So sometime back I posed the question to a group of Turtles fans as to what products are out there featuring Baxter in human form. They pointed me in the direction of some awesome stuff, including the Mega Bloks figure (which hadn't yet been released). I felt sure there was more, however, and now I discovered something new! This gives me renewed hope that I may yet find more human Baxter merchandise in the future!
The burning question I have is ... does anything aside from the Mega Bloks figure actually draw him right?! The storybooks, the comic books, and the coloring book I just discovered all draw Baxter in wildly different ways, all of which are canon-incorrect. That doesn't mean they're terrible, but it does mean that I'm exasperated, because I want to see canon-accurate Baxter on merchandise! And I have yet to find a season 2 accurate Baxter; the Mega Bloks figure is season 1. I adore him, though.
Checklist:
- Season 1 and Season 2 episodes (duh)
- Return of the Shredder storybook
- The Incredible Shrinking Turtles storybook
- Rat Trap coloring book
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic book Heroes in a Half-Shell, Part 2 (adapting A Thing About Rats)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic books issues #1-#4 (adapting Return of the Shredder and The Incredible Shrinking Turtles)
- Animation cels
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Missions video game (season 2 Baxter!)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist video game
- Bizarre U.K. fact file card with illustration of Barney instead of Baxter and list of absurd facts
- Mega Construx Mutations mini action figure
Of course, if one is looking for fly merchandise, there are other things out there, such as the vintage Playmates figure, other video games, a couple of recently made retro shirts, a HeroClix figure, a chibi-style keychain, and animation cels. I don't have a great deal of interest in fly merchandise, since Baxter suffered so much in that state, but there is one thing that piques my interest: the thought of finding some fly merchandise, like a storybook or coloring book, with Z/Vincent in it. Is there such a thing?