Donatello has been traded from his native NY Yankees to join the Oakland Athletics for the remainder of this season, then he will be a free agent.

Baseball has always been my favorite sport, and I've always wanted to make a custom baseball TMNT figure of Donatello representing the Oakland Athletics (my favorite team) but never got around to it until now. It was pretty simple, just used Grandslammin' Raph as the base figure then swapped the head with original '88 Donatello head and sliced Raph's hat off and hollowed it out on the bottom so it can be removable and placed on Donatello's head. I had to remove the "action" feature because it was difficult to put it back after splitting the body in half for the head swap, so I had to patch up the slot for it, then removed the T and R logos from the uniform and repainted everything except the Donatello head (I was lucky to find a close enough paint match for the skin/bandana because I wanted to keep the Donatello head intact looking like it came direct from the '88 figure which it did). Repainted the bat and baseballs, baseball glove didn't need repaint. I've always envisioned '88 Donatello wearing an Oakland A's hat which is why I did the head swap rather than just turnin Grandslammin' Raph's head into Donatello. I am quite pleased with how this turned out.

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