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Donatello has the bo staff, Michelangelo the nunchucks, Raphael the twin sai. All three are built on the round Snackles body with a stitched shell panel on the back and mask tails sewn to trail behind the head rather than printed flat against it.

Fourteen inches is the only size the full-size turtles are made in. There is also a 5-inch Ninja Turtles mini, which keeps the mask and shell but swaps the weapon for a themed accessory — it lives on the mini shelf rather than this one.

What is in the Ninja Turtles range

Three listings, all 14 inches: Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael. This is the smallest range on the shelf and the only one where the characters do not come with a snack. The turtles carry their weapons instead — a bo staff, nunchucks and twin sai — which makes them the one deliberate exception to the rule that every Snackle holds something edible.

The round-body treatment suits the turtles better than it has any right to. A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle rendered as a sphere with a mask reads instantly, and at 14 inches the shell print across the back is big enough to be properly detailed rather than suggested.

Leonardo is not part of the range. Three of the four turtles were made, which is the kind of thing that only matters to collectors and matters enormously to them. If you are buying for someone whose favorite is Leonardo, the Ninja Turtles mini in the mini plush range is the closer option.

The three turtles

Michelangelo has the orange mask, the nunchucks and the widest grin of the three, and if someone is buying one turtle rather than the set, it is almost always this one. Donatello has the purple mask and the bo staff, and reads as the calmest of the three. Raphael has the red mask and the twin sai, and his scowl is printed rather than stitched, which keeps the face soft while still making him unmistakably the angry one.

All three use identical bodies, so the differences are entirely in the mask colour, the weapon and the face print. That is faithful to the source material and it also means the three of them together on a shelf look like a set rather than three separate toys.

Prices run from about twenty to twenty-seven dollars. Raphael is usually the dearest and Donatello the cheapest, which has nothing to do with the toys and everything to do with how fast each mask colour sells.

What to expect from the build

The weapons are sewn into the paws exactly the way snack accessories are everywhere else in the collection, so there is nothing to lose and nothing hard enough to hurt. A bo staff made of plush is a strange object and a very safe one.

At 14 inches these are cushion-sized rather than pocket-sized: soft enough to sleep on, firm enough to sit up on a bed. The fill density matches the standard 14-inch Snackles plush rather than the over-stuffed Super-Sized line, so they squash when hugged.

The turtles do not carry the origin story comic that the named Snackles come with. They do come with the same hangtag and the same construction, and they are the same ultra-soft short-pile fabric as the rest of the collection.

How this range fits the rest of the shelf

The Disney range is the other licensed line, and the comparison is instructive: Disney characters got snacks, the turtles got weapons. Both decisions were made for the same reason — what would this character obviously be holding — and they land in opposite places.

For a collector the turtles are the one range that works as a complete purchase. Three listings, one size, no variants to chase. That is unusual on a shelf where Series 2 runs to thirty-two listings across three sizes.

The Ninja Turtles mini is a 5-inch version with a themed accessory, and it is the pocket format of this range. People who have the 14-inch turtles buy the mini for a bag; people who want the character without a cushion in the house buy the mini first.

Who this range suits

This is a nostalgia purchase as often as it is a toy purchase. Adults who grew up with the turtles buy them for themselves, and the round-body style is specifically what makes that comfortable — it is clearly a plush toy rather than an action figure substitute.

For children the appeal is simpler: these are three large, soft, recognisable characters with weapons that cannot hurt anybody. The 14-inch size is the right size for a bed.

If you are buying all three, buy them together. The mask colours sell at different rates and the set is harder to complete later than it looks today.

14-inch Snackles plush toys in the Ninja Turtles set

The 14-inch band is the one most fans collect when they want a Snackles plush toy with real weight to it. There are 3 plush toys in this size here. Prices run $20.17 to $26.61 at the moment. Each one is squeezable from nose to paws and comes with its snack partner attached.

Snackles Donatello is a 14-inch plush whose treasure travels in its paws, rated 4.8 by 142 reviewers. The 14-inch Snackles Michelangelo keeps a hangtag with a birthdate, a hobby and a star sign, and fans rate it 4.8. Snackles Raphael comes as a squeezable 14-inch plush with an origin story comic folded into the tag; it scores 4.8.

Where the Ninja Turtles crossover fits

This is the smallest shelf on the site: three 14-inch plushies, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael. The crossover keeps the body pattern of the standard line and swaps the snout for a turtle head and a coloured mask, so the three stand the same height as a Series 1 or Series 3 character. Each one is a squeezable plush in super soft fabric, each comes with the accessory in its paws, and the hangtag carries the birthdate, hobby, star sign and origin story comic that the rest of the Snackles plush toys share.

Three listings is not much of a collection, which is why this page is mostly a doorway to the bigger ranges. Series 2 is the shelf of real snack brands, with Hershey's on the shark and Mentos on the hedgehog, and it runs to thirty-two Snackles plush toys across three sizes. Series 1 is the origin of the line and the place the whole story starts. Series 3 is the teen cast. Snackles Disney covers the licensed faces. If you want a bigger plush, a Super-Sized Snackle is the same design at a bigger super size, filled hard enough to keep its shape on a display shelf.

At the small end there is a Ninja Turtles Mini in the Snackles small size range, which is the cheapest way into this particular crossover, plus a clip-on charm duo for a bag. Fans of the turtles usually find one favorite here, pick up the mini, and then start collecting properly somewhere else in the line. It is an adorable, playful set with room for imagination, and a cute 8-inch Snackles makes an easy second cuddly friend after the turtles.

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