Scumbug was one of my favorite toys as a kid! I still have him too!...No accessories of course, but I still have the figure!

As I recall, he was the first new figure after a bit of a no-figure lull. Never understood why those hoses connected to his pecs though.

Maybe he squirts bug juice? :p Or maybe he lactates...who knows.

It's potentially gross.

What a strange, odd, grotesque villain. They just don't make them like they used to.

He was grotesque. Yes, yes.

Hah, haven't seen him in a few years. I used to have one of those.

I always liked him.

I think I still have that guy somewhere.

Me too.

So what was he, an exterminating roach man? I need to look him up because I obviously missed that episode of him in it.

Wonder what it would have been like if he and Baxter met up?

Baxter would ask if he'd like to share his ice cream...then they'd fall in love.

Scumbug may be too dumb for Baxter.

And then they make ugly humanoid bug babies afterwards.

Actually, they might have met up in an episode called Night of the Rogues, but I'm not gonna lay down any money on that guess.

That's my guess. I think near the end of the original series, they made an episode for most of the old action figures.

http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/N....._of_the_Rogues

The page isn't very informative, though.

That's quite a pile. I dunno if I'd wanna see those ones. I prefer my own interpretation of their personalities.

oh wow.... he is a little disturbing.....

The toy is worse. I didn't draw it but he had roaches crawling out of his skin.

Another one I had as a kid!

He was cool.

Heh, I remember going to the Kay-Bee in the mall in Killeen, Texas, and finding a whole wall of Turtles figures in the action figure aisle. I looked at the back of one figure's card to see what else was available (you know, in the "Collect Them All!" portion) and noticed Scumbug. I decided I had to have him. So my mom looked through the pegs and I distinctly remember her saying, "Eureka! Scumbug!" So we got him and I took him home and alongside Leatherhead and Mondo Gecko, he was one of my all-time favorite Turtles figures for my elementary school years.

Coolness. I was kinda... in high school when I was buying these, so, while I have some nice memories, the more magical ones like your Scumbug one, are from the Star Wars days.

I remember this fellow! I didn't know he appeared in the show (apparently just once), but he came form the Archie comic series.

As I recall from the book, he was an exterminator whom Shredder called to get rid of roaches that had infested one of his hiding spots, where of course he'd (carelessly) stored quite a lot of mutagen for some devious purpose. Bebop and Rocksteady had apparently lost an entire barrel of the stuff down the sewer at some point. The exterminator slipped into a open manhole and voilà, we have Scumbug - who proceeded to try and exterminate the turtles, as he thought they were giant "roach boys."

It always struck me how loosely mutagen was used in the comics as a plot device. Krang chastised Shredder for wasting such a "rare and costly" commodity and somehow there are large drums full of hundreds of gallons of the stuff just sitting around in a run-down storeroom. Krang's more loaded than we ever thought possible, yet he can't take out four teenagers who live in a sewer. Go figure. :)

Nice work on this guy! I don't believe the hoses connected to his pecs in the comic, at least. ^__^

Some of the mutations don't quite make sense. In the cartoon, Splinter was a man that somehow turned into a rat but originally, he was a pet rat who's owner was a ninja master or something.

cool teeth