By Vintage, I'm talking about characters from the Vintage Toyline. What I'm going to use are characters from OTHER MEDIA, whether it's from the 80s or Later. Some characters, you've read about in other lists that I've made, others might be appearong here for the first time.
Using the MOTUC Approach, we'll take these characters from other media and "vintagize them" into looking like something Playmates would've done in the late 80 to early 90s. This means that the designs wouldn't be accurate to their source material, for example: Eric Sacks wouldn't be a 1:1 copy of the "Megatron" Shredder, but would be a kitbash-looking figure. New "helmet" over the normal Shredder head. New armored torso in the same proportions as vanilla Shredder, new spikes and armor bits over the modified vanilla shredder arms and legs. Probably would have a movie palette OR Vintage Shredder colors and be renamed as Cyber Shredder. Then Super7 could add a bad 80s toy likeness head of William Fitchner... (yes, I'd make vice city references in the review) a Turtle from the same movie would be a vintage tmnt wearing an outfit inspired by the movie version but not 100% accurate.
20: Dogpound and Fishface:
Yes, they're 2 characters rolled into one slot, since they're meant to be a whole unit like Rocksteady and Bebop or Tokka and Rahzar.
19: The Other 2 Punk Frogs:
This one is rather obvious. We could go the easy way with either a Genghis repaint or Genghis repaint but with new sleeves, crotch and shirt.
18: Female Turtles:
I am referring to Jennika and Venus.
While both are kinda different, I could see Playmates laziness creeping into parts reuse. If they were made in the vintage line: the only dofferent parts would be head and legs with Jennika getting a weird cloth "diaper" and new belt. Now let's translate that into "Ultimates style" that would translate into new heads for Jennika, new torso overlay, new thighs, pair of fist hands with the claw weapon (think slash)
17: Keno, Carter, Zach:
I know NECA made Keno for their movie line and Zach for their toon line. With Keno and Carter you could share a LOT of parts with the jacket overlay being different.
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| Of course picture it in a more "cartoony" 80s bad toy likeness style... |
Switch the jacket and head, repaint the body in Carter colors, add his necklace and a partially mutated head and hands and boom!
For accessories Carter is so easy that we recycle the old rack weapons, add a Turtle communicator. Keno would get Pizzeria themed stuff and maybe some movie 2 inspired stuff... thinking Pizza box, cold cut sansetsukon, pizza cutter throwing knives, box of donuts with retromutagen surprise.
Zach would be a bit more complicated. I don't want to copy the NECA figure. Assuming he was made as a vintage figure, For starters, his "shell" would be a Bebop Trashcan lid molded in Metalhead green. He's very likely to get Casey's golf club in Metalhead green, as well as a Toon Turtles communicator in Metalhead green. He'd get a blue backpack with a clip to plug in the lid shield. But this feels "too close to NECA" for comfort... OR they could go in a whole different direction with the accessories.
Here's what I'd do:
I'd lean on the little kid angle, but since Super7 is an adult collectible company, I can do items that Playmates wouldn't dream of.
First, he gets a Slingshot, because it's a stereotypical "little kid weapon": Dennis the Menace, Bart Simpson, Young Link use them.
He gets a shrunken down S7 Casey Jones hockey stick.
He gets 2 Garbage can lids: one that is exactly Bebop's but in Metalhead green, the other, the same with a sculpted belt for him to wear.
He gets the Turtle communicator in both modes, I'd add jacks as caltrops, snd a slice of cheese pizza.
I purposely distanced myself from toon based accessories to not copy NECA too hard. Also, he might feel a bit of a rip-off since he'd be thunderkitten sized.
16: Human Baxter Stockman:
I've already covered him, swappable arms (lab coat arms and normal shirt arms). From the waist down he can share parts with Vernon, soft goods vest for fly Baxter's human form. Heads should have swappable necks for toon and mirage versions.
15: Tora (TMNT 2 NES):
I saw this cool drawing on DeviantArt of Tora styled as a Playmates figure. I'm completely on board with this. The guns aren't necessarily my favorite thing, but he does need something more than the chunk of Ice and the Dimension X weather satellite.
