Talk:Hothead (1992 action figure)/@comment-25896389-20170321025959/@comment-995426-20200206202821

Well, besides the 1987 TV series not being the original, there were other continuities where certain characters were more prominent, like Casey Jones (Mirage), and some continuities where certain characters were completely absent, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures not having a version of Casey Jones at all throughout its run. In any event, during that time period, there was appearing in the NES game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, and there was Chu Hsi (nicknamed but almost never called Hothead) in TMNT Adventures.  I've never been interested in toys like this, but I do recall reading that some of them were designed first, then different continuities chose whether or not to use them. And others were designed after their corresponding characters had already appeared in one of the continuities. It was really up to Playmates Toys, who was the primary motivator of the 1987 TV series, but less so of TMNT Adventures as that comic aged with its readers and assumed a teenage audience by the end. And, of course, the Mirage comic was never for children at all, and since the target audience were adults, there was usually no reason for it to promote toys or for toys to promote that comic, and yet that comic was the continuity that had most of Casey Jones' appearances at that time.