Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ninja Turtles is one of the Lego properties that doesn’t really receive as much marketing as their City or Marvel lines. They showed up briefly in Lego Movie, but otherwise they just sort of exist. Which is a shame when you remember the excellent TV show and that movie from last year that we all just acknowledge as a thing that happened for whatever reason.
The Heroes in a Half Shell deserve to be in this lineup mostly because of the TV show, as a matter of fact. The various villains included are all named by Mikey, but you can totally tell it’s done so kids know what to ask their parents for come shopping time. Seriously, you can’t think a writer would include a line like “Let’s call him Fishface!” without getting dollar bill signs in their eyes. In a way, it is fitting–the Ninja Turtles property is a guide on being a blatant marketing exercise, second to Transformers. The Ninja Turtles were also created as a mockery of the ninja trend that ran through comic books in the 90s, and there’d be some humor to gain from watching them interact with the characters from Ninjago. Maybe they can come up with a song better than Batman’s, if that’s even possible.