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Write a Review link for that item. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Neca) (Neca)Although only five issues long, TMNT's The Last Ronin told a dark and unique story about Michelangelo, the last of his brothers, seeking to avenge his family in a foot-controlled New York. It managed to get two sequels: Lost Years, which displays events before and after the first installment, and Re-Evolution, which follows a new generation of Ninja Turtles. I haven't re-read any of them in a while, but NECA's been doing a good job with figures from the Roninverse, including April and her daughter Casey Marie Jones as they appeared in Lost Years. April was already up in her years in the first Last Ronin, but she gets older over the course of Lost Years, which takes place over the years as the next-gen turtles grow into teenagers. This version is lifted from the first issue, where the new turtles are still toddlers, and she doesn't look too much different from before. Paul Harding did a great job capturing "grammy" April, with a stern expression and plenty of detail to the face, including various wrinkles and a cut on her left cheek. The paint is very clean, and also shows her signature red hair starting to turn white. Sadly, she doesn't get an extra head or two like most Last Ronin figures, so the expression she has on in-box is all you get. Standing 6" tall, April's outfit, again, is lifted from the first issue. She has all sorts of clothing on her, including a shirt with a cut-off left sleeve, pants with some sort of coverings from the thighs down and kneepads, and a futuristic-looking vest and belt with various tools on it. The work on the clothes is good both sculpt- and paint-wise, including various black lines to highlight details and some wash on the vest for a leathery appearance. What's notable about this April is that her left arm and right lower leg are mechanical, having lost her real ones some time prior to the main story. The designs of them aren't too complex, and make use of only two colors, but the work on them is very nice, and her prosthetic foot only has two toes, clearly modeled after a turtle foot. Given her age, April isn't as much of an action girl as her daughter, but she still has plenty of articulation. Grandma gets a barbell head and chest, swivel/hinge shoulders, left elbow, wrists, and ankles, ball-jointed hips, double-hinged knees and right elbow, swivels at both the top and bottom of the thighs, and swivel biceps, right shin, left calf and ponytail. Everything moves well with no issues, and NECA now doing pinless joints means a seamless double elbow, though the lower knees still have pins, and I wish NECA could redesign those joints someday to abandon the pins. April doesn't have many accessories of her own, just three pairs of hands - gripping, closed, and wide gripping - and a wrench. They fit her well at least, and the hands swap easily. The reason April's so light on extras is that she comes packed with two smaller figures, the younger versions of Yi and Moja. Moja is a brown turtle with more yellow areas for the hands and mouth, alongside wraps on her wrists and shins, while Yi has more slender proportions, green and yellow colors, and wraps only on her ankles. Their expressions are also different, with Yi being happy while Moja is more serious. The two girls (yes, this new generation of turtles isn't just bros) are also sculpted by Harding, and they're very accurate to the comic, both standing around 2 1/2" tall, with Yi being a little taller, and feature barbell heads and shoulders with ball hips and thigh swivels. Their hands are sculpted in gripping poses, so they can hold April's wrench, but Moja also has a pair of headphones and a cassette player she can wear, with the player being designed to clip onto her plastron. Following April is her daughter, Casey Marie Jones, obviously named after her late father. She seems to have grown a bit since the end of Last Ronin and the start of Lost Years, with a more chiseled face and longer hair tied into a ponytail, and Fred Aczon did a great job bringing her to life. Like April, she only has one portrait, but she has a similarly serious expression, alongside dark purple lipstick, a red headband, and a bandage on the bridge of her nose. She also has clean paint for the face, and the detail for the hair is nice, but still, an extra head each for her and her mom would've been great. Casey stands slightly taller than April at 6 1/8", and likewise lifts her training outfit from the first Lost Years issue. She has a dark outfit with various red and yellow highlights, including wraps on her shoulders, forearms, and lower legs alongside sandals over said wraps. The colors are great, but the paint isn't as good as April’s, as she has a lot of smudges and color bleed-through on the yellow parts of her robe. Her articulation is similar with joints at the head, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, hips, thighs, knees, ankles, and ponytail, with more seamless knees than April’s, and her robe thankfully doesn't hinder articulation too much due to the soft plastic. She also has three pairs of hands - closed, gripping, and splayed - and two different sets of candles. While April comes with the girl turtles, Casey comes with the boys: Uno and Odyn. Uno is similar to Yi in that he has a slender build, but is taller than his siblings at just under 3", and he has forearm and leg wraps that are hard to distinguish from his white skin (yes, white/albino turtles exist). Odyn is different in that he's a chunky snapping turtle (think Raphael from Rise of the TMNT, but smaller and dark green) who stands 2 3/4" tall, and doesn't have any wraps unlike his siblings. He also has a larger head than them, giving him adorably big eyes. Both were sculpted by Harding and bear the same clean paint and articulation (minus thigh joints) as their sisters, and also have a small mop/staff for either one to hold. Given how well their Last Ronin figures have been doing, it's no surprise NECA would tackle its follow-ups, and April and Casey are pretty good, but the main issue is value. Both have a MSRP of $50 each, simply because they each come with two pack-in figures, and while the Mirage Super Turtle was a similar situation, he at least came with plenty of other extras to justify the cost. These, on the other hand, aren't really packed enough to make the price seem reasonable, but I did manage to get April for cheaper, and Target settled on a more reasonable $38 price tag for Casey. That gripe aside, these two, alongside their adoptive mutant turtle children, are unique figures that'll work well in a display. - 4/21/26   by Toasted Brains |
| April O'Neil (Version 2) |  | Submission Order |  | Super Grover |
| April O' Neil (The Fifth Turtle) | | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Neca) Series | | None |
| April O'Neil (Version 2) | | Written by Toasted Brains | | Super Grover |
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