The black sheep of TMNT outside of Coming out of their shells. Is it worth it to be made in Ultimates? Let's find out.
The first thing we need to figure out is whether making them Show Accurate or making them "Classicized". Personally I vote "Classicized" but hear me out. By Classicized I don't mean:
Taking the vanilla Turtles and giving them new heads, arms and legs.
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| Notice that the TNM is bigger than the normal Mike. That is on purpose. |
They require Added height as they're supposed to be Adult versions of the TMNT. With the new taller size (about Casey height) then you add the other stuff. OR they could use the 2K3 bodies with new forearms, shins, and feet with new belts and head for the larger bodies. (Mike's and Don's thigh belts can be slip-on belts and not new leg sculpts.) I won't redraw over a 2k3 Mike, but that body works better than vintage.
That way Super7 could do BOTH:
A "show accurate" turtle with the new TNM shell and Plastron over the 2k3 body and release a "vintageized" Deluxe with Vintage OG Line colors (Leo in olive, Raph in Kermit green, Don in olive brown, and Mike in forest green) or viceversa.
The elephant in the room is Venus as she wil always require new tooling.Tooling.
I'll try to make 12 figures or 4 waves, but first I'll make a detailed idea of what the characters should come with...
Leonardo:
Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM mask/cowl.
Hands:
Vertical and horizontal c-grips
Fists
Dramatic
2 of his weird double bladed Ninjato
2k3 swords
Pizza slice
Donatello:
Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM mask/cowl.
Hands:
Vertical and horizontal c-grips
Fists
Dramatic
Bo staff
Slip on Eye in the sky controller
Pizza slice
Raphael:
Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM mask/cowl.
Hands:
Vertical and horizontal c-grips
Fists
Dramatic
Pair of Sai
Sai staff
Pizza slice
Mikey:
Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM mask/cowl.
Hands:
Vertical and horizontal c-grips
Fists
Dramatic
Pair of tonfa
Pair of nunchucks (reuse 2k3)
Twirling chucks (reuse 2k3)
Pizza slice
Venus:
She'd obviously be purely new Tooling. They shouldn't reuse April and Ninja April arms.
Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM braids
Hands:
Vertical and horizontal c-grips
Fists
Dramatic
Hadoken
Tessen holding
Pair of tessen open and closed.
Splinter:
Vanilla Splinter body with new heads and forearms.
Second head looking more like Vintage Splinter in grey
Splinter hands
Long walking stick with hidden blade
New TNM soft goods Robe and belt.
Sushi platter.
That would do for the good guys:
Deluxe versions:
Leo: (OG line coloring)
Vintage styled Head with right hand vertical c-grip and left horizontal c-grip.
Both double ninjatos.
Don: (OG Line coloring)
Vintage styled head and C-grips
Bo
Raph's Sai staff
Raph: (OG Line coloring)
Vintage styled Head with C-grips
Pair of Sai
Mike:(OG Line coloring)
Vintage styled Head with C-grips
Pair of tonfa
Venus: (a shade of green between raph and mike)Vintage styled Head with a dramatic hand and a tessen holding hand
Tessen open and closed.
Splinter: (OG Line coloring)
Vintage styled Head with C-grips
Soft goods Robe in Vintage fuchsia with burgundy accents and black belt.
Walking stick/sword
Now for the other characters: The Bad Guys:
Dragonlord:
New sculpt using the MOTUC body as a base.
Soft goods robe/cloak
1 Playmates toys inspired head, 1 show accurate head
Standard hands
Dragon sword, Dragon Axe
Shredder:
Maybe they can use a modified OG Shredder body with new torso with slip on shoulderpads and slip on forearm blades.
Heads:
TNM Shredder head and Wild Haired Hobo Oroku Saki.
The Usual hands
Soft goods robes and hakama
Sword.
Now, I'm not that well versed in TNM as I saw like 6 episodes tops. But two more of those slots can be filled with the army Builders for the Dragonlord and Shredder. That makes 4. The last two slots could be other villains from the show. I do remember an episode with a vampire chick. She could prove useful as a roster filler. Add another show villain and boom. 12 figures done and after checking tmntmuseum, there were only 13 characters made by Playmates for TNM.
To be honest though I only want the Turtles and maybe Shredder for the Plays with Squirrels Saki.
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