14: Mutated Carter:
I've already discussed this one, so I won't be too detailed here
13: Human Jennika:
Basically a new head and combined parts of ninja April and Karai.
12: Herman the Hermit Crab:
I've already mentioned the potential of him since he's very toyetic.
11: Shredder Shark:
It's a sharktopus thing that also has Shredder's DNA and memetic memory. The Heroclix version looks like a huma oid shark with Shredder-like spikes AND 4 tentacles. It screams buy this action figure. Since it's technically NOT Oroku Saki, he can count as a different character.
10: Armaggon:
I know I just asked for Shredder Shark (doo doo doo doo doo doo!) But Armaggon, has the potential to be cool.
9: Granitor/Morg:
Traag might currently be up in the air due to Playmates being a bunch of... Playmates! But, Morg is the answer for fans of the other version of Traag. If Playmates OKs the Vintage styled Traag, then the Toon/videogame styled Traag could be repurposed as Morg, or if Playmates blocks a Vintage inspired Traag, Morg could be a new character with a head that doesn't look like Traag's, but if you pop in Traag's head and hands on the Morg body, you can kitbash a kinda looks like vintage Toy Traag figure. Granitor I've discussed countless times, toon accurate, mimicking toy Traag, going full reinterpretation... I just find the idea of another Rock soldier a nice way to boost up ranks... and he was canon in Archie Comics. If Super7 plays their cards roght they could get plenty of reuse between Traag and Granitor... and Morg. Especially if Playmates blocks the creepy crawlies.
8: Bishop and the EPF:
I know that humans aren't exactly the best characters on a TMNT line, but John Bishop isn't a normal human. He's got super powers after being (guessing anally) probed by the greys, but we can't say that on a children's cartoon. He's one part MIB, one part Nick Fury. He's useful to the canon in order to explain contradicting versions of certain characters (ie the 2 Baxters) interdimensional alien tech can be finicky. EPF troops can be army builders. The EPF soldiers had they been in the vintage line probably would've been Mutatin' figures. Transforming from normal EPF troops into Slayers.
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| The design wouldn't be 100% accurate to the 2003 series, but it would be inspired by it and 80s-ized. Though this slayer gives off Mutagen Man vibes. |
Swappable arms and head with interchangeable torso overlays could achieve a similar effect for Super7. Personally I'd rather havw normal human troops and Slayer units.
7: Aska and Lotus Blossom:
I've talked about these already and how they can reuse parts from Karai and Ninja April's bodies with some new parts to be made. I just want female ninjas...
6: Meat Sweats:
A Mutated pig with tentacles that is also a Gordon Ramsay parody? Yes please! I know that Rise of the TMNT is something I dislike, BUT, there are things that have potential. Hell, he could even come with Warren Stone as a little body (former reporter turned into a mutant Earthworm)
5: Repo Mantis:
Another RotTMNT character that could be retrofitted in the vintage line. (Super7 would reuse some Baxter pieces here, mainly the legs and the fly fore arms)
4: Tatsu:
Yes, I made a custom one, but we need an official one. I've already mentioned how the Genesis game can give us a Tatsu that doesn't require Toshishiro Obata's likeness.
3: Snakeweed:
We have animal mutations, human mutations, mutations with non-sentient things... We're missing plant mutations. Snakeweed fills the checkmark for plant-based mutant monster. He would be a bit more disturbing by retrostyling him into an 80s Playmates toy body horror plant monster with human parts.
2: Hun:
He would end up being MOTUC-Sized, since I don't see Super7 making Hun Bebop sized. It would be cool though. By making him about MOTUC sized, they can make him big, but not ridiculously big. Personally his torso could be a bit wider than say Panthro, but not by much. Maybe a smidge taller so even Casey would need to look up, but Super Shredder would still be bigger.
1: Vanilla Ice:
If you got a problem Yo! He'll solve it! I've mentioned him countless times and we know why we need him here so there's no need for me to elaborate. Go Ninja! Go Ninja! Go!
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