toys

             "Turtles in a half shell; Turtle Power!" I sung, as I would play for hours upon
             hours in my room with my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures. When I was 7
             Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were all the rave. Everyone had it, and I got caught up in
             this fad. There were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics, action figures, playing cards,
             and a cartoon. They even made a live action film based on the popular series. "Turtle
             The highlight of every month for me as a kid was to go to the toy store with my
             Grandma, where she would buy me a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toy of my choosing.
             The selection would be huge, and 9 times out of 10 I would choose to get a Raphael toy
             out of all of them. When I picked Raphael, my Grandma would give me a stern look and
             say, "Don't you have a similar toy already?" And this would be, of course, true. Every
             month a new set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures would come out. There
             would be new versions of every turtle, and every enemy, enemies being Shredder and
             Beebop and Rocksteady. Each new edition had a new weapon or a new costume. So in
             complete disregard of my grandma's advice on getting a new toy, I would go for the
             same Raphael action figure, but this month with a detective costume on. By the end of
             my time in the Turtles' universe I would have collected over 30 different versions of
             Raphael. It didn't matter to me, though, that I had so many of the same fighter because he
             was my favorite and that's how kids think. Looking back on it now I see how it was silly
             of me, but I still wouldn't have had it any other way.
             The toy itself was similar to every action figure on the market. It's arms moved,
             and legs, and if we were really lucky the heads were adjustable too. Technically speaking
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