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Series: Turtles of Grayskull
Year: 2024
Prelude: Every cartoon villain worth his salt needs some bumbling, inept henchmen. In the case of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle’s Shredder it was Bebop and Rocksteady, in case of Masters of the Universe Skeletor it was (among many others) Two-Bad. Combine these two… eh, four, and you get 2-Bobsteady from the Turtles of Grayskull line. Let’s say go!
Review: Now this figure isn’t so much a fusion of Bebop, Rocksteady, and Two-Bad, but rather a reimagining of Bebop and Rocksteady if they had fallen victim to the same curse (or mutation) as Two-Bad and merged into a single body. So what we have here is a single figure with a pretty broad chest and two heads, those being the familiar noggings of Bebop and Rocksteady.
Apart from being fused into one, Bebop and Rocksteady are pretty much spitting images of their 1980s cartoon incarnations, which I love and adore. If you remove the figure’s vest (which is possible, but you need to unplug both arms and the lower body to do it), you see that the chest is split right down the middle, grey on the left side and beige on the right.
The figure has the usual articulation of a MotU Origins figure, so quite good, and comes in the same size, too. 2-Bobsteady also comes with two different weapons, one is a big yellow sword, the other is a morning star that needs to be plugged into an empty wrist socket once you’ve removed one of his hands. The sword can be sheathed on the back.
So bottom line: exactly the figure I expected from this concept. It’s Bebop and Rocksteady, merged into one figure the same way Two-Bad was in Masters of the Universe. Very nice.
Remarks: Bebop and Rocksteady were two street punks working for the Footclan, before they were subjected to the same Mutagen that created the Turtles. Mutating to adapt traits from a warthog and a rhino respectively, they were among the mainstays of the 1980s cartoon and have also appeared in several subsequent versions of the Turtles. Two-Bad was one of Skeletor’s henchman in the original MotU series, but it wasn’t until the 200X series that we got an origin for him/them. They were originally two separate beings, the bounty hunters Tuvar and Badra, whom Skeletor cursed and combined for failing him.
I didn’t really get much into the Turtles of Grayskull line. While I love He-Man and did enjoy the Turtles, I had little interest in a toy line combining the two. The one exception to this rule is 2-Bobsteady, simply because I fondly remember Bebop and Rocksteady from the 80s cartoon and seeing them fused together like this is hilarious.
So bottom line: it’s a fun figure with no flaws and a ton of nostalgic value. If that’s your thing, go for it.
Rating: B+
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