later on showed up during summer when TMNT mutant mayhem was going to come out soon but i noticed it wasn't all of them as there was one i could not find at all and it was leatherhead and the places i went they didn't had it at all and that really sucked i did got krang and rocksteady but i could not find the classic leatherhead reissue here at all in Canada.
But i found out none of the other ones ever did showed up like mondo gecko, Baxter, slash, mutagen man, wingnut and more but i also found out there were barely any other recent ones too like i never cared about nor got any of the mutant mayhem toys since i hated everything about that movie but i find it so odd they never brought any of the newer ones like the wave 3 ones at all in Canada since it was only just the first and second ones and they are still there since 2023! like i did saw they had the tales of the TMNT toys but it was only the first wave as i never saw any of the other ones like at all as of yet.
last year i went to the US to buffalo in the summer with my family i did tried to find the TMNT toys i wanted in the stores i went that had them, but sadly they did not had the ones i was looking for but they sure did had all the recent stuff that we still don't even have in Canada like i even saw the 2003 Reissue ones which we also don't have at all in canada sadly, Heck not even the TMNT masters of the universe crossover toys are even in canada too at all by the way.
Like the one toy i got from the US was the original sketch Leo action figure just because i feel i should at least get one TMNT toy here even tho it's not any of the ones i wanted to get, But guess what those original sketch turtle figures never did show up in any of the stores in canada at all! yeah............ it really does suck. But I can tell I am not the only person here to notice this in canada.
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But then I saw this............ those TMNT mutant unleashed toys were in canada and it was in Ontario! which i am from and i never seen these ones at all! unless they were somewhere like really far away from where am but yeah, so i guess some of the recent stuff does come here unless they are like not much in stock or unless they get sold super fast once they show up so yeah some of the recent stuff does show up but i am not sure if any of the other ones do that aren't tales or mutant mayhem toys.
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So..... yeah things are not good here if you are a TMNT fan in Canada these days as this is what the TMNT toy aisle looks like in one of my local Walmart as of now yeah............ it's pretty sad.
Like yeah i know i can buy them online too i know that very well but i still prefer to buy them in store just like how other people still prefer to buy them in store rather then online only, but another thing that will get worse was that if you know we still have toys r' us in canada and now sadly they will be closing a few stores here and ones that are on that list that are closing are the two toys r us that where the closest ones in the area i live! so yeah that is really gonna suck for me because heck one of the toys r us that is closing was the oldest one in my town as it was a part of my childhood and was there so long before i was even born and after all these years............ they are closing it..... yeah this sure does really sucks.
So if you are a Canadian like me we should really do something about this and fix this terrible problem that is happening we should tell these companies to fix this issue as they should bring these toys here that we don't have here because i sure do remember it was not like this long ago, But also if you live in other countries that do have TMNT toys and don't get any of the cooler and recent stuff here you should do the same thing as well because i think we can make a difference and fix this issue hopefully if they ever do listen to us.
